Altius holds a significant equity stake in Millrock Resources Inc., a
project-generation focused exploration company active in Alaska and Arizona.
Millrock has a number of active earn-in option agreements with major mining
companies like Vale, Kinross Gold, Inmet Mining, Valdez Gold and Teck American
validating Altius’ overall investment rationale in the company. Altius’ primary
objective at the time of investment in June 2009 was to finance an exploration
alliance to identify and explore highly prospective areas of the Kahiltna
Terrane for large copper-gold deposits like the giant Pebble deposit.
This uniquely structured alliance was mutually improved in June 2010 to
streamline the joint-venturing process and better attract earn-in partners. The
amendment was strategic for Altius by increasing a royalty provision in favour
of Altius to 2 per cent on gold and 1 per cent on other commodities pertaining
to all properties staked within the alliance's defined area of interest.
Effectively a straight line path to royalty creation in an emerging world class
copper-gold district.
As part of the agreement restructuring Altius also agreed to increase its share
ownership by exercise of warrants it held for the purchase of 4,227,223 Millrock
common shares at a total cost of approximately $1.27-million. In exchange for
the early exercise, Millrock issued new warrants for the purchase of 3.45
million common shares at a price of 45 cents per share for a period of five
years. Altius currently owns 4,776,546 common shares of Millrock, a 7.2%
interest on an undiluted basis.