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Anas
Conference Operator
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you for watching. Good morning and welcome to Franco Nevada Corporation's third quarter 2026 results conference call and webcast. This call is being recorded on November 12th, 2026. At this time, I'll enter listen only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session where you may ask questions through the phone line or webcast. If you are joining by webcast, you may submit a written question for the Q&A session at any time during this call by typing your questions in the Q&A section of the webcast platform. Thank you, Anas. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss Franco Nevada's third quarter 2026 results. Accompanying this call is a presentation which is available on our website at franco-nevada.com, where you will also find our full financial results.
Bonavie Tek
Vice President, Investor Relations, Franco-Nevada
The presentation is also available to view on the webcast. During our call this morning, Paul Brink, President and CEO of Franco Nevada, will provide introductory remarks, followed by Sandip Rana, Chief Financial Officer, who will provide an overview of our results. This will be followed by a Q&A period. Our executive team is available to answer any questions. Participants may submit questions by telephone or via the webcast. We would like to remind participants that some of today's commentary may contain forward-looking information, and we refer you to our detailed cautionary note on slide two of this presentation. I will now turn the call over to Paul Brink, President and CEO of Franco Nevada.
Paul Brink
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franco-Nevada
Thank you, Bonavie. Good morning. Franco Nevada generated strong Q3 financial results. Revenue, cash flow, and earnings were all higher than the prior year period, driven by stronger gold and oil prices. While precious metal geos deliveries were slightly below expectations, strong oil prices boosted our diversified revenue, and we're now tracking towards the mid-range of our annual guidance. During the quarter, the Panamanian Ministerial Commission recommended the government begin formal negotiations with First Quantum regarding COBRE. Response to the earthquake has obviously taken priority since then, although we hope the process will resume once that's addressed. During the quarter, we took another step in growing our Australian business with a second tranche of financing for the development of the Bulla Bulling deposit. We also saw several project advancements in our portfolio during the period. Glencore announced they'd completed surface land acquisitions for the Corcovaco project at Antipokai and reiterated their timeline to achieve first production. Hud Bay and Mitsubishi sanctioned construction of Copper World, and the federal government stepped up with a billion of funding for the Ring of Fire Road, matching the billion commitment from the province. We keep seeing exceptional exploration success across the portfolio. It's not my normal, but I can't help myself. I'm going to speak about some of it. At the Porcupine Complex, discovery continues to expand mineralization at Panmore, both east and west of the existing pit, and also at the newly discovered North Contact Zone At Dome, extended mineralization up to 600 meters to the south. Updated resources for both are expected in early 2027. The Dome resource is already about 11 million ounces and it's getting bigger, but even more exciting with the success of PAMO. I believe that resource will expand dramatically. The company is indicating that together with a potential large central mill, this exploration success could ultimately support annual production of 500,000 to a million ounces of gold. At Stibnite, Perpetua identified new high-grade gold antimony mineralization along the Clark Tunnel port zone at Yellow Pine. Mineralization starts from surface. They also found a new gold tungsten zone between Yellow Pine and West End. At Garupi, Siemens drill results extended the existing MendoCal and Blanket Deposits, and confirmed the near surface Grandocal discovery. Their PEA remains targeted for year end 2026. I think the best single result came from Musselwhite, where Equinox is drilling to confirm the two kilometer mine trend extension from existing operations. The intersect came from PQ extension. It was 22.9 meters, rating 10 grams per ton. With this success and the exploration success we mentioned last quarter at Banyan's ORMAC, at Mineral 260's Bullet Bulling, at I-80's Mineral Point Deposit, I honestly can't recall a period in the past where there's been so much exploration success across our portfolio. On the sustainability front, we expanded our mining industry scholarship program by awarding eight new scholarships for each to university and trade programs. Franco Nevada is now supporting a total of 23 students, seven of whom are expected to graduate from their programs next year. Subsequent to quarter end, we entered a multi-year commitment at COBRE Panama, supporting community development and environmental initiatives led by Manera Panama, including education, workforce development, health infrastructure, reforestation, and marine conservation. We also renewed our commitment to Ensenia Peru's education initiative, which supports students and teachers across the ANCAS region of Peru in which Antamina is located. To conclude, with $4.8 billion in available capital and no debt, the company has amplified power to take advantage of a strong pipeline of deals. I'll now hand the call to Sandip.
