Alamos Gold Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2022 Results

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[{"type":"text","content":" TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alamos Gold Inc. (TSX:AGI; NYSE:AGI) (“Alamos” or the “Company”) today reported its financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2022. “We closed 2022 with our strongest performance of the year. This included record production and our lowest costs of the year driving stronger free cash flow of $18 million in the fourth quarter. We met our full year production and cost guidance, with the latter coming in below the mid-point of guidance, a solid result given industry-wide cost pressures. This reflects not only the strong ongoing operational performance of all three mines, but the quality of our assets,” said John A. McCluskey, President and Chief Executive Officer. “As outlined in our three-year guidance, we expect this trend to continue with a 9% increase in production in 2023 and 17% decrease in all-in sustaining costs by 2025. We continue to benefit from our investment in low-cost growth with La Yaqui Grande performing extremely well and a key driver of our near-term improving performance. We are also making significant progress on the Phase 3+ Expansion at Island Gold which will be the driver of a further increase in production and lower costs once completed in 2026. Additionally, we continue to add value through exploration with Mineral Reserves increasing for the fourth consecutive year, at 3% higher grades. This reflects higher-grade additions at Island Gold and PDA which we expect will be high-margin ounces, supporting our growing, low-cost production base,” Mr. McCluskey added. Fourth Quarter 2022 Record quarterly production of 134,200 ounces of gold, a 9% increase from the third quarter, driven by strong performances at all operations including a significant increase in production from the Mulatos District. Full year production was in-line with the mid-point of guidance Mulatos District production increased 15% from the third quarter to total 49,100 ounces, at substantially lower costs driving mine-site free cash flow1 of $28.8 million. This reflected the ramp up of low-cost production at La Yaqui Grande Island Gold had its strongest quarter of 2022, producing 40,500 ounces while continuing to make substantial progress on the Phase 3+ Expansion including completing the pre-sink of the shaft Young-Davidson continued to be a consistent performer, producing 44,600...

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