Kingman Minerals Ltd.
Kingman Minerals Ltd. is a precious-metals exploration and development company focused on North America. Its 100%-owned flagship is the historic Rosebud Mine in the Music Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, where high-grade gold-silver veins were discovered in the 1880s and mined mainly in the 1920s-30s (a 400-foot shaft and ~2,500 feet of underground drifts, raises and crosscuts remain from that era). The company has expanded its holdings to 192 lode claims (1,216 hectares) around the historic mine site and completed an eight-hole Phase III drill program in 2026 that outlined broad alteration and structure but did not demonstrate economic-grade continuity at the depths tested; it has a permit for a further 16-hole program, and preliminary metallurgical tests on Rosebud material in September 2026 showed 82.3% gravity-recoverable gold and 93.5% overall gold recovery from gravity and flotation. The company closed an upsized $1.5M non-brokered financing (21,428,500 units at $0.07). No current NI 43-101 resource estimate has been published.
Notable vs. Peers
- Trading within 3% of its 52-week low — weak recent price momentum.
Lifecycle Milestones
Not yet determined: mill, tailings facility, grid power.
Jurisdiction (40%)9/10
Arizona: Fraser PPI 2025 is 90.73 of 100 (rank 10 of 68), which maps to 9 on this site's scale. Arizona, USA -- Tier-1 mining jurisdiction.
Infrastructure (40%)6.4/10
Confirmed road access at Mohave Project (historic Rosebud Mine), Music Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USA; existing mill, grid power, and tailings facility not yet researched, counted at a neutral 5/10 until established.
Nearby producing mine (20%)Not yet researched
No project coordinates on file yet, so distance to a producing mine can't be measured.
Acquisition Susceptibility
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 in the research, a producer that already owns part of the company, is scored from its disclosed strategic shareholders. A producer that is a joint-venture or earn-in partner on the project, rather than a shareholder, isn't captured yet.
How this score is built
- Disclosed pending dealSub-score: Not scored
No pending acquisition or merger disclosed (checked)
Not scored: having no deal in flight isn't held against a company.
Weight 26.25% - Producer's strategic stakeSub-score: Not scored
No producer holds a disclosed stake on file (holder register researched) See holders
Not scored: most juniors that do get bought had no prior toehold, so a missing stake says little either way.
Weight 25% - Distance to a producing mineSub-score: Not yet researched
Distance not yet researched: no project coordinates on file
Distance can't be measured without coordinates, so excluded rather than counted as far.
Weight 22.5% - Lifecycle stageSub-score:1/10
Stage: Grassroots Exploration
Feasibility and permitting score 10, where deals cluster, and production 5.5; earlier stages score less, down to 1 at grassroots.
Weight 15% · 57% here - JurisdictionSub-score:9/10
United States: jurisdiction score 9/10
Our jurisdiction score, used as is: higher means lower political and permitting risk.
Weight 6.75% · 26% here - CommoditySub-score:10/10
Primary commodity: Gold
Gold 10, copper 8, silver 5, nickel and uranium 4, others 2: most majors' deals are for gold.
Weight 4.5% · 17% here
Weight is each input's share of the full score. “Here” is its share of this company's score: inputs that aren't scored are left out and the rest re-weighted, never counted as zero.
Your Rankings
Management Team
Interim President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Kingman Minerals Ltd., with over 15 years' industry and sustainable-business experience focused on the Americas within the resource industry, having worked with numerous publicly traded and private junior resource companies.
Director and Chief Financial Officer of Tesoro Minerals Corp., a chartered accountant and founding partner of Driver Anderson (est. 1981), and retired partner of Davidson and Company LLP; also Non-Executive Chairman of Kingman Minerals Ltd. and Chief Financial Officer & Director of Starr Peak Mining Ltd.
Chief Operating Officer and Director of Kingman Minerals Ltd., Director and Vice President Exploration of Kiplin Metals Inc., and Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of Bedford Metals Corp. (TSXV: BFM). Registered professional geologist with the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada, with four decades' experience in project generation, exploration and resource geology, including several years of uranium exploration in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan and the Thelon Basin of the Northwest Territories, and resource-geology work on the Meliadine deposit in Nunavut and in the Abitibi greenstone belt around Timmins, Ontario. B.Sc. (1976) and Ph.D. in Earth Sciences (1996), Carleton University.
Chief Financial Officer and Director of Kingman Minerals Ltd., with 36 years' business experience across boards of nine other companies in technology, oil & gas and mineral exploration.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
No producer, strategic investor, or resource-specialist fund holds a disclosed stake. One insider shows frequent back-and-forth trading rather than a clear pattern of buying.
No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.
Reports, Presentations & Documents
Kingman Minerals' 100%-owned Mohave project in the Music Mountains of Mohave County, Arizona, centres on the historic Rosebud mine, where high-grade gold-silver veins were discovered in the 1880s and mined mainly in the 1920s-30s; its holdings now cover 192 lode claims (1,216 hectares). An eight-hole Phase III drill program completed in 2026 outlined broad alteration and structure but did not demonstrate economic-grade continuity at the depths tested, and the company has a permit for a further 16-hole program. Preliminary metallurgical tests on Rosebud material in September 2026 showed 82.3% gravity-recoverable gold, a gravity concentrate grading 379.97 g/t gold and 93.5% overall gold recovery from gravity and flotation. No current NI 43-101 resource estimate has been published.
No reports or presentations linked yet.