JUNIORMETRICS

Tribune Resources Limited

TBR·US$3.56 (AUD 5.07)·US$186.6M cap
GoldMulti-asset portfolio (East Kundana Joint Venture, Western Australia; Japa Gold Project (Adiembra deposit), Ghana; exploration at West Kundana, Seven Mile Hill and Diwalwal) Map

Tribune Resources Limited is an ASX-listed gold producer holding a 36.75% interest in the East Kundana Joint Venture in Western Australia's Goldfields region, alongside earlier-stage exploration interests via Japa in Ghana and Diwalwal in the Philippines. TTM revenue of AU$166.10 million and net income of AU$44.24 million translate to EPS of AU$0.84 and a P/E of 5.96, with a dividend yield of 4.00%. The East Kundana JV statement is prepared by JV manager Evolution Mining on a 100%-of-JV basis to a 31 December balance date -- the 31 December 2025 edition, ASX-released 5 August 2026, reports 14.6Mt at 3.42g/t for 1.61Moz, of which 1.11Moz is Measured and Indicated, and is the basis for the ounces carried here. Tribune's own consolidated Group table is a separate document on a separate cycle: attributable basis (Tribune 36.75% plus Rand Mining 12.25%), a 30 June balance date, and Adiembra included alongside the EKJV -- as at 30 June 2025 it showed 2.62Moz for the Group, of which Tribune's allocation is 2.4Moz. The standalone tables PDF hosted on tribune.com.au is still the 30 June 2021 edition, so the company's website lags its own ASX disclosure -- a site-maintenance gap, not a gap in the underlying data.

Lifecycle Milestones

Grassroots
Resource Def.
PEA
PFS
Feasibility
Permitting
Construction
ProductionCurrent

Construction Milestones

5 of 5 reached
  1. Reached — date not disclosed · Source
  2. Reached — date not disclosed · Source
  3. Reached — date not disclosed · Source
  4. Reached — date not disclosed · Source
  5. Reached — date not disclosed · Source

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.

Prior Ownership & Infrastructure
East Kundana Joint Venture
Existing MillTailings FacilityRoad AccessGrid Power10/10 built out

Combined view across 2 projects. Figures below are only combined where the underlying basis genuinely matches -- see the notes under each.

Combined resource
1.5M oz Au
Sum of 2 of 2 projects with a disclosed figure
IRR, per project
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No project has a disclosed IRR yet
Mine life, per project
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No project has a disclosed mine life yet
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Weak track recordStrong track record
6.4/10
Thin runwayWell-capitalized
6.4/10 vs.
How this is calculated
5.1/10
Weaker depositStronger deposit
5.1/10 vs.
How this is calculated
9.6/10
Harder place to buildEasier place to build
9.6/10 vs.
What goes into it
  • Jurisdiction (40%)9/10

    Western Australia: Fraser PPI 2025 is 88.53 of 100 (rank 13 of 68), which maps to 9 on this site's scale. Western Australia -- Tier-1 mining jurisdiction for the producing East Kundana JV interest; the company also holds earlier-stage exploration stakes in Ghana (Japa) and the Philippines (Diwalwal), which carry materially higher jurisdictional risk than the WA-based production this score primarily reflects.

  • Infrastructure (40%)10/10

    A confirmed mill, confirmed road access, confirmed grid power, and a confirmed tailings facility at East Kundana Joint Venture.

  • Nearby producing mine (20%)10/10

    Mungari (incl. Kundana) (Evolution Mining Limited) is 7 km away -- within shared-mill trucking range.

