07:19 AM EDT, 10/15/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Arizona Sonoran Copper Company ( ASCUF ) on Tuesday said that it has appointed M3 Engineering, Tucson, to lead the Cactus Project Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) and to act as metallurgical program lead.

The PFS is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025.

The Cactus Mine plan was rescoped in the recent Preliminary Economic Assessment by incorporating mineralized material from the MainSpring property. An April drilling program on that property identified a "significant" inferred copper mineral resource as the near surface and southern extension of the Parks/Salyer deposit.

The focus of the coming months will be upgrading the entirety of the Parks/Salyer deposit to the PFS level, Arizona Copper said.