Precious Metals and Mining Trust

The Trusts investment objectives are to provide Unitholders with long-term capital appreciation and monthly cash distributions. The Trust invests in a Portfolio consisting primarily of equity securities of Mining Issuers that are listed on a North American stock exchange. The Manager actively manages the Trusts investments which includes a rotation of weightings within the metals and minerals sectors. The Manager uses a combination of a top-down and value-driven, bottom-up analysis to identify Mining Issuers for the Portfolio.