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Q2 2016 Earnings Call· Thu, Aug 11, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Welcome to Silver Wheaton's 2016 Second Quarter Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a short presentation, relating to the recent transactions, followed by a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. I would like to remind everyone that this conference call is being recorded on Thursday, August 11 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Patrick Drouin, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Patrick Drouin

Analyst

Thank you, operator. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and thank you for participating in today's call. I am joined today by Randy Smallwood, Silver Wheaton's President and Chief Executive Officer; Gary Brown, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Haytham Hodaly, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development. I would like to bring to your attention that some of the commentary on today's call may contain forward-looking statements. There can be no assurances that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. In addition to our financial results' cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to the section entitled, Description of the Business Risk Factors in Silver Wheaton's annual information form and the risks identified under Risks and Uncertainties in Management's Discussion and Analysis both available on SEDAR and in Silver Wheaton's Form 40-F and Silver Wheaton's Form-6K, both on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The annual information form, Q2 2016 Management's Discussion and Analysis and press release from last night, set out the material assumptions and risks that could cause actual results to differ, including among others fluctuation in the price of commodities, the outcome of the challenge by the CRA of Silver Wheaton's tax filings, the absence of control over mining operations from which Silver Wheaton purchases silver or gold and risks related to such mining operations. It should be noted that all figures referred to on today's call are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. Lastly, I would like to point out, that we will be referring to the slide presentation currently found on Silver Wheaton's homepage titled Salobo Transaction Presentation towards the end of this call, which also includes forward-looking information. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Randy Smallwood, our President and Chief Executive Officer.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you, Patrick and good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for dialing into our conference call to discuss our second quarter 2016 results. I am pleased to announce that Silver Wheaton delivered yet another solid quarter led by strong results from Salobo and our newest cornerstone asset, Antamina. In the second quarter, we produced 7.6 million ounces of silver and over 70,000 ounces of gold, and from a sales perspective, we sold over 7 million ounces of silver and over 70,000 ounces of gold. This does represent record gold sales volumes for the second consecutive quarter. This quarter exemplifies the value of having a diversified portfolio backed by four cornerstone assets, all providing a secure foundation for the company, shortfalls from San Dimas and the Peñasquito mines were offset by strong performances from the Salobo and Antamina mines. With respect to Salobo, we are very excited to have added an additional 25% of the gold coming from this cornerstone asset just last week. I will discuss this acquisition in more detail at the end of this call. For the second quarter of 2016, quarterly silver production increased by 5% and gold production increased by 40% from the previous year. Silver sales volumes increased by 28% and gold sales volumes increased by 16%. And for the first time in a while, I am pleased to report that our average realized sale prices for silver and gold are actually up year-over-year, with silver and gold prices up 5% and 6% respectively. As a result, Silver Wheaton's revenue increased by 29%, net earnings were up 12% and operating cash flows increased 23% compared to the second quarter of 2015. With the increase in commodity prices, our cash operating margins for silver and gold were strong at around 70%, resulting in operating cash…

Gary Brown

Analyst

Thank you, Randy and good morning ladies and gentlemen. Prior to reviewing Silver Wheaton's unaudited financial results for the three months June 30, 2016, I'd like to remind everyone that all monetary figures discussed are denominated in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise noted. In addition, all prior year comparisons that are referenced are to the second quarter of 2015, unless otherwise noted. The company's precious metals interests produced 7.6 million ounces of silver and 70,200 ounces of gold in the second quarter of 2016. With respect to silver, this represented an increase of 5% relative to the prior year, with production from the recently acquired Antamina stream, being largely offset by decreased production from San Dimas and Peñasquito. Gold production increased 40% relative to the prior year, with increases being observed from all of the company's gold interests. Sales volumes amounted to 7.1 million ounces of silver and 70,800 ounces of gold in Q2 2016, representing a 28% increase for silver and a 16% increase for gold relative to the prior year. As of June 30, 2016, approximately 2.6 million payable silver ounces and 28,500 ounces of gold had been produced but not yet delivered to the company, representing a decrease during the quarter of approximately 400,000 ounces of silver and 5,200 ounces of gold. It is important to remember that we estimate a normal level per ounces produced but not delivered, to approximately two months worth of payable production. As a result, our expectation is that, this balance will grow over the remainder of 2016, with production being more heavily weighted towards the latter half of the year. Revenue for the second quarter of 2016 amounted to $212 million, representing a 29% increase from 2015, due to the increased sales volumes combined with average selling prices increasing by approximately 5%…

