Central Asia Metals plc (CAML) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello, and welcome to the CAML Results Call. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I'm going hand over to your host, Mr. Gavin Furter, to begin today's conference. Please go ahead. Good morning, and welcome to the Central Asia Metals plc H1 twenty twenty six results presentation. Thank you all for joining, and I'm looking forward to presenting what are a solid set of results to you today. So I think if we go skip through the next four slides, which is basically disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer. It's getting bigger and bigger because of the multiple jurisdictions now, but and on to an overview of our business as it currently stands today. We have a portfolio of producing base metal assets complemented by some exciting exploration prospects. The producers are the Kunrad project that is in Kazakhstan. We are another 100%, and it's been producing copper profitably for us since 2012, and it's licensed out to 2034. We have the Sasa underground lead zinc mine in North Macedonia, again, owned that since, 2017 and has been producing lead zinc consistently for a fair amount of time with a mine life out to 2034 based on our current reserve statement and adding a small proportion of resources into that life of mine plan. In terms of exploration, as I said, exciting prospects out in Kazakhstan, where we have two exploration companies focusing on base metals exploration and targeting high grade base metals projects that we can afford to build. So we've completed some maiden drilling programs at two of our projects, and we've added another important project to that portfolio in Kazakhstan as well. And lastly, but not least, Aberdeen Minerals, which is a minority position we hold in an exploration company, privately held, looking for copper and nickel min...