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Commitments

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2023

Note 20 - Commitments

(a)Commodity purchase commitments

The following table summarizes the Company’s commitments pursuant to the associated precious metals agreements as at June 30, 2023:


	Attributable payable
	production to be purchased						Per ounce cash payment ^(1),(2)								Term of		Date of
Interest	Gold		Silver		PGM		Gold			Silver			PGM		agreement⁽³⁾		contract
Antamina	—	%	22.5	% ⁽⁴⁾	—	%		n/a			5	% ⁽⁵⁾		n/a	40 years		7-Oct-15
Antapaccay	—	% ⁽⁶⁾	—	% ⁽⁷⁾	—	%		20	% ⁽⁸⁾		20	% ⁽⁹⁾		n/a	40 years		10-Feb-16
Candelaria	68	% ⁽¹⁰⁾	68	% ⁽¹⁰⁾	—	%	$	400		$	4.00			n/a	40 years		6-Oct-14
Cobre Panama Fixed Payment Stream	—	% ⁽¹¹⁾	—	% ⁽¹²⁾	—	%	$	418	⁽¹³⁾	$	6.27	⁽¹⁴⁾		n/a	40 years		19-Jan-18
Cobre Panama Floating Payment Stream	—	% ⁽¹⁵⁾	—	% ⁽¹⁶⁾	—	%		20	% ⁽¹⁷⁾		20	% ⁽¹⁸⁾		n/a	40 years		19-Jan-18
Condestable	—	% ⁽¹⁹⁾	—	% ⁽²⁰⁾	—	%		20	% ⁽²¹⁾		20	% ⁽²²⁾		n/a	40 years		8-Mar-21
Guadalupe-Palmarejo	50	%	—	%	—	%	$	800			n/a			n/a	40 years		2-Oct-14
Karma	4.875	%	—	%	—	%		20	%⁽²³⁾		n/a			n/a	40 years		11-Aug-14
Sabodala	—	% ⁽²⁴⁾	—	%	—	%		20	% ⁽²⁵⁾		n/a			n/a	40 years		25-Sep-20
MWS	25	%	—	%	—	%	$	400			n/a			n/a	40 years	⁽²⁶⁾	2-Mar-12
Sudbury⁽²⁷⁾	50	%	—	%	50	%	$	400			n/a		$	400	40 years		15-Jul-08
Tocantinzinho	12.5	% ⁽²⁸⁾	—	%	—	%		20	% ⁽²⁹⁾		n/a			n/a	40 years		18-Jul-22
Cooke 4	7.0	%	—	%	—	%	$	400			n/a			n/a	40 years		5-Nov-09

1	Subject to an annual inflationary adjustment except for Antamina, Antapaccay, Karma, Guadalupe-Palmarejo, and Sabodala.

2	Should the prevailing market price for gold be lower than this amount, the per ounce cash payment will be reduced to the prevailing market price.

3	Subject to successive extensions.

4	Subject to a fixed payability of 90%. Percentage decreases to 15% after 86 million ounces of silver has been delivered under the agreement.

5	Purchase price is 5% of the average silver price at the time of delivery.

6	Gold deliveries are referenced to copper in concentrate shipped with 300 ounces of gold delivered for each 1,000 tonnes of copper in concentrate shipped, until 630,000 ounces of gold has been delivered. Thereafter, percentage is 30% of gold shipped.

7	Silver deliveries are referenced to copper in concentrate shipped with 4,700 ounces of silver delivered for each 1,000 tonnes of copper in concentrate shipped, until 10.0 million ounces of silver has been delivered. Thereafter, percentage is 30% of silver shipped.

8	Purchase price is 20% of the spot price of gold until 750,000 ounces of gold have been delivered, thereafter the purchase price is 30% of the spot price of gold.

9	Purchase price is 20% of the spot price of silver until 12.8 million ounces of silver have been delivered, thereafter the purchase price is 30% of the spot price of silver.

10	Percentage decreases to 40% after 720,000 ounces of gold and 12.0 million ounces of silver have been delivered under the agreement.

Gold deliveries are indexed to copper in concentrate produced from the project. 120 ounces of gold per every 1 million pounds of copper produced until 808,000 ounces of gold delivered. Thereafter, 81 ounces of gold per 1 million pounds of copper produced until 1,716,188 ounces of gold delivered. Thereafter, 63.4% of the gold in concentrate.

Silver deliveries are indexed to copper in concentrate produced from the project. 1,376 ounces of silver per every 1 million pounds of copper produced until 9,842,000 ounces of silver delivered. Thereafter 1,776 ounces of silver per 1 million pounds of copper produced until 29,731,000 ounces of silver delivered. Thereafter, 62.1% of the silver in concentrate.

