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MAVERIX ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY THIRD QUARTER 2022 METAL SALES, PROVIDES ASSET UPDATE AND JOINS UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT

 

 

 

 

All amounts are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated.

 

Maverix Metals Inc. (NYSE American: MMX) (TSX: MMX) is pleased to announce that it has sold approximately 7,900 attributable gold equivalent ounces1,2 during the three months ended September 30, 2022 and the Company remains on track to achieve its adjusted guidance of 28,000 to 31,000 attributable GEOs for 2022.3

 

Ryan McIntyre, President of Maverix, commented, “We are thrilled to see several of our royalty counterparties announce positive operational updates contributing to our impressive GEO sales this quarter, highlighted by the continued operating success at Camino Rojo as well as further encouraging drilling results at Beta Hunt and Eskay Creek. Having sold approximately 7,900 GEOs in the third quarter, we are well on track to meet our adjusted 2022 guidance. Our portfolio continues to see several underlying development assets advance and our organic pipeline grow with the recent acquisitions of a royalty portfolio from Barrick and a royalty on the Sleeping Giant mine located in the prolific Abitibi region of Quebec. We are also pleased to announce that Maverix is now a participant in the United Nations Global Compact and we look forward to integrating its principles into our business and working with our counterparties towards long term environmental protection and social benefits in the communities where they operate.”

 

Asset Updates

 

Camino Rojo (2% NSR)

 

On October 11, 2022, Orla Mining Ltd. announced gold production of 28,876 ounces from Camino Rojo for the third quarter 2022, and 77,580 ounces year to date. Camino Rojo’s processing throughput for the third quarter averaged 19,200 tonnes per day (“tpd”), exceeding nameplate capacity of 18,000 tpd. Orla also increased its 2022 gold production guidance to 100,000 to 110,000 ounces from 90,000 to 100,000 ounces.

 

For more information, please refer to orlamining.com and see the news release dated October 11, 2022.

 

South Railroad (2% NSR)

 

On August 12, 2022, Orla announced it had completed the previously announced acquisition of Gold Standard Ventures Corp. Gold Standard’s key asset is the high-quality, open pit, heap leach South Railroad project located in the prolific Carlin trend in Nevada. A feasibility study completed in February 2022 outlined a 10.5 year mine life with total gold production of over one million ounces and average annual gold production of 124,000 ounces. Permitting activities at South Railroad are currently underway and Orla is continuing the 2022 sulphide exploration program started by Gold Standard as well as increasing exploration spending by $1.5 million to accelerate the upgrade and definition of new oxide resources.

 

For more information, please refer to orlamining.com and see the news releases dated September 12, 2022 and August 12, 2022.

 

Beta Hunt (4.75% Gold Royalty and 1.5% Nickel Royalty)

 

On October 13, 2022, Karora Resources Inc. announced record gold production of 38,437 ounces from its Beta Hunt and Higginsville mines in

Western Australia, including 2,436 ounces of “coarse gold” from Beta Hunt. Development of the second decline at Beta Hunt is rapidly advancing and Karora expects it to be functioning by the end of the second quarter of 2023, significantly ahead of the original schedule. The Beta Hunt expansion represents the backbone of Karora’s growth plan and is expected to approximately double the production capacity of the mine.

 

On October 25, 2022, Karora announced two significant new developments resulting from wide-spaced gold exploration drilling at Beta Hunt. The second set of strong gold drill results from the new Mason Zone supports Karora’s interpretation of a significant gold mineralized system parallel to and west of the Larkin Zone and continues to provide confidence in the development of the Mason Zone into a significant new mining opportunity. In addition, Western Flanks deep drilling has now intersected Main Shear mineralization up to 250 metres below the current mineral resource at the southern end of the zone at higher grades than the current resource. Western Flanks is Beta Hunt’s largest shear zone and these results provide more confidence for the expansion of the key resource asset in support of Karora’s growth plan.

 

Additionally, on August 12, 2022, Karora announced a positive nickel preliminary economic assessment for Beta Hunt which outlines an eight year mine life to produce a total of 9,435 tonnes of payable nickel with significant potential for both expansion and mineral resource additions. Karora expects nickel production to ramp up significantly from current production levels beginning in 2023. Beta Hunt was previously a primary nickel mine for over 40 years and produced over 60,000 tonnes of nickel from an exceptionally large nickel resource system.

 

For more information, please refer to karoraresources.com and see the news releases dated October 25, 2022, October 13, 2022, and August 12, 2022.

 

Hope Bay (1% NSR)

 

On August 11, 2022, Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. announced exceptional drill results at Hope Bay and increased the 2022 exploration and development budget by 75% to $56 million. Drilling and the development of exploration drifts will continue at the Doris deposit in order to accelerate exploration from underground in the high potential areas for more efficient mineral resource conversion and mine development for future production resumption. The near-term focus is on exploration drilling and evaluating the potential to develop a 4,000 tpd underground operation, which is double the current mill capacity and would increase gold production to 250,000 to 300,000 ounces per year. Exploration at Hope Bay is expected to continue through 2023 while larger production scenarios are being evaluated.

 

For more information, please refer to agnicoeagle.com and see the news release dated August 11, 2022 and the presentation titled “Gold Forum Americas 2022”, dated September 20, 2022.

