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Mineral Properties and Interest
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Mineral Properties and Interest  
Mineral Properties and Interest

3.Mineral Properties and Interest

At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company’s mineral properties and interest at the Stibnite Gold Project totaled $67.7 million and $66.8 million, respectively.

The Company’s subsidiaries acquired mineral rights to the Stibnite Gold Project through several transactions. All mineral and surface rights, where applicable, are held by the Company’s subsidiaries through patented and unpatented lode mining claims and mill sites, except the Cinnabar Option Claims which are held under an option to purchase, and all of the Stibnite Gold Project is subject to a 1.7% Net Smelter Returns (“NSR”) royalty upon the sale of project-related gold production.

On March 21, 2024, Perpetua Resources and its subsidiaries granted a 100% NSR royalty on the future payable silver production from the Project to Franco-Nevada Idaho Corporation (“Franco-Nevada”) for gross proceeds of $8.5million. The silver royalty agreement applies to the same properties as the gold royalty previously purchased by Franco-Nevada in 2013. The silver royalty agreement provides a mechanism whereby Franco-Nevada can receive minimum payments equal to 100% of the payable silver from the sale of doré commencing in the seventh calendar year following commercial production and ending upon the completion of the fifteenth calendar year following commercial production. The silver royalty agreement also provides Franco-Nevada an option upon the occurrence of certain conditions precedent (including achieving commercial production) to pay the Company a contingent payment and receive a royalty on any silver payable from the production of antimony concentrate from the Project. The Company incurred costs of $0.2 million associated with this transaction. The net proceeds of $8.3 million were recorded as a reduction to the carrying value of the mineral properties and interests during the year ended December 31, 2024.

The Company’s obligations under the gold and silver royalty agreements with Franco-Nevada are secured by a continuing security interest and a first priority lien on certain collateral including the land and mineral interests comprising the Project.

Included in mineral properties and interest are annual payments made under option agreements, where the Company is entitled to continue to make annual option payments or, ultimately, purchase certain properties. On November 22, 2024, the Company exercised its option to purchase certain properties containing water rights which can be used for mitigation during operations and increased mineral properties by $1.9 million related to this transaction. Annual payments made under other option agreements during 2024 were approximately $0.03 million.

As of December 31, 2025, it has not yet been determined that the Project’s mining deposits can be economically and legally extracted or produced because the Project’s estimated reserves do not yet meet the definition of proven reserves under S-K 1300. Accordingly, development costs related to such reserves will not be capitalized unless they are incurred after such determination. Upon commencement of commercial production, capitalized costs will be amortized over their estimated useful lives or units of production, whichever is a more reliable measure.

Although the Company has taken steps to review and verify mineral rights to the properties in which it has an interest, in accordance with industry standards for properties in the development stage, these procedures do not guarantee the Company’s title and interests. Mineral title may be subject to unregistered prior agreements and noncompliance with regulatory requirements.