Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (WDO) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning. Welcome to Wisdom Gold Mines conference call to discuss the company's financial and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026. As a reminder, this call is being recorded. Your host for today is Trish Moran, Wisdom's Vice President of Investor Relations. Ms. Moran, please go ahead. Thank you and good morning, everyone. Before we get started, I'd like to point out that during today's call, we may make forward-looking statements as defined under Canadian securities law. I ask that you view our slide presentation for cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements and the risk factors pertaining to these statements. Please note that all figures discussed on this call are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. Our press release, MD&A, and financial statements are available both on CDAR Plus and on our corporate website, westdome.com. With us on today's call is Anthea Bath, West Dome's President and CEO, Phil Yee, our Chief Financial Officer, Tyler Mitchelson, our COO, Jonah Lawrence, Senior Vice President, Exploration, and Kevin Lonergan, SVP, Technical Services. Following management's formal remarks, we will then open the call to questions. And now over to Anthea. Thank you, Trish, and good morning, everyone. Q2 was another strong quarter for Westdome and another demonstration of how fundamentally this company has changed. We delivered net income of $94 million and $42 million of free cash flow and ended the quarter with more than $390 million in cash after returning more than $80 million to our shareholders through our share buyback program. At Eagle River, increasing throughput reflects our deliberate move towards a larger, more productive operating model. We are beginning to leverage our fixed cost infrastructure an...