CUPR and SAGA Have Major Drilling Catalysts Approaching

NIA Market Alert
Breaking Out Ahead of the Drill Bit
CUPR, SAGA, and what the market has not priced in yet
IN THIS ALERT:  CSE: CUPR    TSXV: SAGA    CSE: WG    TSXV: B    ASX: ARR    LSE: EEE

Super Copper (CSE: CUPR) is breaking out ahead of drilling results during a weak market (like Snowline Gold in 2021/2022), but it doesn’t necessarily mean that they have a better chance of strong drilling results at their copper project in Chile than Saga Metals (TSXV: SAGA) has of strong drilling results at its Wolverine Heavy Rare Earth Project in Labrador.

Case in point — BCM Resources (TSXV: B)
$0.12 → $0.77 in less than one month
BCM was at its 2026 low immediately prior to its drill hole TK20.

We have a lot of evidence with SAGA, similar to what we had with Westward Gold (CSE: WG), that their maiden Rare Earth drilling program is unlikely to be bad. If CUPR reports strong drilling results in Chile, its immediate short-term upside would be a lot greater than SAGA and WG because CUPR is backed by Apeiron Investment Group (billionaires Christian Angermayer and Peter Thiel), and we desperately need a lot more copper for AI.

Why CUPR’s Gravity Is Now Upward

We actually have the most evidence with SAGA that their Wolverine Heavy Rare Earth Project is likely to be good… so CUPR is slightly higher risk, but CUPR’s gravity is now upward because of the money moving in behind it:

Apeiron & Insider Buying in CUPR
As we stated on July 21st, their latest financing was at $0.75 per share, and Apeiron Investment Group (billionaires Christian Angermayer and Peter Thiel) bought 666,667 additional shares in that financing after purchasing their initial seed stake at $0.25 per share.
Apeiron has also been adding in the open market with a total of 200,000 CUPR shares purchased during April 2026 at $0.545–$0.698 per share (those purchases weren’t disclosed on SEDI until July 21st).
CUPR’s CEO was consistently buying CUPR shares on the open market up until August 20th.
Apeiron’s representative on CUPR’s Board of Directors, Sebastian Wagner, bought 15,300 CUPR shares on the open market about one month ago.
Note: If you ever see Apeiron’s shares get reduced by 42,000 once per month, they seem to be direct transfers to Sebastian Wagner.

Sebastian Wagner is head of Apeiron’s newly formed Natural Resource investment division, and after the upcoming success of CUPR we expect to see Apeiron begin making many new natural resource investments in the future, sort of like what the legendary Eric Sprott does… where Sprott recently profited $700 million on Discovery Silver alone, a company that NIA discovered years before him back when it was called Levon Resources (click here to see).

SAGA vs. American Rare Earths in Early 2022

If we weren’t already following SAGA due to their 100% owned Radar Project’s huge success with 100% successful drill-hole hits of high-grade titanium/vanadium/iron, there’s a good chance we would be totally overlooking their recent acquisition of Wolverine and launch of drilling.

SAGA’s scale at Wolverine is similar to American Rare Earths (ASX: ARR) in early 2022. ARR got revalued to a US$150 million market cap in January 2022 prior to it drilling a single hole at Halleck Creek. ARR’s good drilling results got priced in before drilling began vs. SAGA having nothing priced in at all, despite owning North America’s most promising Heavy Rare Earth Project of massive scale.
The Titanium Benchmark: Empire Metals

Empire Metals (LSE: EEE) recently updated its titanium resource in Australia: the largest in world history:

Total resource
8.16 billion tonnes @ 4.3% TiO₂
High-grade measured portion
374 million tonnes @ 5.8% TiO₂

Those grades might not be economic at today’s prices. The high-grade measured portion has the best chance of being economic. It will be interesting to see how SAGA‘s maiden mineral resource estimate at Radar compares to the measured portion of EEE’s resource. SAGA, with its close 100m spacing at Radar, is likely to report an indicated resource vs. most companies starting out with inferred resources.

NIA expects to see SAGA report a maiden indicated resource that is surprisingly strong compared to the high-grade measured portion of Empire’s resource.
Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. NIA has received US$50,000 cash from CUPR for a six-month marketing contract and previously received US$30,000 cash for a three-month marketing contract. NIA has received compensation from WG of US$60,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract. NIA has received compensation from SAGA of US$100,000 cash for a twelve-month marketing contract. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.