Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. operates as a precious metal streaming company. It explores for gold, silver, palladium, platinum, and cobalt deposits in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, and South Africa. The company was formerly known as Silver Wheaton Corp. and changed its name to Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. in May 2017. Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.