West African Resources Limited (WFRSF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to the West African Resources Investor webinar and conference call. All attendees are in a listen-only mode. If you would like to ask a question directly to the company, please use the raise hand function within Zoom. I'll now hand over to West African Resources Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Richard Hyde. Thank you, Richard. Thanks, Nathan. Good morning and thank you for joining West African Resources' June quarter conference call. Joining me today are the Chief Operating Officer, Lyndon Hopkins, Chief Financial Officer, Padraig O'Donoghue, and General Manager of Finance, Todd Giltay. It's been an important and defining quarter for West African as we achieve record gold production across our gold operations at the Cana Faso, with group gold production of just over 125,000 ounces. This effort firmly demonstrates we're on track to achieve our goal to become a plus 500,000 ounce gold producer, having achieved a run rate that exceeds that target this quarter. It was another strong quarter across the group for both Sanbrado and Kiaka, contributing to year-to-date production performance and remaining on track to meet annual production guidance of 430,000 to 490,000 ounces of gold. We've achieved this at an all entertaining cost for AI SC of US$730 per ounce. This remains well under our 2026 guidance of US$1,900 per ounce all outstanding costs. And we were tracking well on that year to date with all outstanding costs of US$1,823 per ounce for the half year. Apologies everyone, we just seem to be having a couple of technical issues. Just bear with us and we'll be back on shortly. Okay, can you hear me now? Apologies everyone, we're back now. So Richard, I'll just get you to restart from the start, if that's okay? Sorry folks, we've ...