Metals Acquisition Limited (MTAL) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Metals Acquisitions Limited second quarter 2024 results conference call and webcast. 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 Mick McMullen, CEO of Metal Acquisitions Limited. Please go ahead. Thank you and thank you everyone for joining us, evening in North America and morning in Australia. This is the Metals Acquisition Q2 quarterly presentation. and we'll just go through to the slide with the list of speakers today, if we can, to run through who will be speaking. So I'm actually Nick McBowen. I'm the CEO. I'll run through the highlights. Mornay Engelbrecht, our CFO, is on, and he'll go through the more financial metrics. And then Rob Walker, our general manager of the CFA Copper Mine, is on, who can give a bit of colour in terms of how... how the quarterly went about and some of the more important projects and the like that we have underway for the future of the business. So if we can just go to the next slide, I think everyone would understand, you know, we own the CSA copper mine. We bought it just over a year ago out in Western New South Wales. We currently have 74 million shares in issue, fully dollar. We have about 78 million shares and based on the closing price on the New York exchange on Friday, we had a fully diluted market cap of about US$980 million. I guess the mine has been running for a very long period of time. Most pe...