Romios Gold’s New CEO Kevin Keough Bets on Trek South as B.C.’s Next Big Copper-Gold Discovery

The Golden Triangle of British Columbia has always attracted big mining dreams—but Kevin Keough says Romios Gold Resources Inc. (TSXV: RG) may hold one of the best undrilled copper-gold porphyry prospects left in the province. “We have, I think, probably the best new undrilled porphyry copper-gold prospect in the province at Trek South,” Keough told me. “That’s how good it is—or appears to be—at this point.”Keough, who stepped in as CEO earlier this year while Stephen Burega remains as President, brings a sharp focus to a company with over two dozen projects scattered across some of the richest geological real estate in North America. “Our goal is to deliver real discoveries that could become mines from one or two of those assets in particular,” he said. “So, it’s going to be a very focused play and we’re doing everything we have to, to really reconfigure this company and get success soon.”Trek South, the asset that drew him to the CEO role, sits in the middle of the Golden Triangle, bisected by the road right-of-way leading to Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX: TECK.A | TSX: TECK.B | NYSE: TECK) and Newmont Corporation’s (NYSE: NEM | TSX: NGT) Galore Creek project, now in prefeasibility. “We’re on the easy-access side of the hills,” Keough noted, contrasting it with Galore Creek’s more remote terrain. The location, he said, makes it “rich geological real estate” in a “proven place to be” where “all the major companies are actively looking.”Keough’s strategy leans heavily on “success through the drill bit.” While some juniors choose to option out their best projects, he is blunt about his preference: “My preferred model is to focus on a tiny number of assets… that I believe can deliver a discovery of merit. And by that, I mean a discovery that could become a mine.” The plan is for Romios to do the work itself so that “any success would be reflected in our share price, not necessarily that of another company.”The early days of his tenure have also been about cleaning house. Romios had carried a substantial debt load—now cleared—and in short order, the company raised $750,000 to fund its next six months of corporate reconfiguration. “The market knows that this company has had issues in the past, and yet we’ve been able to raise that money very easily,” Keough said. “So, onward and upward as far as I’m concerned.”While Trek South dominates the company’s near-term plans, Romios is also advancing other assets, including the 100%-owned Kinkaid project in Nevada’s Walker Lane trend, where August results confirmed significant epithermal gold assays and broad porphyry-style alteration zones. “These vein workings, alteration zones, and thick, coarse garnet skarns… are believed to represent the tops of multiple porphyry Cu-Au-Ag centres,” Burega stated in the company’s latest release. Recent chip samples from Kinkaid returned up to 13.95 g/t Au, with copper grades between 0.71% and 1.7% Cu, bolstering the case for moving the property toward drill-ready status.