EAST STAR RESOURCES PLC (EST) — Strategy for 2026 and Beyond

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Good morning, and welcome to the ESTAR RESOURCES PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Alex Walker, CEO. Good morning, sir. Thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you all very much for joining us again today in, in February 2026, which feels like a very transformative year, following on from the end of twenty twenty five for ESTAR. So I'm really excited to give you another little summary of of what, occurred at the end of last year and how we see that playing through for the remainder of this year. We're doing it, of course, at a time that we're sitting at, at fairly record high or close to record high copper and gold prices, which is really exciting. And at another time when, companies like BHP for the first time in their history have posted revenue from their copper divisions more than their iron ore divisions. And that's as a result of refocusing the companies the last few years to to push towards copper as the the commodity of the future. But also, of course, because of record high copper prices. And what we see is a is a structural shift in in copper demand, the supply not meeting it. And so we think that it's very, very possible, over the next few years to to continue to see pretty significant growth in that co...