Nations Royalty is seeking to become a top global royalty company, focused on Indigenous-owned royalties on precious metals and other natural resources assets. It was founded by the Nisga’a Nation from northwest British Columbia, Canada and Frank Giustra, a renowned mining entrepreneur, who co-founded Wheaton Precious Metals.
Nations Royalty is the first majority Indigenous-owned publicly traded company in Canada, and the idea was born from the multigenerational family ties that Rob McLeod, Nations Royalty’s founding CEO, has with the Nisga’a Nation and its leadership. Over dinner one evening, the conversation turned to the Nisga’a Nation royalty portfolio, and Rob saw the immense potential, which led to a formal valuation of those assets. And the rest as we say is history…
Rob McLeod’s deep ties with the Nisga’a Nation sparked the idea that the Nisga’a Nation royalty portfolio on assets including Newmont’s Brucejack mine, Ascot’s Premier and Red Mountain mines, Seabridge Gold’s KSM project, and New Moly’s Kitsault project in the Golden Triangle of northwest British Columbia, Canada could be the start to a strong royalty company. Nisga’a Nation leadership agreed these assets were a good foundation for a new publicly traded mining royalty company.
The vision to grow this royalty portfolio by pooling Indigenous royalties negotiated in Benefit Agreements from across Canada was taken to mining financier and philanthropist Frank Giustra, co-founder of Wheaton Precious Metals, one of the most successful mining royalty companies in the world valued at over C$40B (as of February 2025). With Frank’s backing, the Nisga’a Nation transferred all five of their royalties in exchange for shares in Nations Royalty marking the beginning of a unique and powerful investment model.
Nations Royalty looked towards growth and obtained a proprietary database of hundreds of separate Benefit Agreement payments representing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cash payments to Indigenous groups on some of Canada’s best natural resource assets. As the only majority Indigenous–owned, managed and governed royalty company, Nations Royalty allows Indigenous wealth to stay in Indigenous hands while creating the diversification, stability, and higher valuation potential that royalty companies are known for.
Nations Royalty looks to unite Indigenous peoples from across Canada by combining their collective financial strengths into a single company. The value we can unlock accelerates economic reconciliation by giving Indigenous groups the financial strength to achieve their strategic goals while giving investors access to a high quality royalty portfolio creating the Indigenous wealth generator of choice.
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