Analysts See Gold Miners Surging As $4,000 Gold Price Target Nears
Issued on behalf of RUA GOLD Inc.
VANCOUVER – Baystreet.ca News Commentary – Gold’s brief spike has eased, yet the metal continues to trade comfortably above US$3,300 per ounce and some analysts now eye a US$4,00 price target. With the bull market intact, many strategists argue that mining equities—especially juniors—offer greater upside than bullion itself. Companies advancing projects at what looks like ideal timing include RUA GOLD Inc. (TSXV: RUA) (OTCQB: NZAUF), Adyton Resources Corporation (TSXV: ADY) (OTCPK: ADYRF), Equinox Gold Corp. (NYSE-American: EQX) (TSX: EQX), IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE: IAG) (TSX: IMG), and Radisson Mining Resources Inc. (TSXV: RDS).
While cash keeps flowing into bullion and heavyweight ETFs like GDX, market watchers suggest junior miners could be next to break out. Despite gold’s resilience, shares of these smaller producers and explorers remain sharply discounted, leaving significant room for a catch‑up rally. Fund managers at VanEck and elsewhere describe this valuation gap as one of the strongest risk‑reward opportunities still available in the sector.
RUA GOLD Inc. (TSXV: RUA) (OTCQB: NZAUF) is developing a portfolio of high‑grade, district‑scale gold and antimony projects in New Zealand, a rising exploration hub that combines historic production, critical‑mineral status, and modern infrastructure. Now following a recent C$13.8M financing, the Company is in a strong treasury position to execute on its growth plans.
Altogether RUA GOLD controls about 95% of the historic Reefton Goldfield on New Zealands South Island, where more than 2 million oz of gold were produced at grades from 9 to 50 g/t. The hub‑and‑spoke strategy that the RUA team are executing on focuses on consolidating and growing shallow, high‑grade resources within trucking distance of a central plant. With mineralization confirmed at multiple levels, the multi‑asset approach is gaining momentum as additional drill data arrive.
Recent step‑out drilling at the Auld Creek project pushed high‑grade mineralization 120 m below the current inferred resource. Hole ACDDH033 intersected 2.1 m averaging 64 g/t AuEq, made up of 5.5 g/t gold and 13.1 % antimony, and extended the system’s vertical reach to more than 280 m. Several targets are still untested, including a 2.5 km gold‑in‑soil corridor northwest of the Bonanza and Fraternal shoots.
“This is an exciting development to see high-grade gold-antimony mineralization at Auld Creek that is 120 m deeper than the current resource,” said Robert Eckford, CEO of RUA GOLD. “Proving out continuity at depth and growing this resource will be a key focus of drilling in the next quarter, while simultaneously drilling the Cumberland-Gallant deposit 3 km to the south.”
Antimony prices climbed above US$50,000 per tonne in 2025 after China imposed export controls, and New Zealand has listed the metal as critical, sharpening interest in Auld Creek’s dual‑commodity appeal. Surface samples exceed 40% Sb, and several drill holes contain more than 8% antimony—grades rarely seen this early in a project’s life.
Three kilometres south within the Reefton Goldfield, RUA has a second drill rig at Cumberland. Recent drilling delivered near‑surface hits such as 1 m at 26.9 g/t and 1 m at 16.2 g/t, adding to earlier intercepts of 1 m at 1 911 g/t. The holes confirm continuity along the Gallant vein system and represent the company’s first AI‑guided target generated with VRIFY’s predictive platform.
Gallant’s vein traces more than 600m at surface yet remains largely open along strike and at depth. Management believes the latest results validate its AI‑driven exploration workflow and point to a broader mineralized envelope. By pairing modern data science with historic vein mapping, RUA is generating new targets along a 2 km structural corridor anchored by Cumberland.
On the North Island, RUA holds the Glamorgan project, a 4 km gold‑arsenic anomaly in the Hauraki Goldfield that also hosts the 10 Moz Martha mine. Rock‑chip samples reach 43 g/t gold, and CSAMT surveys have outlined resistive zones typical of quartz veins. Drill access is in the final approval stage, and targets have been refined with VRIFY’s DORA AI engine.
