Interview with Raymond D. Harari, Director & CEO, and Enrique Reichhard, VP Exploration of Argentina Metals
Recording date: 23rd July 2026
Argentina Metals Corp (TSXV:VLLC) is a Canadian-domiciled copper exploration company built around a single macro thesis: Argentina shares the same Andean geological belt that makes Chile the world's largest copper producer, yet contributes almost nothing to global supply, and that gap is starting to close now that Mendoza Province has reopened to mineral exploration. CEO and co-founder Raymond D. Harari, working alongside Chairman Dr. Titus Gebel, co-founder of Frankfurt-listed Deutsche Rohstoff AG, has spent the past year assembling one of the first district-scale, clean-title land positions in the province: 26 projects totalling approximately 146,700 hectares, free of private royalties, NSRs, back-in rights or earn-in obligations beyond what is owed to the Province of Mendoza itself.
The flagship Las Estrellas Project sits within the Malargue District, roughly 1.5 kilometres from a neighbouring advanced target being drilled by Kobrea Exploration Corp's El Perdido project, and shows geological characteristics consistent with both the manto-style Río Damas Formation and the porphyry-style Huincán Formation. A December 2025 field programme returned rock chip samples as high as 9,978 ppm copper, and a January 2026 ground magnetic survey identified anomalies consistent with buried intrusive bodies and structural corridors favourable for Iron-Oxide-Copper-Gold or porphyry mineralisation. Importantly, no resource has yet been defined, and the project remains at an early, reconnaissance stage.
Corporately, the company has moved quickly since raising over C$5 million and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange in mid-June 2026. A Frankfurt Stock Exchange listing followed within weeks, aimed at reaching Europe's deeper mining investor base, and by early July the company had added Chris Paul (CEO, Hercules Metals) and Joaquin Marias (CEO, Argenta Silver) as technical advisors, joining VP Exploration Enrique Reichhard, a 45-year veteran of Codelco, Billiton and Teck across Latin America. The capital structure remains tight: insiders hold roughly 47% of shares outstanding under multi-year escrow, the top ten shareholders control over 70% of the register, and warrants and options represent less than 0.5% of shares outstanding.
The near-term roadmap is one of triage rather than blanket drilling. Of the 26 projects, eight to ten have been ranked as priority targets using public geochemical, magnetic and spectral data combined with the December sampling programme, and these are slated for ground geophysics starting October 2026 field season. The remaining properties will move through permitting for follow-up work the following season. Harari has been candid that the company is still deciding between an aggressive, well-funded single campaign and a more gradual, multi-season approach to preserve its cap table - a decision that will shape both the pace of news flow and dilution risk for shareholders.
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