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Great. Thanks, Paul. Good morning, everyone. As Paul mentioned, Franklin, Nevada reported strong financial results for third quarter 2026 after market closed yesterday. The quarter highlighted the strength of having the largest diversified portfolio in the industry, not just by asset, but also by commodity. Slightly weaker performance from some of our assets during the quarter was offset by receiving our initial geos from Cobre Panama related to the processing of stockpile ore by First Quantum. As well, we benefited from strong performance from the energy portfolio, which had a strong quarter with a significant increase in revenue over 2025. The performance during third quarter, combined with the strong performance for the first half of 2026, has resulted in record financial results year-to-date September 30th for revenue, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, and operating cash flow. As we turn to slide four, it provides an update on our guidance for the year. Based on the performance for the first nine months of the year and our projections for fourth quarter, we've narrowed our total geo-sold guidance range to 525,000 to 555,000. As part of our updated guidance, we've also narrowed the ranges for the individual segments, gold, silver, and PGMs. The guidance does include geos from Cobre Panama for the processing of stockpile ore, which we had not included in our original guidance back in March. We estimate being delivered approximately 10,000 geos from Cobre Panama in 2026. As you will see from the slide, we're expecting a significant increase in our diversified revenue, which has been a significant outperformer for us this year due to strong oil prices. The expected revenue from our diversified assets is now expected to be between $300 million and $330 million. On slide five, you'll see a summary of commodity prices for third quarter 2026 and 2025. Precious metal prices have increased year over year, with the average gold price higher by 24% and silver by 59% in the quarter, but are off the all-time highs which were reached in first quarter 2026. For diversified commodities with the continued conflict in the Middle East, the oil price continues to see a significant increase over prior year. The WTI price has been volatile over the last few months, but remains above $85 a barrel. As mentioned, energy revenues did benefit from this higher oil price, and we expect this to carry through the fourth quarter. Slide 6 provides an overview of our key financial results. The performance from our assets combined with stronger commodity prices over prior year resulted in an increase in revenue of 13%, adjusted EBITDA of 15%, and adjusted net income of 33%. Total GEO sold for the quarter were $130,435, compared to 138,772 in third quarter 2025. Precious metal geo sold in the quarter were just over 110,000, lower by 7% compared to prior year. Over 50% of total geo sold during the quarter were sourced directly from mines where precious metals are the primary commodity. For the quarter, we did receive strong contributions from South Arturo due to higher production from the open pit. The Valentine, as the mine continues to ramp up, and Casa Berardi, which is a new stream we entered into in 2026. Some assets which delivered less geos than prior year include Guadalupe, Antipakai and Cobre Panama. At Cobre Panama, although we did receive and sell 3,716 geos related to the processing of stockpile ore, you will recall that in prior year we had received approximately 11,000 geos related to the shipment of concentrates which had been on site at the time of the mine being closed. At Guadalupe, production was impacted due to heavy rainfall, which resulted in supply chain issues, preventing mining in high grade areas. And at Antipakai, deliveries were lower in third quarter due to timing of deliveries. Diversified geos sold were 19,531 for the quarter compared to 19,663 for prior year, despite diversified revenue being 29% higher year over year at 86.8 million. The slight decrease in GEOs was due to the impact of converting revenue to GEOs at a higher gold price. As you know, we are now converting to GEOs using fixed gold price of $4,500 per ounce. As you can see from the chart, total revenue increased 13% to $549.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA was 15% higher for the quarter at $493.9 million compared to $427.3 million in third quarter 2025. With respect to costs, we did have a decrease in cost of sales compared to prior year, as less stream ounces were delivered during the quarter. Cost of sales was $43.1 million versus $47.2 million last year, and depletion decreased to $78.6 million versus $87 million a year ago. Again, the decrease is due to low depletion being recorded for Cobre Panama and Antipokai. Finally, adjusted net income was higher by 33%. at $364.5 million or $1.89 per share. We did recognize a tax benefit during the quarter. We had previously recorded a tax expense related to the implementation of the qualified domestic minimum top-up tax in Barbados. As we were finalizing the calculation and returns this year, it became clear that the tax did not apply to us for 2024. As a result, we've reversed the expense of $32.8 million related to that year. Slide 7 highlights the continued diversification of the portfolio. 84% of our third quarter revenue was generated by precious metals with revenue being sourced 89% from the Americas. Candelaria was the only asset which generated more than 10% of revenue as we have one of the most diverse portfolios in the industry. Our business model continues to be very high margin business as shown on slide 8. The margin per geo has increased from $1,559 per geo in 2022 to just over $4,200 per geo in 2026, an increase of 2.7 times. As we turn to dividends on slide nine, the company continues to pay a quarterly dividend with $84.1 million being paid to shareholders during the quarter. 2026 was the 19th consecutive year we've increased the dividend with it currently being $1.76 per share annualized. And lastly, slide 10 highlights our available capital, as at September 30th, 2026, total available capital is $4.8 billion, comprised of $1.2 billion in cash, $2.25 billion with our credit facility, including the accordions, and $1.3 billion in liquid marketable securities. Also, after quarter ends, IAM Gold gave notice that it will be exercising its 50% buyback rate on the Cote Gross Margin Realty, We expect to receive approximately $525 million in early December. The company continues to be debt free and is well capitalized to continue to add good quality assets to the portfolio. And with that, I'll pass it over to Ines as management is happy to answer any questions.
