Charlie Greig of Metal Energy Corp. presents at Metals Investor Forum in Vancouver | Sep 2026
Metals Investor Forum Sep 25, 2026 10:38
Summary
Metal Energy Corp's Niv drill program (~6,000 m, 11 holes) hit a copper-bearing porphyry in northern BC; hole 11 showed elevated copper and potassic alteration.
The discovery sits on a 5 km copper-gold soil geochem anomaly with coincident IP chargeability, a textbook setup for an untested porphyry target.
Greig pushed through skepticism about surface rocks lacking visible copper, arguing potassic alteration and magnetite pointed the way to drilling hole 11.
CEO Charlie Greig presented the new discovery at the September 2026 Metals Investor Forum in Vancouver, alongside peers in BC's active porphyry scene.
Charlie Greig's takeaways
- Top takeaway Greig argues that trusting surface geology and field instincts — even when early core looked like 'garbage' with no obvious copper — led the team to keep drilling and ultimately to hole 11, which he presents as the project's emerging copper-gold porphyry discovery.
- Greig frames the 2026 Niv program as a 'go big or go home' approach, with no shallow holes planned, designed to test the best parts of a combined IP chargeability and gold-silver-copper soil anomaly.
- He emphasizes that high-temperature potassium feldspar alteration and veining at surface were the key evidence to keep drilling, despite criticism that the visible rocks lacked copper.
- Greig says the team and the Ore Group set themselves up for 'success or failure' on what he calls 'British Columbia's best untested porphyry target,' and as of the September 2026 forum he is 'very, very optimistic' about hole 11.