Gruvaktiebolaget Viscaria (VISC) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Warmly welcome everybody to the Q1 report 2026 for Viscaria. We have another thrilling quarter behind us with a huge amount of work and I look forward to tell you about all the progress we have made during this quarter. We will show today another series of exceptional drill results for our continued exploration drilling, which then will confirm the extension of our life on mine. And you can see also that the deposit remains open at depth at a long strike. Ross will show you some really thrilling pictures and presentations later on today. We are today also presenting a new business case with a copy price of 11,700 and I will tell you more about the background of that and where we can show that the EBIT now stands at 1.6 billion instead of the previous announced 1.4 billion per year. We are continuing our process with the project financing bank, and the debt amount has increased from $4 billion to $4.8 billion. And I will also lay out the text about this and the rationale for that. And a huge amount of infrastructure works that are conducted every day at site. Today we are more than 200 people logging in at site and we forecast this summer to be more than 400 people every day as we are building the huge processing plant and also the rail yard. We are pleased that we could announce on March 16 the recruitment of Charlotte Odenberger as our new Chief Operating Officer. Charlotte most recently comes from Lundin Mining, Zinkgruvan and before that Mandalay Resources, Björkdalsgruvan. A great compliment to the team that we are really proud of having done. And after the quarter yesterday, we also announced that we have appointed Staffan Sandström, the previous CEO of Synkruvan, and before that, 30 years within Boliden, as a senior advisor to us. Staffan has most probably one ...