Anas
Conference Operator
Of course. In this Q&A session, if you'd like to ask a question, please press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. If you'd like to withdraw your question, please press star then the number two. If you're joining us on the webcast, please submit your question through the Q&A section of the webcast platform. One moment, please. We'll compile the roster. The first question comes from Lawson Winder with Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Lawson Winder
Analyst, Bank of America
Yeah, thank you very much, operator. Good morning, Paul and Sandip, and thank you for today's update. The oil and gas performance was very remarkable in the quarter, and I guess I would ask just with respect to the increase in the diversified revenue guidance, How much of that is oil and gas? And then if you disaggregate that into the different components, how much is pricing? How much is just increased volumes on your unaffected property? And then how much of that would be related to an increase related to the royalty acquisition venture you guys have with Continental?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
So in terms of the increase in diversified revenue, Lawson, It's all energy. You know, the iron ore is, as you know, the iron ore price has retreated a little bit this year, so that will be flat year over year. So the increase in revenue, the significant increase in revenue is tied to energy. You are seeing some production increases on our lands, but the majority of that revenue increase is strictly price driven.
Lawson Winder
Analyst, Bank of America
Okay, that's very helpful. With Guadalupe, Palmoreo, This one is a tough one to model just given the variability of where mining takes place. Quarter to date, can you provide us with a little guidance on where you expect Q4 26 GEOs likely to trend relative to Q3 26 based on your knowledge of the mine plan?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Yeah, it's tough for us as well. And obviously they've had some issues this year just into lower grade zones as well as supply chain. Historically, Guadalupe has been a very strong performer in terms of what was expected has been delivered. For Q4, I would say between 8,000 to 9,000 geos is sort of the range that we'd expect.
Lawson Winder
Analyst, Bank of America
OK, great. Thank you for that. And then just finally, You made some pointed comments in the written part of the release on the pipeline. Could you maybe just provide us with a sense of the size of the pipeline in terms of number of deals you're seeing and the range of values? But where I'd be very keenly interested to understand the pipeline is just on the urgency or timeline associated with that. I mean, any color there would be very helpful.
Ian Campbell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Franco-Nevada
Thank you all for sitting here. I would say overall the pipeline is exceptionally vibrant. It's quite diverse in terms of size and type of deal. There are some more larger deals in the pipeline versus perhaps a year ago. But in terms of timeline, really hard to comment on that. I think we expect to be quite active over the next 12 months.
Lawson Winder
Analyst, Bank of America
Okay.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Thanks, Ian.
Conference Operator
Conference Operator
Thank you, Sandip. Thank you. Your next question comes from with CIBC.
Anas
Conference Operator
Please go ahead.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
Thanks, Paul, Sandip, and Ian. Congrats on a strong Q3. I know Paul usually don't do it, but I thank you for talking about the development pipeline that you have in your portfolio. You mentioned Discovery. You mentioned, you know, what's happening at Panmore and Dome. Could you maybe elaborate, you know, does that accrue directly to Franklin Nevada if they do get to that half a million ounces? You know, Discovery's even talking of maybe half a million ounces just coming from Dome, number one. And number two, you, you know, made an additional investment, $8 million investment into Paymaster. with Discovery and their acquisition. Could you maybe talk about the prospectivity of that new acquisition as well within Porcupine?
Paul Brink
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franco-Nevada
Thanks, Cosmos. We're very excited about everything that's happening at Porcupine. Ian was the guy who led that deal, so I'm going to pass it to him.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
Good job, Ian.
