NEW GOLD STOCK PICK! A Legendary Nevada District. One Owner. Two Drill Programs.
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Hi Gold Advisor readers,
The Comstock Lode does not need a marketing department. It produced an estimated 8.2 million ounces of gold and 192 million ounces of silver between 1859 and 1926, much of it at grades that would make a modern geologist check the decimal point.
What it needed was one owner.
For most of the past century, the district was chopped into small parcels. That made systematic exploration difficult and, in places, impossible.
Over the past 18 months, this company has been changing that; it now controls a 47.5-square-kilometer package covering the district’s major lodes, including the Comstock, Occidental–Brunswick and Silver City structures.
This is the thesis: use modern geology on an old camp, drill the underexplored parallel lode first, and turn a collection of historical mines, estimates and infrastructure into one coherent project.
You know how much we love brownfields projects here at The Gold Advisor (it’s Jeff’s ”Battleship” strategy in Paydirt!).
The first holes are already giving that thesis some weight. With more results coming.
It’s time to introduce you to…
MacKay Gold & Silver (TSXV: MACK; OTCQB: MKGSF)
In modern terms, the Comstock Lode saw bonanza mines that generated more than $55 billion in value.
For all its history, the Comstock has never really been explored as one coherent district with modern tools. Bringing the ground together removes the old fences — physical, geological and informational — that once made it impossible to understand the district as one connected system.
Just as important, the team assembled to take charge is made up of proven mine finders with deep experience and knowledge of the Nevada landscape.
The People
District-scale stories can become district-scale science projects. The team is the first filter.
CEO Darwin Green is an exploration geologist who previously led HighGold Mining and Onyx Gold.
Jeff Pontius, the independent chair, brings Nevada-specific experience from Corvus Gold, which AngloGold Ashanti acquired in 2022.
Technical adviser Dr. Moira Smith helped advance major discoveries during her career, while structural geologist David Rhys is exactly the kind of specialist you want when the prize depends on understanding where old vein systems continue, bend and widen.
Strategic advisers John Robins and Marcel de Groot add capital-markets and company-building experience.
The point is not that the slide deck contains respected names. The point is that this group has worked on discovery, district consolidation and value creation before…in Nevada!
MacKay is attempting all three at once, because the team has proven they can do it, and they’re ready to do it again.
The Project
The Comstock is a giant epithermal gold-silver system in Nevada, one of the best mining jurisdictions on the planet. Historical production averaged a whopping 35 g/t gold and 726 g/t silver.
The old workings stretched for kilometers and went more than a kilometer deep.
First, zoom out. MacKay now controls the major structures across a district that spent generations divided among different owners.
MacKay controls 16.5 kilometers of prospective lodes across three main trends. The immediate focus is the Occidental–Brunswick Lode, a parallel structure west of the famous Comstock Lode that saw far less exploration.
Two Distinct Shots on Goal
Occidental South builds scale; Sutro tests the high-grade prize.
• Occidental South: a shallow, oxide-gold target where reverse-circulation drilling is extending a broad mineralized zone near surface.
• Sutro: a deeper, high-grade target where the 19th-century Sutro Tunnel reportedly cut a vein zone more than 30 meters wide roughly 450 to 500 meters below surface. MacKay has started the first modern drill test.
The acquisition of Comstock Inc.’s Nevada mining assets added the Lucerne and Dayton deposits, historical mines and a permitted 4,500-ton-per-day heap-leach and Merrill-Crowe facility.
Lucerne and Dayton come with 2022 S-K 1300 historical estimates totaling 605,000 ounces of gold in measured and indicated (M&I) categories and 297,000 ounces inferred.
Then there’s the silver aspect: 5.88 million ounces silver M&I and 2.572 million inferred
Important fine print: those are historical estimates under Canadian disclosure rules. A qualified person has not done enough work to classify them as current NI 43-101 resources, and MacKay is not treating them that way. They are a head start—not ounces investors can place in the bank.
But, where there’s smoke there’s fire.
The Big Strikes
Occidental South is the first proof-of-concept test, and the early results are doing their job.
MacKay’s September results included:
59.4 meters grading 1.00 g/t gold, including 18.3 meters at 1.46 g/t;
47.2 meters at 1.15 g/t, including 4.6 meters at 7.57 g/t; and 48.8 meters at 0.97 g/t.
