Unlocking Germany’s Next Strategic Copper-Silver Project

In December 2025, GreenX completed the acquisition of 90% of Group 11 Exploration GmbH, the company that holds the Tannenberg exploration licences. Tannenberg is a brownfield project targeting sediment-hosted (Kupferschiefer-type) copper-silver deposits. The style of mineralisation is directly comparable to the Kupferschiefer deposits of Poland, where KGHM operates one of the world’s largest copper-silver mining districts, producing approximately 730,000 tonnes of copper and 43 million ounces of silver in 2024.

The Tannenberg Copper Project, covering 1,900 km² in the State of Hesse, central Germany, is emerging as a strategically timed opportunity. Located within a historically productive mining region, Tannenberg offers scale, geological pedigree, and a low sovereign risk profile. GreenX views the project as well aligned with EU and German policy priorities and intends to position Tannenberg as a future contributor to Europe’s critical mineral resilience.

Historic Production and Geology

Prior to closure in the 1950s, the Richelsdorf mines produced approximately 416,500 t of copper and 33.7 Moz of silver from Kupferschiefer-type deposits. These shallow underground workings were accessed from surface outcrops.

The Project area also hosts multiple historic drill intercepts over the 14 km-long Richelsdorf Dome target, including:

  • 2.1 m @ 2.7% Cu and 48 g/t Ag from 365.48 m
  • 1.5 m @ 3.7% Cu and 33 g/t Ag from 209.50 m
  • 2.5 m @ 1.8% Cu and 19 g/t Ag from 339.5 m (south-west of licence)
  • 2.0 m @ 1.6% Cu and 19 g/t Ag from 268 m (north-east of licence)

Kupferschiefer-style deposits are a prolific subtype of sediment-hosted copper deposit, forming the second most important source of global copper production and reserves. They have been mined historically in Germany and activity continues in Poland, where KGHM produced 730 kt of copper and 43 Moz of silver in 2024, ranking as the world’s 9th-largest copper and 2nd-largest silver producer. Lumina Metals (TSE: LMCU) is advancing the Nowa Sól copper-silver project within the same Kupferschiefer belt in Poland.

Germany has a long mining tradition and remains a significant jurisdiction, with K+S operating close to the Tannenberg licence area in the State of Hesse.

Project geology

Historical drilling and mine workings confirm the widespread presence of the Kupferschiefer sequence within the Tannenberg licences (Figure 1). The sedimentary sequence forms a broad dome that outcrops near the centre of the area and extends to depths of approximately 500 m at the periphery (Figure 2). Regional and small-scale faults cut the licence area with the dominant orientation trending northwest-southeast, perpendicular to the Variscan Orogen. Zones of copper enrichment within the licence area correspond to fault intersections. Structure is a key targeting consideration at the Project.

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Figure 2

Historical Data and Modern Work

During 2025, GreenX recovered a major historical database comprising 95 drillholes from 1930s exploration (Figure 3) and 47 post-1970s drill cores (Figure 4), representing over €25 million in exploration value and more than a decade of work.

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Figure 4

The 95-hole drilling campaign, completed between 1935 and 1938, formed the geological basis for three Kupferschiefer copper mines within the Tannenberg licence area: Reichenberg, Wolfsberg and Schnepfenbusch. GreenX has digitised and integrated this drillhole database into its geological models.

The 1940 historical estimate, produced by Mansfeldsche Kupferschieferbergbau AG, is based on a spatially relevant subset of 18 holes from the 95-hole database and established 728,000 tonnes of contained copper at an average grade of 2.6% copper (in the narrow Kupferschiefer shale only) between the Wolfsberg and Schnepfenbusch mines in the north and the Ronshausen area in the south (Figure 5). A later historical estimate from 1984 was produced by St Joe Explorations GmbH, based on limited drilling between 1980 and 1984. The St Joe historical work estimated 169,000 tonnes of contained copper and 6.5 million ounces of contained silver. St Joe assayed wider intersections and found that the mineralisation was up to 3.45 m thick.