Ian Campbell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Franco-Nevada
Look, I would say... First of all, we're delighted to continue to work with Tony and the team at Discovery as they continue to enhance their holdings around Timmins. And so I think that's probably first and foremost. I think that is a very prospective piece of ground and you can see where it's located vis-a-vis some of the existing properties. Hard to, you know, in the broader context of everything that's going on there, handicap exactly when that might come in. But I would say it's certainly accretive and we're again very happy to be working with the team there.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
Great.
John Tumazos
President, John Tumazos Very Independent Research
Thanks, Ian.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
Maybe following on your growth pipeline here, Paul, one asset that you did not mention was Hiva Hosco. Could you remind us, you know, with your agreement with Orizon, if Hiva-Hosco is a part of it? I know Casa Barati was a main part. Is Hiva-Hosco a part of it? My understanding is that Orizon might be putting out a technical report on Hiva-Hosco fairly shortly. How do you view that?
Paul Brink
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franco-Nevada
Looking forward to that report, Cosmos. And yes, our interests do cover Hiva-Hosco. and so very interested to see if Air Force One is able to advance those deposits. Great.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
And then I guess the quarter featured a number of what I would call accounting intricacies. One was the reversal of the impairment at Kobe, Panama. Not a big deal, but it's just one nerdy accounting question. How did the $10.6 million Impairment Reversal. How was it calculated? Because if we're expecting 23,100 ounces of gold along with 2,065,000 ounces of silver, that's almost 30,000 ounces of gold, geos. At, say, $3,000 or $4,000 an ounce sort of margin on this, it would still net me almost $100 million in revenue or in cash flow. So why only 10.6?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Cosmos, the way the depletion calc works is you take what you paid for the asset originally, so the stream acquisition back in the day, and then you divide it by how many geos you expect over the life, and you come up with a depletion per geo. And so based on the 30,000 geos that we're expecting as part of the stockpile processing, just a mathematical calculation.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
Okay. So I guess based on that calculation, Sandip, you likely won't expect any more reversals just yet based on the information today.
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Correct. So we did the impairment reversal for the full stockpile processing GEOs that we expect to receive. So the next impairment reversal would be if Cobre Panama restarts and we would have a reversal at that time. Great.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
And maybe one last question, you know, after the quarter, as you mentioned, IAM Gold exercised their right to buy back the Cote or half of the Cote royalty. Was that expected, especially, I guess, on timing? And I guess in the MD&A, you also mentioned that at least $525 million of the initial investment or acquisition price will be received. Why at least? Could it be higher than 525? Could you remind us?
Paul Brink
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franco-Nevada
So Cosmos Fall, the first is yes. It was expected in that it makes a ton of sense that IAMGOLD is doing this. They've had great success with the drilling around the deposits. It's going to be bigger than we both expected at the time we did that deal. Second, obviously, gold prices performed well. I can fully understand why it is that they're exercising that buyback. We were very happy to provide it to them. You'll recall when we did that deal, they gave us access to due diligence and that really is what allowed us to secure the interest that we have in the deposit. In terms of the buyback returns, we The way it was structured, we would get a minimum of 10% return, but it could be a bit higher depending on any payments that happened in the interim. And so as there's still some payments that are due, I think that's what gives you the variability in it that may be slightly higher. It's not materially higher, but we won't know until the final payment's written.
Cosmos Chiu
Managing Director and Precious Metals Analyst, CIBC
Got it. Great. Thanks, Paul, Sandip, and Ian for answering all my questions. That's all I have. Thank you.
