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U.S. GOLD CORP.

NYSE:USAU
US$13.74Close 7 Oct 2026 · delayed

Past year: ▼ 10%(12.98 – 21.70 USD)

Market cap
A$321m
Shares on issue
16.5m
Story beats
49 since 2009
Last event
3 Apr 2026

History

A struggling memory maker that kept missing Nasdaq tests became a gold developer in 2017 and, funded by repeated equity raises, reached a fully permitted Wyoming feasibility study by 2026.

2009-2012: A small memory maker under strain

The record opens with Dataram as a computer-memory company. In April 2009 it bought certain assets of Micro Memory Bank, a Pennsylvania memory maker, for about $1 million, nearly all of it assumed payables and debt rather than cash. In July 2010 it signed a revolving credit line of up to $5 million with Crestmark, secured on all company assets. That December it fell below Nasdaq's $10 million minimum stockholders'-equity requirement, the first sign of balance-sheet weakness. In May 2011 it raised about $3 million through a public stock-and-warrant offering via Aegis Capital. In February 2012 it also broke Nasdaq's $1 minimum bid-price rule. A bright spot came in April 2012, when it sold 13 patents and 2 pending applications on its solid-state storage technology to Phan Tia Group for $5 million cash, keeping a licence to use them. In August Nasdaq granted an extension to January 2013.

2013-2015: Delisting threats and insider money

Dataram missed that deadline, and in February 2013 Nasdaq scheduled the stock for delisting. The company appealed and put a reverse stock split to shareholders; the share count fell from 10,703,309 at the end of 2012 to 2,104,662 a year later. In November 2013 it sold equipment to executive David Sheerr to reduce its debt to him and signed a new credit line with Rosenthal & Rosenthal, replacing Crestmark. In May 2014 it repaid the remaining $773,000 owed to Sheerr. Equity problems returned in April 2014, though March raises had already fixed them. In July 2014 it raised $750,000 through bridge notes, $150,000 of it from its own management and directors. After another Nasdaq warning in September, in October it agreed to sell preferred stock to Isaac Capital Group and Alpha Capital Anstalt, giving them the right to name three directors. The roughly $2.7 million placement closed in November and restored compliance with the $2.5 million equity requirement.

2015-2017: The turn to gold

In August 2015 Nasdaq raised two issues: a shareholder-approval breach linked to CEO David Moylan's part in a January 2015 financing, and a repeat equity shortfall that left staff no discretion to offer a cure plan. The company requested a hearing. In January 2016 it exchanged its Series A preferred, bridge notes and warrants for a new 0% Series B preferred, simplifying its structure. Reincorporated in Nevada, it again fell short on the bid price. In June 2016 it agreed to an all-stock reverse merger with U.S. Gold Corp., a private Nevada explorer holding the Copper King gold-copper project in Wyoming. The terms were amended in August to reflect a 1-for-3 reverse split and U.S. Gold's purchase of the Keystone project in Nevada's Cortez Trend, and a final amendment in December settled 48.6 million shares of merger consideration. In April 2017 Dataram lent its partner $250,000. The merger closed on May 23, 2017, and the company took the name U.S. Gold Corp., with Edward Karr replacing Moylan as CEO. It raised $500,000 in July by selling 179,211 shares at $2.79, and in October sold the legacy Dataram Memory business for $900,000 cash, with estimated net proceeds of about $286,500 to be distributed to shareholders.

2018-2020: Exploration and small raises

In January 2018 an updated technical report and preliminary economic assessment (an early study of a project's economics) appeared for Copper King. That month the company raised about $4.9 million net from Series E preferred stock. Drilling at Keystone in 2018 found widespread anomalous gold across fifteen holes, but not the high-grade feeder structure sought. In April 2019 the stock fell below Nasdaq's $1 minimum bid price, and it did so again in November. June 2019 brought $2.5 million from Series F preferred with warrants. In March 2020 it raised about $2.0 million at $5.60 a share. In August 2020 it acquired Northern Panther Resources in a second reverse-style merger that changed its board and structure.

