Nova Minerals Appoints Former JP Morgan Metals & Mining Professional to Board as Company Advances U.S. Critical Metals Strategy

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Anchorage, Alaska, July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nova Minerals Corp ("Nova Minerals" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Joshua Girnun to the Company's Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2026. Mr. Girnun brings institutional finance and risk underwriting experience from his background at JP Morgan Chase & Co., where he co-founded a client-facing risk underwriting team covering the metals and mining, energy, renewables, industrials, oil and gas, and agriculture sectors. He pairs his financial background with strong technical training, holding two master's degrees spanning resource finance and geosciences, in addition to an honours degree and a bachelor's in geology. The appointment of Mr. Girnun comes as Nova enters into what it believes to be a pivotal period of execution. The Company recently completed its redomiciliation from Australia to the United States, a move designed to align its corporate structure with its predominantly U.S. asset base, deepen access to American government and institutional capital, and position the Company for broader index inclusion. Concurrently, Nova is progressing its Estelle Gold and Critical Minerals Project through feasibility, evaluating new project opportunities, and preparing for near-term production of military-grade antimony trisulfide, supported by a US$43.4 million award from the U.S. Department of War under the Defense Production Act. The Company believes that Mr. Girnun's institutional finance experience and technical resource background will provide meaningful support to the Company as it advances these projects. At JP Morgan, Mr. Girnun co-founded a subject matter expert team that provided independent, cross-sector assessments and due diligence covering corporate lending, project finance, trade finance and capital markets transactions for large mining and energy clients. He also helped develop the firm's internal risk standard for the natural resources sector. Earlier in his career, he held a range of technical and resource evaluation roles spanning field and desktop geology, project valuation and financial modelling to advance greenfield and brownfield resource projects, including across Sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Girnun holds a Master of Science in Metals and Energy Finance from Imperial College London, a Master of Science in Geosciences from the Hebrew University of Jerus...

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