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you, Gary. We will now move on to a discussion of the recent Salobo transaction, and as Patrick noted at the beginning of this call, I will be referencing a slide presentation that's currently found on Silver Wheaton's home webpage, it's titled 2016 Salobo Transaction Presentation. So I will be referencing page numbers, as we turn through this presentation itself. And I am going to start off with slide number 3; basically, Salobo -- one of the huge attraction to this is of course the immediate cash flow, and expanding on a good strong asset for us, but definitely accretive on all metrics. Strong enhancement of the production growth profile by adding another 50% of production or increasing our production from Salobo by 50% from 50 to 75. So Salobo gold production is now expected to average about 300,000 ounces per year between 2016 and 2020, and so with that, we get 75% of that total production. Very-very strong asset, good cornerstone foundation for our company. This asset is, I would argue, probably the best quality asset in our portfolio, so it's definitely high quality ounces coming into this portfolio, and definitely, lots of exploration and expansion potential on this asset. Terms of the deal are summarized -- and were summarized by Gary. But just to reiterate, $800 million in cash paid upon closing and an adjustment to the warrants that were previously issued on the very first transaction on Salobo. In addition, there is some adjustments to the payments, if Vale decides to move forward with an expansion of the asset, and those range anywhere between $113 million to $953 million depending on both the scale and the size of the -- the scale and the timing of the actual expansion. The entire 75% is now guaranteed by Vale SA and by Salobo Metais, which is the direct mine owner of Salobo, and it does, as I said, apply to the entire stream and then production payments were also the acceleration or the inflation accelerator, was extended to January 1 of 2019, and that was adjusted for the entire 75%. All in all, good strong terms and very happy with that. The balance sheet itself, as you can see --

Gary Brown

Analyst

Sorry, I am on page 5, we are just going to talk briefly about the financing of the acquisition. As previously stated, the company will fund the upfront payment related to the stream, primarily by drawing down on the $2 billion revolving facility. At June 30, 2016, the company was in a net debt position of $582 million. Following the closing of this transaction, the company would be in a net debt position of just under $1.4 billion. And we are very comfortable with this level of debt for a number of reasons; first, it is important to remember how attractive a form of capital this is, costing us just over 2% per year currently. Secondly, at current commodity prices, our high quality portfolio of streaming assets, should generate close to $700 million of operating cash flow annually, and as can be seen from the next slide, on slide 6, we can easily comply with financial covenants underlying our revolving credit facility, which has a current maturity date of February 27, 2021. The first covenant requires that we maintain a net debt to tangible net worth ratio less than 0.75. And as can be seen from the graph, after paying for Salobo III, we are far below this level. The only other financial covenant requires that we maintain a minimum interest coverage ratio of greater than three times. Again, on a pro forma basis, we expect this ratio to be far above the required level. So in summary, we are very comfortable financing this acquisition with debt and do not anticipate raising any additional capital in conjunction with this transaction.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you, Gary. If you turn to slide 7; as you can see, all the way across the board here, significant increases in forecast cash flow reserves and resources and ultimately production. So this is -- definitely, it adds over 10% to our production and cash flows over the next 10 and 20 years, and almost 12% to our total reserves. In fact, on the gold reserves and resources, as you can see, a 37% climb in gold reserve ounces, and strong increases also in the measured and indicated and inferred resources. So we now have 12 million ounces of gold reserves within Silver Wheaton, as a total. Slide 9 highlights the position of Salobo during the 2016 operating year. I want to highlight that this is during 2016, when they are still finishing off the ramping up of the second mine, and so we expect these costs to even further improve and push these assets further down this cost curve itself. So a good strong high quality asset. As I mentioned earlier, one of the strongest in our portfolio. One of the reasons I am most excited about Salobo, is the exploration potential. On slide 10, we have got a cross section here, that shows some gravity, some deep gravity surveys that Vale completed recently. And as we have said before, this deposit was only drilled off to about a billion tons and then Vale decided to move this asset forward. And so there is still plenty of potential for this asset to grow beyond the current reserves and resources itself. We look forward to Vale moving in the drills, hopefully sometime soon, to try and ultimately define the full ore body on this, when we do think there is excellent exploration potential at Salobo itself. And with that…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Dan Rollins with RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Dan Rollins

