\#1 is Outcrop Silver, $OCG / $OCGSF. This is the high-grade silver-gold vein story in Colombia. The Santa Ana project is already past the “interesting rocks only” stage because it has a maiden resource, ongoing drilling, multiple vein systems and a district-scale footprint. The part I’m watching is whether the company can keep expanding beyond the current resource base and turn more of those vein corridors into something the market can model seriously.
\#2 is Lavras Gold, $LGC / $LGCFF. This one is more of a Brazil gold district story. The Lavras do Sul project has multiple deposits, discoveries and targets across a large intrusive complex, which makes it different from a single-zone drill story. Recent Fazenda/Butiá work showed broad gold intervals with higher-grade shoots inside them, and the 2026 program is expected to keep testing both resource growth and district-scale opportunities. For me, Lavras is about whether the project keeps moving from “many targets” into a cleaner multi-deposit gold story.
\#3 is NovaRed Mining, $NRED $NREDF. This is the earlier copper-gold name in the group, so I look at it differently. The draw is not a published resource yet, it is the setup before the first major technical filter. Wilmac gives NovaRed roughly 39,730 acres of BC copper-gold ground near Princeton, about 6 miles west of Hudbay’s Copper Mountain operation. The 2026 path is what matters: soils, IP/AMT geophysics, target refinement and initial drilling contemplated for fall 2026 subject to permit. MetalCore AI adds a data-screening layer, but the field sequence is still the part to track.
That is why these three are not the same trade. Outcrop is silver-gold resource growth. Lavras is a district-scale Brazil gold buildout. NovaRed is earlier-stage BC copper-gold target-building with an AI/data angle.
Different metals, different jurisdictions, different stages. Same watchlist logic: I want juniors where the next few updates can actually change how the market understands the story.