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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

14. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Ilovica Gold Stream Acquisition

As of June 30, 2018, the Company’s conditional funding schedule, of $163.75 million as part of its Ilovica gold stream acquisition in October 2014 remains subject to certain conditions.

Voisey’s Bay

The Company indirectly owns a royalty on the Voisey’s Bay mine in Newfoundland and Labrador owned by Vale Newfoundland & Labrador Limited (“VNL”).  The royalty is directly owned by the Labrador Nickel Royalty Limited Partnership (“LNRLP”), in which the Company’s wholly‑owned indirect subsidiary, Voisey’s Bay Holding Corporation, is the general partner and 90% owner.  The remaining 10% interest in LNRLP is owned by Altius Royalty Corporation, a company unrelated to Royal Gold.

On October 6, 2017, LNRLP filed a Fresh as Amended Statement of Claim amending the original October 16, 2009 Statement of Claim and amendments thereto made in December 2014, in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Trial Division against Vale Inco Limited, now known as Vale Canada Limited and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Vale Inco Atlantic Sales Limited and VNL, related to calculation of the NSR on the sale of concentrates, including nickel concentrates, from the Voisey’s Bay mine.  LNRLP asserts that the defendants have incorrectly calculated the NSR since production at Voisey’s Bay began in late 2005 and since defendants began processing Voisey’s Bay concentrates at the new Long Harbour processing facility, and that the defendants have breached their contractual duties of good faith in several ways.  LNRLP requests an order in respect of the correct calculation of future payments, and unspecified damages for non-payment and underpayment of past royalties to the date of the claim, together with additional damages until the date of trial, interest, costs and other damages.  Trial is expected to commence in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.