Jupiter Mines Limited (JMS) Q3 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and I would like to welcome everyone to the Jupiter Minds Q3 call. Today we have Jupiter Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Brad Rogers and Chief Financial Officer Melissa North to provide a brief update on the third quarter of the 2026 financial year and then we will open up to questions from callers. Thanks Brad. Please go ahead. Thanks Cameron and good morning everyone. Thanks for joining the call today. For those of you who have had the time to see our quarterly activities report released to the market this morning, you will have seen that this March quarter was another strong operational result against the backdrop of improving prices and margins through the quarter. So I'll dive into more detail and tease out some of the key points that are stated in that quarterly activities report, and then you should have time for any questions on the line after that. Operationally, as I said, a very solid quarter in line with expectations, including no lost time injuries for the quarter, which was pleasing, and a material improvement in our LTIFR to 0.37 by the end of the quarter. The mine sold 839,772 tonnes of manganese ore during the quarter, which was slightly down on last quarter, but up 8% on the prior comparative period. and importantly, in line with our expectations for the end of the 30 June financial year. You'll recall that we are typically targeting 3.4 million tonnes of ore. SOLS has achieved that every year since Jupiter has been listed, and we're on track to achieve that again this year, including this March quarter result. We produce rather slightly more tonnes than that, 849,732 tonnes produced. and that was slightly up on last quarter 1% and slightly down on the prior comparative period by 1%. So effectively flat and again in line w...