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Gold miner Agnico Eagle sells its 18% stake in Royal Road Minerals

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The Agnico Eagle Hope Bay gold mine is shown in Nunavut in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO Agnico Eagle, Mathieu Dupuis

TORONTO — Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. says it has sold its 18 per cent stake in Royal Road Minerals Ltd. for about $5.5 million.

The gold miner says it sold 47,944,981 shares in Royal Road at a price of 11.5 cents per share.

Agnico Eagle says it completed the sale in order to monetize its investment.

Royal Road has development projects in Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Colombia.

In a separate news release, Royal Road announced that Rio2 Ltd. has bought a 15 per cent stake in the company.

Rio2, which is developing the Fenix project in Chile, says it acquired the shares for investment purposes.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 29, 2025.