The annual Goodman Gold Challenge will get underway in January at Laurentian University in Sudbury.
Now in its eighth year, the contest challenges four-person teams of university students to evaluate the stock portfolios of three existing gold-mining companies trading on the TSX or TSX-V and recommend the company with the best investment potential.
A panel of experts will judge their case studies and crown a winning team, which will receive prize money worth the equivalent of four ounces of gold.
The coming event will take place Jan. 28-30, 2026, at Laurentian University, with the awards gala being hosted at Science North.
Laurentian has yet to announce this year’s case studies, but 21024 participants included G Mining Ventures Corp., Meridian Mining, and Omai Gold Mines.
In 2025, the winning team hailed from Queen’s University, which chose Meridian Mining for its investment potential.
The Goodman Gold Challenge originated with Jonathan Goodman, chair and CEO of Dundee Corp. and son of the company’s founder, Ned Goodman, who contributed to an endowment fund to support mining-related programs at Laurentian, giving the mines school its name.
“Everyone should know about investment and should invest, whether you are studying business, theatre or medicine,” Goodman has been quoted as saying.
Registration for the challenge is open now.
