{"id":10976,"date":"2023-11-21T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:21:06","slug":"franco-nevada-fnv-recently-invested-into-whn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/franco-nevada-fnv-recently-invested-into-whn\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco-Nevada (FNV) Recently Invested Into WHN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"width:100%; max-width:650px; margin:0 auto; padding:0 10px; box-sizing:border-box; font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6; color:#333333; -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%; text-size-adjust:100%; mso-line-height-rule:exactly; display:block;\">\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\n<strong>Franco-Nevada (FNV)<\/strong> a <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">US$22.64 billion<\/span> market cap<\/strong> <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold company<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">purchased<\/span> 2.5 million Westhaven Gold (TSXV: WHN) shares<\/strong> in <strong>October 2022<\/strong> at <strong>$0.40 per share<\/strong>!\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; text-align:center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Westhaven Gold bonanza gold grades\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whnbonanzagoldgrades.jpg\" width=\"485\" style=\"display:block; width:100%; max-width:485px; height:auto; margin:0 auto; border:0;\" \/>\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\n<strong>WHN<\/strong> currently has only <strong>140.59 million shares outstanding<\/strong> vs. <strong>139.49 million shares outstanding<\/strong> one year ago. <strong>WHN&#8217;s shares outstanding<\/strong> have <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>increased by only 0.79%<\/strong><\/span> from one year ago, all from <strong>insiders <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">exercising in-the-money<\/span> stock options<\/strong> prior to <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>expiration<\/strong><\/span> at an average <strong>exercise price<\/strong> of <strong>$0.14 per share<\/strong>. All remaining <strong>8.575 million options<\/strong> held by insiders have <strong>exercise prices<\/strong> ranging from <strong>$0.35 per share <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">up to<\/span> $0.95 per share<\/strong> with an average <strong>exercise price<\/strong> of <strong>$0.566 per share<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\nIn <strong>October 2018<\/strong>, when <strong>WHN <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">gained as much as 458.33%<\/span><\/strong> in a <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>single month<\/strong><\/span> from <strong>$0.24 per share <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">up to a high<\/span><\/strong> of <strong>$1.34 per share<\/strong> after <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>discovering<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>bonanza gold grades<\/strong><\/span>, <strong>WHN<\/strong> <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>needed to trade<\/strong><\/span> total <strong>volume<\/strong> of <strong>28.89 million shares<\/strong> because it had <strong>many millions of <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">in-the-money<\/span> warrants<\/strong>, which created a lot of <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>resistance<\/strong><\/span>. Today, <strong>WHN<\/strong> has <strong><span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">no<\/span> remaining warrants<\/strong>!\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\nAs of September 27th, <strong>WHN CEO Gareth Thomas<\/strong> said that their <strong>drilling rig<\/strong> had been <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>moved back<\/strong><\/span> to the <strong>Franz Zone<\/strong> to <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>follow up on their most recent discovery<\/strong><\/span> of <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>bonanza gold grades<\/strong><\/span>! <strong><em>Drilling results will <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">start being announced<\/span> as soon as they begin arriving back from the lab! We will be checking every morning prior to the open for press releases from WHN!<\/em><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; text-align:center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Westhaven Gold drilling results\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whnbonanzagoldgrades.jpg\" width=\"600\" style=\"display:block; width:100%; max-width:600px; height:auto; margin:0 auto; border:0;\" \/>\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:16px 0 0; padding:0; font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:1.5; color:#666666;\">\n<em>Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. This message is not a solicitation or recommendation to buy, sell, or hold securities. NIA has received compensation from WHN of US$50,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franco-Nevada (FNV) a US$22.64 billion market cap gold company purchased 2.5 million Westhaven Gold (TSXV: WHN) shares in October 2022 at $0.40 per share! WHN currently has only 140.59 million shares outstanding vs. 139.49 million shares outstanding one year ago. WHN&#8217;s shares outstanding have increased by only 0.79% from one year ago, all from insiders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53,9,118],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-fnv","tag-gold","tag-whn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10980,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/10980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}