Analyst

Yeah, thanks very much and nice to see you guys do another good deal on Salobo. Randy, I was wondering if you could touch base? We have seen the equity markets improve here, we have seen a number of the larger diversifieds start to short their balance sheets or beginning that process. Where do you see the opportunity pipeline right now? Do we see anything in the $1 billion range, or are we now looking at the $200 million to $400 million range, as a more realistic sort of target market for you guys?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Yeah. Thanks Dan and good morning. The market out there has definitely -- there is not a lot of larger opportunities out there right now. We do see plenty of opportunities, but most of them are below $500 million. I would say, probably not too far of that $200 million to $400 million as a range. That's probably, I am going to say 90% or 95% of what we are looking is down in that range in terms of scale. And so, something that we are more than comfortable in working in, with respect to our current capacity and the cash flows that we have coming in, we think we are well positioned to work with that.

Dan Rollins

Analyst

And of that sort -- not to put exact numbers, but percentage wise, how many of those opportunities would fit your criteria to be in the first or second quartile cost curves with decent sized mine lives?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

I mean, if I was going to put some, and these are very loose numbers out there, but I probably see anywhere between $2 billion to $3 billion in streaming opportunities out there. But I think we'd only be interested in about half of that. The rest of them represent higher cost or higher risk assets, political risk jurisdictions, stuff like this, and we'd be a little bit hesitant to move into that space. So probably about half of that, all told, but that's all varying stages, that's stuff that will probably crystallize over the next 12 to 18 months.

Dan Rollins

Analyst

Okay. And then just of that percentage, would you say there -- a majority of those are still producing assets, or are you now starting to see some interesting development opportunities?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

I have to tell you Dan, we haven't seen a development asset for a long time. There is a few out there, but it's one of the reasons that I am so bullish about where we are going in this space, because without investing back into the ground, that just puts supply side pressure under the commodity prices themselves. And so, most of what we are looking at is still balance sheet repair. It's still strengthening of balance sheets to pay for pass. We are not seeing money get put into the ground yet, and until we start seeing that, we are going to continue to see supply side pressure on commodity prices.

Dan Rollins

Analyst

Okay, perfect. And then just one second question, and I always like to ask it with you guys, given you are generating significant amount of free cash flow now, especially at these prices. And if we do see prices move higher, when do you expect to may be start to do a blend of growth plus a dividend growth strategy in the company? As we go through the cycle and the last cycle, you are very hesitant to do deals at the top of the market and you use all that cash to basically cash the original Salobo and Sudbury deals. But are we six months out, are we a year out before we start to see that cash flow levels -- cash flow paid out as a dividend start to creep higher?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Well I think the driving factor there -- I mean, first off, important to highlight the fact that, because our dividend is linked to production and therefore, also linked to commodity prices. We will see some growth in our dividends, just by virtue of the higher prices. This quarter was at $0.05, but I can tell you, there is upward pressure on that dividend, and I fully expect, if commodity prices stay where they are, we will see some just natural growth, just by the fact that it is directly linked to our cash flows, and our cash flows are climbing. If there is opportunities in front of us, that are reasonably priced, then we are -- our principal focus is to try and take advantage of those opportunities. But as commodity prices climb, some of those opportunities become a bit too expensive, and that's the point that we start shifting more towards the dividend side. If we go back, that's when we actually implemented the last bump-up in our dividend policy was during the peak of the commodity price cycles, when it didn't make sense for us to put money into the ground. We don't like buying at the top of the cycle, our preference is to try and make acquisitions near the bottom of the commodity price cycle. So really what drives that, is what happens with commodity prices. If we see real strength in silver and gold prices over the next six months to a year, then it's going to make it tougher for us to close new acquisitions, but that's the point that we start looking at our cash flows and start contemplating increasing the dividend and moving forward. So it's really driven by commodity prices in terms of how that goes, but I do want to highlight, the fact that we do have a linked dividend that ties to our cash flows, there will be upward movement, as long as commodity prices keep their current trends there, there will be upward movement in our dividends.

Dan Rollins

Analyst

All right. Thanks very much and enjoy your weekends that are coming up.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you, Dan. Good talking to you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from John Flanagan from Fundamental Equities. Your line is open.

John Flanagan

Analyst

Gary, including the recent offering, what's the total common share count now?

