"After a second record-setting deal in less than two weeks, there is no doubt that mining royalty and streaming companies have entered the big leagues.

On Monday, Franco-Nevada Corp. unveiled the biggest deal in the history of the sector, a US$1-billion stream financing for Inmet Mining Corp.’s Cobre Panama project. That broke the prior record that was set earlier this month, when Silver Wheaton Corp. did a US$750-million deal with HudBay Minerals Inc." .......

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/20/franco-nevada-backs-inmets-panama-project-with-1-billion-funding/