Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
20 May 2026capital raising announcement▲ GoodMajor
Agreed to sell 3,740,000 shares to Streamline Metals Capital Ltd., a private mining investor, for about $856,000 at $0.229/share -- new outside capital found after NYSE American's December 2024 delisting proceedings pushed the stock to the OTC Pink Market; the deal also requires Toronto Stock Exchange approval.
NYSE American moved to suspend and delist Golden Minerals' stock outright, ruling it no longer suitable for listing; shares were set to move to the OTC Pink Market - the terminal outcome of a listing-compliance crisis that had been building since 2019.
30 Oct 2024asset acquisition disposition▼ BadMajor
Golden Minerals completed the El Quevar sale to Butte Energy (which renamed itself Argenta Silver Corp), leaving the company with only two minor exploration properties, about $3.6 million cash, and an explicit warning it may need to sell itself or its remaining assets or else cease operations.
Golden Minerals signed the definitive agreement to sell El Quevar (via Silex Argentina) to Butte Energy for the same $3.5 million, with $1 million already received.
Facing urgent liquidity needs (and still owed $2.8 million from the Velardeña sale), Golden Minerals agreed to sell Silex Argentina S.A. - the subsidiary holding its last major asset, the El Quevar silver project - to Butte Energy for $3.5 million.
Golden Minerals' listing troubles deepened sharply: NYSE American found it now failed all three stockholders'-equity tests, with equity down to just $0.6 million.
Golden Minerals, having ceased mining at Velardeña earlier in 2024, agreed to sell its remaining Velardeña mines, plants and equipment to a private Mexican buyer for $5.5 million - a full exit from the asset it had restarted only a year earlier.
27 Mar 2024material agreement termination▼ BadMajor
Barrick Gold walked away from its 2020 option to earn a 70% stake in Golden Minerals' El Quevar silver project in Argentina after spending over $6 million and drilling five holes, handing full ownership back to Golden Minerals but ending a funded exploration partnership the company had not previously disclosed to this level of detail.
7 Dec 2023asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
Golden Minerals completed the sale of Santa Maria to TSM for $1.5 million cash plus VAT, retaining a capped 1.5% royalty - closing out a Santa Maria disposal effort that had run through a lapsed Magellan option and an unclosed Fabled deal since 2019.
Golden Minerals raised capital again through a public offering of stock and warrants to institutional investors at $0.70 per share, adding to its recurring reliance on dilutive equity financing to stay funded.
NYSE American accepted Golden Minerals' plan to cure its stockholders'-equity shortfall, giving it until December 2024 to regain compliance and keep its listing.
With the Fabled deal never having closed, Golden Minerals lined up a new buyer for Santa Maria, signing a binding letter of intent to sell it to Mexican firm TSM for $1.5 million cash plus a capped royalty.
Golden Minerals switched auditors again, replacing Armanino with Haynie & Company after a request-for-proposal process, with no disagreements reported.
Raised roughly $1.1 million in a registered direct offering of 790,000 shares plus pre-funded warrants at $1.45 per share -- a marked price recovery from the $0.17-0.50 range of 2016-2020.
9 June 2023listing compliance notice● NeutralMajor
NYSE American again flagged Golden Minerals for insufficient stockholders' equity, but the same announcement disclosed the Board had approved restarting silver-gold mining at Velardeña on improved sales terms, funded with only about $0.5 million after successful 2023 test-mining sales.
Golden Minerals replaced Plante & Moran with Armanino LLP as its independent auditor following a request-for-proposal process, with no disagreements reported.
Golden Minerals signed a definitive agreement to sell its Santa Maria option to Fabled (by now renamed Fabled Silver Gold Corp) on the same roughly $4 million staged terms outlined in the July letter of intent, plus a royalty.
Golden Minerals raised roughly $7.5 million in fresh capital through an underwritten public stock offering with H.C. Wainwright, selling about 17.9 million shares at $0.42 each.
With Magellan's option lapsed, Golden Minerals lined up a new prospective buyer for Santa Maria, signing a binding letter of intent with Fabled Copper Corp for staged payments totaling about $4 million plus a royalty.
9 July 2020material agreement termination▼ BadMajor
Hecla exercised its right to end the Velardeña processing lease early, closing out the fee-income arrangement a month ahead of its scheduled expiration.
Raised $3.0 million in a registered direct offering (15,000,000 shares) plus warrants at $0.20 per share -- pricing near the company's historic lows, with investors also getting rights to participate in up to 50% of any offering over the next year.
What it means for a shareholder
15.0m new shares at about US$0.200 to raise about US$3.0m. That's 12% dilution: every existing holder's slice gets 12% smaller. If you held US$1,000 of shares (5,000 at the issue price), your slice goes from 0.00461% to 0.00405% of the company. To keep it you'd need 692 more shares - about US$138 at the issue price.
Golden Minerals reported positive updated technical studies for Velardeña (a ten-year underground plan with bio-oxidation processing) and a first economic assessment for its Rodeo gold project, though no decision to restart production had been made.
Granted Barrick Gold Corporation an earn-in option on the El Quevar silver project (Salta, Argentina): Barrick could earn a 70% interest by spending $10 million on exploration over eight years and delivering a pre-feasibility study -- a major-miner endorsement of the project (an option Barrick would later drop in April 2024). Separately, restructured repayment of a $1.5 million deposit owed to Compania Minera Autlan after an earlier 2019 asset-sale agreement with Autlan fell through, with the unpaid balance now accruing 12% interest.
As the cash crunch continued into the pandemic, Golden Minerals borrowed another $1 million from Sentient (by now roughly 38% owner) in an unsecured short-term loan.
Magellan Gold's option to acquire Golden Minerals' Santa Maria project expired unexercised, so the expected $1 million option payment won't be received; with only about $2.2 million cash on hand, Golden Minerals cut discretionary exploration spending.
Golden Minerals sold non-strategic Mogotes and Pistachon exploration concessions near Velardeña to a subsidiary of Industrias Peñoles for $3 million, a pure gain since the properties carried zero book value.
Golden Minerals and Hecla amended their Velardeña processing lease again, temporarily cutting Hecla's per-tonne fee when silver prices and ore grades are both low, to keep the arrangement viable for Hecla.