Timmins
Gold Camp
Concentrated exposure to a globally significant mineral district, with emphasis on resource expansion, development optionality and proximity to established processing infrastructure.
Toronto · Canada
Built for the
long term.
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Our perspective
Few positions.
Deep conviction.
Patient capital.
Buckle Group is a family-led principal investment group reflecting its members’ personal interests in the Timmins Gold Camp, Alberta energy, real estate and operating businesses.
The activities described on this website concern investments made for the principals’ own accounts. References to other investors or investor groups relate only to completed transactions described in public issuer announcements; they are not invitations to invest alongside Buckle Group.
The principals maintain direct relationships with operators and take a patient view through exploration, delineation and development cycles. Buckle Group does not operate an investment fund or provide investment services to the public.
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Areas of experience
Areas in which the principals have deployed their own capital and developed direct operating or analytical experience.
Timmins
Alberta
Energy
Selective participation in oil and liquids-rich development programs, with attention to reservoir continuity, lateral placement, stage spacing, completions intensity and full-cycle economics.
Technical
Underwriting
Evaluating geology, capital structure and execution together—from drill density and recovery assumptions to decline profiles, infrastructure and paths to liquidity.
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Duvernay investment thesis
Technical depth
before capital.
Our Duvernay exposure is underwritten at the reservoir and well-design level. The Upper Devonian formation acts as both source rock and reservoir, producing across oil, condensate and natural-gas windows. That variability makes location, fluid phase and execution—not broad basin exposure—the core of the investment case.
Reservoir quality
We consider net pay, total organic carbon, porosity, carbonate content, pressure and thermal maturity together. Mapping those variables against the hydrocarbon window helps distinguish liquids-rich fairways from acreage that may look similar at surface but behave very differently underground.
Lateral architecture
Development analysis includes landing-zone consistency, effective lateral length, inter-well spacing and multistage completion design. Stage spacing, cluster efficiency, fluid and proppant intensity, and fracture containment all influence stimulated rock volume and capital efficiency.
Production behaviour
Duvernay wells can exhibit extended transient linear flow before reaching boundary-dominated behaviour. We therefore stress-test type curves, decline assumptions, pressure depletion and parent-child interference rather than relying on headline initial-production rates.
Full-cycle economics
Returns are assessed across condensate-to-gas and gas-to-oil ratios, processing and transportation, realized pricing, royalties, sustaining capital and development cadence. The objective is resilient full-cycle value—not production growth in isolation.
The Alberta Energy Regulator recognizes the Duvernay’s Fox Creek and Innisfail plays and assesses the formation using horizontal multistage-fractured well performance.
How we think
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Concentration with purpose
We favour a small number of material positions over a broad collection of passive exposures.
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Subsurface before sentiment
We focus on rock quality, reservoir behaviour and executable development plans—not market fashion.
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Time as an advantage
Our private structure allows conviction to compound across exploration, drilling and development cycles.
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Personal portfolio history
A record built
over time.
Selected historical results from three personal accounts managed solely for Andrew Buckle’s own benefit. They are included as biographical context only—not as marketing, a forecast or an invitation to invest.
Cumulative performance
47.7%annualized equivalent
+163.9%S&P 500 price return
≈10.0%S&P 500 long-term annual average
Cumulative performance
99.6%annualized equivalent
+37.0%S&P 500 price return
≈10.0%S&P 500 long-term annual average
Time-weighted performance
22.3%annualized equivalent
+1,027.1%five-year money-weighted return
+71.7%S&P 500 price return
≈10.0%S&P 500 long-term annual average
Annualized return comparison
Percent per yearSource: performance data exported from the portfolios’ custodial platforms. Figures are unaudited and reflect Andrew Buckle’s personal accounts only—not a fund, managed account, client account or Buckle Group composite. No person may invest in these accounts. Portfolio III’s money-weighted return includes the impact and timing of deposits and withdrawals. Matching-period S&P 500 comparisons are USD price-index returns and exclude dividends. The approximately 10% long-term annual average is broad historical context rather than a period-matched benchmark. Annualized equivalents are calculated from the periods shown. Past performance is not indicative of future results. This information is not investment advice, an offer or a solicitation.
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Leadership
A private partnership combining analytical discipline, operating experience and a long-term ownership mindset.
Co-Founder & Partner
Dr. Christopher Buckle
MD, FRCPC, MBA
Christopher is a founder, senior executive and private investor with experience building and leading specialized businesses in Canada and the United States. Through SOAR Canada and senior leadership roles at Carelon and AIM Specialty Health, he has worked across strategy, innovation, technology, analytics, governance and scalable operations. He also invests in Chicago residential real estate, bringing direct experience in property selection, market assessment and long-term asset ownership. His University of Chicago Booth MBA informs Buckle Group’s disciplined evaluation of management teams, capital structures and durable investment opportunities.
Chief Investment Officer
Andrew Buckle
B.Comm, MBA
Andrew brings operating leadership, energy-sector experience and a principal-investing perspective to Buckle Group. His earlier work with SAP HANA in the oil and gas sector provided direct exposure to the data, systems and operating disciplines underpinning complex energy businesses. Over the past six years, he has independently invested across Canada’s oil and gas industry, evaluating geology, development programs, capital structures and full-cycle economics. Andrew is also Chief Operating Officer and Partner at SOAR Canada, a national acute-radiology platform. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA.
Partner
Dr. Aman Wadhwani
MD, FRCPC
Aman is a private investor focused on Alberta, with experience across commercial real estate and consumer-facing operating businesses. His approach combines property-level underwriting, location and lease analysis, operating cash-flow assessment and disciplined capital allocation. This hands-on perspective strengthens Buckle Group’s evaluation of tangible assets and locally driven businesses across the province.
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Selected news
Loyalist Exploration
Loyalist Exploration closes the first tranche of its private placement, with the Buckle group of investors among the primary buyers.
↗Tully Gold Project
Loyalist commences a Preliminary Economic Assessment on its flagship Tully Gold Project near Timmins, Ontario.
↗Important notice
Information only.
No offering.
Buckle Group is not presented on this website as a dealer, adviser, portfolio manager or investment fund manager. This website is a factual profile of its members and their principal-investing activities. It is not intended to promote an investment opportunity, attract capital or encourage reliance on any investment view. References to public companies and projects are for identification and historical context only and are not recommendations. Visitors should obtain independent legal, tax and investment advice from appropriately registered professionals.