Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. operates as a precious metal streaming company that 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, and it was formerly known as Silver Wheaton Corp. before changing its name to the current one in May 2017.