After 1,341,000 ounces of gold delivered, purchase price is the greater of 50% of spot and $418.27 per ounce, subject to annual inflationary adjustment. As the mill throughput for 30 consecutive days commensurate with annual capacity of 58 million tonnes per annum was not reached by January 1, 2019, Franco-Nevada received a reduction of the applicable fixed gold price of $100 per ounce until the end of Q2 2023.

14	After 21,510,000 ounces of silver delivered, purchase price is the greater of 50% of spot and $6.27 per ounce, subject to an annual inflationary adjustment.

Gold deliveries are indexed to copper in concentrate produced from the project. 30 ounces of gold per every 1 million pounds of copper produced until 202,000 ounces of gold delivered. Thereafter 20.25 ounces of gold per 1 million pounds of copper produced until 429,047 ounces of gold delivered. Thereafter, 15.85% of the gold in concentrate.

Silver deliveries are indexed to copper in concentrate produced from the project. 344 ounces of silver per every 1 million pounds of copper produced until 2,460,500 ounces of silver delivered. Thereafter, 444 ounces of silver per 1 million pounds of copper produced until 7,432,750 ounces of silver delivered. Thereafter 15.53% of the silver in concentrate.

After 604,000 ounces of gold delivered, purchase price is 50% of the spot price of gold. As the mill throughput for 30 consecutive days commensurate with annual capacity of 58 million tonnes per annum was not reached by January 1, 2019, Franco-Nevada received a reduction of the applicable floating gold price of $100 per ounce until the end of Q2 2023.

18	After 9,618,000 ounces of silver delivered, purchase price is 50% of the spot price of silver.

19	Gold deliveries are fixed at 8,760 ounces per annum from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2025. Thereafter, 63% of the gold in concentrate until a cumulative total of 87,600 ounces of gold delivered. Thereafter, 25% of the gold in concentrate.

20	Silver deliveries are fixed at 291,000 ounces per annum from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2025. Thereafter, 63% of the silver in concentrate until a cumulative total of 2,910,000 ounces of silver delivered. Thereafter, 25% of the silver in concentrate.

21	Purchase price is 20% of the spot price of gold at the time of delivery.

22	Purchase price is 20% of the spot price of silver at the time of delivery.

23	Purchase price is 20% of the average gold price at the time of delivery.

Based on amended agreement with an effective date of September 1, 2020, gold deliveries are fixed at 783.33 ounces per month until 105,750 ounces of gold is delivered. Thereafter, percentage is 6% of gold production (subject to reconciliation after fixed delivery period to determine if Franco-Nevada would have received more or less than 105,750 ounces of gold under the original 6% variable stream for such period, entitling the operator to a credit for an over-delivery applied against future stream deliveries or a one-time additional delivery to Franco-Nevada for an under-delivery).

25	Purchase price is 20% of prevailing market price at the time of delivery.

26	Agreement is capped at 312,500 ounces of gold.

The Company is committed to purchase 50% of the precious metals contained in ore from the properties. Payment is based on gold equivalent ounces. For McCreedy West, effective June 1, 2021, purchase price per gold equivalent ounce is determined based on the monthly average gold spot price: (i) when the gold spot price is less than $800 per ounce, the purchase price is the prevailing monthly average gold spot price; (ii) when the gold spot price is greater than $800 per ounce but less than $1,333 per ounce, the purchase price is $800 per ounce; (iii) when the gold spot price is greater than $1,333 per ounce but less than $2,000 per ounce, the purchase price is 60% of the prevailing monthly average gold spot price; and (iv) when the gold spot price is greater than $2,000, the purchase price is $1,200 per ounce.

28	Percentage decreases to 7.5% after 300,000 ounces of gold have been delivered under the agreement.

29	Purchase price is 20% of the spot price of gold at the time of delivery.

(b)Capital commitments

As at June 30, 2023, the Company has the following capital commitments: (i) $66.2 million and 75.0 million in connection with the Stream and Term Loan, respectively, for the Tocantinzinho project as described in Note 3 (c), (ii) $73.5 million for its share of the acquisition of mineral rights acquired through the Royalty Acquisition Venture with Continental as described in Note 3 (k), and (iii) up to $5.5 million for the joint acquisition of newly created precious metals and copper royalties sourced by EMX as described in Note 3 (e).

The Company also has commitments for contingent payments in relation to various royalty agreements, as follows: (i) $12.5 million in relation to its Copper World royalty, (ii) $8.0 million in relation to its Rio Baker (Salares Norte) royalty, (iii) $1.1 million (C$1.5 million) in relation to its Eskay Creek royalty, and (iv) $1.3 million in relation to its Rebecca royalty.