Copper juniors are easier to compare when there are actual numbers on the board.
MARI is already in the drill-result bucket. At Pampa Medina, the company reported 20m at 2.65% Cu and 13.9 g/t Ag, including 6m at 6.11% Cu. It also reported a wider 660m interval at 0.41% Cu, including 98m at 1.21% Cu. That gives investors real intercepts to track, plus follow-up drilling around the broader copper-silver system.
ANDC.V is another drill-data name. At Piuquenes North, the reported discovery hole included 164m at 0.70% Cu and 0.44 g/t Au inside 468m at 0.50% Cu and 0.30 g/t Au. That puts it in the porphyry copper-gold follow-up category, where continuity and additional holes matter.
CSE: NRED is a different bucket. It is earlier-stage and pre-drill at Wilmac. No resource, no mine, no production. The numbers there are target-building numbers: North Lamont's 1.1k ppm copper-in-soil anomaly, 4 planned IP/AMT surveys, and MetalCore now above 4.1M records.
That is why I separate these names instead of treating all copper juniors the same.
MARI and ANDC.V are being judged more directly by drilling. CSE: NRED is still being judged by target generation, geophysics, data quality and whether Wilmac can produce drill-ready targets.
TLDR: same copper pipeline, different stages. Drill results are one category. Pre-drill target building is another. Mixing them together makes the watchlist less useful.
NFA, just tracking the sector. Which copper juniors are people following that actually have data behind the story?
