Metro Mining Limited (MMI) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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thanks peter thanks everybody for joining i really appreciate your time and the support of metro mining yeah so the quarterly report um came out uh yesterday and i just want to highlight a few a few areas so look i think uh from a production point of view i think they the the the production numbers were were solid and um i think from my point of view still you know, there are continuing opportunities to drive higher output. And it's particularly, we're seeing the throughputs, the top-end throughputs really coming to bear now in terms of the ability. We're effectively able to produce at around about that sort of 8.5 million tonne run rate. I mean, and if I reflect back, I think, you know, the journey over the last sort of three or four years, I mean, the team... the team on site, uh, after, you know, back, back then was 10,000 tons in a day was a good day. You know, now that they're not satisfied if they're not doing, uh, over 30,000 tons. So, and we certainly saw in September, the first half of September and, and, you know, some really strong, you know, consistent production over, over a couple of weeks. Um, as always, we're trying to balance, uh, all things. We're trying to balance, I suppose, that output. We're very focused on continuing to be a lean producer. We're a remote site and anything we do up there is relatively expensive. So we're trying to stay lean. If you bring a piece of equipment up there, it basically stays for its life. I mean, the cost of mobilization up and back means that that is effectively the outcome. So we're very judicious about that and about driving productivity. When you have a spurt like we had in September, then you start to see other parts of the system where the bottlenecks are. And again, that's continuing focus for us to try to de-...