{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Company Interviews","title":"Arc Mineral Royalties (TSXV:ARO) - Proven Team Returns for Low-Cost Gold and Iron Ore Royalties","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1493,"description":"Interview with Adam Davidson, CEO of Arc Mineral Royalties\nRecording date: 27th October 2026\nArc Mineral Royalties (TSXV:ARO) is a newly listed royalty company built around a specific origination advantage. Chief Executive Officer Adam Davidson and his team previously built Trident Royalties from a shell company into a cash takeover of roughly US$200 million in about four years. Over that period Trident completed 15 transactions and its share price rose 3.1 times to the takeover price, according to Arc's corporate presentation.\nAt Arc, the team has paired that experience with Karri Capital Partners, an Australian group whose principals helped build companies including Bellevue Gold, FireFly Metals and Andean Silver. Davidson said Karri owns just under 25% of Arc. The partnership's logic is straightforward. Karri's principals concluded that, had they retained royalties on their earlier projects, they would now hold a highly valuable portfolio. Arc is the vehicle for retaining those royalties on future Karri projects, with Arc's team managing terms and execution.\nThe first royalty shows the model at work. Arc paid A$5 million for a 1% NSR over the Mt Henry Gold Project in Western Australia, operated by Sinclair Gold. Davidson said the terms were well below market and the royalty was never offered to other buyers. Mt Henry is a past-producing brownfields project with granted mining licences. Sinclair Gold began a 50,000-metre drill programme after acquiring the project in February 2026. Its September 2026 interim resource stood at 1.3Moz at 1.2 g/T gold Measured and Indicated plus 0.5Moz Inferred, with only around 41% of the planned metres included. Davidson said Arc's internal work points to about 2.5Moz to 3Moz after the current programme. Once the resource exceeds 2Moz, Arc can buy a second 1% for A$10 million, which Davidson said Arc would fund with new capital and would not decline.\nThe second royalty came at nominal cost. Arc took delivery of a 0.5% gross...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1wv-MFlQAgnm-ca64e5kK4984dZB0os8-HJdRVsI74M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEzNTcyLzE2MjM5/NTQyMDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}