Kelchalpe

1,775 km²

Land package size

Ekometall Stage
Phase II Complete; MCA In Progress

Commodity Focus

Cu

Copper

Au

Gold

FeCO₃

Fe-carbonate

MgCO₃

Magnesite

Pb

Lead

BaSO₄

Barite

Ag

Silver
Geology Summary

The Northern Greywacke Zone (NGZ) dominates the Kitzbühel–Mitterberg–Zell–Mühlbach area — an Old Palaeozoic metasedimentary-volcanosedimentary package hosting the region’s Cu-Pb-Zn (and locally Au) mineralisation. Structure-hosted chalcopyrite-pyrite deposits occur as ore beds, veins, and fractures within metavolcanic rocks and chlorite-sericite phyllites. The adjacent Hohe Tauern crystalline core hosts steep, NNE-trending gold veins.

Historical Production

Over 4,000 years of documented activity: prehistoric/Bronze Age mining, Roman-era gold extraction, medieval intensification of the Kitzbühel copper mines (Röhrerbühel discovery ~1540, deepest shaft in Europe at 886m), continuous Mühlbach production from 1292, and 19th-century deep tunnelling. One of the most extensively documented mining districts in the Eastern Alps.

COMMERCIAL PACKAGE
More than 100 km of strike across Austria’s most prominent copper belt, worked since the Bronze Age and home to more than 40 historical mines where ore grades often exceeded 10% copper. None of it has been explored systematically with modern methods, and first-pass 2026 sampling of relocated workings has already returned selective grab samples of up to 5.36% Cu, with cobalt and nickel alongside.

Section one of the commercial package, covering the 1,775 km² license at a glance, the road, rail and grid infrastructure already running through the valleys, and the drill permitting proof of concept proven by our 2025 drill program at Tessenberg in East Tyrol, 65 km south of Kelchalpe.