Figure 5

GreenX logged, sampled and assayed a total of 4,389 m of archived core and took 2,368 new samples, as part of a modern, quality-assured programme that also included hyperspectral scanning and petrophysical analysis. Historical sampling was generally limited to a narrow 5 m interval around the Kupferschiefer shale; however, copper mineralisation can extend up to 30 m above and 60 m below this horizon within the surrounding limestone and sandstone units, leaving substantial areas untested.

Initial assay results from the first six archived holes confirm this broader mineralisation model, with widths of 1.0 to 3.7 m that significantly exceed those used in the 1940 historical estimate. Intercepts include 1.5 m at 2.7% Cu and 55 g/t Ag (Ro23) and 3.7 m at 1.2% Cu and 17 g/t Ag (Ro15). These outcomes validate the historical grades, demonstrate the presence of thicker mineralised intervals, and reinforce GreenX’s exploration model that mineralisation extends well beyond the shale, consistent with KGHM’s Kupferschiefer operations in Poland.

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Exploration Target

In May 2026, GreenX announced an Exploration Target at Tannenberg. The estimated range of potential mineralisation in the Exploration Target is 144 to 279 Mt at 0.9% to 1.4% Cu and 15 to 21 g/t Ag for 1.3 to 3.9 Mt Cu and 69 to 188 Moz Ag (Figure 7).

The Exploration Target provides a modern view of the copper potential at Tannenberg. Unlike the 1940 historical estimate, which assessed only the thin Kupferschiefer shale horizon, the Exploration Target captures mineralisation in the hanging wall above and footwall below the shale. This is consistent with the modern understanding of Kupferschiefer deposits as evidenced at KGHM’s mining operations in Poland, where up to 95% of mineable copper can be hosted in the footwall sandstone and hanging wall limestone. Applying the thick mineralisation concept to the historically defined Tannenberg footprint produces a statistically-derived mineralised thickness of 1.7 m to 3.3 m, compared with the 20 cm to 60 cm (shale-only) thickness used in the 1940 historical estimate.

Figure 7

Mineralogy and Processing

In June 2026, GreenX completed an early-stage mineralogy and processing study for Tannenberg. SGS Canada Inc. completed the mineralogy study at its Lakefield, Ontario facility on ten drill core samples covering shale, sandstone and carbonate mineralisation. MSA Mining Consulting UK Ltd then completed an independent metallurgical review.

Copper is predominantly hosted in chalcocite, with additional bornite, chalcopyrite and covellite, typical of Kupferschiefer deposits. Copper occurs across the Kupferschiefer shale, sandstone and carbonate lithologies, with the shale generally hosting the highest grades. The study identified a bi-modal copper sulphide grain size distribution, with both coarse (>25 to 30 µm) and very fine disseminated material (<5 to 10 µm).

The review confirmed that Tannenberg mineralisation is consistent with copper-silver deposits in the region and is considered amenable to conventional flotation-based processing, as used at KGHM’s long-running operations and planned for Lumina Metals’ Nowa Sól project. Subject to further test work, metallurgical recoveries comparable to, or potentially better than, the ~89% Cu and ~86% Ag reported from Polish mines may be achievable at Tannenberg. Modern technologies, including high-pressure grinding rolls and fine-particle flotation, will be investigated for their potential to improve recovery of fine-grained copper sulphides.

Competent Persons Statement

The information on this webpage that relates to exploration results and the Exploration Target was extracted from the ASX announcements dated 2 August 2024, 27 November 2024, 28 April 2025, 9 September 2025, 20 November 2025, 28 May 2026 and 17 June 2026, which are available to view at greenxmetals.com/investors/announcements/.

GreenX confirms that (a) it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the original announcement; (b) all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the content in the relevant announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed; and (c) the form and context in which the Competent Person’s findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original announcement.

Cautionary Statement

The historical estimates on this website are not reported in accordance with the JORC Code. A competent person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimates as a mineral resource or ore reserve in accordance with the JORC Code. It is uncertain that following evaluation and/or further exploration work that the historical estimates will be able to be reported as a mineral resource or ore reserve in accordance with the JORC Code.

Cautionary Statement

The Exploration Target has been reported in accordance with the 2012 edition of the JORC Code (JORC Code). The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in nature. There has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource for the reported target areas. It is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource.

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