Riley Gold Corp.
Riley Gold Corp. explores for gold and silver in Nevada. Its sole remaining project is the Pipeline West / Clipper (PWC) Gold Project in the Cortez mining district of the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend, Lander County -- approximately 27.2 km2 of unpatented mining claims and patented fee lands adjoining Nevada Gold Mines, in which Riley holds an option to earn a 75% interest. PWC is operated by Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc. under an exploration earn-in agreement executed in March 2024; Kinross ran a Fall 2025 soil geochemical survey and follow-up drilling that returned Carlin-type mineralisation signatures. Riley filed an NI 43-101 technical report for PWC on 1 May 2026 with an effective date of 11 February 2026; it contains no mineral resource estimate, and no resource estimate has been published for the project. Note that the company's own legacy Tokop project page is still live and still describes the property in the present tense, which is how the stale claim survived; the relinquishment is disclosed in its 29 May 2025 release, not on the project page. `stage` was and remains grassroots -- the resource claim in the prior description was correct and only the portfolio was stale.
Notable vs. Peers
- Financials score of 7.1/10 is stronger than the peer average of 5.3/10.
Lifecycle Milestones
Jurisdiction (40%)9/10
Nevada: Fraser PPI 2025 is 100.00 of 100 (rank 1 of 68), which maps to 9 on this site's scale. Nevada, USA -- among the world's top-ranked mining investment jurisdictions (Fraser Institute).
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 Tokop Gold Project, Walker Lane Trend, Esmeralda County, Nevada, 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:8.7/10
Kinross Gold Corporation holds 9.9% (reported 3 Apr 2024) See holders
An operating producer's stake scores 8 at 5%, rising to 10 at 20% (the take-over-bid threshold) and holding there up to 50%.
Weight 25% · 49% here - 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% · 29% 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% · 13% 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% · 9% 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 Director of Riley Gold Corp.; also Executive Chair of URZ3 Energy Corp.
President and CEO of Lucara Diamond Corp.; also Chairman of the Board of Riley Gold Corp.
Chief Financial Officer of Sailfish Royalty Corp.; also Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary of Riley Gold Corp. Chartered Accountant with more than 15 years of mining-industry experience. Previously CFO of Terraco and became a consultant to Sailfish in 2019 following the acquisition of Terraco, before being appointed CFO, replacing Peter Van Zoost.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
Kinross Gold Corporation led Riley Gold's oversubscribed private placement, taking 9.9% (2,217,815 shares) in a cash strategic investment, and separately entered a US$20 million funded earn-in agreement on Riley's PWC Gold project in Nevada -- a producer relationship. No named fund or institution holds a position. CEO Todd Hilditch bought 798,518 shares on the open market on 2 April 2026, the only insider transaction on file.
No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.
Reports, Presentations & Documents
We haven't parsed this company's PEA/PFS/FS recommendations yet — cut-off grade, mine life, DCF/NPV, and the report's own next-steps guidance are a planned research pass, not live data for every company yet.
No reports or presentations linked yet.