Welcome back, everyone. We have an update from Evolve Royalties Limited. It trades on the CSE under the symbol EVR, and is a Royalty company that strives to be one of the first to apply the Royalty and streaming model to the next generation of strategic mines, moving early to secure premium assets and build value in the low carbon and digital economy. Happy to welcome co-founder and CEO, Joseph de la Plante. Welcome, Joseph. We're looking forward to your update.
Thank you very much, Anna. It's a pleasure to be here giving you an update today on Evolve Royalties. I had the pleasure of presenting this story a few months back, so it's a good time now, I think for those of you who listened to that presentation or even those of you who are new to the story, to get a quick update here on Evolve. Just a quick reminder, Evolve, we're a copper Royalty business. We're about a CAD 110 million market cap. We trade on the CSE under the ticker symbol EVR, as Anna mentioned. We own a portfolio of cash flowing Royalties on Canadian copper mines, and we're actively looking to grow our business and to become the leading copper Royalty champion in the market.
For those of you who know our team, we've been in the Royalty sector for over 15 years. Evolve is our third company that we're launching. We have a lot of experience in this part of the Royalty space, predominantly in gold. I think, though, that there's a huge opportunity today in copper to use this established business model and really do something that no other company is doing right now, which is focusing on a really unique commodity. The Royalty business model is a, is a wonderful model. It's created lots of wealth in the market over the last 20 years. You know, the way we work, basically, we are providers of capital to the mining space, and we're building a portfolio of investments that are Royalty investments.
What that means is we invest in the top line of different mines across the planet, in what are known as Royalties or sometimes streaming agreements. We aggregate these contracts in our portfolio, and what that does over time is we can build a big portfolio of diversified revenue streams, and we can do so with a very lean platform. Our team, we only have three people on the team right now. With that, we're able to grow significantly in scale. When you contrast the Royalty model with the typical mining companies, what you see is we can achieve a much greater level of diversification than what mining companies are able to do.
Because we invest in the revenues of the mines as opposed to the profits of the mines, what happens, over time, our revenues are less volatile. We get less exposure to the compression of the profit margins, like what we're seeing today because of the global economic environment that we're in. It's a great model. It delivers great returns over long periods of time. Generally, if you're looking to play the copper price, this is a really simple way to do that and get that long-term exposure, get the long-term exposure to the underlying growth in the deposits while avoiding some of the typical operational risks that we see in the mines that we invest in. Our team, we really like copper.
I think copper has a wonderful future ahead for the next five, 10 years, driven by really solid supply-demand fundamentals. Really what that means is there's so many different themes in the market right now driving the demand for copper, and we see that continuing over the next decade. At the same time, we're seeing on the supply side for copper mines, a lot of challenges ahead. We're seeing challenges in terms of the discovery of new deposits as we deplete existing mines. We're seeing our existing mines get lower and lower grade, deeper and deeper. There's mounting technical challenges to continue mining the volumes of copper that we need to meet this demand.
On top of the fact that we're in a world right now where there's a lot of disruptions in different countries, and that is having a big impact on the supply of copper. With these two, you know, with this dynamic, we think we have a great runway ahead where we're gonna see a rise in the copper price. We need a rise in the copper price to incentivize new groups to go out and explore and build copper mines. We're aiming to be that go-to copper Royalty platform that can finance a lot of that activity using Royalties and streams. We're looking to grow our portfolio, really focusing on copper, and also base metals, other base metals in general.
I think those same dynamics that we see in copper, we're going to see the same thing across a broad set of commodities. In our portfolio today, we also have tin, we have lithium. We're growing as, you know, a commodities business with a very big focus on copper. Within the portfolio today, we have a number of cash flowing assets. We've been focused until now on building out our cash flow. We have four mines right now, by the end of the year, we'll be in production, and we'll be paying Royalty payments to Evolve. Some of these include some of the largest copper mines that a lot of us are familiar with. Highland Valley Copper is the largest copper mine in Canada. It's owned and operated by Teck Resources.
