Top 5 ASX Gold Stocks in 2026
The gold price may have receded from the new all-time high above AU$6,860.28 per ounce set in Q1, but the yellow metal was still trading at historic highs in the third quarter.
The gold bull market has been well-supported by a number of factors. Among them is the pervading geopolitical turmoil and global economic uncertainty driving elevated institutional and central bank gold buying.
The high gold price has boosted margins for gold producers, and investment in the sector has increased over the course of the year, pushing up share prices and interest in gold equities.
How has this bull market affected ASX-listed gold stocks?
Read on to discover which Australian gold companies have seen the biggest gains so far in 2026.
Data for this article was retrieved on October 21, 2026, using TradingView’s stock screener, and only companies with market capitalisations greater than AU$10 million at that time were considered.
1. King River Resources (ASX:KRR)
Year-to-date gain: 283.33 percent
Market cap: AU$73.35 million
Share price: AU$0.046
King River Resources is a gold exploration company with projects in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Its portfolio includes the Mindoolah gold project in Western Australia’s Murchison province, the Mount Remarkable gold project in the East Kimberley region and the Tennant Creek gold-copper project in the Northern Territory.
King River announced it had secured an option to acquire the Mindoolah project on February 17, and exercised the option on March 24, giving it ownership of the project. The project was historically mined at an average grade of 19.02 grams per tonne (g/t) gold for about 5,700 ounces, and King River said it offered potential for shallow unmined intercepts and underexplored areas.
Through the middle of the year, it completed geophysical surveys and field mapping that defined new gold targets at the project.
On May 18, the company reported that property surveys verified the presence of large-scale stockpiles of material it would begin testing. It also found a discrepancy between government ore production records and excavated mineral volumes that could indicate stockpiled, unprocessed mineralised material on site.
King River’s shares saw significant support when it announced plans for a high-resolution drone aeromagnetic survey at Mindoolah on June 17, and they got another large boost on August 11, when the company released the results. The survey outlined four priority gold targets, including potential structural intersections outside the historical workings’ footprint. The company said the results suggest Mindoolah’s known gold occurrences form part of a broader system.
Then, on September 1, it reported mapping and sampling results across five prospects at Mindoolah, outlining three distinct styles of gold mineralisation and a pipeline of drill-ready targets. Rock chip samples from the Bertram’s prospect returned grades of up to 44.3 g/t gold, while samples from…
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