Operator

Hello, and welcome to the Elemental Royalty Corporation Quarterly Earnings Announcement. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to David Cole, CEO.?You may begin.

David Cole
CEO & Director

Yeah.?Thank you very much, and thanks to everybody for joining.?Particularly pleased to be here today representing this great company.?What a wonderful time to be in the mining business with these strong metal prices.?I've had a chance to reflect on that when I woke up this morning, and I was thinking about when I started my career, the mining industry was not very popular.?

We're in a situation today where there's been a paradigm shift, and I'm sure we've all seen this, of people recognizing the strong contribution that we make to society across the globe.?That is recognized in commodity prices, but it's also been recognized in the capital markets, where mining companies are starting to get the recognition that they deserve for their production. And more and more people are focused on understanding of strategic metals and base metals, et cetera.?We're in a particularly good situation to take advantage of that.?

Those of you that heard us speak before, you know that, you know, we understand that royalties are phenomenal financial instruments.?The value of mineral rights augments over time, and the best way to be exposed to that is through royalties, and specifically the optionality that the royalty instrument affords to us as the owner of that.?One way that we've done that and to create further portfolio effect as scale is rewarded