2021-2024: Repeated equity raises

The company funded itself through registered direct offerings (sales of shares directly to investors). January 2021 brought about $9.6 million at $10.54 a share. In 2022 it raised about $2.5 million at $6.50 in February and $5.0 million at $8.00 in March. In November 2022 it sold its Maggie Creek earn-in rights to Nevada Gold Mines for $2.75 million cash plus a possible 0.5% royalty. In April 2023 it raised another $5.0 million, lowering the exercise price and extending the term of warrants issued a year earlier. April 2024 added about $4.9 million at $3.50, and December 2024 about $10.2 million at $7.00, its largest registered direct offering yet.

2025-2026: The CK Gold feasibility study

In February 2025 the company released an updated pre-feasibility study for the CK Gold Project, the former Copper King. In June it set up an at-the-market facility with Cantor Fitzgerald to sell up to $40 million of stock, but terminated it in October because it was no longer eligible to use the Form S-3 shelf registration it relied on. In December 2025 it raised about $31.2 million in a private placement of 1,922,159 shares at $16.25, its largest raise. An April 2026 feasibility study showed a $632 million after-tax net present value, a 27% internal rate of return at base-case prices, an 11-year mine life and all permits in hand. By May 15, 2026, a technical report finalizing the study had been filed.

Written from the 49 story beats below (2009 to 3 Apr 2026), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.

Beat by beat

The events that changed the company's story, in plain English, each written against everything known about the company at the time. The dot shows whether it was good, bad or neutral for shareholders.

shares on issue market cap (log scale)

202616.5m shares · US$251m market cap

  1. 3 Apr

    A feasibility study for the CK Gold Project showed strong economics - $632 million after-tax NPV and 27% IRR at base-case prices, rising sharply at spot prices - an 11-year mine life, and all permits already in hand, positioning the long-running Wyoming project for a construction decision.

    resource reserve update

    16.5m shUS$251m

202514.4m shares · US$248m market cap

  1. 23 Dec

    U.S. Gold Corp. raised about $31.2 million in a non-brokered private placement of 1,922,159 shares at $16.25, with warrants over 961,077 shares at $23.00. Proceeds were earmarked for initial CK Gold development costs, possible land acquisitions, exploration and working capital.

    capital raising announcement

    14.4m shUS$248m
  2. 10 Oct

    U.S. Gold Corp. terminated its Cantor Fitzgerald at-the-market equity facility because it was no longer eligible to use the Form S-3 shelf registration the facility relied on - a setback that removes its most flexible fundraising tool just as it works to finance the CK Gold Project.

    material agreement termination

    14.4m shUS$237m
  3. 9 June

    U.S. Gold Corp. set up an at-the-market equity facility with Cantor Fitzgerald allowing it to sell up to $40 million of stock over time, a more flexible alternative to its prior one-off registered direct offerings.

    material agreement

    12.7m shUS$147m
  4. 14 Feb

    U.S. Gold Corp. released an updated pre-feasibility study for its CK Gold Project (the former Copper King property) in Wyoming, continuing to advance the asset toward a construction decision.

    resource reserve update

    12.3m shUS$91.3m

202410.8m shares · US$83.0m market cap

  1. 4 Dec

    U.S. Gold Corp. raised about $10.2 million in its largest registered direct offering yet, at $7.00 per share, continuing to fund development of its Wyoming and Nevada gold projects.

    material agreement

    10.8m shUS$83.0m
  2. 19 Apr

    Raised about $4.9 million in a registered direct offering of 1,400,000 shares at $3.50, plus warrants at $4.48.

    capital raising announcement

    9.3m shUS$34.2m

20238.4m shares · US$46.7m market cap

  1. 10 Apr

    U.S. Gold Corp. raised another $5.0 million in a registered direct offering and, as part of the deal, lowered the exercise price and extended the term of warrants it had issued a year earlier - sweetening terms for existing investors to get the new raise done.

