Craig Brelsford

Hi. This is Craig Brelsford with RedChip Companies. Thank you for joining today's event with Nova Minerals, which trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker NVA. With us today, we have Christopher Gerteisen, Executive Director and CEO of Nova Minerals. We will begin with a brief presentation in a moment.

But before we begin, please allow me to read the safe harbor statement. This call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements pertaining to future financial and/or operating results, along with other statements about the future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or prospects expressed by management constitute forward-looking statements. Any statements that are not historical fact should also be considered forward-looking statements. Of course, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties.

Chris Gerteisen is waiting for us up in Alaska. Chris, take it from here.

Christopher Gerteisen
CEO & Executive Director

Christopher Gerteisen here, CEO and Director of Nova Minerals. I'm standing here at the Estelle Gold and Critical Minerals Project. We've just concluded a very successful 2026 winter road heavy freight haul season, which has just been a success by any measure. We've hauled in over 800 tonnes of various mining and processing equipment, which you see behind me. This provides us everything we need to continue to execute on this plan that is being supported by the Department of War, the U.S. Department of War with $43 million to establish domestic antimony production and Nova Minerals has really been at the center of that, and we are executing.

Behind me, you can see various pieces of mining equipment, including rock