Company: AXREF
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001654954-25-008549
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Company: AMARC RESOURCES LTD
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
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 private vendor. The JOY property is subject to an underlying NSR royalty from production to a former owner, which is capped at $3.5 million.

On August 29, 2017, Amarc announced that it had concluded option agreements with each of Gold Fields Toodoggone Exploration Corporation (“ Gold Fields”) and Cascadero Copper Corporation (“ Cascadero”), which at that time held the PINE property in a 51%:49% joint venture that enabled Amarc to purchase 100% of the property. On December 31, 2018, Amarc completed the purchase of Cascadero’s 49% interest in the PINE Property. Further on December 9, 2019, Amarc announced that it had reached an agreement with Gold Fields to amend the option agreement between the parties and purchased outright the remaining 51% of the PINE property from Gold Fields.

Gold Fields retains a 2.5% NPI royalty on mineral claims comprising about 96% of the PINE property and a 1% NSR royalty on the balance of the claims. The NPI royalty can be reduced to 1.25% at any time through the payment to Gold Fields of $2.5 million in cash or shares. The NSR royalty can be reduced to 0.50% through the payment to Gold Fields of $2.5 million in cash or shares.

The PINE property is subject to a 3% underlying NSR royalty payable from production to a former owner and capped at $5 million payable from production.

In November 2019, Amarc entered into a purchase agreement with two prospectors to acquire 100% of a single mineral claim, called the Paula property, located internal to the wider JOY project tenure. The claim is subject to a 1% NSR royalty payable from commercial production that is capped at $0.5 million.

Agreement with Freeport

On May 12, 2021, Amarc announced it entered into an agreement with Freeport pursuant to which Freeport may acquire, through a staged two-stage option up to a 70% ownership interest in the mineral claims comprising the JOY District, plus other rights and interests, over up to a 10-year period.

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To earn an initial 60% interest, Freeport is required to fund $35 million of work expenditures over a 5-year term. During the first year of the earn-in, a $4 million work program is required in