Durrant Pate/Contributor

Canadian-based mining company, C3 Metals Inc, is announcing that project infrastructure has been restored in Jamaica, with full exploration activities recommencing following Hurricane Melissa, which created widespread damage on October 28, 2025.

At the company’s 50%-owned Super Block project, located west of its Bellas Gate project in St Catherine, encompassing 9,870 hectares and is a 50/50 joint venture with Geophysx Jamaica, where the phase one scout drilling program comprising a 14-hole 2,500m program is approximately 50% complete. To date, seven of the 14 holes of the program have been completed. Drilling has recommenced.

At its 100%-owned Bellas Gate project, where Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation is currently funding exploration and project-related costs, as part of a previously announced earn-in agreement, C3 Metals has resumed exploration drilling with its company-owned, man-portable drill rig. The company has also resumed a 70 sq. km 3DIP geophysical survey, of which approximately 46 sq. km has been completed to date.

Community Assistance Programs
Concurrent with restoring project infrastructure, C3 Metals embarked on a much-needed community assistance program following the devastation brought by Hurricane Melissa. The company’s community assistance program included:

• The delivery of food, water and basic necessity care packages;
• Road repairs and clearing to reconnect communities; and
• Providing roofing and housing materials to rebuild damaged homes and community buildings.

In total, C3 Metals assisted approximately 500 families across three communities, concurrent with restoring project infrastructure necessary to restart exploration activities. President and CEO, Dan Symons, emphasises, “the safety of our workforce is our number one priority. We ceased exploration activities a few days in advance of Hurricane Melissa making landfall to make necessary preparations and take precautions to keep our people and equipment safe. 

Rolled out of much-needed community assistance programme

Continuing, he remarks, ”We believe it is important to come together as a community during difficult times by ensuring our neighbours had access to food, water, and basic necessities and assisting in rebuilding homes and critical infrastructure. I am very pleased with how quickly our team was able to formulate and execute a much-needed Community Assistance Program for those most in need, closest to our project areas. I am also very happy to report that we have now restored all necessary project infrastructure and have restarted full exploration activities at both the Super Block and Bellas Gate projects in Jamaica.”

C3 Metals Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on creating substantive value for its shareholders through the discovery and development of large copper and gold deposits. The company is also actively exploring in Jamaica, where it has identified 16 porphyry, 40 epithermal and multiple volcanic redbed copper prospects over a 30km strike extent. It also holds a 50% interest in 9,870 hectares in a joint venture with Geophsyx Jamaica, the largest mineral tenure holder in the country. 

In May 2024, Barrick Mining Corp entered into an earn-in agreement with Geophysx Jamaica on approximately 400,000 hectares of exploration licenses, several of which surround C3 Metals’ mineral concessions. Mining is currently the second largest industry in Jamaica, and historical mining dates back to the colonial eras of the 1500s (Spanish) and 1800s.