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Westgold Resources Managing Director and CEO, Wayne Bramwell, joins us live from the company’s Bluebird – South Junction gold operations in Western Australia. It’s been a busy period for Westgold, so there’s lots to unpack including defining the Fletcher Exploration Target, mining at South Junction and uncovering high-grade gold at Western Flanks. Wayne also discusses FY25 Production Guidance, Mineral Resource Estimates, preliminary production results for Q1 FY25 and the appointment of mining executive Mr. Aaron Rankine as the Company's new Chief Operating Officer, effective January 20, 2025. This is your chance to hear the latest news about Westgold!
Managing Director & CEO at Westgold Resources
Mr. Bramwell is a metallurgist, mineral economist and experienced company director with extensive project and corporate development expertise across precious and base metal companies spanning nearly three decades. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Extractive Metallurgy, a Graduate Diploma in Business, a Master of Science in Mineral Economics and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
Hello everyone and good morning or good afternoon, depending on where you are in the world. Thank you for joining West Gold Resources live event where we're joined by their managing director and CEO, Wayne Brownbong. Following the brief update, we will have a live Q&A session. So please feel free to start submitting questions in the chat at any point during the conversation in the bottom right corner of your screen. Now this event is being recorded for your viewing afterwards. With the housekeeping out of the way, Wayne, thank you so much for providing this update today. Can you just start with the walkthrough of the Q1 results for the fiscal year 2025, which is actually the first quarter post merger, correct? 100%. Thank you, Kyle, And welcome everyone to this webinar. Apologies for those who patched in last week. I planned to do this from our Beta Hunt mine site in the Southern Goldfields, but the tech guides chose to frustrate that. Anyway, today I'm in Meekitharra in Western Australia at our Bluebird South Junction mine. And really just want to touch on 3 things. A quick recap of our Q1 FY25 results, talk a little bit about the upgrade or the integration of the Karora and the West Gold assets and 3 speak to a new appointment in their leadership team. Starting with our quarter 1 FY25 results. West Gold made an announcement on Monday, Australian time this week. And what we normally do at the end of our financial quarter, we do what we call a production or a quarterly flash. We provide the market an update on our produced ounces and our cash position, and then follow up within a couple of 10 to 15 days with the full detail of the quarterly results. On Monday, we told the market that Q1 FY25, Westgold had produced 77, 000 ounces of gold. This was a record production ...