    security holder rights change

    8.4m shUS$46.7m

20228.3m shares · US$30.8m market cap

  1. 15 Nov

    U.S. Gold Corp. sold its earn-in rights to the Maggie Creek exploration property in Nevada to Nevada Gold Mines (the Barrick-Newmont joint venture) for $2.75 million cash plus a future 0.5% royalty if Nevada Gold Mines advances the project - monetizing a non-core exploration position it had held since 2019 via its Orevada Metals subsidiary.

    material agreement

    8.3m shUS$30.8m
  2. 21 Mar

    U.S. Gold Corp. raised about $5.0 million in another registered direct offering, this time at $8.00 per share - a higher price than the February raise, suggesting improving investor sentiment.

    material agreement

    7.5m shUS$52.4m
  3. 18 Feb

    U.S. Gold Corp. raised about $2.5 million in a registered direct stock-and-warrant offering at $6.50 per share, continuing to fund exploration and development through repeat equity raises.

    material agreement

    7.1m shUS$47.1m

20215.8m shares · US$95.3m market cap

  1. 28 Jan

    Raised about $9.6 million in a registered direct offering of 914,136 shares at $10.54 -- roughly double the per-share price of the March 2020 raise, as gold prices and project progress lifted the stock.

    capital raising announcement

    5.8m shUS$95.3m

20202.9m shares · US$23.8m market cap

  1. 13 Aug

    U.S. Gold signed an agreement on August 10, 2020 to acquire Northern Panther Resources through a subsidiary merger, which closed August 11. It issued 581,053 common shares and 106,894 Series H preferred shares, appointed George Bee as President, and raised $5.53 million in a private placement.

    business combination

    2.9m shUS$23.8m
  2. 30 Mar

    Raised about $2.0 million in a registered direct offering of 357,143 shares at $5.60, plus warrants at $7.00.

    capital raising announcement

    24.5m shUS$15.3m

201923.9m shares · US$19.0m market cap

  1. 12 Nov

    U.S. Gold Corp. again fell below Nasdaq's minimum bid-price requirement, with until May 2020 to fix it.

    listing compliance notice

    23.9m shUS$19.0m
  2. 20 June

    Raised $2.5 million selling 1,250 units of newly created 0% Series F Preferred Stock (with attached Class X Warrants) at $2,000 stated value each -- by now trading as USAU on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

    capital raising announcement

    2.0m shUS$2.6m
  3. 5 Apr

    Received a Nasdaq letter on April 3, 2019 saying it failed the $1.00 minimum closing bid price rule. It had a 180-day grace period to regain compliance by closing at $1.00 or more for at least 10 consecutive days.

    listing compliance notice

    19.3m shUS$17.4m
  4. 6 Mar

    U.S. Gold Corp.'s 2018 drilling campaign at the Keystone project on Nevada's Cortez Gold Trend intersected widespread anomalous gold across fifteen holes, supporting management's belief the district could host a large Carlin-type deposit, though the specific high-grade feeder structure remained to be found.

    drilling progress report

    18.6m shUS$17.6m

201814.2m shares · US$23.2m market cap

  1. 19 Jan

    Agreed to sell 2,500 shares of new 0% Series E convertible preferred stock at $2,000 each, for about $5 million gross and an estimated $4.9 million net. Closing was expected around January 22, 2018, with warrants for 1,250,000 shares at $3.30 attached.

    capital raising announcement

    14.2m shUS$23.2m
  2. 11 Jan

    U.S. Gold Corp. released an updated technical report and preliminary economic assessment for its Copper King gold-copper project in Wyoming, the company's flagship asset since the 2017 merger.

    resource reserve update

    14.2m shUS$23.2m

201712.4m shares · US$27.5m market cap

  1. 19 Oct

    Sold its legacy Dataram Memory subsidiary to Leading Testing Laboratories (LTL Group) for $900,000 cash. Estimated net proceeds of about $286,500, after costs, were to be distributed pro rata to shareholders of record on May 8, 2017.

    asset acquisition disposition

    12.4m shUS$27.5m
  2. 10 July

    As the newly renamed U.S. Gold Corp., raised $500,000 in a private placement of 179,211 shares at $2.79.

