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.