We've had this in our portfolio for a couple of years, been a steady contributor to our cash flow. We just completed, or we just announced in February an acquisition of a tin Royalty on a mine in Namibia called Uis. This would be a new acquisition since our last presentation. Uis is a new mine, a really wonderful deposit in Namibia, which is an established mining jurisdiction. This mine will be producing for many, many decades. At current tin prices, it'll pay us between $4 million and $4.5 million in cash flow. That starts as soon as we close, which we expect the closing of this transaction to be imminent. You know, we will get our first payment for Q1 in a few weeks.
Copper Mountain, owned by Hudbay, third largest copper mine in Canada. We own Royalties on the North Pit area of the Copper Mountain mine. We expect first payments from this Royalty to come in later this year. The Royalty does not cover the entire mine life, it covers what we think might be two to five years as the mine transitions to mining on those areas. Finally, we own a Royalty on McIlvenna Bay, Canada's newest copper mine. This mine is commissioning right now. It's been in construction for the past years. Really wonderful deposit. Lots of exciting things happening on an exploration front on this deposit and the surrounding areas as well. One that we think will generate lots of growth for our portfolio over time.
The main thing here is that these Royalties, the way they work, once we own them, we don't have to contribute more capital to benefit from all of the activities that the underlying operators are doing at their assets to improve the value. McIlvenna Bay, for example, there's going to be a lot of exploration happening over the next few years. We don't have to fund our pro rata share of that, but we get the benefit of that as that exploration, you know, increases the size of the deposits and if there's any new discoveries on our Royalty ground. That's why this Royalty model works so well. There's underlying growth in the portfolio on top of the fact that our team are constantly going out there with our capital and looking for new acquisitions to bring into the portfolio.
The main thing with any Royalty company, you wanna have mines that are owned by large operating companies with deep pockets. This is the main way that we continue to benefit the value creation of these underlying mines. If the operators are well-capitalized and spending money on the assets, then we benefit in that growth. We're very fortunate with the portfolio we have to have very high-quality operators, Teck, Hudbay, Eldorado, which now owns McIlvenna Bay, and we have a number of very large companies in the portfolio.
We do expect our assets to get better over the next two, three, four, five years, and that's something that we're used to doing and it's something we've learned by experience in this space, that the more we can have these senior operators as counterparties on our Royalties, the more we and our shareholders will benefit from that portfolio. Lots of catalysts coming up over the next couple of years. You know, this is really just an update, so I won't go into every single one, but the main thing here is that our portfolio is growing. We do expect lots of exploration and expansions at assets like McIlvenna Bay, and payments coming in from our acquisitions of the Tin Royalty, on top of ongoing payments from Highland Valley Copper. It's a very simple business.
The way to think about Evolve, it's just the beginning. We launched this company in December of last year. We have a great high-quality portfolio to start with. We have no debt on the balance sheet. This year, we expect between $5 million and $7 million in cash flow. We expect that to grow to over $10 million next year. We have cash coming in, no debt. We have some cash on the balance sheet to continue to fund our growth. All of these elements together are gonna allow us to put in place new financing tools for us to continue our growth.
You know, a parting thought on Evolve, really just the beginning and for that reason, I think there's still a great opportunity for new investors who are looking at the story for the first time, you know, to consider how our stock may reach the peer set over the coming months as we continue and tell the story and as we report our first quarter showing what our assets can do. We're reaching up on our 10-minute timeline, but I really wanna convey that this is a business model our team knows well. We have a track record. This is our third Royalty platform that we're growing after having sold our last business to Sandstorm Gold for CAD 600 million in 2022. We're excited about what's coming.
We're excited about copper, and we do think that a lot of the heavy lifting to get us to this point is now done, and we have all the ingredients we need to continue to grow the business. On that note, I appreciate everyone's time today, and we'll end the presentation there.
Perfect. Thank you, Joseph. Really great update. Congratulations on all that. We do have lots of questions for you, but we do have to move on to the next presenter. We'll send you the questions, and you can follow up on your own. Thank you for joining us again today.
Excellent. Thank you very much.
All right, everyone, we'll be right back.