Royal Gold

In the 1980's, the company was named Royal Resources, Inc., and was an oil-exploration company.[3] In 1986, H. Stanley Dempsey, a board member of the public company, transformed the company into a gold mining company and renamed the company Royal Gold, Inc.[3] Dempsey served as Royal Gold's chief executive officer through 2006, as its executive chairman through 2008, and its non-executive chairman through 2014. Dempsey was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame in 2016.[4]

2010 was the year the company experienced the most growth with over a billion of the $1.86 billion in assets it has (September 2010) added during the year. In 2007 it purchased an interest in the Penasquito mine which did not begin producing until 2010.

February 2010 completed the acquisition of another royalty company, IRC which has claims in Chile (Pascua Lama) and Canada (Voisey's Bay). International Royalty Company was quick to accept the $702 million deal from Royal Gold after Franco-Nevada attempted a hostile $640 million takeover.[5]

By the end of the 2020 fiscal year, the company owns interests on 41 producing mines (June 30, 2020).

Royal Gold's principal producing properties are generally in production and are the most significant contributors of revenue to its portfolio. These include:

- A gold stream for 100% of payable gold (until 900,000 ounces delivered, 50% thereafter) produced from the Andacollo mine in Chile;

- A gold stream for 7.5% of payable gold (until 990,000 ounces delivered, 3.75% thereafter) and a silver stream for 75% of payable silver (until 50 million ounces delivered, 37.5% thereafter) produced from the Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic ;

- A gold stream for 35% of payable gold and a copper stream for 18.75% of payable copper produced from the Mount Milligan mine in Canada;

- A gold stream for 10.5% of payable gold (until an aggregate 240,000 ounces delivered, 5.5% thereafter) from the Wassa, Prestea and Bogoso mines in Ghana;

- A 2% net smelter return royalty on all metals at the Peñasquito mine in Mexico;

- Multiple royalties at the Cortez mine in Nevada, United States.

Royal Gold's principal development properties are not in production but are expected to become significant contributors of revenue with plans in place to achieve production status. These include:

- A silver stream for 80% of payable silver (can be increased to 100% prior to production at the election of Khoemacau Copper Mining (Pty.) Limited) produced from the Khoemacau property in Botswana.

In the first nine months of 2010 the largest producing mines that it has a royalty interest on were Leeville for gold (321,247 ounces), Robinson for copper (83.1 million pounds), Penasquito for lead (56 million pounds), zinc (86.3 million pounds), nickel (37.2 million pounds) and silver (8.5 million ounces).[6] In addition to the following properties there are another 19 in production that only produce gold.

In the last three months of the 2011 calendar year Royal Gold relied on Andacollo (23.5%), Voisey's Bay (17.5%), Penasquito (9.2%), Holt (6.1%) for more than half of its revenue. Those mines produced in total 92,358 ounces of gold during the quarter up from 65,862 ounces during the same period a year earlier, only two of them produced anything besides gold. Voisey's Bay and Las Cruces are the only major mining operations that don't produce gold.[7]

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