Global gold miner New Gold has signed a definitive agreement with precious metals streaming major Wheaton Precious Metals to sell the existing gold stream held on the Blackwater Project in British Columbia, Canada, for an upfront $US300M cash.
Blackwater is wholly-owned by Artemis Gold, with New Gold having retained the gold stream as partial consideration for the divestiture of Blackwater to Artemis in Aug 2020.
The gold stream entitles Wheaton to 8% of the gold from Blackwater, reducing to 4% once about 280,000oz has been delivered to Wheaton.