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Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. buys rights to a share of the economic value of mine production without owning or operating the mines. Mining companies pay it royalties tied to production or metal-sale proceeds, which provide most of its revenue. A smaller part of the business involves buying precious metals under stream agreements at the lower of a contract price and the market price, then selling those metals to third-party customers. Royalty interests generally do not require Metalla to pay the mine’s operating or construction costs.
Cash comes from a limited group of producing mines, led by Tocantinzinho, Wharf and Aranzazu in attributable production. Most of its portfolio is still at the development or exploration stage. Its material assets include royalties covering part of Côté and substantially all of Gosselin, and a royalty on First Quantum’s Taca Taca project in Argentina. These are not ownership stakes in the mines.
Income depends on metal prices and on operators producing and selling metal. Metalla does not control their operating or development decisions, and production stoppages generally stop the related income. Development interests must reach production before generating production-based payments; Taca Taca’s development requires environmental approval.
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Beyond this list, watch G Mining’s Tocantinzinho production, Metalla’s largest 2025 source of gold-equivalent ounces, and First Quantum’s development of Taca Taca, one of Metalla’s two material royalty assets.
Gold Royalty Corp. shares Metalla’s reliance on undeveloped mines: both finance miners in exchange for production-linked payments or rights to buy future metals. Gold Royalty has only eight cash-flowing assets among 258 interests, making the start of payments from development projects worth watching alongside Metalla’s seven producing interests out of 99.
Elemental Royalty Corporation shares Metalla’s dependence on other companies keeping mines running: both acquire rights to payments or future metals from mine owners and operators. Elemental’s royalty and stream receipts offer a comparison for how continued mining operations support this revenue model, rather than a direct source of Metalla’s income.
OR Royalties Inc. competes with Metalla to fund mine owners in exchange for a share of mine proceeds or rights to future metals. Its cornerstone revenue interest is a 3–5% royalty on net smelter returns from the Canadian Malartic Complex in Québec, giving investors a producing-mine comparison for Metalla’s royalty portfolio.
Metalla depends on gold producer IAMGold Corporation’s work at Côté: its material royalty pays 1.5% of net smelter returns from the covered areas. Watch production in the northern Côté pit and development at Gosselin—the royalty covers less than 10% of Côté’s reserve and resource estimate but substantially all of Gosselin’s resource estimate, not the whole district.
Coeur Mining’s Wharf gold production directly feeds Metalla’s 1% gross value royalty; Coeur produces precious metals and sells them to banks, bullion traders and refiners. Watch Wharf’s crushing-capacity recovery after the fourth-quarter 2025 crusher fire reduced ore placed on leach pads and affected Metalla’s deliveries; Coeur expected a replacement system in the second quarter of 2026.
Aura Minerals Inc.’s Aranzazu mine supplies a substantial part of Metalla’s production-linked income through a 1% royalty on net smelter returns from copper, gold, silver and molybdenum. Watch Aranzazu’s output and metal sales, rather than Aura’s overall gold revenue: the mine contributed 678 gold-equivalent ounces to Metalla in 2025, down from 2024.
Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp. and Metalla both fund miners in exchange for production-linked payments or agreed-price purchases of future metals, building portfolios across producing and undeveloped mines. Triple Flag’s 34 producing investments and 205 development or exploration investments make new financing deals and the shift into production useful comparisons for Metalla’s portfolio growth.
Franco-Nevada Corporation shares Metalla’s metal-price exposure with limited exposure to mine operating costs: both acquire rights to production-linked payments or future metals from operators. In 2025, 91% of Franco-Nevada’s revenue came from royalties and streams whose payments or deliveries were not adjusted for operators’ operating costs—a concrete comparison for Metalla’s intended model.
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. competes with Metalla to pay miners upfront for rights to buy future metal production, known as streams. Wheaton then pays a contracted amount for delivered metals and resells them, so its delivered volumes and realized selling prices provide a comparison for Metalla’s metal-purchase interests.
