I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Mr. Jim E. Kofman, Chairman of Argonaut Gold. Sir, you may begin. Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. I call this meeting to order. My name is Jim E. Kofman, Chairman of Argonaut's Board of Directors. As such, I will act as Chairman of the meeting. This is our second-ever virtual annual meeting. As you're aware, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, in keeping with the advice of authorities, Argonaut is conducting a virtual-only meeting. Doing so reduces the risk of spread of infection while ensuring an opportunity for shareholders to attend and meaningfully participate in the meeting. We hope in future we'll be able to do this in person again. As this meeting is held virtually via live webcast, we think it is necessary to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting. Questions in respect of a motion can be submitted by any registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder using the instant messaging service of the virtual interface. When asking a question, please indicate your name, which entity you represent, if any, and confirm that you are a registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder. Questions will only be addressed during the question period at the end of the meeting, provided that questions regarding procedural matters or directly related to the motions before the meeting may be addressed during the meeting. For the purpose of the meeting today, voting on all matters will be conducted by electronic ballot. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders will be asked to vote on each business item after the presentation of all business items. When you are asked to vote, you will receive a message on the virtual interface requesting you to register your votes. You will only have a certain amount of time to do so when the polls are open. If you are a registered shareholder proxy holder and you have already voted and do not wish to change your vote, please do not vote during the ballot process. As this is a virtual meeting, we will not have a corporate presentation. The company presentation is available on our website for your review. We will now proceed with the formal portion of today's meeting. I appoint David Ponczoch, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of the company, to act as Secretary of this meeting, and Christian Carvacho of Computershare Investor Services to act as scrutineers to compute the votes of any polls taken at this meeting and report thereon to me. To expedite the formal part of this meeting, I will move all motions, and Mr. Ponczoch will second all motions. We have previously mailed the materials. The copies of the documents mailed to the shareholders and the statutory declaration proving service of the meeting materials to the shareholders of the company be kept by the Secretary of the company with the minutes of the meeting. If there's no objection, the reading of the notice of the meeting will be dispensed with. Pursuant to the bylaws of the company, business may be transacted at this meeting if two persons are present who are, or who represent by proxy, shareholders holding more than 25% of the shares entitled to be voted at this meeting. The scrutineers' report has been received. It shows that there are present at this meeting 394 persons holding or representing by proxy 169,766,835 common shares, or approximately 55.67% of the shares entitled to vote. I now declare that the meeting is properly called and properly constituted for the transaction of business. Only shareholders of record as of March 15, 2021, which was the record date for this meeting, or their properly appointed proxy holders are entitled to speak and vote upon matters at the meeting. Each shareholder of the company is entitled to one vote for each share they hold. I would now like to refer you to the audited consolidated financial statements of the company as at December 31, 2020, together with the report of the auditor thereon. Copies of the financial statements and auditor's report were mailed to each shareholder requesting same at the time of the mailing of the notice of this meeting and are now placed before the shareholders of the company. If any shareholder has any questions or comments regarding the financials, we would be pleased to address them during the question and answer period at the end of the meeting. We will now proceed with setting the number of directors of the company. The number of directors will be set at eight or such number as the directors may hereafter determine by resolution, subject to the limitations in the articles of the company. I move the motion setting the number of directors at eight or such numbers the directors may hereafter determine by resolution, subject to the limitations in the articles of the company. Mr. Chairman, I second the motion. Unless there are any questions, I will move to the next item of business. We will now proceed with the election of directors. Argonaut did not receive notice of any director nominations in connection with the meeting in accordance with its advance notice bylaw. Accordingly, the only persons eligible to be nominated for election to the board of directors are the management nominees. The eight directors to be elected by the shareholders of the company shall hold office until the close of business of the first annual meeting of the shareholders of the company following election or until their successors are elected or appointed. The following individuals have been nominated for election as directors. Peter C. Dougherty, James E. Kofman, Peter Mordaunt, Dale Peniuk, Audra Walsh, Ian Atkinson, Stephen Lang, and Paula Rogers. Since there are no other nominations, I move a motion to elect the eight management nominees as directors. Mr. Chairman, I second the motion. Unless there are any questions, I will move to the next item of business. The next item of business is the appointment of the auditors of the company for the ensuing year and the authorization of