Oreterra Metals’ Kevin Keough Discusses Trek South as a Potentially Major New Copper-Gold Discovery in 2026

A newly renamed junior explorer is preparing to test a drill-ready copper-gold target in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle after completing a corporate restructuring and publishing a new technical report. In an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Kevin Keough, CEO and Director of Oreterra Metals Corp. (TSXV: OTMC), said the company’s rebranding reflects a reset in both identity and strategy following its emergence from Romios Gold Resources Inc..

“The name itself actually just emerged from a process we ran with the directors to really come up with a name that would represent the new company and the new direction,” Keough said. He noted that Romios “had been around for many years” and held “exceptionally good assets,” but also faced “corporate issues.” Keough said he became involved in June of last year “mainly because of the strength of its assets,” and that the company has since undergone “a major restructuring process over the last seven months or so,” formally re-emerging as Oreterra on February 2.

Keough said the company is now positioned to focus on exploration at Trek South, a porphyry copper-gold target that he described as “a completely new porphyry copper-gold target” and “never drilled.” He emphasized that the target has only taken shape in recent years, saying it “really only emerged as a very thought-out target since COVID.” He framed Trek South as a discovery-driven opportunity, adding, “That can only come from a discovery of merit—I mean, a really significant discovery.”

Drawing on past experience, Keough said he had previously delivered discoveries “in the same general area of the world that Oreterra is presently active in,” referencing the Saddle North discovery that led to the development of GT Gold. “It paid off with GT Gold big time,” he said, adding, “We think that this new target, Trek South, could also pay off big time.” He said the company decided the target was “strong enough” to warrant focusing “all our assets on” it during the upcoming field season.

Keough said Oreterra plans to replicate the exploration approach used at Saddle North, describing it as a “disciplined discovery-driven model.” He explained that porphyry copper-gold systems “tend to be very big,” with “fairly consistently distributed” mineralization compared with high-grade vein systems. Because of that consistency and scale, he said, they “typically require a much lower density of drilling to deliver resources.” At Trek South, Oreterra intends to use “relatively wide-spaced holes,” laid out in “fences of holes—each hole roughly 200 metres apart,” which he said “indicates the scale of a target.”

The company recently completed a National Instrument 43-101 technical report for the Trek property, which Keough said was commissioned to give shareholders and potential investors confidence. “We decided to do it because we want to provide potential investors and our shareholders—existing shareholders—with confidence that what we’re proposing to do at Trek, and the property itself, is really worth the effort,” he said. He added that the report shows “a lot of geoscience backing up this target,” and described Trek South as “actually the best copper-gold porphyry prospect I’ve seen in my career,” citing its surface exposure as “superior to most in British Columbia.”

Keough confirmed that Oreterra will be exhibiting at Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Convention, saying the company will have a booth at the event after missing a booth at Roundup due to the timing of the name change. Looking ahead, he said near-term activity will focus on preparing for the summer drilling season in British Columbia, noting that demand for drillers and helicopter support is already high. “It’s all underway right now,” he said, adding that a financing is planned “very shortly” to fund the Trek South program.

Once drilling begins, Keough said, “the news should come pretty consistently thereafter.” He confirmed that the company’s new website is live at oreterra.com and thanked Hughes for the opportunity to discuss the company’s plans.

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