With over US $10 million in cash in the bank and a leadership team credited with more than US $11 billion in cumulative mining exits, RUA GOLD is set for an active second half of 2025. Multiple programs are in motion across the portfolio, supported by AI‑driven targeting, shallow drill success, and the growing strategic importance of both gold and antimony.
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In other industry developments and happenings in the market include:
Adyton Resources Corporation (TSXV: ADY) (OTCPK: ADYRF) has completed six diamond drill holes totaling 1,876m at its Feni Island gold‑copper project, advancing a program aimed at extending depth, bridging gaps between zones, and probing untested lateral targets.
"We are encouraged by what we are seeing in the drill core from this round of drilling at Feni,” said Dr Chris Bowden, COO and Chief Geologist for Adyton. “Whilst assay results are still pending, visual observations are showing long intercepts >100m of hydrothermal to intrusive breccias that are evidencing mineralisation with sulphides (pyrite ± chalcopyrite) and intensely altered (sulphide ± silica-clay) - the sulphides being the typical host to the gold stage of mineralisation at Feni as evidenced from previous drill campaigns, correlation to historical assays and historical petrography."
Visual logging shows long intercepts of sulphide‑bearing breccias and stockworks—up to 30% pyrite with chalcopyrite—from near surface to more than 450m, underscoring porphyry potential while laboratory assays are pending. Adyton reports two additional holes in progress and expects a steady flow of results in the coming months.
In Q2 2025, Equinox Gold Corp. (NYSE-American: EQX) (TSX: EQX) produced 219,122 oz of gold, lifting year‑to‑date output to 401,211 oz after integrating the newly acquired Calibre Mining assets.
"Equinox Gold is at an important inflection point following the successful completion of the business merger with Calibre Mining and the updating of 2025 guidance,” said Greg Smith, CEO of Equinox Gold. “With $406 million in cash and growing production from two new long-life Canadian gold mines, the Company is well positioned to unlock significant long-term value."
Ramp‑up at the Greenstone mine delivered 51,274 oz in the quarter, while the Valentine project remains on schedule for first ore in late August and first gold roughly one month later. Equinox Gold holds $406 million in cash, maintains 2025 guidance of 785,000–915,000 oz, and expects stronger production and cash flow in the second half.
IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE: IAG) (TSX: IMG) recently delivered the final ounces under its 150,000‑oz gold prepay, ending the financing arrangement used to build Côté Gold.
"Today marks a significant cash flow inflection point for IAMGOLD as we successfully conclude our gold prepay arrangements," said Renaud Adams, President and CEO of IAMGOLD. "In the first half of this year, the Company delivered the remaining 75,000 ounces of gold under the arrangements of which only a portion had some exposure to the gold price. This is equivalent to approximately $200 to $225 million of cashflow that the Company would have received in H1 2025 if the gold prepay arrangements were not in place."
IAMGOLD now plans a disciplined deleveraging strategy amid stronger operating results and supportive gold prices.
Radisson Mining Resources Inc. (TSXV: RDS) recently reported its highest‑grade intercepts yet at the O’Brien project, including 89.36 g/t gold over 3.7 m and 60.75 g/t over 2.1 m in wedge holes drilled 500 m below historic workings.
"Since last December, we have been reporting the delineation of a series of high-grade gold-bearing veins developed over a large area up to 500 metres below the base of the historic O'Brien Gold Mine,” said Matt Manson, President and CEO of Radisson Mining. “In today's news release we are reporting the highest-grade intercepts returned to date from this area, with the results of four new wedges drilled from our initial pilot hole. We are now delineating up to six mineralized zones over hundreds of metres, which appear related to mapped veins at the base of the former mine and which are outside the scope of conceptual mine plan contained in our recently reported Preliminary Economic Assessment."
The results expand a network of six gold‑bearing veins over a 250 m by 250 m area and validate deep‑extension targets outside the current PEA mine plan. Radisson is midway through a 50,000–60,000 m drill program designed to test the system to 2 km depth and refine resource growth pathways.
Article Source: https://usanewsgroup.com/2025/04/02/others-found-1911-g-t-here-before-now-a-proven-11b-mining-team-is-back-to-finish-the-job/
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