Silver and gold producer First Majestic pays Metalla the full gross value of the first 1,000 ounces of gold produced annually at La Encantada. Watch that mine’s gold production rather than First Majestic’s broader silver business: its royalty payments were $0.3 million in 2025, versus $0.4 million in 2024.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Metalla’s Fed-sensitive borrowing costs change with interest rates: its USD 13.1 million revolving-credit-facility draw bears SOFR, a benchmark borrowing rate, plus a margin, so higher rates mean more interest paid and lower rates mean less.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the Fed’s decision implies rates rise more than expected, Metalla pays more interest on its SOFR-linked draw, leaving less cash available for acquisitions and other business needs.
If it comes in below expectations
If the Fed’s decision implies rates fall more than expected, interest on Metalla’s SOFR-linked draw declines, leaving more cash available for acquisitions and other business needs.
Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp. earningsTFPM
Triple Flag’s report will show how its mine investments and projects moving into production are changing its portfolio, a useful comparison for when Metalla’s own development interests might begin generating payments.
Look for whether Triple Flag’s new investments are advancing and whether more development or exploration projects are moving into production and generating payments. Continued investment alongside progress into production would show its base of producing interests expanding, while also illustrating that Metalla must wait for mine operators to develop projects before its own pipeline can generate cash. Slow project progress and few additions to producing assets would make near-term cash from Metalla’s development interests less certain. The conclusion is whether a large project pipeline is converting into income, not simply how many interests a company holds.
Coeur Mining, Inc. earningsCDE
Coeur Mining’s report will show whether Wharf’s output and deliveries improve as crushing capacity recovers, directly affecting the sales value on which Metalla’s 1% gross-value royalty is based.
Watch whether Wharf’s production and deliveries recover as crushing capacity returns. Higher output and deliveries would give Metalla’s 1% royalty on the gross value of Wharf’s gold sales a stronger production base; continued capacity limits would keep that income under pressure. The conclusion is whether the disruption at this mine is easing, not simply how Coeur Mining performed overall.
IAMGold Corporation earningsIAG
IAMGOLD’s report will show production at the northern Côté pit and progress at Gosselin, two areas covered by Metalla’s royalty, though its Côté interest covers only part of the district’s resources.
Separate production from the northern Côté pit from development progress at Gosselin. More output from the covered Côté areas would support Metalla’s royalty income, but its interest covers less than 10% of Côté’s reserve and resource estimate, not the whole district. Progress at Gosselin matters more to future potential because Metalla’s royalty covers substantially all of its resource estimate; stalled development would push that potential further out. The conclusion is whether covered Côté production supports current income and whether Gosselin is advancing the future base.
Franco-Nevada Corporation earningsFNV
Franco-Nevada’s report will show how royalty and stream income fares with metal prices and mine output without direct exposure to operators’ mine costs, a useful comparison for Metalla’s model.
Look at the share of revenue from royalties and streams, and how metal prices and mine production affect it. In 2025, 91% of Franco-Nevada’s revenue came from royalties and streams whose payments or deliveries were not adjusted for operators’ mine costs. If that income remains dominant, it shows how the model avoids directly bearing mine costs, but it remains exposed to metal prices and production. If revenue weakens, the absence of mine operating costs does not mean cash receipts are protected. The conclusion is that Metalla’s model limits direct cost exposure, while its income still depends on what mines produce and metal prices.
Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. earningsThis company
Metalla earns royalties and stream revenue from mines operated by others, so this report will show whether production and metal prices are translating into more attributable gold-equivalent ounces and operating cash.
Read attributable gold-equivalent ounces (GEOs, production converted into a gold-equivalent measure), royalty revenue and operating cash flow together. More GEOs alongside higher revenue and cash would show that additional mine output is reaching Metalla as usable cash. Higher revenue with flat or lower GEOs would point to growth driven more by realized prices than by expanding production. Falling GEOs and cash receipts together would raise the question of weaker operator production or delayed payments. The conclusion is whether Metalla is broadening its cash-generating base or still relying on a few mines or higher metal prices.