Anas
Conference Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from Tanya Jakuskonek with Scotiabank. Please go ahead.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Oh, great. Thank you for taking my question. Some have been answered. Just maybe finishing up on Cobrai Panama. I just want to make sure you have one-third of the ounces coming in this year. And is the two-thirds coming in in the first half of 27, Sandip? Is that how I should be thinking of it?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Yeah, so Tanya, you know, our estimates around 27 to 28,000. And so right now we're estimating about 10,000. We're a little ahead in Q3 than we expected. So 10,000 with the balance in 2027, likely over the first two quarters of next year.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Okay. Thank you for that. And then once the mine reopens, I understood that that's when you could reverse your write down on the entire, would it be the entire value that you took?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Yeah, in all likelihood, it would be the full reversal of the outstanding balance.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Okay. I wanted to come back to, you've got a lot of money, building a lot of cash. How should I be thinking about the dividend in January? You have a progressive dividend, but bearing any transactions, and I'll get to the transactions with Ian, but we're building a lot of cash. So how should I be thinking about the dividend in terms of, you know, that, you know, above the average that you've been doing?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Yeah, so Tanya, it's a decision we sit down with the board every year in January and we look at, you know, what's the cash on the balance sheet, what's in front of us in terms of the deal pipeline. As Ian has highlighted, it's very active and we make a decision at that point. As you know, our philosophy has always been Thank you for joining us.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Okay, maybe just thinking then about 2027 and that's before getting to Eaun on the transaction side. You know, there's some assets that are going to be contributing. I just want to make sure, you know, bearing, you know, the pricing that's going to be used and that we'll know early next year, but I just, I'm trying to get a handle of how I see my GEOs progressing year on year. I just want to make sure that, you know, we have the production contributions So I just want to review with you. We have obviously SK Creek coming in and H1 of 27. Valentine is ramping up. I think Porcupine full year. Maybe you can go through some of them that are going to, you know, help us get that GEO number correct.
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Yes. So, Teddy, I think you've got the major changes there. Obviously, SK Creek, as you mentioned, Valentine ramping up. and then obviously the other piece will be energy prices if they remain at these elevated levels will contribute more geos next year than they did this year. So that's another element there. But overall, those are the moving pieces for next year. The one piece that obviously is going to come in next year is the Candelaria step-down.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Yeah, Candelaria step-down and then the Cote, right?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Right, and Cote coming back. And then we'll have a full year of Casa Berardi. This year, Casa Berardi was only for three quarters. So we'll have a full year this year.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Okay. If I put all of these in, hopefully I'll get the right number. And just finally on Ian, I mean, you mentioned that you have a lot of, you know, there's a lot of opportunities out there and some big, some small. Like, would your big opportunities be the one over a billion? and Ian are the smaller ones in that 200 to 500 range. I'm trying to understand the range on the precious metal side. And then I think the non-precious you had given was in the 200 to 500. I'm just trying to understand if that's still the case.
Ian Campbell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Franco-Nevada
Yes, Tanya, I think you're spot on in terms of the scale of opportunities for all the classes that you identified.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Okay. And then as you think about these opportunities, Are a lot of them still in Australia since that seems to be the new territory and sort of the opportunities that companies there now are open to doing streaming? Or should I be thinking about also, you know, obviously the bigger ones I'm assuming are the, you know, the diversified, you know, large international players?
Ian Campbell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Franco-Nevada
It's a great question, Tanya. I would say, first of all, we're very happy with the progress of the business in Australia. Obviously, the Minerals 260 transaction has really been a landmark transaction, we think, for gold developers. They are getting a lot more interest on the back of that. But my overall take on the market is it seems like we've had market growth year over year in terms of the number of opportunities in the overall quantum, both in terms of dollars to be deployed and geos potentially to add to the portfolio. So geographically, that breaks out globally. in North America, in Australia, incrementally potentially in Africa and Latin America. So I think you should expect a wide-ranging geographic assortment of deals. But I think the two big comments there are probably overall market growth and skewing towards larger transactions over time as well.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
And Ian, how should I be thinking of the deal structures? So the smaller ones, should I be thinking that those are more for The development opportunities, and so it would be a package of like a stream plus equity plus debt financing, whereas the larger ones with the multinational, they just want cash. Should I be thinking of it in that way for the structures of these deals?
Ian Campbell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Franco-Nevada
I think broadly speaking, yes. We're very happy with our financial backer strategies, what we call it. and you've seen that with groups like Discovery and G-Mint where we've worked across the capital structure and provided some pretty great results for the shareholders of the company that we're working with and of course for Franklin Nevada shareholders. So we'll continue to emphasize that as much as we possibly can as it's been generating some quite impressive returns.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Okay, and then my final question just, you know, Paul mentioned a lot of the, thanks Paul for talking about exploration in the and the streaming company. Sometimes we forget the upside that you have on your property. Given that Paul's comment, is anything I should take from that in the context of changing the structure of your deals in terms of adding above and beyond, like anything more that you could add on the land package in terms of being able to include all of these additional potentials?
Conference Operator
Conference Operator
You know, I don't think it changes anything for us, Tanya.
