Nickel Industries Limited (NIC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to the Nickel Industries Limited 2026 Half Year Results Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star 1 on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, just simply press star 1 again. We'll now turn the conference over to Justin Werner, Managing Director. Please go ahead. Thank you, everyone, and welcome to the half-year results presentation. I forgot to just ask the moderator to move to the next slide, please. Start with safety and ESG. Zero 12-month LTIFR, 0.45 12-month TRIFR, so these are world-class safety figures. 18 million safe man-hours worked over the past 12 months. In terms of ESG, Once again, we were awarded the Green Popper rating from the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, one of only three nickel mining companies to achieve that rating. We entered into an agreement to look at feasibility of natural hydrogen in and around the Hangia mining lease, which could opt for potentially low-cost clean energy source in the future. We inaugurated a 197 hectare biodiversity conservation area a short distance from the Hengjia mine and again one of very few mines who have successfully been able to inaugurate a biodiversity area. The scholarship program continues to progress very well. We now have 30 students actively enrolled in a number of disciplines. And then finally on the CSR side we received TSR awards for excellence in community development and we also won awards for some of our RKEF operations at the HR Asia Awards. If we could just move to the next slide, half year summary, very solid results from the existing business prior to any c...