Goldalso:SilverMulti-CommodityGrassroots Exploration · Stage 1 of 8Announced that Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc. (wholly-owned Kinross Gold Corporation subsidiary and project operator, earning up to a 75% interest via a minimum US$20 million exploration spend under a March 2024 earn-in agreement) commenced the 2026 drill program at the Pipeline West/Clipper (PWC) Gold Project in Nevada's Cortez District; the Kinross technical team together with Riley Gold's Paul Dobak defined high-priority drill targets along and on-trend with the highest-grade gold-in-soil anomaly known on the 27.2 sq km property, including areas within the land package that have never previously been drill-tested, targeting a large disseminated deposit peripheral to the Gold Acres stock; PWC directly adjoins Nevada Gold Mines LLC (the Barrick Gold/Newmont joint venture) and its currently producing Cortez/Pipeline complex; this follows a 14 Jul 2026 exploration-planning update (four seismic lines totaling 13.6km completed Mar 2026 at 15m channel spacing, downhole geochemistry characterizing stratigraphy and sulfidized horizons, drill contracts awarded) which is the immediately preceding, non-duplicative planning milestone and is folded into background — Aug 2026Tokop Gold Project (Walker Lane Trend, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA) Map
Riley Gold Corp. explores for gold and silver in Nevada's Walker Lane Trend. Its 100%-owned Tokop Gold project spans ~31 sq km in Esmeralda County, and it holds an option to earn 75% of the Pipeline West/Clipper Gold (PWC) property (~24.7 sq km, Lander County), where Kinross Gold's Fall 2025 soil geochemical survey and follow-up drilling returned Carlin-type mineralization signatures. No resource estimate has yet been published.
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.
Chief Financial Officer of Sailfish Royalty 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.
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Kinross Gold Corporation led Riley Gold's oversubscribed private placement, taking 9.9% (2,217,815 shares) in a real cash strategic investment, and separately entered a US$20 million funded earn-in agreement on Riley's PWC Gold project in Nevada -- a real, dated 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.
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