Prodigy Gold NL
Prodigy Gold NL explores for gold in the Tanami region of the Northern Territory, Australia, alongside major operators Newmont and Northern Star in the same multimillion-ounce province. Its Tanami North Project centres on the Hyperion deposit (9.8 million tonnes at 1.4 g/t gold for 454,000 ounces) and the Tregony deposit, with a broader target pipeline including Brokenwood, Pandora and Mark's Rise. The company also holds the Twin Bonanza Project, where ore-sorting testwork on Old Pirate Gold Mine feed material upgraded grade from 322.3 g/t to a 2,647 g/t concentrate, supporting a potential mine restart; it secured an A$112,152 NT Government co-funding grant for deep diamond drilling at Hyperion.
Lifecycle Milestones
Not yet determined: mill, tailings facility, grid power.
Jurisdiction (40%)9/10
Northern Territory: Fraser PPI 2025 is 73.83 of 100 (rank 33 of 68), which maps to 9 on this site's scale. Northern Territory, Australia -- Tier-1 mining jurisdiction.
Infrastructure (40%)6.4/10
Confirmed road access at Tanami North Project, Northern Territory, Australia; 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
A disclosed corporate action (not an acquisition or merger)
A corporate action of this kind says nothing about takeover susceptibility, so it isn't scored.
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:3.5/10
Stage: Resource Definition
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
Australia: 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
Managing Director of Prodigy Gold NL since May 2022. Experience spans grassroots exploration through mine development and mining in major geological provinces across Australia, the Pacific Rim, northern Africa and northern Europe; responsible for discovering significant gold resources in the Southern Cross Province of Western Australia for Samantha Gold and identifying opportunities that led to Dragon Mining becoming an established gold producer in the Nordic region.
Independent Chairman of Prodigy Gold NL. Qualified as a Barrister in Hong Kong and New South Wales and lived and worked in Hong Kong for over 35 years.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
Newmont funds an active earn-in joint venture on Prodigy's Tobruk project, next to Newmont's own Callie mine -- sole-funding up to A$12M of exploration to earn up to 70%, plus A$2.5M in cash payments to Prodigy. The deal originated in 2019 but is confirmed still active in Prodigy's FY2025 annual report. No recent insider buying was found alongside it. Institutional ownership overall is 35.8%.
No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.
Reports, Presentations & Documents
A plain-language summary of this company's technical-report findings isn't written yet. See the cited figures on this page and the documents below.