the directors of the company to fix the remuneration for such auditors. The directors of the company have approved, subject to shareholder confirmation, the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditors of the company. I move the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the company until the close of the next annual meeting of shareholders or until its successors appointed and authorizing the board of directors to fix the auditors' remuneration during this period. Mr. Chairman, I second the motion. Unless there are any questions, I will move to the next item of business. We will now proceed with an advisory vote on the company's report on executive compensation as set out in the management information circular of the company. I move the motion accepting the company's approach to executive compensation as set out in the circular. Mr. Chairman, I second the motion. Unless there are any questions, I will move to the next item of business. The polls are now open. At this point, all registered shareholders and proxy holders who have properly logged in with their control numbers or username and wish to vote will be able to see on the screen all motions being brought forth at this meeting. If you're a registered shareholder proxy holder and you have already voted and do not wish to change your vote, please do not vote during the ballot process. Please register your votes by accessing the voting page and selecting the for or against buttons next to the motion to set the number of directors to date. Please register your votes by accessing the voting page and selecting the for or withhold buttons next to the name of each proposed director and next to the resolution with respect to the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company's auditors. Please register your votes by selecting the for or against buttons next to the following resolution. The say on pay advisory vote. We will provide registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders approximately two minutes to complete the electronic ballots. Once the electronic balloting closes, the voting page will disappear, and your votes will automatically be submitted. While we are waiting for the vote and the scrutineer's report, I do want to make two comments. The first is I want to recognize Chris Lattanzi, who served as a director of Argonaut Gold since its inception as a public company and retired this past year. Chris has been a wonderful and invaluable member of the board of directors, and we thank him for all he's done. His time with Argonaut is much appreciated. He will always be a friend of Argonaut. Secondly, the last year with COVID has been an incredibly difficult year for everyone, and that includes the management team and all of the employees of Argonaut Gold. On behalf of me and all of the members of the board of directors, I want to thank management for their hard work in getting us through these difficult times. We had a very good year in very difficult times, and credit to management and every employee of Argonaut. With that, I would ask the scrutineer to compile a report regarding the results of voting on all business matters. I've been advised by the scrutineers of the ballots and proxies deposited for the meeting. Sorry. I'm going to turn it over to Christian. Good morning, everyone. Mr. Chairman, I can confirm that all the resolutions brought before the meeting and balloted on have passed. Thank you, Christian. We have been advised by the scrutineers that the ballots and proxies deposited from the meeting have been voted in favor of all the resolutions. The number of directors for the ensuing year has been set at eight. Each of the eight nominees have been elected as directors of the company to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are elected or appointed. The appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditors of the company has been approved, and the board of directors of the company has been authorized to fix the remuneration and the company's approach to executive compensation as set out in the management information circular. I declare that the results of the poll be included in the minutes of this meeting, and the results of the voting will be announced in a press release in accordance with the policy of the TSX and filed on SEDAR. As there is no additional business, I will now move that the formal part of this meeting be terminated. Mr. Chairman, I second the motion. I declare the motion carried and the formal part of this meeting is terminated. I ask that all registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holders who would like to ask a question use the instant messaging feature of the virtual interface. We will answer as many questions as time permits. Usually, that's not an issue at these AGMs. When asking your question, please state your name, the entity you represent, if any, and confirm you're a registered holder or duly appointed proxy holder. Please limit your question to topics relating to today's subject matter and keep your questions short. We will now give attendees a moment to type in their questions, if any. For each question we answer, we will summarize the question and read out loud the name of the person who asked such question, and if applicable, the entity such person represents. We would like to remind you that questions which were already answered or that are redundant or repetitive will not be posted. If there are any questions, we're pleased to answer them, but we know it's obviously difficult in a virtual meeting. We'll wait one minute. Operator, we're not seeing any questions, and so I think it doesn't appear we will get questions. We did have an earning call this morning where information was provided and questions were answered. I want to thank those who dialed in and joined us for this virtual AGM for doing so. Thank you, operator. Thank you all, and goodbye. Have a good day. Thank you. This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.
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