Q-Gold Resources Ltd.
Q-Gold Resources Ltd. is a gold exploration and development company focused on the Quartz Mountain gold project in Lake County, Oregon, USA, and also holds the Mine Centre project in Ontario, Canada. Title status: Q-Gold holds an option to acquire 100% of the Quartz Mountain property from Seabridge Gold, which keeps title until Q-Gold completes a feasibility study and pays US$3M, then a further US$15M or a 2% net smelter royalty once a mine is permitted and bonded; it holds a 50% joint-venture interest in the adjacent Angel's Camp property, with an option on the other 50%. A maiden preliminary economic assessment (Kappes Cassiday, released 8 April 2026) covers the Quartz Mountain property's Crone Hill and Quartz Butte deposits, whose resource, effective 28 February 2026, is 2.01 million oz of gold indicated plus 494,000 oz inferred. Because the option has not been exercised, neither the resource nor the study economics are counted as Q-Gold's on this page, and the company is shown at the grassroots exploration stage of the projects it owns, the Angel's Camp joint venture and the Mine Centre project in Ontario, neither of which has a resource yet.
Lifecycle Milestones
Combined view across 2 projects. Figures below are only combined where the underlying basis genuinely matches -- see the notes under each.
Jurisdiction (40%)9/10
Flagship Quartz Mountain project is in Lake County, Oregon, USA -- Tier-1 mining jurisdiction. Secondary Mine Centre project is in Ontario, Canada -- also Tier-1.
Infrastructure (40%)No verified figure
Researched with nothing found: no source we could cite confirms or rules out an existing mill, road access, grid power, or tailings facility at Quartz Mountain Gold Project, Lake County, Oregon, USA (checked Sep 26, 2026; recheck due Mar 25, 2027). Counts at a neutral 5/10 until one does.
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
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Q-Gold Resources Ltd. Assumed the additional Executive Chairman title on March 23, 2026, when Stan Bharti stepped down as board chairman to move into a strategic advisory role.
President of Q-Gold Resources Ltd., appointed March 23, 2026. Over 35 years of capital-markets experience including a 31-year career at BMO Capital Markets, culminating as Vice-Chair (2015-2023), advising mining companies from grassroots exploration through production and M&A financing.
Chief Financial Officer of Q-Gold Resources Ltd., appointed as part of the company's February 2026 management strengthening announced ahead of the Quartz Mountain Gold Project's PEA.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
ASA Gold and Precious Metals, a real specialist closed-end mining fund, holds a solid 9.29% stake (18,000,000 shares, per its own SEC Form N-PORT for 31 May 2026), and the Franklin Gold and Precious Metals Fund holds another 6.75% (13,088,830 shares, its N-PORT for 31 Jul 2026) -- two genuine specialist funds on the register, with total institutional ownership over 26%. A senior officer has also bought on the open market twice this year.
No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.
Reports, Presentations & Documents
Q-Gold Resources is advancing the Quartz Mountain gold project in Lake County, Oregon, and also holds the Mine Centre project in Ontario. Title status: Q-Gold holds an option on Quartz Mountain rather than ownership, and Seabridge Gold keeps title until Q-Gold completes a feasibility study and pays US$3M, then a further US$15M or a 2% net smelter royalty once a mine is permitted and bonded. Quartz Mountain's resource, across the Crone Hill and Quartz Butte areas and effective 28 February 2026, contains 2,010,000 oz of gold in the indicated category, with no measured category, plus 494,000 oz inferred. Because the option has not been exercised, neither that resource nor the maiden preliminary economic assessment released on 8 April 2026 is counted as Q-Gold's on this page; both would be once the option is exercised. Q-Gold's own interest is a 50% joint-venture stake in the adjacent Angel's Camp property, where soil sampling began in 2026 to find drill targets. With Angel's Camp and the Mine Centre project in Ontario both at an early exploration stage without a resource, the company itself is shown at the grassroots exploration stage until the Quartz Mountain option is exercised. In August 2026 the company staked new claims around the existing Quartz Mountain block, extending its ground beyond the defined resource areas for regional exploration and possible future site infrastructure.