All right, great to be here this year, and it's really good to have so many of you in the audience today as well. This presentation, or a longer version of it, will be on our website and on the ASX website today. I'll be making some forward-looking statements, so please take note of the disclaimers. Just want to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we work. We've got a very large exploration tenement package in the Pilbara, just over a 150 km long. We have exploration agreements with five parties up there, and we've got a mining agreement with the Kariyarra people over the Hemi deposit. We've got an agreement with them since December 2022, and we've got a really close relationship with them, and we think the Hemi project's gonna be a really good project for that group and for our other stakeholders. Okay, just on to a bit of an overview here. So, you know, we've got quite a strong institutional and large shareholder register here. One of the main things to note for this, an exploration development company, is our cash balance of around AUD 870 million at the end of June. I'll go through how that came to be, but it puts us in a really strong position to develop Hemi. Our expectation is that along with the debt that we're in the process of putting in place, that will take us through to gold production. Our board of directors has evolved over the years. I won't get into too much of this now, but just to let you know that that's evolved so that we've got the skills, matrix, and experience there to meet the challenges ahead. Similarly, with the management team, we've added quite a few people to that over the last 18- 12 months, and that's really to build organizational capability to not only develop the project, but also to develop all the systems that you need to have an organization to build a project such as Hemi. Okay, it's been interesting to hear the presentations earlier today, and I guess what it does is just remind us how lucky we are to have this deposit called Hemi. We're located just south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which is a fantastic mining center, and as you know, is you know well known for exporting iron ore. Hemi discovery has really flipped everybody's perceptions of gold in the Pilbara, and the reason for that is that we came out with a maiden resource of just under seven million ounces in 2021. That resource, to put it into perspective, was discovered in 2020, and that resource grew at five hundred thousand ounces per month before we put it out. So, just let that number sink in. The reason that that's so important is that when you lock in to one of these large intrusion-hosted deposits like Hemi, and the cluster of those deposits that we've got at Hemi, you discover another one of these, it just demonstrates how quickly you can build the resource base. The gold endowment at Hemi, in terms of the resource that we have there at the moment, is 25,000 ounces per vertical meter, and that discovery came at a cost of around AUD 10 per ounce. The Hemi deposit is now 10.5 million ounces and growing, and we'll put out a new resource update in November this year. Okay, located in a fantastic region, and, we've all talked about infrastructure this morning. We've got major highways right next to the project, transmission lines. We're just south of Port Hedland port, which is an import terminal as well as an export terminal, and that's where a lot of our major gear will be coming into the project. We've also got sufficient good quality water on-site, so we don't have to go running around looking for that, and we've just put in place a lease arrangement on some tenements to the south of Hemi, which includes some infrastructure that I'll go through in a minute, which is gonna put us in for a really good place in terms of being ready for development when we're ready to go. Okay, this is a bit of a racetrack in terms of what's happened in the last twelve months since we presented at this conference. First one there is that we had the grant of the Hemi Mining Lease, and that was possible through that agreement with the Kariyarra people. We put out a DFS in the same month, and we also raised AUD 300 million at the same time. Now, that raising was really important because we were so confident with what came out of the DFS, that we wanted to get on with de-risking the project, particularly the development schedule, by ordering long lead time items like ball mills and et cetera. So we started that process in October last year. We put in initial environmental submissions in May, June of 2023, and we received the levels of assessment that we were expecting for those later in the same year. Those levels of assessment allow the regulators to ask for additional information, and we've been putting that together over the last six months or so, and we're now in a position where we've resubmitted information to the federal authorities in August this year, and we'll be in a position to go back to the state authorities in October. We updated the Hemi resource to ten and a half million ounces in November last year, and you know, that was quite interesting because the DFS was done on a resource of nine and a half million ounces, which we put out in June 2023. But that update added a million ounces in six months. We ran another pit shell optimization on one of the deposits at Hemi called Eagle, and we added another 700,000 ounces to the production profile, and I'll go through that in a little while. We appointed Ivan Mullany as Chair of our project committee, and then in May this year, we raised another AUD 600 million in equity, and that was to put us in that really strong balance sheet position, to give us sufficient cash, plus a large liquidity buffer to be able to develop Hemi. In May, we haven't put it in place yet, but we're doing the documentation now on credit-approved terms for AUD 1 billion in debt, as well as a AUD 130 million cost overrun facility. And we've also been announcing additional extensions to Eagle from exploration or resource extension drilling. In July this year, we put out a regional scoping study that added another 800,000 ounces to the overall production from Hemi. There's a lot of potential there because we haven't really done a lot of resource extension or exploration drilling around those regional deposits. We've been focusing on Hemi. And then also in July this year, we appointed our GM operations, and the reason for that was we want to get well ahead of the game in terms of operational readiness. This is a big project. We're