First-Mover Advantage and Royalty Partnerships

Interview with Peter Bures, Chairman & CEO, and Michael Gentile, Strategic Advisor, of Silver Crown Royalties

Recording date: 18th October 2026

Silver Crown Royalties (CBOE:SCRI | OTCQX:SLCRF) is a silver-only royalty company built around byproduct silver that does not appear in resource or reserve statements. Many gold and copper mines produce modest silver volumes. Operators are paid for that silver at the refinery but have never reported it, often because the mines predate post-Bre-X disclosure standards or because the amounts are too small to justify qualified-person sign-off. Without a reported resource, no royalty can be bought on those ounces. Silver Crown’s approach is to create them.

The process starts with the operator’s refinery and metals-trader statements, reviewed under NDA. They give a payable silver-to-gold ratio grounded in actual sales. The company prefers producing mines and restarts, where that history exists. A transaction now under evaluation, and not yet signed, shows the structure. A mine with a 2:1 silver-to-gold ratio producing 15,000-20,000 oz of gold implies 30,000-40,000 oz of silver, and Silver Crown would seek a 30,000 oz annual minimum. Strategic Advisor Michael Gentile said the contracts are take-or-pay, so gold revenue covers the obligation if silver output dips. The company’s presentation adds staged investments and registration on title, and puts the royalty’s impact at about 2% of project revenue.

The operator’s motivation is valuation. CEO Peter Bures said producers trade at 1-2x sales while royalty companies trade at 20-25x. Gentile framed it in NAV terms: smaller producers trade near 0.4x NAV, Silver Crown near 1x, and Franco-Nevada at 2x. A producer selling silver to Silver Crown crystallizes value on a sliver of revenue at a far higher multiple. Producers can take cash or shares. Bures said counterparties that took equity saw $1M nameplate deals grow to $3-4M in market value as the stock re-rated.

Cost of capital is the constraint Gentile says he helps address. He had long avoided junior royalty companies because their discounted shares make acquisitions dilutive and the majors outbid them for quality assets. Silver Crown avoids that auction by originating its own royalties. Gentile likened the setup to Franco-Nevada in the 1980s, financing at about 5% and writing 25% IRR deals with little competition. Bures said cash flow turned positive in the second quarter of 2026 and credited Gentile’s investment with the share re-rating.

Silver Crown Royalties lists 6 closed royalties across Canada, Peru, Brazil and Ecuador. It also cites a combined pipeline IRR above 25% and more than 10 active discussions at any time. The company estimates 2026 deliveries of 42,888-61,888 oz versus about 22,000 oz in 2025, and targets a first dividend in 2026.

Bures expects 25% average returns to attract competitors eventually. He argued no royalty company under $1B market cap is creating new royalties today. He is also discussing parallel royalties with larger peers, splitting metals in the same orebody, though nothing is signed.

The main risks are scale, counterparty performance, dependence on private data, silver price exposure and dilution from equity-paid deals and warrants. Near-term markers are the 30,000 oz transaction closing, delivery growth against the 2026 estimate, and any signed partnership.

View Silver Crown Royalties' company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/silver-crown-royalties

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