Electra Battery Materials Corporation (ELBM) Q1 2023 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Electra first quarter 2023 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 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 Joe Racanelli, Vice President, Investor Relations with Electra Battery Materials Corporation. Please go ahead. Thank you, Gillian, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this morning. We released our results for the first quarter last night. The material is available both on CDAR and our website. Today with me are Trent Mill, company CEO, as well as Craig Cunningham, our CFO, and joining us for the first time is Renata Cardoza, our VP of Sustainability. We will be using a presentation this morning, and I encourage you to follow along from our website. At the end of our management discussion, we will be opening up the call to questions from analysts who do cover us. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Trent for his opening remarks. Thank you, Joe, and good morning, everybody. Lots to discuss today, and so I thank you for joining us. We will, as always, open the call up to analysts for questions, but before doing that, I'd like to review some of the developments we've had in in what remains a busy time for us in an active Q1. So first quarter, yeah, like I said, remained busy as we were in 2022. Probably the most notable milestone for us was our battery recycling, our black mass refining demonstration plant. Huge accomplishments there that we w...