Paul Brink
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franco-Nevada
We like the structure of our business with both the stream deals and the royalty deals that we've been able to do. I think that gives us the broadest number of avenues that we can get deals done by. And as you go through the cycles, you have different opportunities in this cycle. The way you've got both the gold and the copper producers producing great cash flow, that turns into capital that gets spent in the ground and while it benefits our streams, some of the most exciting developments are on those royalty properties as you can hear. So delighted to have both streams and royalties in our portfolio.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
And I'm just thinking more on the land position, like as you think about these deals, like can you extend more like You know, add more land than you usually have in your other contracts.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Capture all of these, you know, potential, the upside potential just from drilling longer term.
Paul Brink
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franco-Nevada
I wouldn't say it's a general trend. You know, usually the property position is the property position. You know, with the strategy we've been following in recent years, which is, you know, build our partnerships. We're trying to find that balance that our model is a win-win model. I think the deal with Discovery is a great indication where there is potential for them to expand their sphere of influence. We're pleased that they're working with us to help finance that acquisition and gives them added exposure and us added exposure.
Ian Campbell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Franco-Nevada
The other one, Tanya, would be Minerals 260, which you probably noticed we added to the land position pretty meaningfully with the second transaction. And from our perspective, it is very important as we structure new transactions to have that type of optionality. And that is, of course, reflected in how we price and structure deals.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Yeah, and that's what I was alluding to as I saw that and thought that maybe because of what Paul had been saying on exploration, all of the new deals now are going to have more land position structure to it.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Anyways, we can take it offline. It's okay. Thank you.
Anas
Conference Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from Jack Baxter with Bloomberg Intelligence. Please go ahead, Jack.
Jack Baxter
Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
Hi, thank you, Paul. Thank you, Sandip and Ian. I just wanted to look at the, and it's probably asked in a lot of these calls, but I'll just ask it again, on the $112 million bullion inventory, which I know you've said in the past the timing of those sales depends on pricing and liquidity needs, but maybe following on from what Tanya said, balance sheet is very strong. So I'm just wondering what is the motivation for holding that bullion as opposed to monetizing it when it's received?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Hi, Jack. So we receive that bullion inventory on the balance sheet relates predominantly to our royalty interest where we do receive ounces in kind, so like detours, hasiest, and a few others. and we sell that on a regular basis so it'll fluctuate you know a few ounces each quarter depending upon how sales have been going and also obviously on the closing price at the end of the quarter but for the most part we're selling on a regular basis right now there's no intention on our part to build up that balance but yeah maybe just a follow-up then so just for accounting is it
Jack Baxter
Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
Is my understanding correct that as that bullion comes in with the royalties, you know, that's booked as revenue at that time with future gains on the sale, at the point of sale when you do eventually make it, then the gain is booked as further sales, is that correct?
Sandip Rana
Chief Financial Officer, Franco-Nevada
Yeah, so the way it works is when you receive the ounces, yes, you're correct, you book it as revenue and then as inventory And then when you sell it, any difference between what it's on your books for and what your actual sales price is, is a gain or loss. You'll see a line item on our income statement, gain loss on sale of bullion. I think it's $2.1 million for the year so far of a gain. That's where the difference will get recorded.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Got you. Thank you very much for that clarity.
Anas
Conference Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from John Tomases with John Tomases Independent Research. Please go ahead, John.
John Tumazos
President, John Tumazos Very Independent Research
Thank you. I'm trying to compare the prettiest girls at the dance. And Agnico at Detour West had a 499 gram meter hole that they released November 11th. I-80 at Mineral Point had a 426 gram meter hole that they released September 22nd. At Pam Moore, October 7, hole 138 was 219, and hole 263 was 216 gram meters. The one you referenced, Paul, is your favorite at Musselwhite 22, I just don't want to miss one of the pretty girls at the dance.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Thank you.
Conference Operator
Conference Operator
Thank you, John.
Anas
Conference Operator
Thank you, everyone. There are no further questions on the phone line. I will now turn the Q&A session over to Bonavie Tek, who will take questions from the webcast.
Bonavie Tek
Vice President, Investor Relations, Franco-Nevada
Thank you. There are no questions from the webcast, so this concludes our third quarter 2026 conference call and webcast. We expect to release our year-end 2026 results after market close on March 9, 2027, with a conference call held the following morning.
Tanya Jakusconek
Managing Director, Metals and Mining Research, Scotiabank
Thank you for your interest in Franco, Nevada.
Anas
Conference Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you for participating and ask that you please disconnect your lines.
Conference Operator
Conference Operator
Have a great day.