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Nevada King Gold
Nevada King Gold, led by Collin Kettell, drills the Atlanta Gold Mine in Nevada — exploring a single district-scale caldera on the Battle Mountain Trend.
Nevada King Gold
Nevada King Gold was formed in 2018 through a plan of arrangement that consolidated two older vehicles, ultimately landing on a focused strategy around the historic Atlanta Gold Mine in Lincoln County, Nevada. Collin Kettell, a director and former Gold Mining Inc. executive, chairs the company. The wealth origin that backs it is not publicly characterized; the entity operates as a publicly listed mineral explorer, not a family office, raising capital through equity markets rather than a single-family balance sheet. The firm's strategy centers on drilling out the Atlanta porphyry gold system. Unlike diversified senior producers, Nevada King's deployment is entirely project-specific: systematic reverse-circulation and core drilling to define a National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource. The company controls a contiguous land package covering the entire Atlanta caldera, with mineral claims spanning across the core gold zone and surrounding sediment-hosted targets. In 2022, drilling results confirmed high-grade zones within the broader disseminated system, with intercepts such as 64 meters at 1.56 g/t gold in the Atlanta North Zone, reinforcing a hybrid high-grade/bulk-tonnage model. Geographically, all operations are confined to a single mining district in Nevada, a jurisdiction ranked among the world's most favorable for permitting and mine development. The company has no adjacent investment vehicles, club memberships, or philanthropic arms disclosed. Its scale is defined by enterprise value rather than AUM — hovering in the C$100 million range as of mid-2024 — and by the pace of its drill program, which in 2023 completed more than 50,000 meters across 140-plus holes. September 2023: Completed a C$4.5 million non-brokered private placement to fund continued drilling at Atlanta (per the firm, September 2023). No additional offices beyond the Vancouver corporate registry are maintained; the field operations are run out of the Atlanta project site. Nevada King's structural differentiator is its single-asset concentration inside a large, underexplored caldera. Most peers in the junior gold space diversify across projects to hedge discovery risk, but Kettell's team has locked up the entire structural feature — a bet that a district-scale system can host a multi-million-ounce gold endowment. This architecture leaves the company uniquely exposed to Nevada's regulatory environment and gold price swings, while also removing interference from competing claim holders that typically limits expansion drilling elsewhere in the state.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2018
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
Canada
City
Vancouver
Corporate office
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Principals
Collin Kettell
Executive Chairman, Director
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Is Nevada King Gold a producing gold miner or an exploration company?
Nevada King Gold is a junior exploration company. It does not generate revenue from gold production. All capital deployment is directed toward drilling and defining a potentially mineable resource beneath the historic Atlanta Gold Mine site in Nevada. The company's near-term objective is to complete a bankable feasibility study.
What is the significance of the Atlanta Gold Mine to the company's strategy?
The Atlanta Gold Mine, located on the Battle Mountain Trend in Lincoln County, Nevada, is Nevada King Gold's sole asset and core focus. The company consolidated a large, contiguous land package covering the entire Atlanta caldera and is drilling systematically to prove out a hybrid high-grade and bulk-tonnage gold resource. Unlike companies with project portfolios, Nevada King's entire technical and financial resources are concentrated on this one deposit.
Who runs the company, and what is the technical team's background?
Collin Kettell serves as Executive Chairman and guides the company's strategic direction, a public company executive also known for his directorship at Gold Mining Inc. The technical team is led by geologists with experience in Nevada's Carlin-type and epithermal gold systems, although a full executive roster is not publicly maintained outside of regulatory filings. Key decisions on drill targeting and resource modeling are made in-house.
How does Nevada King Gold fund its operations, given it has no mine revenue?
The company relies on periodic equity raises through non-brokered and brokered private placements, as well as warrant exercises, to fund its drill campaigns. For instance, in September 2023 the company closed a C$4.5 million financing to continue drilling. This dilutive funding cycle is standard for pre-production-stage junior miners without a dedicated family-office backer.
What is the relationship, if any, between Nevada King Gold and a family office?
There is no public disclosure linking Nevada King Gold to a single-family office or ultra-high-net-worth family balance sheet. The firm is structured as a publicly traded exploration company and secures funding in public and brokered capital markets. Collin Kettell's personal investment vehicle may hold a founding position, but the structure is not classified as a family office.
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