Two assets, one in the ground, one in the cloud. NovaRed is betting on both - but the real play might be the people connecting them.
Wilmac is still the core asset. It is a 16,078-hectare copper-gold project in British Columbia’s Quesnel porphyry belt, roughly 6 miles west of Hudbay’s Copper Mountain Mine. The 2026 field program is still the main technical focus, with soils, geophysics, target refinement, and a possible drilling program in the fall if permits line up.
But the company is also working on MetalCore AI, a data-driven exploration platform layered on top of its mineral portfolio. That pushes the business beyond pure field geology into data, modeling, and how targets get generated and ranked.
Once you move in that direction, the team around the company starts to matter in a different way. You need people who can deal with communication, legal structure, investor expectations, stakeholder relationships, and how a story travels through capital markets.
Katie Zacharia fits that layer. Her background spans law, public policy, strategic communications, media, and international advisory work. The company also points to her involvement in cross-border legal and financial matters tied to institutions such as the World Bank Group and International Finance Corporation during her time at Zhong Lun Law Firm in Beijing.
For $NRED / $NREDF, the real question is still execution in the field. Everything else sits around that. But the direction of the advisory board shows what the company is preparing for: not just drilling season, but the process that follows it if the technical work starts to deliver results.
That includes visibility, regulatory navigation, partnerships, and capital markets access. For a junior sitting between copper-gold exploration and an AI-driven exploration platform, that support structure becomes part of the setup.
Drilling finds the target. The team around it finds the path forward.
