VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 18, 2026 — USANewsGroup.com Market Intelligence Brief —
Gold just printed $5,000. Not as a fever dream on a commodity trader’s whiteboard. Not as a Goldman target for 2030. As a Wednesday.
Silver is flirting with $82 and the supply deficit is now entering its fifth consecutive year. And somewhere in the background, CISA quietly told every federal agency in America to stop buying encryption that a quantum computer could crack.
The common thread here is not complicated. The market is repricing what is real.
Real metal you can weigh.
Real encryption that does not fold under future compute.
Real biology you can swallow.
The names getting bid are no longer the ones with the best pitch decks. They are the ones with drill cores, defense contracts, and pilot production lines.
That shift has not filtered down to five companies trading at micro and small-cap valuations despite sitting directly in the path of the capital flows that just pushed gold up 73% in twelve months. The algorithms still sort these by market cap. The smart money sorts by what they actually own.
Here are five names that own something the next twelve months are going to care about very much.
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THE POLYMETALLIC SLEEPER
GoldHaven Resources Corp. (CSE: GOH) (OTCQB: GHVNF)
GoldHaven controls 133,186 hectares across Brazil and British Columbia, and the story just got considerably more interesting. The company just completed diamond drilling at its Copeçal Gold Project in Mato Grosso, Brazil, and assay results are pending. Copeçal sits on a 6-kilometer strike of anomalous gold in soil samples. That is not a prospect. That is a target-rich corridor in one of Brazil’s most prolific gold belts.
But Copeçal is only one piece. At the Magno Property in northwestern BC, GoldHaven reported indium enrichment up to 334 ppm from its 2025 surface exploration program. Indium is on every critical minerals list that matters. It is essential for semiconductors, solar panels, and LCD screens, and China controls most of the global supply. Finding it at those concentrations in a Canadian jurisdiction is the kind of thing that gets a phone call from Ottawa.
Add in confirmed high-grade copper at Three Guardsmen and you start to see a company the market still prices as a single-asset gold explorer that is actually building a multi-commodity, multi-jurisdiction portfolio with critical mineral upside. Gold at $5,000 is the headline. The indium and copper are the footnotes that rewrite the valuation.
Read this and more news for GoldHaven Resources at: https://usanewsgroup.com/2025/09/23/the-goldhaven-story-two-continents-one-strategy-systematic-exploration-historic-gold-district-2/
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THE POST-QUANTUM PLAY
Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE)
In January, CISA issued procurement guidance telling federal agencies to acquire only quantum-resistant products across cloud and endpoint categories. That is not a suggestion. That is the starting gun for a mandatory infrastructure overhaul across the entire U.S. government, and Gartner projects worldwide IT spending will hit $6.15 trillion in 2026 to support exactly this kind of transition.
QSE (formerly Scope Technologies) has been building post-quantum cryptography solutions while most cybersecurity companies were still debating timelines. The company was selected to participate in the 2026 World Defense Show as part of the CADSI delegation, putting its technology in front of sovereign defense buyers from dozens of nations. That is not a startup demo day. That is the room where nine-figure procurement decisions begin.
The quantum threat to current encryption is no longer theoretical. IBM has a 1,000+ qubit processor and continues to study quantum computing’s power. Google keeps publishing papers that make cryptographers nervous. Every government and enterprise running RSA or ECC encryption is now on a clock. QSE is selling the answer to the call. The market still treats this like speculative tech. The federal procurement calendar says otherwise.
Read this and more news for Quantum Secure Encryption at: https://usanewsgroup.com/2024/04/26/the-currency-of-tomorrow-why-investing-in-cutting-edge-ai-recognition-tech-could-mean-big-money/
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THE ORAL POUCH INSURGENT
Doseology Sciences Inc. (CSE: MOOD) (OTC: DOSEF)
The functional wellness market just crossed $438 billion and the fastest-growing format in consumer stimulants is not a drink, a pill, or a gummy. It is the oral pouch. Zyn turned nicotine pouches into a cultural phenomenon and a multi-billion dollar category. Now the question every CPG investor should be asking: what else fits in that format?
Doseology answered in January by launching pilot production of caffeine-based energy pouches under its Feed That Brain brand, acquired for $400,000 last year. That acquisition price is worth sitting with. Four hundred thousand dollars for a brand entering a format that Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have validated with billions in capital deployment. The oral pouch is not a trend. It is a delivery mechanism that consumers under 35 have adopted as a lifestyle product.
The thesis here is format arbitrage. Doseology is not competing with Monster or Red Bull on shelf space. It is competing in a new consumption occasion that the energy drink giants have not yet colonized. First movers in format shifts tend to either get acquired or become the acquirer. At this market cap, the math favors the former.
Read this and more news for Doseology Sciences at: https://usanewsgroup.com/2025/12/19/what-comes-after-cigarettes-vapes-and-energy-drinks/
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THE NEVADA SILVER OPERATOR
Americore Resources Corp. (TSXV: AMCO) (OTCQB: AMCOF)
Silver at $82 per ounce has changed the economics of every silver deposit in the Western Hemisphere. Americore owns 100% of the Trinity Silver Project in Pershing County, Nevada, and the company is not waiting around for the price to tell it what to do.
In early February, Americore announced it was evaluating options to monetize historic surface stockpiles at Trinity. Read that again. There is silver already on the surface, already mined by previous operators, sitting in a jurisdiction where permitting timelines are measured in months, not decades. At current prices, those stockpiles represent near-term revenue potential that most exploration-stage companies can only dream about.
The company also launched its 2026 field program with a comprehensive drone magnetometer survey designed to map structural controls across the property. This is systematic, modern exploration on a project with known silver mineralization in a state that wants you to mine.
Nevada ranks first or second globally in mining jurisdiction attractiveness every single year. Americore has the right metal, in the right place, at the right price. That combination does not stay cheap for long.
Read this and more news for Americore Resources at: https://usanewsgroup.com/2026/01/12/the-only-silver-that-matters-now-is-silver-you-can-touch/
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THE BIOTECH PIVOT
Avaí Bio Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI)
Avant Technologies does not exist anymore. As of February 11, the company rebranded to Avaí Bio, and the name change is the least interesting part of what happened. The company pivoted from AI computing infrastructure to biotechnology focused on type 1 and insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes, age-related diseases, and healthy longevity.
That is a big swing. It is also a well-timed one. The longevity biotech space has attracted billions in venture capital over the past two years, with companies like Altos Labs and Retro Biosciences pulling in nine-figure rounds. The public markets have been slower to participate, largely because most longevity plays are still private. Avaí Bio just handed public market investors a ticket to the theme at an OTC valuation.
Corporate pivots are risky. But the pivot itself signals that management saw a better opportunity and moved on it, which is exactly what you want from a micro-cap leadership team. The new website is live. The new strategy is articulated. Now the question is execution. At current prices, the market is giving you the optionality for close to free.
Read this and more news for Avaí Bio at:
https://usanewsgroup.com/avai-profile/
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