Why Silver Wheaton’s Business Is More Than Just Silver Streaming

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Silver Wheaton, the largest player in the precious metal streaming space, has considerably diversified its business over the years. From primarily being a silver streaming focused company five years ago, Silver Wheaton has considerably increased its portfolio of gold streaming agreements. The signing of several gold streaming deals, particularly the company’s streaming agreement with Vale for gold produced at the Salobo copper mine, has significantly increased Silver Wheaton’s gold production. Silver Wheaton has twice amended its streaming agreement with Vale (including the amendment announced last month), boosting its share of gold production at Salobo from 25% to 75%. As a result of the enhanced gold production from Salobo and other gold streams, the share of gold streaming in the company’s overall revenue is expected to rise to nearly 45% by 2021 from only around 4% in 2011.

Diversification Of Revenue Stream

Check out our forecasts for gold shipments from the Salobo mine:

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Notes:

1) The purpose of these analyses is to help readers focus on a few important things. We hope such lean communication sparks thinking, and encourages readers to comment and ask questions on the comment section, or email content@trefis.com
2) Figures mentioned are approximate values to help our readers remember the key concepts more intuitively. For precise figures, please refer to our complete analysis for Silver Wheaton

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