    capital raising announcement

    6.9m shUS$19.7m
  3. 31 May

    Nasdaq confirmed the annual-meeting compliance extension - and the filing revealed the U.S. Gold Corp. acquisition had already closed on May 23, 2017, with Edward Karr now signing filings as CEO in place of Dave Moylan, completing Dataram's transformation from a memory-systems maker into a gold exploration company.

    listing compliance notice

    6.9m shUS$20.8m
  4. 26 May

    Dataram closed its reverse merger with U.S. Gold Corp. on May 23, 2017, issuing common and Series C preferred shares as consideration. U.S. Gold became a wholly owned subsidiary, and the company now ran a junior gold mining business alongside its legacy memory business.

    business combination

    6.9m shUS$8.3m
  5. 21 Apr

    Dataram filed the required notice disclosing that, once the U.S. Gold Corp. merger closes, a majority of its board will be replaced with U.S. Gold's nominees - the formal signal that control of the company was passing to the gold-mining side of the deal.

    business combination

    4.8m shUS$5.5m
  6. 17 Apr

    Dataram sold U.S. Gold Corp. a $250,000 convertible promissory note on April 13, 2017. The note carried 9% annual interest and was due in six months, shortly before their merger closed.

    capital raising announcement

    4.8m shUS$5.5m
  7. 3 Mar

    The amendment narrowed who votes: the Series D preferred stock, previously entitled to vote alongside the common on the merger and the reverse split, is dropped from the entitlement throughout, along with the disclosure that 7,397 Series D shares converted into 739,706 votes and that officers and directors held about 8%. Exhibits also show Edward Karr's employment agreement with the private company was already signed.

    business combination

    4.0m shUS$5.6m

20164.0m shares · US$8.9m market cap

  1. 30 Dec

    Dataram and U.S. Gold Corp. signed a third and final amendment to their merger agreement, settling the deal at 48.6 million shares of merger consideration and clearing the way to register the transaction with the SEC.

    business combination

    4.0m shUS$8.9m
  2. 2 Aug

    Dataram and U.S. Gold Corp. amended their merger terms to reflect Dataram's 1-for-3 reverse stock split and to account for U.S. Gold's newly closed acquisition of the Keystone gold project in Nevada's Cortez Trend.

    material agreement

    3.7m shUS$6.7m
  3. 13 June

    Dataram agreed to acquire U.S. Gold Corp., a private Nevada exploration company holding the Copper King gold-copper project in Wyoming, in an all-stock reverse merger - the deal that would pull the struggling memory maker out of its core business entirely and turn it into a gold miner.

    business combination

    412k shUS$303k
  4. 29 Jan

    Now reincorporated in Nevada, Dataram fell out of compliance with Nasdaq's $1 minimum bid-price rule yet again, with a reverse split floated as a possible fix.

    listing compliance notice

    4.1m shUS$3.1m
  5. 21 Jan

    Exchanged existing Series A Preferred Stock, Series A Warrants, Bridge Notes and Bridge Warrants for a newly created 0% Series B Convertible Preferred Stock -- simplifying the capital structure ahead of the pending U.S. Gold Corp. reverse merger, with exchanging holders barred from further capital-raising activity.

    capital raising announcement

    4.1m shUS$2.7m

20153.3m shares · US$6.3m market cap

  1. 21 Aug

    Nasdaq notified Dataram it had again missed the stockholders'-equity requirement - and, because it was a repeat violation within a year, staff no longer had discretion to grant a cure plan - compounding an already incomplete 10-K filing; the company requested a delisting hearing.

    listing compliance notice

    3.3m shUS$6.3m
  2. 18 Aug

    Nasdaq told Dataram that CEO David Moylan's participation in the January 2015 financing breached shareholder-approval rules, with a September 30, 2015 deadline to cure. It also flagged the 10-K as incomplete, with a plan due in 60 days and a possible exception to February 10, 2016.

    listing compliance notice

    3.3m shUS$6.3m

20142.4m shares · US$5.3m market cap

  1. 18 Nov

    Closed a roughly $2.7 million private placement of Series A Preferred Stock and warrants (at $5.00/share) under the October 2014 purchase agreement with Isaac Capital Group -- enough to bring the company back into compliance with Nasdaq's $2.5 million stockholders'-equity requirement.

