Star Minerals Ltd
Star Minerals Ltd is an early-stage gold producer with mining underway at the Tumblegum South Gold Project (south of Meekatharra, WA) via contract miner MEGA Resources, with gold processed via toll treatment at Catalyst Metals Ltd's (ASX:CYL) Plutonic Gold Mill. Star Minerals sold its West Bryah Basin copper-gold tenements to Catalyst Metals -- completed 19 Mar 2026, for A$2.75M (A$1M cash + 230,536 CYL shares) -- narrowing its portfolio to gold. Catalyst also took a 6.59% equity stake in Star Minerals via a A$1M placement at A$0.062/share. GAP (recorded, not guessed): the only confirmed cash figure found (A$1.26M at 31 Dec 2025) predates the Mar 2026 West Bryah sale and Catalyst placement -- current cash is very likely materially different and is deliberately NOT written here as current; no JORC resource/technical report found for Tumblegum South; no CFO identified (role may be combined with the Company Secretary).
Notable vs. Peers
- Jurisdiction risk score of 10/10 is meaningfully safer than the peer average of 7.8/10.
- Financials score of 8.1/10 is stronger than the peer average of 6.4/10.
Lifecycle Milestones
Construction Milestones
3 of 5 reached- Mar 2026 · Tumblegum South's mining approvals were a two-step process, both real and dated. Star Minerals submitted its Mining Proposal to the WA state mining regulator (reported in coverage as the Department of Mines, Petroleum and Exploration; the department's current statutory name is DEMIRS) on 9 September 2025, and received Mining Approval per ASX release on/around 10 December 2025 ('Mining Approval Received for Tumblegum South Gold Project', widely syndicated e.g. TipRanks/Globe and Mail). A separate Native Vegetation Clearing Permit (applied for 14 July 2025) was the last outstanding approval -- Star Minerals' own investor-centre announcement list gives '9-Mar-2026: Final Approval Received for Tumblegum South Gold Project' as the release clearing it, and the company itself frames that as the final regulatory hurdle before mining could start. Recorded PERMIT_GRANTED against that final-approval date, since the milestone means ALL approvals needed to legally mine are in hand, not just the first of several. One secondary source (search-engine synthesis, not independently verified against a primary announcement) describes the clearing permit's public-notice period running to 29 March 2026 before becoming 'active' -- flagged as an unreconciled discrepancy with the company's own 9 March announcement date rather than silently resolved. Replaces a Task #373-era placeholder note that carried no citation at all. · Source
- Reached — date not disclosed · Implied by the decision to engage contract miner MEGA Resources and arrange toll treatment at Catalyst's Plutonic mill; no separate formal construction-decision date confirmed against a primary source this pass. · Source
- Reached — date not disclosed · Mine preparation ahead of contract mining start at Tumblegum South; a specific start date was not confirmed against a primary source this pass. · Source
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Milestones are recorded only from a company's own dated disclosure. A milestone with no date shown is one we can confirm was reached but for which no date was disclosed — we don't estimate one. "Not yet reached" means exactly that, not that a date is missing. An "Expected" line likewise only ever reflects the company's own guidance (e.g. a study or permit decision targeted for a stated quarter) — most not-yet-reached milestones have none, and that absence means no such guidance has been disclosed, not that one is overdue.
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.
Your Rankings
Management Team
Managing Director and Company Secretary of Star Minerals Ltd. Geologist with 20+ years' exploration/mine-geology experience in Australia and Africa.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
Star Minerals' own site names Catalyst Metals (an established ASX gold producer), Bain Global Resources and MEGA Resources (the company's contract miner) as 'cornerstone investors.' That is a real, named lead -- Catalyst Metals in particular is exactly the kind of producer relationship worth tracking -- but no ownership percentage, transaction date, or confirmation that this is a cash equity stake (rather than, say, an offtake or processing relationship described in investor language) was found. Scored conservatively rather than assumed. No insider trading records exist in our data.
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.