NRЕD lays out 3 Wilmac target areas for its 2026 copper-gold work

NоvaRed Mining put out a Wilmac project summary today, and the useful part is the target breakdown. Wilmac is a 16k hectare copper-gold project in British Columbia's Quesnel porphyry belt. It sits about 10 km west of Hudbay's producing Copper Mountain Mine. Hudbay reports Copper Mountain has 345M tonnes of proven and probable reserves grading 0.26% copper and 0.12 g/t gold, per the release. That nearby mine context helps explain the district, but it does not prove mineralization at Wilmac. The company is focusing on 3 priority areas: Wilmac Lamont / North Lamont Trojan-Condor Corridor The release says the project has copper-in-soil anomalies, anomalous copper rock samples, porphyry-style alteration, magnetic targets, and evidence for a multi-phase intrusive complex. Management also pointed to a planned 2026 field program aimed at refining the drill targets. That last part is the main thing I am watching. NRЕD CN / NRЕDF is still an early-stage explorer. It has no producing mine, no defined resource, and no revenue. Soil data, rock samples, old core review, and geophysics help build targets. Drill results decide whether those targets matter. I would keep NovaRed in the earlier-stage bucket with names like KDK and CAM. Producers like TECK, HBM, FCX, and TKO belong in a separate category because they already have operating copper exposure. NFA. For copper juniors, do you care more about land position and target quality before drilling, or do you wait until actual drill assays come out?