News

February 7, 2025

Star Royalties Highlights Completion of Acquisition of Sabre Gold by Minera Alamos

February 7, 2025, TORONTO, ON – Star Royalties Ltd. (“Star Royalties”, or the “Company”) (TSXV: STRR, OTCQX: STRFF) is pleased to highlight the completion of Minera Alamos Inc.’s (“Minera Alamos”) (TSXV: MAI, OTCQX: MAIFF) previously announced acquisition of Sabre Gold Mines Corp. (“Sabre Gold”) (TSX: SGLD, OTCQB: SGLDF). The acquisition provides a direct and accelerated pathway to bring the Copperstone Gold Mine (“Copperstone”) into production in the first half of 2026. The Company's existing gold streaming agreement on Copperstone remains a flat 4% of gold produced for the duration of Copperstone’s life-of-mine (“LOM”). Under the terms of the streaming agreement, Star Royalties will provide a cash payment to Minera Alamos equal to 25% of the spot gold price for each ounce of gold delivered. All amounts are in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise indicated.

Transaction Highlights

  • Accelerated timeline to production at Copperstone: With the acquisition of Sabre Gold now complete, Copperstone has become a priority development project for Minera Alamos. Minera Alamos is in the process of expanding its construction and operations team, and management plans for first production in the first half of 2026.
  • Proven mine builders and operators: Minera Alamos’ established track record of permitting, building, and operating gold mines will be a key driver to returning Copperstone to production within established timelines and cost estimates. The management team has set several milestones for 2025, including re-issuing a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”), installing process plant equipment, and rehabilitating underground infrastructure.
  • Increased confidence in development cost estimates: Minera Alamos management expects that the use of already-owned process plant equipment and leveraging existing infrastructure should offset inflationary pressures to the pre-production capital of approximately $36 million as contemplated in the June 2023 PEA. Minera Alamos is reviewing transportation proposals for relocating the process plant equipment that is currently in storage in Quebec to Copperstone.
  • Upcoming PEA to highlight project economics and stream value at current gold prices: Minera Alamos indicated that it will be re-issuing the 2023 Copperstone PEA, with previous operating assumptions and a gold price sensitivity table that will reflect current gold price assumptions. As per the current Copperstone’s PEA and assuming a gold price of US$2,800/oz, Star Royalties’ stream is expected to generate approximately US$19.2 million in LOM pre-tax cash flow prior to any successful mine-life extension from resource conversion and exploration upside.
  • Equity ownership of Sabre Gold converted at a premium with improved diversification: The Company’s equity position in Sabre Gold of 7,407,407 shares, has been converted into 5,133,333 shares of Minera Alamos. The equity ownership conversion diversifies the Company’s exposure from a single-asset developer in Sabre Gold to a portfolio of operating and development-stage projects in Minera Alamos.
  • C$2.0 million in contingent payments converted to Minera Alamos equity: The Company’s outstanding C$2.0 million payments owed by Sabre Gold have been converted into an additional 4,459,459 shares of Minera Alamos as a result of the share exchange process detailed in Sabre Gold’s news release dated October 28, 2024.

Alex Pernin, Chief Executive Officer of Star Royalties, commented: “We congratulate Minera Alamos on their successful acquisition of Sabre Gold and we look forward to what should be a highly productive and milestone-rich 2025 as Copperstone is brought forward to production. Achieving gold production in the coming quarters will generate significant value for our investment and for our shareholders, especially in today’s record-high gold price environment. In addition to Copperstone’s development plan, as Minera Alamos derisks its remaining portfolio and advances its pipeline, we continue to see meaningful re-rating potential for the 9.6 million Minera Alamos shares we now own through this acquisition. This Minera Alamos equity improves the long-term liquidity and strength of our balance sheet. Once again, the completion of this transaction cements value for our Copperstone stream, but also meaningfully rerates and derisks our mining royalty portfolio as a whole. We believe it is an important step in closing the valuation gap implied by our share price to the value of our underlying mining royalty portfolio.”

2025 Development Outlook for Copperstone

In a recent update to shareholders, Mineral Alamos communicated a timeline of milestones for 2025, as it develops Copperstone for anticipated production in the first half of 2026. During the first half of 2025, Minera Alamos anticipates:

  • Securing the remaining financing required to bring Copperstone into production
  • Rehabilitating and installing process plant equipment at Copperstone
  • Submitting final permitting documents for the addition of leaching facilities to the existing processing infrastructure at site

During the second half of 2025, Minera Alamos anticipates:

  • Completing process plant installation at site
  • Receiving all necessary documentation to begin operations

Figure 1: Location of Copperstone and 2023 PEA Summary

Source: Minera Alamos corporate presentation, dated February 2025.

Contact information

For more information, please visit our website at starroyalties.com or contact:

Alex Pernin, P.Geo.
Chief Executive Officer and Director
apernin@starroyalties.com
+1 647 494 5001

Dmitry Kushnir, CFA
Vice President, Investor Relations and Strategy
dkushnir@starroyalties.com
+1 647 494 5088

ABOUT STAR ROYALTIES LTD.

Star Royalties Ltd. is a carbon credit and precious metals royalty and streaming company. The Company innovated the world’s first carbon credit royalties in forestry and regenerative agriculture through its pure-green joint venture, Green Star Royalties Ltd., and offers investors exposure to carbon credit and precious metals prices. The Company’s objective is to provide wealth creation by originating accretive transactions with superior alignment to both counterparties and shareholders.

Cautionary note regarding forward-looking information

Certain statements in this news release may constitute "forward-looking statements", including those regarding future market conditions for metals and minerals, future valuation of Minera Alamos, development and production of Copperstone, permitting and construction scheduling of Coppertone, future location of Copperstone grinding and flotation equipment, expected future cash flow from the stream agreement, the Company’s position in Copperstone’s future gold production, the net cash position of the Company, and future capital raising opportunities are statements that address or discuss activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates may occur in the future. When used in this news release, words such as "estimates", "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "will", "believes", "intends" "should", "could", "may" and other similar terminology are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performances or achievements of Star Royalties to be materially different from future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results and will not necessarily be an accurate indication of whether or not such results will be achieved. A number of factors could cause actual results, performances or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, changes in business plans and strategies, market and capital finance conditions, ongoing market disruptions caused by the Ukraine and Russian conflict, metal and mineral commodity price volatility, discrepancies between actual and estimated production and test results, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical recoveries, mining operation and development risks relating to the parties which produce the metals and minerals Star Royalties will purchase or from which it will receive royalty payments, risks inherent to royalty companies, title and permitting matters, activities by governmental authorities, currency fluctuations, the global, federal and provincial social and economic climate in particular with respect to addressing and reducing global warming, natural disasters and global pandemics, dilution, risk inherent to any capital financing transactions. These risks, as well as others, could cause actual results and events to vary significantly. Accordingly, readers should exercise caution in relying upon forward-looking statements and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise them to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.

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