EMC Gold Corporation
EMC Gold (renamed from Black Dragon Gold Corp, Dec. 2025) owns 100% of Salave, a large underground gold resource (JORC ~1.56-1.57 Moz Au, Feb 2025) at a Roman-era mine site in northern Spain -- one of Europe's largest undeveloped gold deposits. The company appointed a Spain-based CEO (effective July 2026) to drive permitting, including a December 2024 application for 'Strategic Investment' status under new Asturian law aimed at overcoming the project's long, contested permitting history.
Notable vs. Peers
- Financials score of 4.6/10 is weaker than the peer average of 6.6/10.
- Jurisdiction risk score of 6/10 is meaningfully riskier than the peer average of 7.8/10.
Lifecycle Milestones
A relative ranking of how closely this company matches the profile of juniors that have actually been acquired — not a probability, and not a reason to buy. Acquisitions are rare: only a few dozen significant deals happen a year across a universe of thousands of juniors, so even a high score here describes a long shot. The strongest signal the underlying research identifies — whether a major already holds a JV, earn-in, or 5–19.9% strategic stake — isn't tracked yet and is absent from this score.
Your Rankings
Management Team
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of EMC Gold Corporation, effective 6 July 2026, as part of a governance restructuring that moved former Executive Chairman Dominic Roberts to Non-Executive Director and installed Alberto Lavandeira as Non-Executive Chairman. 35+ years of experience across mine development, operations, project delivery, and stakeholder engagement in Europe and the Americas; Spain-based and fluent in Spanish, with a track record across Spanish mining operations including Saloro, Kinbauri España, MATSA, and Tungsten San Juan, focused on advancing the Salave Gold Project in northern Spain. No current CFO could be confirmed from any source checked this session.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
Checked, and no informed outside capital shows up. The largest holders are individuals — Paul Cronin at 8.46% and Alberto Lavandeira at 3.24%, both career mining executives connected to the company — alongside ConBrio Beteiligungen AG, a German investment holding company, at 4.42%. No producer has taken a stake, no resource-specialist fund appears, and institutional ownership reads zero against management ownership of 45.5%. This is a founder-and-executive-held register rather than one that outside capital has validated. A 1 here means checked-and-nothing-found, not that anything is wrong with the company.
No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.
Reports, Presentations & Documents
Salave Gold Project (Asturias, Spain) JORC 2012 resource, per the Feb 2025 scoping study/technical report (effective 1 Feb 2025, superseding the company's earlier Feb 2019 PEA): 17.1 Mt at 2.85 g/t Au for 1.56 Moz total, split 9% Measured / 66% Indicated / 25% Inferred -- M&I of ~1.17 Moz used here (Measured ~0.14 Moz + Indicated ~1.03 Moz); the remaining ~0.39 Moz Inferred is excluded per this repo's M+I-only convention.