Botnia Gold AB (publ) (BOTX) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to Investor Studios and Botnia Gold's second quarter for 2026. You who are watching live can as usual ask questions and interact mainly with management, and you do that if you ask your questions in the chat. We will handle the questions after the presentation. If you do not have time to answer the question or want to ask further questions, you will be referred to the company's website afterwards. But with that said, it is high time to welcome Fredrik Bergsten, CEO of Botnia Gold. Hi Fredrik! Thank you Carlo! Nice to see you here again! Thank you! Fredrik, you have released Q2 and I watched the press release this morning. Do you agree with me in my statement? Yes, I will talk a little bit about that in the presentation itself, but we have a little turning point that comes in this, because from and with this quarter, our new Malmö sorting facility is in full operation. And the effect of the Malmö sorting facility is that we can, with that separate A lot of the unfiltered rocks that follow the marshes up the pit that we previously sent as produced marshes to the Department of Conservation and ground down for limited use. Now when we introduce this så ändras ju ganska radikalt våra nyckeltal för produktionen. Det vill säga malmproduktionen steppar ju ner med den mängd sidoberg vi sorterar bort. This, however, has no effect on how much gold we produce. Therefore, during this transition period, before the mine has found its new steady state, I think it is most relevant to focus on gold production. And exciting, so we are in a paradigm shift. Take us through the presentation. Thank you very much. As I said, we have made a small agenda here. We have, of course, to talk about our quarterly report for the second quarter. Men vi ska avsluta med det som jag ock...