Gary Brown

Analyst

Its disclosed in our MD&A. it is about $440 million common shares.

John Flanagan

Analyst

Gary, how would that compare with four, five years back, in terms of total additional equity that you have sold? Where I am going is, are you confident that the ROE in that has been acceptable?

Gary Brown

Analyst

I think if you look at the cash flow and earnings per share growth that we have had over that period, I think you'd -- its hard to say, it wouldn't be acceptable. We have only done two equity financings over that period, one was back in 2009 and then we did one earlier this year, and we funded over -- about $5 billion of acquisitions primarily using cash flow from operations. So we are very happy with the way that we have executed on our growth strategy.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

John, it's Randy here. To just highlight, about not even -- about $1.5 billion in financings and over $5 billion in acquisitions, and when you look at the results compared, as you say, the last four or five years, there has been downward pressure on the commodity prices. What we have delivered over that period, I think has definitely set us up very well for what we see here in the future.

John Flanagan

Analyst

Okay. Thanks a lot.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you, John.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Trevor Turnbull from Scotiabank. Your line is open.

Trevor Turnbull

Analyst

Hey, good morning Randy. I had a question with respect to the expansions you mentioned at Salobo. They have obviously cashed themselves up to a certain degree. You have still got the capital participation agreements that you mentioned, with respect to the scale and the timing of perhaps a third or even additional lines at Salobo. So now that they have kind of laid out what they would potentially do with a third line, do you have any sense of what they need to kind of make those decisions and what happens in terms of timing for them to actually -- to start moving ahead on the third line of Salobo?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Well they have got conceptual studies in place for this third line, and from my perspective, we think, one of the things that I think is probably a wise move on their part, would be to bring the drills in and try and fully define the ore body. To try and understand, what the real -- the full capacity of this ore body is. So there has been some discussions on their side in terms of bringing the drills in, it hasn't been finalized, but they are talking about doing that. In terms of any expansion, it's always good to have a relatively firm framework in terms of what you are working towards. With great exploration success, that third line may not be the last expansion potential, it may drive decision to even go larger than that in terms of expansion. So to me, one of the most important things that Vale could do, is actually get in there and fully define this ore body or try and show how much bigger the potential is on this ore body.

Trevor Turnbull

Analyst

Yeah, with the 50 year mine life, it seems a third line obviously makes a lot of sense going forward, but you are saying that in terms of layouts, you need to look even a bit further down the road, and perhaps with drilling, they can better assess what the full life of mine potential is?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

The capital participation agreement that we have with them, is a onetime event. And so they have to sort of make a decision in terms of how much support they want from Silver Wheaton, as to what the scale is. So that's a pretty factor, in terms of that. If they do a third phase, but then they see the potential for a fourth phase, they may want to hold off before exercising this capital participation rate, and wait for that fourth expansion, if that comes to play. So they have got to go through their process. This is still early stages, conceptual studies on their side, but as you said, with greater than 50 year mine life, it just begs for it, and especially with the operating margins; I mean, it's one of the reasons that we really put a lot of focus on the bottom half of the cost curve, when we are making investments. These are the assets that our partners are driven to reinvest into, and to try and expand and spend the exploration dollars on, because they are the ones, these assets are the ones that deliver the best profits back to their partners, to the operators. And so, this is a good example of Vale, which their focus right now of course, is finishing the S11D iron ore operations. But I can tell you, Salobo is just begging for some further investment on their side.

Trevor Turnbull

Analyst

Seems like it. Thanks Randy. That's all I had.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you, Trevor.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from John Tumazos from John Tumazos Very Independent Research. Your line is open.

John Tumazos

Analyst

Thank you. The previous question was exactly the one I wanted to ask. Thank you.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Hey, thanks John.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Cosmos Chiu from CIBC. Your line is open.

Cosmos Chiu

Analyst

Hi Randy, Gary, Patrick and team. Congrats on a good quarter. Just a few questions here Randy; you sort of touched on this, but could you maybe elaborate a little bit more in terms of how you have enhanced your security on the entire Salobo stream, and how that's different from what it used to be?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Yeah I am going to let Gary provide that detail.

Gary Brown

Analyst

Yeah Cosmos.

Cosmos Chiu

Analyst

Hi Gary.