The step-outs expanded the zone to roughly 550 meters of strike, nearly double its earlier footprint, and the system remains open in every direction.
Several holes ended in mineralization.
Those are not bonanza grades — but they serve a different purpose: broad, shallow oxide can build tonnes quickly if continuity and metallurgy cooperate.
Historical drilling also returned eye-catching hits, including 25 meters at 13.49 g/t gold and 32 meters at 6.91 g/t.
MacKay’s main mission now is to show how the broad lower-grade envelope and higher-grade shoots fit together.
Then there is Sutro. Occidental South is about scale; Sutro is the discovery story. A successful deep hole into a wide, high-grade vein would change how the market values the entire parallel lode.
MacKay isn’t leaving us to guess what success should look like over the next two years.
The Catalysts
Catalysts for the company (and the stock) are numerous and potentially big…
More Occidental South assays: MacKay had completed more than 5,000 meters of a planned 15,000-meter program by mid-September. The next batches should show whether the 550-meter trend keeps growing and whether grade continuity holds.
First results from Sutro: The 5,000-meter core program is testing a target that has never seen modern drilling. This is the high-impact catalyst.
Current resource work: The company plans to update Lucerne and Dayton and work toward NI 43-101-compliant estimates. Converting historical estimates into current resources would make the asset base easier for the market to value.
District-wide targeting: With the ground consolidated, MacKay can apply one structural model across old property lines and rank targets that previous owners could not test properly.
A visible 24-month plan: Management is targeting a near-term base of 2 to 3 million gold-equivalent ounces and a path beyond 5 million ounces. Those are exploration targets, not resources, but they make the scorecard clear.
The Stock
The company is still new to the public markets, with shares beginning to trade on April 24, 2026. In the excitement the stock opened at C$4.24.
It’s now trading in the C$2.70 range—but that’s our opportunity. A more attractive stock price, with the company pushing forward on multiple fronts.
The ownership base certainly agrees. Institutional holders account for a healthy 30% of the 87.7 million shares outstanding, while management and advisers hold another 14%.
The balance sheet is just as important. MacKay reports US$38 million in cash, 87.7 million shares outstanding and 95.5 million fully diluted.
At the company’s September 14 reference price of US$2.19, that translated to a market capitalization of roughly US$209 million.
That valuation isn’t cheap enough to call undiscovered, but it also isn’t carrying the kind of bloated share count or financing overhang that can weigh on an explorer.
With a funded drill program, institutional backing and a relatively clean capital structure, a strong treasury gives management room to produce answers without immediately passing the hat.
It’s worth mentioning that this is not an undiscovered ten-cent lottery ticket. Shareholders are already paying for a capable team, a famous address and meaningful discovery upside.
MacKay must now convert narrative value into drill-defined value.
Why We Are Buying
The case comes down to five things.
One district finally assembled. MacKay can explore structures across boundaries that frustrated the camp for generations.
Two exploration gears. Occidental South offers shallow, broad, expandable oxide mineralization; Sutro offers the kind of deep high-grade discovery that can re-rate a stock quickly.
Existing geological evidence. Historical production, old workings, historical estimates and recent drill hits reduce—but do not remove—the risk of searching blind.
Money to execute. The company can drill, model and update resources without financing every news cycle.
A management team suited to the puzzle. Nevada experience, structural geology and capital-markets credibility are unusually relevant here.
The risks are straightforward. Historical estimates may not convert as hoped. Broad oxide mineralization may not deliver the continuity, metallurgy or scale required. Sutro could miss. The processing facility may need capital and further technical work before it becomes useful. And at today’s valuation, merely decent results may not be enough.
But look at the whole picture of this company and you can see MacKay has built something rare:
A well-funded exploration company with control of a legendary district, a highly experienced NV team, and multiple near-term catalysts already in motion. The history gets your attention. The consolidation and drilling make it attractive.
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We are adding MacKay Gold & Silver to the Gold Advisor portfolio and will monitor all developments going forward.
The company does not need to rediscover the Comstock’s past. It needs to prove that one owner, modern tools and fresh capital can write its next big chapter. That’s why…
I’ll be buying my first tranche 48 hours after this article is released. Jeff invested in a previous private placement and holds an overweight position, which shows you what he thinks about this opportunity.