Beta Hunt Royalty Transaction
On September 3, 2020, Karora and Maverix closed a transaction whereby effective July 1, 2020, Maverix’s royalty on gold production at Karora’s Beta Hunt mine was reduced from 7.5% to 4.75%. As consideration for the transaction Karora paid Maverix $13,000,000 for the reduction of its royalty interest in the Beta Hunt mine and a one-time, $5,000,000 bonus royalty payment. $2,500,000 of the bonus royalty payment was received on the closing of the transaction, with the remaining $2,500,000 received in January 2021.
Pan American Silver Secondary Offering and Warrant Exercise
On June 5, 2020, Maverix and Pan American announced the closing of an overnight marketed secondary offering of Common Shares of Maverix held by Pan American, including the exercise of an over-allotment option (the “Secondary Offering”). The Secondary Offering, conducted by way of a prospectus supplement dated May 29, 2020 to the Company’s existing U.S. registration statement on Form F-10 and Canadian short form base shelf prospectus, the latter each dated September 13, 2019. Pursuant to the Secondary Offering, Pan American sold 10,350,000 Common Shares of Maverix. In addition to the Secondary Offering, Pan American also exercised 8,250,000 common share purchase warrants (the “Warrants”) to acquire an additional 8,250,000 Common Shares. 5,000,000 Warrants had an exercise price of $1.56 per additional Common Share and 3,250,000 Warrants had an exercise price of $2.41 per additional Common Share. Maverix received gross proceeds of approximately $15,600,000 from the exercise of the Warrants.
Financial Year Ended December 31, 2019
Acquisition of the Kinross Portfolio
On December 19, 2019, Maverix acquired a portfolio of 24 Royalties (the “Kinross Portfolio”) pursuant to a Purchase and Sale Agreement with Kinross Gold Corp. (“Kinross”) dated December 1, 2019 (the “Kinross Transaction”). As consideration for the acquisition of the Kinross Portfolio, Maverix issued 11,228,674 Common Shares to Kinross and made a cash payment to Kinross of $25,000,000.
Certain of the Royalties that were due to be transferred pursuant to the Kinross Transaction were subject to a ROFR that permitted the underlying property owner the right to repurchase the specific royalty for cash on the same valuation as established by Kinross and Maverix. Brett Resources Inc., a subsidiary of Agnico, exercised its ROFR on the sale of the 2% net smelter return royalty on the Hammond Reef project located in Ontario, Canada. As a result of the exercise of the ROFR in respect of the Hammond Reef royalty, Maverix received a cash payment of $12,000,000.
The Kinross Portfolio included the following key assets:
●DeLamar Royalty – NSR Royalty (Idaho, USA) – a 2.5% NSR Royalty payable by Integra Resources Corp. on the DeLamar deposit which forms part of the DeLamar project, located in southwestern Idaho.
●Omolon Royalty – Sliding Scale GRR (Magadan Region, Russia) – a sliding scale gross revenue Royalty payable by Polymetal International plc on certain deposits that compose the Omolon Hub operations. The gross revenue Royalty is equal to 2.0% when the gold price is above $650 per ounce.
●Norte Abierto Royalty – GRR (Chile) – a 1.25%1 royalty on 25% of the gross revenues from the Norte Abierto project located in Chile.
●Railroad Royalty – NSR Royalty (Nevada, USA) – a 2.0% NSR Royalty payable by Gold Standard Ventures Corp. on a significant portion of the South Railroad development project.
●McCoy-Cove Royalty – NSR Royalty (Nevada, USA) – a 2.0% NSR Royalty payable on a significant portion of the McCoy-Cove development project. This Royalty is in addition to the 1.5% NSR Royalty over the entire McCoy-Cove project acquired as part of the 2018 Newmont Transaction. Equinox Gold Corp. previously acquired Premier Gold Mines and spun-out a new company, i-80 Gold Corp., which now holds the McCoy-Cove project.
1Royalty only applies to the Cerro Casale and Quebrada Seca deposits which form part of the Norte Abierto project