Gary Brown

Analyst

Hi. In doing this third tranche relative to Salobo, on top of what we had normally obtained, which was a parent company guarantee, we also now have a guarantee from the company that owns the Salobo mine, and there are additional restrictive covenants around the indebtedness associated with that company to further protect this. Very similar to what we'd structured, relative to Antamina, and that structure, it's important to understand, applies to the entire 75% of the gold coming from Salobo.

Cosmos Chiu

Analyst

Great. And then maybe on Salobo as well, maybe also a question for Gary here; in terms of that expansion payment that you have talked about, the capital participation right to Salobo, how has that payment changed? If I were to have taken your old matrix and grossed it up to 75% ownership, would I get the numbers that are displayed today?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

No I mean -- its Randy here, when it comes to evaluating that matrix, its valued based on the context of the price of gold, at the time that we make those adjustments, right? And so it isn't just a direct multiplier up, its -- each agreement, there has been, this is Salobo III, this has been previous two, and they have all been priced in the context of the market that those deals were closed in. And so it's not a direct multiplier, its adjusted to reflect the value associated with each 25%, and then it's all accumulated together into the matrix itself.

Cosmos Chiu

Analyst

Got you. And maybe switching gears a little bit, certainly Sudbury had a very good Q2, and certainly had a very good first half of 2016. Is that indicative of the future sort of production potential at the asset?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

What we have always felt, Sudbury has got excellent upside potential. Vale, I mean, we really like having Vale as an operating partner, we think they do a very good job at operations. We also find that they are quite realistic, when it comes to what they expect to do, and their forecasting is something that we are comfortable working with. We do see some upside potential in Sudbury. We did when we made the original acquisition, back in 2013, and we see this as sort of weaving [ph] its way through. The focus in that camp, it’s a camp with a very-very long history, obviously Sudbury. But the focus in that camp has never been gold, it has always been nickel and copper and so on, and when we look at it, that's one of the reasons that we like going after non-core byproducts, is that we try and find some opportunity in these non-core byproducts, and I think Sudbury is a great example of that, where there hasn't been as much focus in that side, because Vale is a nickel and copper company in their Sudbury operations. So we do see that upside potential, and hopefully it continues. Yes.

Cosmos Chiu

Analyst

Of course. And maybe on Yauliyacu here; I noticed that the cost per ounce this past quarter was $8.74 per ounce. I think that stream was restructured late last year. Could you remind us again how that works, I guess, you know, and then there is a participation, right, whenever silver is higher than $20 an ounce. How does that work, is that based on the average price, that it could be over 20 -- if the average price in the quarter is over $20 an ounce, then that participation right kicks in. How does it work?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

So what we did with Yauliyacu, is it’s a Glencore owned asset in Peru. It has got well over 150 years of operating history, and so it has got a very-very extensive history. And we signed the original transaction there, back in 2006, and it had a 20 year term to it. So we came back and sat down with Glencore, and so we'd like to convert this to a life of mine agreement. This is an asset, a district that has shown the ability to continue to replace reserves and resources going forward. It’s a series of dominant structures that continue on to depth. It has got very good infrastructure, it's one of the key things is that water issues aren't a problem, they have got an excellent system set up there for managing ground waters, and so it does give very-very long term potential. And so, our interest was in converting it to a life-of-mine type agreement. We wanted to make this asset around, part of Silver Wheaton for a very long time. Their interest was to try and bring up their production payment on a per ounce basis, and help that move forward. So we came up with an agreement with Yauliyacu, that sort of -- it has a number of different triggers on it. I am not going to go into the detail here, but we'd be happy to provide it shortly. But it's basically a sharing thing that sort of incents them to continue moving the project forward, investing into the project, and we get the benefit of not only incentives during the next remaining 10 years of this contract or nine years of this contract, but we also now get the, call it, life of the mine contract, and it runs well beyond the original nine year term. So like all of our transactions, this is, in our eyes, a win-win. We gain because it's now converted to life of mine. We do think this is an asset that's going to be producing for a very long time. And for that, we pay a little bit to be able to do that type of a transaction and not put capital upfront, but to make it as part of the operating costs, is something that's very attractive to us. We have got better places to put our capital right now, in terms of doing that. If we can supply growth like that, without having to put capital upfront right now, that's also very attractive to us. So the costs have gone up, but that's how we are paying for the -- what I would call, the incredible extra potential we have got out of this mine now.

Cosmos Chiu

Analyst

Yes, of course. Thanks. That's all I have. Congrats again.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Okay. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Mike Jalonen from Bank of America. Your line is open.

