{"id":699945,"date":"2018-05-17T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=699945"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:19:03","slug":"centerra-gets-200-million-for-royalty-portfolio-and-kemess-silver-stream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=699945","title":{"rendered":"Centerra gets $200 million for royalty portfolio and Kemess silver stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/centerra-gets-200-million-royalty-portfolio-kemess-silver-stream\/\">Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) is selling its subsidiary AuRico Metals&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cg-raw\/cg\/news-releases\/nr-20180517.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">royalty portfolio and a silver stream on its Kemess project<\/a> to Triple Flag Mining Finance Bermuda, in a deal valued at $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction, said the company&#8217;s President and chief executive, Scott Perry, is meant to generate cash to continue developing key projects, as well as growing the miner&#8217;s pipeline, through the sale of non-core assets. He said the move would also allow Centerra strengthen its balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto-based miner said the deal implied selling AuRico Metals&#8217; royalty portfolio, including net smelter returns royalties on Kliyul, Chuchi and Redton exploration properties, an upfront cash payment of $155 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of its Kemess property, located in Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, Centerra is selling 100% of the project&#8217;s silver production for $45 million, which will be payable in four tranches.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two year, the company has made an effort to grow its portfolio in safe jurisdictions. In 2016, it <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/centerra-merges-thompson-creek-metals-debt-focused-deal\/\" rel=\"noopener\">bought out US-based Thompson Creek Metals<\/a>, which gave it access to the namesake molybdenum mine in Idaho, as well as the Mount Milligan copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada. And in November, Centerra announced the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/centerra-gold-to-buy-aurico-metals-in-cdn310-million-friendly-deal\/\" rel=\"noopener\">acquisition of smaller rival AuRico Metals<\/a>, which was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cg-raw\/cg\/news-releases\/nr-20180108.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">completed in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/centerra-gets-200-million-royalty-portfolio-kemess-silver-stream\/\">Centerra gets $200 million for royalty portfolio and Kemess silver stream<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/centerra-gets-200-million-royalty-portfolio-kemess-silver-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/centerra-gets-200-million-royalty-portfolio-kemess-silver-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Centerra gets $200 million for royalty portfolio and Kemess silver stream\">Mining.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cecilia Jamasmie Canada&#8217;s Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) is selling its subsidiary AuRico Metals&#8217; royalty portfolio and a silver stream on its Kemess project to Triple Flag Mining Finance Bermuda, in a deal valued at $200 million. The transaction, said the company&#8217;s President and chief executive, Scott Perry, is meant to generate cash to continue developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}