South32 Limited (S32) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to South32 Half Year Financial Results and Outlook Investor and Analyst Call. All participants are on 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. Graham Kerr, CEO. Please go ahead. Good morning, good afternoon everyone, depending on where you are and thanks for joining us today. On the call with me is our Chief Financial Officer, Sandy Sabanala, our Chief Operating Officers, Jason Economides and Noel Pillay, and our President of the Hermosa Project, Pat Reisner. I'll give a short summary before handing back to the operator for questions. I'd like to begin with our most important commitment, that our people go home safe and well every day. We continue to embed our safety guarantee across our business. to enhance our safety culture and fundamentally shift our safety performance. Quite simply, nothing is more important. Today we've announced a major milestone for our business, the final investment approval to develop the Taylor Zinkled Silver Deposit, the first phase of our regional-scale HOMOSA project in Arizona. Since the merger, we have worked to improve and reshape our portfolio for a low-carbon future. We divested South African energy coal, exited manganese alloys, invested to grow our production of low-carbon aluminium, added copper through the acquisition of Cerro Gorda, and embedded high-quality options to compete for capital. Executing the development of Taylor is an important next step in our strategy that will further improve our portfolio by increasing our production of critical metals needed for the globa...