Mike Jalonen

Analyst

Hey Randy and team. Just had a question, I guess it goes back to the mine tour there, Salobo, in May, which was a great tour, thanks again for organizing it.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you.

Mike Jalonen

Analyst

Production, 300,000 ounces, you guys expect between 16 and 20. But a question I wanted to ask you on the tour, was it a chance, because their presentation made by the mine staff didn't touch on it. But what would happen, if production of gold, post 2020, assuming it stays at 24 million tons a year?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

It holds pretty, relatively flat. I mean, I don't have that profile right in front of me here, but this is not an asset that has a lower grade. The ore body itself maintains pretty consistent grades all the way down. We don't see -- we are not chasing lower grade marginal material. Mike, you know, I have talked about certain assets also that have low grade materials, that tends to swing back and forth. Salobo is not one. It has got a very-very well defined grade base that is consistent, pretty well all the way down. So I wouldn't see that changing. I don't have the long term production profile here in front of me, but I would say, its right along the same lines.

Patrick Drouin

Analyst

Mike, this is Patrick here. It does, in the very tail end of the year, probably the last 10 or 11 years, it does drop down to the -- currently we are processing to stockpile material. Prior to that though, again, it's not far from the numbers with Randy -- we have in the news release.

Mike Jalonen

Analyst

So in other words, 2050 or something like that?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Well, that all depends what they find with the drilling. I tend to believe it will be farther out than that.

Mike Jalonen

Analyst

Maybe just one question on the cost curve; I assume their cash costs, since it's in copper, is net of byproduct [indiscernible]. Is that based on the gross revenue for gold, or is it based on what they receive for the stream?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

I believe what we reference here is the Woodmac cost curve, I am just sort of looking at it. And therefore, its down comparable to everything else, which wouldn't have the stream impact in it.

Mike Jalonen

Analyst

Okay. Okay. Well thank you.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you, Mike. Operator, one more question please.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Kaip from BMO. Your line is open.

Andrew Kaip

Analyst

Hi Randy. Congratulations on a good quarter.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thanks Andrew.

Andrew Kaip

Analyst

I am wondering if you can provide a bit of -- just a bit of detail on your other streams. In particular, what performed better this quarter, versus where you see it -- saw some of the streams that were lower than their quarterly run rate? You have got some fairly material streams in that other category, including Constancia. I am wondering if you can provide any more details in that regard?

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Yes sure. As I have mentioned, Antamina hit it out of the park again, three quarters in a row now. That was an asset, that we were pretty comfortable with. Its ability to outperform, and so we are quite happy with that acquisition. Constancia is doing relatively well. I don't have the exact details here on a numbers basis, but again, Hudbay doing relatively well on that asset moving forward. We have had some challenges on San Dimas, that has been pretty public. Primero has gone through a drive on the safety initiative, which we fully support in terms of Primero moving that forward, and that's impacted their production capacities down there, and so at that stage, they are moving their way forward. And Lagunas Norte is doing very well for us, on the Barrick side of course. That one does expire in a couple of years, unless Barrick decides to extend it. It is a compensation, one that we get for Pascua Lama being delayed. Minto is also doing relatively well. They are getting into some nice high grade in that -- I think it's called the Minto North zone. So it has actually done relatively well. Beyond that, I think most of the details will be in our quarterly report.

Andrew Kaip

Analyst

All right. Great. Thanks very much.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen that concludes the Q&A portion of today's conference call.

Randy Smallwood

Analyst

Thank you everyone for dialing in today. Just reinforcing, that Silver Wheaton is on track for another record year of production and sales here in 2016. We continue to believe, that Silver Wheaton offers the best option for gaining exposure to precious metals for a number of reasons. Firstly, we are 100% focused on precious metals, 100%. Secondly, we have strong tangible organic growth, as we have seen and delivered on. We have got a very strong and proven track record of making accretive acquisitions, the recent Salobo transaction really highlighted that; and finally, the optionality that we deliver to our shareholders, we measure it in ounces, not acres. We have got some very strong optionality with these higher commodity prices. We are pretty excited about some of the projects that may come into our production portfolio or production profile here, over the near term. So thank you again for dialing in today, and we do look forward to speaking with you all again very soon.

Operator

Operator

This concludes this conference call for today. Thank you for participating. Please disconnect your lines.