gonna develop it properly. We're gonna develop it well, and we want to make sure that when we get into operations and commissioning, that we're all set and ready to go. And then, as part of that AUD 1 billion debt facility, the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility agreed to a loan of AUD 150 million. That's essentially federal government funding for this project. Okay, I'm gonna go back in time to the DFS outcomes. It seems like a very long time ago now, but we were finishing this off during this conference last year, which is pretty exciting. We weren't getting a lot of sleep at the time, and then we did that contemporaneous AUD 300 million capital raising. So look, the metrics on this are that we, you know, we're looking at a reserve of around 6 million ounces. Of that, a 10 million ton a year processed plant. It's at 1.5 g. It's all open pit, and we get total production out of that of 5.7 million ounces over 12 years. These are some of the financial metrics, all done at AUD 2,700 per ounce. Very quick payback period, and that's all based on the one of the pits we've got, which is called Brolga, and that's what it looks like. It's about 300 meters wide, about 600 meters long, and the starter pit there has got just over 1.3 million ounces, and that delivers AUD 2.2 billion on its own at 2,700. So you can add another AUD 1,000 an ounce to that 1.35 million ounces. Okay, so what are we doing at the moment? Well, we've established a project committee with Ivan Melani as the chair. Peter Holmes is our project director with a lot of experience, my fine self, and Jeff Benton, who's just been appointed as the GM Operations. A lot of experience there in developing large-scale projects, including pressure oxidation that we have at Hemi. We've also been building the project team. Peter's got about 25 people working for him at the moment, and that's putting us in a really good space in terms of project controls and planning. Project activities at the moment, we're into a phase of going out for tenders for the major projects, the mining and plant construction contracts, and we'll be expecting those tenders to come back in the December quarter. Other project activities, I mentioned these long lead time items that we've been ordering. We've ordered most of the major equipment for the plant, and what that does is it really takes a lot of risk out of the critical path schedule, and it also takes a lot of risk out of a very large percentage of the capital cost of the project. We haven't seen much in the way of inflation compared to the DFS in ordering that equipment, and so that helps de-risk the capital cost as well. There's some of the equipment having been manufactured in Germany, so that's part of the ball mills. And you know, that sort of fabrication's going on in different places around the world for those major equipment items. This Mount Dove lease that we talked about, it's 10 km south of Hemi, comes with an operating bore field, pipelines, power generation, comms tower. It did have a decommissioned camp, but we've just refurbished that to a 200-person camp. That's only 10 K south of Hemi. When we get our approvals in place, we'll be ready to go pretty much straight away, and that's been a really good asset for us to pick up. Mentioned operational readiness and the appointment of Jeff Fenton. One of the things we're doing at the moment is we're just bringing forward all the sorts of things that you would do pre-ops. So we've brought forward our grade control drilling, doing a lot of met test work, and we're also establishing the business systems that we need to support this development. Project approvals. We're well advanced on those. After two rounds of bank due diligence, regulator due diligence, and our own studies, we haven't come up with any red flags or high risks. And we'll update the market in the September quarterly report on what we think the timelines are looking to get environmental approvals in place to start construction. Just in terms of funding, I've talked about that a fair bit, so I won't go through it in any more detail. But Peter Canterbury and his team are putting together the documentation now on the funding for the AUD 1 billion that we need to develop Hemi. A lot of social benefits and economic benefits to the community for this project, and that's been really important for getting that government funding through NAIF for AUD 150 million. Okay, but there's more to come. I won't go through each of those details, but this is the resource growth path, and as you can see, we're coming out with another resource estimate in December this year, but it's been amazing growth. That's our production profile growth, over 500,000 ounces a year from the Hemi DFS. You add another 140,000 ounces a year from the regional projects to get you around 700,000 ounces a year and plenty of mine life to come, and those blue bars are the Eagle optimization that we did that added another 700,000 ounces. Okay, so this is a long projection of Hemi showing the open pits. We're currently in the middle of a conceptual mining study. As I said, there's 25,000 ounces per vertical meter, and we've got a 10.5 million ounce resource. Clearly, you know, that's not gonna stop just because that's where we've stopped drilling, and we see a lot of potential to add to the production profile and the mine life from underground production. We're also gonna keep exploring. We'll be spending around about AUD 30 million a year, and what we're looking for in terms of targets is we're looking for more near-surface intrusion-hosted deposits of the plus 1 million ounce variety, and hopefully, we get to more like 1- 2 million ounces. And as I said earlier, if we can jag, jag one of these around Hemi or further afield, the potential is that we'll get a cluster, we'll get more, and we can grow those resources really rapidly, as we've demonstrated at Hemi. And there's some of the, you know, the results we've seen lately in places like, Antwerp, West Yul, and Egina, so really good opportunities to come. And just finishing up, our aim is to bring Hemi into production, as De Grey, and the reason for that is because that's going to deliver the greatest value for shareholders when there's a re-rating in our share price of market capitalization on the basis of multiples of EBITDA, rather than what we're currently doing at the moment, which is, a discount to NPV. Thanks so much, Glenn. Thank you. Great presentation. Next up, we have Paul LoPresti.
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