Artemis Gold Inc (ARGTF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Artemis Gold First Quarter twenty twenty six Results Conference Call. As a reminder, all participants are in a listen only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. I would now like to turn the conference over to Meg Brown, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and welcome. Thank you for joining our Q1 conference call and webcast. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that certain statements made on the call today may be forward looking and we encourage you to refer to our public filings and disclosures, including the cautionary language in yesterday's news release for a more detailed discussion of potential risks and uncertainties related to these statements. I will now hand the call over to our CEO, Dale Andres. Thanks, Meg and thank you all for taking the time to join this call. In addition to myself on the call today, we have our President Jeremy Langford, our CFO, Jerry Vander Westhazen, our Chief Business Development Officer, Tony Scott and our VP Finance, Eric Marchand. Jeremy and Jerry will help present the highlights of the quarter together with myself and then we'll open the call up to your questions. On slide four, there are several important updates to highlight for the quarter. Firstly, we had a strong performance at Blackwater with respect to the open pit mine with record mining rates for the quarter and strong grades continuing. While we did have an unplanned shutdown of the mill in March, we recovered quickly and recoveries, which were a record helped to partially offset the lower tons milled. We were successful on a number of other fronts du...