as nasdaq rgld tsx rgl fwb gr3 industry mining founded 1991 1 headquarters denver colorado usa key people william hayes chairman of the board tony jensen president and ceo stefan l. wenger cfo and treasurer products gold silver lead copper molybdenum cobalt zinc potash revenue 136.57 mil 10 2 85.1 % operating income 41.03 mil 10 2 50.35 % net income 29.4 mil 10 2 28.8 % total assets 1.863 bil 3 total equity 1.4415 bil 3 number of employees 20 1 divisions 14 4 including calgom mining inc rg russia rg mexico website royal gold inc. royal gold is a precious metals company with royalty claims on gold silver copper lead and zinc at mines in over 20 countries 12 in the america s most of the rest spread between africa western europe and australia . over half of the developmental properties it has interests in are producing however most 130 representing 70 % of all properties have not passed the exploration stage . not all contracts are the same some like the one it has with thompson creek metals regarding a quarter of the gold produced at mount milligan lasts the length of the mine s life while others like taparko in west africa which ranges depending on the price of gold and the one in pascua lama el indio gold belt where the 5.23 % royalty is contingent on gold prices must be higher than 800 an ounce are structured differently ; most claims are between 1 % and 5 % but a few like andacolo 75 % and taparko 15 % are over 10 % . 5 it also has an interest in osisko mining s malartic gold project within the abitibi gold belt 1.0 1.5 % will be canada s largest when production begins in 2012 . the royalties are either bought paid thompson creek metals 311.5 million in october 2010 for a guaranteed fixed share of gold production at mount milligan or acquired through project financing arrangements . 6 similar to silver streaming companies royalty companies are not exposed to the operational risks associated with mining . royal gold s business has over a short period of time become more internationalized and diversified in 2010 60 % of revenue came from abroad compared to 44 % the year before . in 2010 40 % of revenue came from the usa compared to 79 % in 2008 ; canada down to 4 % from 27 % in 2008 however most assets in canada are in the developmental phase while africa nearly tripled to 29 % . 2 royal gold is one of the world s leading precious metals royalty companies . 7 8 in the 2009 edition of the fortune small business magazine fsb it ranked 10th among the fastest growing small businesses in the united states 79 spots higher than in 2008 . 9 contents 1 history 2 key assets 3 mines producing metals other than gold 4 references history edit 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 . january 2010 acquired 75 % of gold produced at andacolo copper mine in chile from teck resources . the royalty claim gets cut by 33.3 % down to 50 % total after it receives 910 000 ounces . 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 . 8 in the summer of 2011 royal gold paid seabridge gold c 160 million for a 2 % net smelter return royalty claim on the ksm gold copper silver molybdenum project in northern british columbia . by the end of the 2010 fiscal year the company was receiving royalty payments from 34 mines july 2010 . key assets edit the developmental projects in which royal gold has the highest percentage claims are wolverine yukon 9.445 % of the gold and silver and pine cove newfoundland 7.5 % of the gold . 5 there are two molybdenum properties one in saskatchewan allan that has started producing and another in british columbia schaft creek not producing . andacollo the property royal has the highest stake in 75 % was estimated by teck resources to have 2p reserves proved probable of 1.631 million ounces of gold . voisey s bay 3 4 % royalty has reserves of about 1.5 billion pounds of nickel 873 million pounds of copper and 74 million pounds of cobalt . mines producing metals other than gold edit 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 . 10 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 . 11 allan sask british columbia voisey s bay mine labrador el toqui chile robinson nevada las cruces spain bolcooma aus mt.goode aus dolorwes mexico pe asquito mexico martha argentina ksm bc canada potash molybdenum molybdenum copper nickel cobalt copper nickel cobalt copper silver molybdenum copper copper silver lead zinc cobalt silver lead zinc nickel silver silver copper silver molybdenum gold references edit a b royal gold businessweek . 2010 08 26 . a b c d royal gold 2010 annual report page 41 . 2010 08 26 . a b royal gold 2010 first quarter report . 2010 11 05 . royal gold and its subsidiaries . 2009 08 21 . a b royal gold properties 2010 annual report . 2010 . thompson creek buys terrane done dea . 2010 10 21 . royal gold inc . 200 12 14 . check date values in date help a b royal gold rides to international royalty s rescue in 749 million cash share bid . 2009 12 21 . 2009 fsb 100 10 . royal gold . cnn . 2009 . royal gold rgld . wikinvest . retrieved 2010 12 11 . royal gold investor relations . retrieved february 3 2012 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title royal gold & oldid 743429812 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangegold mining companies of the united statescompanies based in denvermolybdenumcompanies listed on nasdaqhidden categories cs1 errors dates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage 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