VANCOUVER, BC, May 31, 2024
/PRNewswire/ - Gold Royalty Corp. ("Gold Royalty" or the
"Company") (NYSE American: GROY) is pleased to provide
updated guidance for 2024 based upon the expected completion of
Gold Royalty's acquisition (the "Acquisition") of a copper
stream in respect of the Vares Silver Project, located in
Bosnia and Herzegovina and
operated by a subsidiary of Adriatic Metals plc (the "Vares
Stream"), as previously announced on May
28, 2024.
Upon completion of the Acquisition, the Company forecasts
between approximately 6,500 and 7,000 Gold Equivalent Ounces
("GEOs") in 2024 which equates to between approximately
$13.0 million to $14.0 million in Total Revenue, Land Agreement
Proceeds and Interest at a gold price of $2,000 per ounce. This represents a midpoint
increase in forecasted 2024 Total Revenue, Land Agreement Proceeds,
and Interest of approximately 27% from the prior outlook announced
by the Company on March 28, 2024 and
a 160% increase relative to 2023.
Total Revenue, Land Agreement Proceeds, and Interest and GEOs
are each a non-IFRS financial measure. See "Non-IFRS Measures".
The foregoing forecasts are based upon the production guidance
published to date by the operators of the properties underlying the
Company's existing royalties and the Vares Stream and an assumed
gold price of US$2,000 per ounce and
copper price of US$4.25 per
pound.
The updated 2024 outlook is based on public forecasts, expected
development timelines and other disclosure by the owners and
operators of the properties underlying our interests and the Vares
Stream and our assessment thereof. In preparing the above
outlook, the Company also assumed, among other things, that the
operators of the projects underlying royalties and the Vares Stream
will meet expected production milestones and forecasts, and that
operators of optioned properties will elect to make all expected
option and similar payments, for the applicable period.
David Garofalo, Chairman and CEO
of Gold Royalty, commented: "We believe that the addition of the
Vares Stream is transformational for Gold Royalty's near-term cash
flow per share profile, while adding another high-quality long-life
asset to our portfolio. Our updated 2024 Total Revenue, Land
Agreement Proceeds and Interest forecast includes only a partial
year of production from Vares with commercial production currently
expected in the fourth quarter. Looking ahead, we expect our
high-quality portfolio of royalties on large-scale, long-life mines
including Canadian Malartic, Côté, Ren, Borborema, Cozamin and now
Vares to contribute to our peer-leading cash flow growth profile
thought the end of this decade and beyond."
Vares Copper Stream Acquisition
Investor Webcast
An investor webcast will be held on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 starting at 8:00 am ET (5:00 am
PT) to discuss the recent Vares Copper Stream acquisition.
Management will be providing an overview of the investment and its
accretive impact on the Company's outlook. The presentation will be
followed by a question-and-answer session where participants will
be able to ask any questions they may have of management.
To register for the investor webcast, please click the link
below:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JRtDn6ZsRXGIjMD42_pG0w
A replay of the event will be available on the Gold Royalty
website following the presentation.
About Gold Royalty Corp.
Gold Royalty Corp. is a gold-focused royalty company offering
creative financing solutions to the metals and mining industry. Its
mission is to invest in high-quality, sustainable, and responsible
mining operations to build a diversified portfolio of precious
metals royalty and streaming interests that generate superior
long-term returns for our shareholders. Gold Royalty's diversified
portfolio currently consists primarily of net smelter return
royalties on gold properties located in the Americas.
Non-IFRS Measures
We have included, in this news release, certain performance
measures that do not have standardized meanings prescribed under
International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"),
including: (i) Total Revenue, Land Agreement Proceeds and Interest,
which is determined by determined by adding land agreement proceeds
credited against mineral properties and interest received on the
Company's gold-linked loan; and (ii) GEOs, which are determined by
dividing revenue by the average gold price for the applicable
period. Each of these are non-IFRS measures. The presentation of
such non-IFRS measures is intended to provide additional
information and should not be considered in isolation or as a
substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with
IFRS. The Company presents such measures as it believes that
certain investors use this information to evaluate the Company's
performance in comparison to other royalty companies in the
precious metals mining industry. Readers are advised that other
companies may calculate such measures differently. The presentation
of these non-IFRS measures is intended to provide additional
information and should not be considered in isolation or as a
substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with
IFRS. For additional information, including a numerical
reconciliation of such non-IFRS measures, readers should refer to
the section titled "Non-IFRS Measures" in Item 5 of the Company's
Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023, which is incorporated by
reference herein and available under the Company's profile at
www.sedar.com..
Forward-Looking
Statements
Certain of the information contained in this news release
constitutes "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S.
securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"),
including but not limited to statements regarding the Company's
proposed completion of the Acquisition, the Company's 2024 outlook,
including estimated Total Revenue, Land Agreement Proceeds and
Interest and GEOs for 2024, the expectations of the operators of
the projects underlying our royalty interests and the Vares Stream,
including their announced expected production timelines, milestones
and schedules. Such statements can be generally identified by the
use of terms such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "believe",
"plans", "anticipate" or similar terms. Forward-looking statements
are based upon certain assumptions and other important factors,
including that the conditions to the proposed Acquisition will be
satisfied in a timely manner, assumptions regarding commodities
prices, and that the operators of the properties underlying the
Company's existing royalty interests and the Vares Stream will meet
their disclosed production estimates, milestones and development
goals. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results
to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements including, among others, including the
possibility that the proposed Acquisition not close when expected,
or at all, because conditions to closing are not satisfied on a
timely basis, any inability to any inability of the operators of
the properties underlying the Company's royalty interests to
execute proposed plans for such properties or to achieved planned
development and production estimates and goals, risks related to
the operators of the projects in which the Company holds interests,
including the successful continuation of operations at such
projects by those operators, risks related to exploration,
development, permitting, infrastructure, operating or technical
difficulties on any such projects, the influence of macroeconomic
developments, commodities price volatility and other factors
set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year
ended December 31, 2023 and its other
publicly filed documents under its profiles at www.sedarplus.ca and
www.sec.gov. Although the Company has attempted to identify
important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in forward-looking statements,
there may be other factors that cause results not to be as
anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that
such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and
future events could differ materially from those anticipated in
such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not
undertake to update any forward-looking statements, except in
accordance with applicable securities laws.
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