6.5/10
Weaker profileStronger profile
6.5/10 vs.
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34.4%
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34.4% vs.
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6.3%
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6.3% vs.
$186.6M
Far belowFar above
$186.6M vs. $585.3M peer median
Price (USD - Local)
US$3.56 (AUD 5.07)
Cash Position (USD)
$8.7M
Far belowFar above
$8.7M vs. $94M peer median
Debt (USD)
Far aboveFar below
$0 vs. $6.5M peer median
$177.9M
Far belowFar above
$177.9M vs. $505.2M peer median
52.5M
Far aboveFar below
52.5M vs. 336.8M peer median
Jurisdiction
Australia
797,925 oz
Feeds Deposit Quality score
Measured102,900 oz
Indicated695,025 oz
Inferrednot scored1,599,750 oz
Total resource2,397,675 oz
Far belowFar above
797.9K oz vs. 1.3M oz peer median
Compares M&I only — Inferred isn't compared or scored.
$222.97/oz
M&I
Total resource (incl. Inferred)$74.20/oz
Peer median $67.76/oz
Far aboveFar below
$222.97/oz vs. $131.46/oz peer median
0.0904 oz/tCut-off: EKJV: 0.25 g/t Au open pit / 2.30 g/t Au underground, within A$3,300/oz optimised mining shapes (Evolution, Mineral Resource at 31 Dec 2025); Japa (Adiembra): 0.5 g/t Au (open pit; Mining Plus MRE for the Adiembra Deposit, July 2020)
Far belowFar above
0.0904 oz/t vs. 0.0379 oz/t peer median
Underground and open-pit gold operations (East Kundana JV, WA)
34.4%
0%100%
34.4% vs. 12.1% peer median
6.3%
0%100%
6.3% vs. 3.3% peer median
7 kmfrom Evolution Mining Limited's Mungari (incl. Kundana)
Within shared-mill range (~20km)

Acquisition Susceptibility

How this is calculated
8.8/10
Unlikely bolt-onFits the takeout profile

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 deal
    Sub-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 stake
    Sub-score:
    10/10

    Evolution Mining Limited holds 21.05% (reported 22 Sep 2026) 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% · 34% here
  • Distance to a producing mine
    Sub-score:
    9.3/10

    Nearest producing mine: Mungari (incl. Kundana) (Evolution Mining Limited), 7 km

    10 next to a producing mine, 8 at 20 km, 5 at 50 km, 0 beyond 200 km.

    Weight 22.5% · 31% here
  • Lifecycle stage
    Sub-score:
    5.5/10

    Stage: Production

    Feasibility and permitting score 10, where deals cluster, and production 5.5; earlier stages score less, down to 1 at grassroots.

    Weight 15% · 20% here
  • Jurisdiction
    Sub-score:
    9/10

    Australia: jurisdiction score 9/10

    Our jurisdiction score, used as is: higher means lower political and permitting risk.

    Weight 6.75% · 9% here
  • Commodity
    Sub-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% · 6% 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.

Overall Score Trend
-11% since 2026-08-10 · -16.7% from peak

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Management Team

Managing Director, CEO, and Executive Director of Rand Mining Limited; also Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Tribune Resources Limited.

Insiders, Investors & Smart Money

Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.

Smart money
4/10

Evolution Mining, a major ASX-listed gold producer, holds 21% of Tribune Resources, built through a real cash acquisition that has grown over time. No specialist fund or clean recent insider buying was found beyond CEO Anthony Billis's large pre-existing stake.

No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.

Reports, Presentations & Documents

Technical Report Takeaways

Tribune Resources holds a 36.75% non-operating interest in the East Kundana Joint Venture near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, operated by Evolution Mining (51%) alongside Rand Mining (12.25%), plus the 100%-owned Japa gold project in Ghana and exploration at Diwalwal in the Philippines. On an attributable basis, measured and indicated resources total 797,925 oz of gold (102,900 oz measured and 695,025 oz indicated) plus 1,599,750 oz inferred, combining Tribune's share of the joint venture's 1,110,000 oz, as at 31 December 2025, with Japa's 390,000 oz from a July 2020 estimate. In the June 2026 quarter, Tribune's share of joint-venture ore toll-treated at Evolution's Mungari plant produced 10,176 oz of gold.