Nickel Industries Limited (NIC) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Nickel Industries Limited March quarter activities webcast. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, you will need to press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr Justin Werner, Managing Director. Please go ahead. Thank you and thanks everyone for joining the Nickel Industries March quarterly results call. If I could ask the moderator just to move to slide two please. Kick off with safety and sustainability. Company-wide 12-month lost time injury frequency rate across NIC controlled entities was zero with no lost time injuries recorded during the quarter against 4.8 million safe man hours worked. And for the 12 months to 31 March, 17.7 million man hours worked without any LTIs. Company-wide TRIFR at the end of March was 0.45. We were saddened to report that there was unfortunately a fatality involving a contractor engaged by PT Fajar Metal Industry, who's building the ENC HPAL. It occurred on the construction of the transmission lines between the ENC plant and the slurry plant and dry stack tailings facility, which is being built on the company's Hengjia mine. Full support has been offered to the victim's family following a comprehensive investigation by the relevant authorities. All activities have recommenced within the Hengjia mine operations. except for work on the transmission lines. And we expect work to recommence there shortly. In other sustainability work, Hang Jaya mine is one of only a handful of mines that has been awarded a biodiversity area. And as at the end of the quarter, we were 50% complete in terms of construction of vario...