    capital raising announcement

    2.4m shUS$5.3m
  2. 21 Oct

    Dataram agreed to sell a new class of preferred stock to Isaac Capital Group and Alpha Capital Anstalt, giving Isaac Capital the right to name two directors and Alpha Capital one - a change-of-control-style financing that set the stage for the company's eventual pivot away from the memory business.

    material agreement

    2.4m shUS$6.0m
  3. 15 Sept

    Nasdaq again warned Dataram it could be delisted for failing the stockholders'-equity requirement; the company said it had already lined up a financing, subject to shareholder approval, to fix it.

    listing compliance notice

    2.4m shUS$6.7m
  4. 18 July

    Raised $750,000 through Subordinated Secured Convertible Bridge Notes and warrants, with $600,000 from institutional investors and $150,000 from the company's own management, officers and directors -- a distress-signaling bridge loan partly funded by insiders.

    capital raising announcement

    2.4m shUS$6.9m
  5. 1 May

    Dataram used its new Rosenthal & Rosenthal financing to fully repay and terminate its remaining $773,000 note to executive David Sheerr, ending years of insider lending and lowering its overall interest costs.

    debt financing

    2.4m shUS$6.5m
  6. 2 Apr

    Dataram again fell below Nasdaq's minimum stockholders'-equity requirement, but said March capital raises (warrant exercises plus a new stock sale) had already pushed it back above the threshold.

    listing compliance notice

    2.1m shUS$6.5m

20132.1m shares · US$5.1m market cap

  1. 8 Nov

    Dataram restructured its financing again: it sold equipment to executive David Sheerr in exchange for reducing its debt to him, and separately signed a new asset-based credit line with Rosenthal & Rosenthal, replacing Crestmark as its lender.

    debt financing

    2.1m shUS$5.1m
  2. 1 Feb

    Nasdaq scheduled Dataram's stock for delisting after it missed its bid-price cure deadline; the company appealed to a hearings panel and put a reverse stock split to shareholders as a fix.

    listing compliance notice

    1.8m shUS$737k

201210.7m shares · US$6.9m market cap

  1. 6 Aug

    Received notice from Nasdaq that it still had not regained compliance with the $1 minimum bid-price rule after an initial warning in January 2012, but was granted an extension to regain compliance until January 2013.

    listing compliance notice

    10.7m shUS$6.9m
  2. 4 Apr

    Dataram sold 13 patents and 2 pending applications covering its solid-state storage technology to Phan Tia Group for $5 million cash, while keeping a license to keep using them - a rare bright spot that significantly boosted its cash position.

    asset acquisition disposition

    10.7m shUS$8.3m
  3. 3 Feb

    Dataram fell out of compliance with Nasdaq's $1 minimum bid-price rule, adding a share-price problem on top of its earlier equity-level issues.

    listing compliance notice

    10.7m shUS$8.8m

20118.9m shares · US$17.1m market cap

  1. 12 May

    Dataram raised about $3 million in a small public stock-and-warrant offering through Aegis Capital, one of several capital raises it would need to shore up its balance sheet.

    material agreement

    8.9m shUS$17.1m

2010

  1. 22 Dec

    Dataram fell below Nasdaq's $10 million minimum stockholders'-equity requirement for the Global Market, the first sign of the balance-sheet weakness that would dog the company for years.

    listing compliance notice

  2. 29 July

    Dataram signed a Loan and Security Agreement with Crestmark Capital Lending for a revolving credit line of up to $5 million, secured by all its assets. Advances were limited to 80% of eligible receivables, and the agreement had no fixed term and was repayable on demand.

    debt financing

2009

  1. 6 Apr

    Dataram bought certain assets of Pennsylvania memory maker Micro Memory Bank for $994,453 at closing, of which $52,346 was cash and the rest assumed payables and debt. It will also pay MMB a percentage averaging 65% of the new unit's EBITDA over four years.

    asset acquisition disposition