 

Eskay Creek (0.5% NSR)

 

On October 25, 2022, Skeena Resources Ltd. announced drilling results from its 2022 regional and near mine exploration programs at the Eskay Creek gold-silver project located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia. Infill drilling successfully confirmed the continuity of gold-silver mineralization in the 23 Zone and has expanded mineralization to surface intersecting 1.13 grams per tonne gold and 6.6 g/t silver over 96.02 metres. Drilling at the 21A West Zone continued to build upon the in-pit mineralization discovered in 2021, which intersected high-tenor gold mineralization averaging 8.78 g/t gold and 13 g/t silver over 34 metres, recently expanded by a 2022 drill hole. Additionally, in the 21A West Zone, a very wide interval of continuous dacite hosted gold-silver mineralization was intersected grading 1.12 g/t gold and 4.7 g/t silver over 109.82 metres. This new occurrence of feeder style mineralization occurs 150 metres vertically below surface and below the current engineered pit. Due to the lack of historical drilling in this portion of the 21A Zone, the area was considered as barren waste rock for the 2022 resource estimate and feasibility study, which outlined an initial 9 year mine life with average annual production of 269,000 ounces gold and 7,412,000 ounces silver. Skeena is currently performing expansion and infill drilling with six helicopter supported drill rigs with the focus to expedite not only the organic growth of open pittable resources in the 23, 21A West and 22 Zones, but to infill these new zones for ultimate conversion to probable reserves.

 

For more information, please refer to skeenaresources.com and see the news releases dated October 25, 2022, October 18, 2022 and September 8, 2022.

 

Fenn-Gib (1% – 2.5% NSR)

 

On October 18, 2022, Mayfair Gold Corp. announced an increase of the mineral resources at the Fenn-Gib gold project located in the Timmins region of Ontario. The Fenn-Gib deposit now hosts open-pit indicated resources of approximately 118.1 million tonnes at 0.81 g/t gold containing approximately 3.1 million ounces of gold and inferred resources of approximately 13.8 million tonnes at 0.70 g/t gold containing approximately 0.3 million ounces of gold. Mayfair also announced a maiden underground inferred resource of 1.0 million tonnes at 3.22 g/t gold containing 0.1 million ounces of gold. The updated mineral resource estimate includes assay results up to July 31, 2022, accounting for approximately 67,000 metres of the planned 110,000 metre drill program. The remaining infill and expansion drill program is ongoing with gold mineralization continuing to be intersected in all holes reported to date. Based on the continuing success, Mayfair expects to declare a further resource update in the second quarter of 2023 on completion of the drill program and Mayfair believes the potential exists for a further significant increase in the Fenn-Gib resource.

 

Lagunas Norte (2% NSR)

 

On August 19, 2022, the CEO of Boroo Pte Ltd. Dulguun Erdenebaatar, spoke at The Executive Spotlight at PDAC 2022 event providing an update on Boroo, its development projects and future plans to expand the Lagunas Norte mining operation in Peru and the pre-feasibility results for the refractory sulphide ore project, where Maverix has its royalty. The PMR project has current reserves of 29.7 million tonnes at an average gold grade of 2.5 g/t gold containing 2.4 million ounces of gold. When complete, the PMR project is expected to produce 170,000 to 200,000 ounces of gold per year over a 10 year life.

 

Sleeping Giant Royalty Acquisition

 

On September 22, 2022, Abcourt Mines Inc. announced that Maverix acquired a 2% net smelter return royalty on all metallic and non-metallic minerals mined or otherwise recovered on each of the Géant Dormant and Dormex claims of the Sleeping Giant mine. Maverix made a $2 million cash payment to Abcourt as consideration for the Royalty.

 

The Sleeping Giant mine is a past-producing, fully permitted underground mine located in Abitibi, Quebec with an operating 750 tpd mill located on the property. From 1987 to 2014 the mine produced over one million ounces of gold. Abcourt is preparing the restart of Sleeping Giant with the technical teams who are currently establishing the mining plans from the reserves defined in the 2019 feasibility study. The plan is to rehabilitate the old drifts and raises for a rapid restart at low capital cost. The surface infrastructure, the mill and the tailing storage facility are being maintained and prepared for start-up in 2023. Abcourt is currently working to complete the financial package for the 2023 start-up.

 

United Nations Global Compact

 

Maverix is pleased to announce that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. Formed in 2000, the UN Global Compact comprises over 17,000 companies across 177 countries. As a participant, Maverix has voluntarily committed to align its operations and strategy with the ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption, and to take action to support the broader UN Global Compact goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

The UN Global Compact provides members with a principle-based framework, best practices, resources and networking events with a goal to strengthen corporate sustainability practices for the betterment of society.

 

Joining the UN Global Compact is an important part of Maverix’s focus on sustainability in its strategy and operations.

(1) Please refer to the Non-IFRS Measures section at the end of this news release.
(2) These figures are unaudited and are subject to change. As the Company has not finished its quarter-end close procedures, the anticipated financial information presented in this press release is preliminary, subject to final quarter-end closing adjustments, and may change materially.
(3) The sales of GEOs during the three month period ended September 30, 2022 and the Company’s adjusted attributable GEO guidance for 2022 excludes any GEOs earned pursuant to the Company’s Omolon Hub royalty interests.

 

 

Qualified Person

 

Brendan Pidcock, P.Eng., is Vice President, Technical Services for Maverix, and a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure contained in this news release.

 

About Maverix

 

Maverix is a gold-focused royalty and streaming company with a globally diversified portfolio of over 140 assets. Maverix’s mission is to increase per share value by acquiring precious metals royalties and streams.

 

Posted November 2, 2022

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