B2Gold Corp. (BTG) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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Standing by, this is the conference operator. Welcome to the Gold Corporation's first quarter 2025 financial results conference call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity for analysts to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. Should you need assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star then zero. I would now like to turn the conference over to Clive Johnson, President and CEO of G2 Gold. Please go ahead. Welcome, everyone. Today, we're here to talk primarily about the first quarter results. Today, we're going to talk a little bit about the goose construction update, the touch of what we're going to do. We're going to talk a little bit about some of the other developments, the catalysts going forward for those. Basically, the first quarter, as everyone was aware, we had a difficult 2024, really primarily based on FACOA having to re-guide for close production. Obviously, it was a little bit of a stop-race issue with the closet issues, so we pushed some of the veteran production into this year. So that's the first time we've had to re-guide. Actually, we have some eight years in the road of re-guiding, so obviously, we're just going to have to do that. We need protection. We covered it. to have a good 2025 and just started off with a good quarter with all the lights performing as well. I think it was worth pointing out that Foucault was the one that had issues with operations the other two lights. As Maggie goes, Foucault did well. And the pair guidance was the guidance for most of the lights. And this was really about Foucault, which is we're going to hear more of a ...