Featherstone is a distinctive player in the mining finance marketplace

Ten years ago it was hard to get anyone’s attention with a discovery of any base or precious metal. The common wisdom then was the future was being built with 1’s and 0’s – technology was both the foundation and fuel for what lay ahead. Now, just a decade later, technology is still important, but metals are being given the credit they are due. For instance, the collective public market valuation of gold equities has increased ten-fold to $400 billion. In 2009, there were over 1900 public financing of natural resource companies. Mining matters, and matters a lot.

Featherstone Capital has a unique combination of geological, corporate structuring, and financial engineering expertise. Using their own financial and intellectual capital, they focus on the development of high quality, mineral assets sourced from their extensive, world-wide contact base including senior and junior mining companies. Featherstone understands that successful development demands focus and experience in order to build a mining company that generates sustainable wealth over the long term.

Patient Diligence

Leveraging their extensive experience and success, the principals of Featherstone, Douglas Forster and Blayne Johnson are both diligent and patient investing their own financial, reputational and intellectual capital to build companies of real value.

A Differentiated Approach

It is the unique combination of geological expertise, corporate structuring and financial engineering that gives Featherstone a differentiated place in the crowded marketplace of mine development and mining finance. They have a proven track record and they understand what it takes to make a company an outstanding success in the capital markets.

Blayne and Doug have over half a century of combined finance and development experience in the mining sector. Having been through numerous cycles – bear and bull – they know how to generate significant wealth.

Success driven

Douglas Forster is a geologist, first and foremost. Having been focused on the mining sector for over 30 years, Doug’s name is connected with some of the largest mineral discoveries in Canada. Blayne Johnson excels at financial engineering. His ability to structure deals has involved him in many of the most successful mining plays over the last two decades. The combination of their skill sets and successful individual track records, puts them among the very top of mining company originators.

It is no one thing that will make a mining company successful. Decades of experience and success mean that Doug and Blayne know how to build the appropriate mix of mineral assets, management teams, capital and public market visibility to grow successful mining companies.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust, Novelist

FEATHERSTONE TIMELINE

  • 2002
  • Featherstone Capital founded by Douglas Forster and Blayne Johnson
  • March, 2006
  • Featherstone recruits management team and Board of Directors for Terrane Metals Corp.
  • April, 2006
  • Featherstone negotiates and closes the purchase of a 100% interest in the Mt. Milligan copper-gold deposit and a 51% interest in the Berg coppermolybdenum deposit from Goldcorp for $120 million
  • MAY 2007
  • Featherstone recruits management team and Board of Directors for Avanti Mining Inc.
  • AUGUST 2007
  • Avanti Mining Lists on the CNQ Exchange in Canada: $20 million market capitalization
  • July , 2010
  • Thompson Creek Metals Corp acquires Terrane Metals for $650 million