Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Magna Mining Inc first quarter conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are in listen- only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question- and- answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. To ask a question via the web, please type your question in ask question box and click submit. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call first over to Greg Huffman, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Thank you and good morning. Before getting started, I would like to mention that we will be making forward-looking statements or provide forward-looking information on this call in accordance with applicable securities laws. Please review the press release announcing our Q1 2026 operating and financial results, precautionary language regarding the use and reliance on forward-looking statements, which may be materially different from the actual results obtained by the company, and for the risk factors applicable to such forward-looking statements that could cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Any scientific or technical commentary on this call has been reviewed and approved by Dave King, our Senior Vice President, Exploration and Geoscience, who is a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101. With respect to non-IFRS performance measures that are referred to on this call, please refer to the reconciliation to measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS accounting standards in the company's most recently filed MD&A. All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. Our press release, MD&A and financial statements are available on SEDAR+ and our corporate website. With us today, our Chief Executive Officer, Jason Jessup, Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Huffman, Chief Financial Officer, Scott Gilbert, Senior Vice President, Exploration and Geoscience, Dave King, General Counsel, Tim Bradburn, and Executive Vice President, Paul Fowler. Following formal remarks from management, we will open lines for further questions. I would now like to introduce Magna Mining CEO, Jason Jessup, to comment on the quarterly results. Jason? We're operating the McCreedy West Mine in Sudbury, Ontario. Our team at McCreedy West safely mined and shipped 82,296 tons from the 700 Footwall Copper Zone, producing 4.1 million lbs of payable copper equivalent, in line with our forecasts. I am proud to report that Magna realized zero reportable injuries in Q1. This is the result of a combination of strong leadership, an engaged workforce, and taking ownership over the work that we do and is a reflection of the corporate culture that we're building at Magna. I would now like to hand over to our CFO, Scott Gilbert, to present an overview of our financial performance in Q1. Thanks, Jason. In Q1 2026, the McCreedy West Mine generated CAD 25.9 million of revenue. Cash costs and all-in sustaining costs in Q1 2026 were $3.48 and $4.21 per copper equivalent payable pound. Our cash margin in the quarter improved to CAD 6 million or CAD 1.06 per copper equivalent payable pound, up from CAD 3.3 million or $0.49 per copper equivalent payable pound in Q4 of 2025. For Q1 2026, the company had operating cash outflow of CAD 16.2 million and free cash outflow of CAD 19.5 million. Our cash balance at March 31st, 2026 was CAD 35.8 million, and our working capital balance was CAD 53.7 million, a decline of only CAD 6.8 million from December 31st, 2025. Of note, at March 31st, 2026, our trade and other receivables had increased to CAD 36.7 million, which included CAD 28.2 million in metal receivables, as well as CAD 7.8 million from reimbursable costs related to an egress project for a neighboring mine. Subsequent to the end of Q1 2026, CAD 11.5 million of the trade and other receivables has been received. I will now hand the call over to our COO, Jeff Huffman, for an overview of our operational performance on the quarter. Thanks, Scott. As stated by Jason, in Q1, no reportable injuries were realized across the company. Our trailing 12-month total recordable injury frequency rate, or TRIFR, is an industry-leading 0.78, with all hours worked on all Magna sites, including those of the many contracting firms that we work alongside. In Q1, McCreedy West produced 4.1 million copper equivalent payable pounds from the 700 Footwall Copper Zone at an average copper equivalent grade of 3.38%, based on realized metal prices in the quarter. As was previously disclosed, grades during the first quarter of 2026 were anticipated to be at the lower end of the full year guidance range. Higher than forecast commodity prices mitigated the impact on a copper equivalent basis. Higher grade areas continue to remain available to be mined later in the year. Our production costs per ton processed in Q1 2026 declined by 5.3% quarter-over-quarter to CAD 214/ ton. Underground development in Q1 totaled 2,252 ft or 25.3 ft/ day on average, a quarterly record under Magna ownership. Sustaining capital expenditures on equipment development and exploration in the quarter was CAD 2.4 million. Definition drilling at McCreedy West continued with three underground diamond drills to support near to midterm production, with infill drilling to facilitate detailed stope design and optimize production grade. In Q1, 99 diamond drill holes were completed for a total of 28,117 ft, in line with our plan. At our adjacent Levack Mine, following completion of the breakthrough to connect to Vale's Coleman Mine, focus has transitioned to infrastructure readiness to support early ore sources and new underground exploration platforms to test the R2 Footwall Zone. Engineering, procurement, and planning activities commenced for the production hoist plant repairs, as did the recommissioning of existing underground equipment and work to begin preparing for potential construction activity, the timing of which will be determined subsequent to the completion of the PEA study in Q3 of 2026. At Crean Hill, work continued during Q1 2026 to advance the project towards an expected construction decision with power, engineering, commercial discussions, and water pretreatment design and installation activities. Completion of the preliminary feasibility study at Crean Hill is anticipated for Q3 of 2026. I would like to hand over to Jason Jessup for some additional comments. Thanks, Jeff. Well, the listeners, I think, would agree 2026 is off to a great start for Magna. Operations at McCreedy West are hitting their stride in a strong commodity price environment, and cash margins continue to improve, having increased to CAD 6 million in the quarter. With both tonnage and grades from the 700 Footwall Copper Zone expected to increase from Q1, we're confident in our ability to achieve our full year guidance on all metrics. In addition, with stronger nickel prices, the team at McCreedy West continues to evaluate the potential restart of mining at the nickel-rich Intermain contact-type deposit. The work completed in 2025 and early 2026 has positioned McCreedy West to meaningfully support our growth initiatives at Levack and Crean Hill. This was always our plan. We saw McCreedy West as being a driver of our growth in our first producing mine that can help us start other mines. At Levack, we continue to make solid progress in advancing the project towards a restart decision. The PEA is well underway and on track for completion in Q3 2026, as previously guided. In parallel with the PEA, underground development has provided access to early sources of potential ore, as well as new underground drilling platforms to both expand the R2 Footwall Zone and test the presence of thicker copper [audio distortion] rich veins. Work to recommission the loading pocket in order to start hoisting waste before the end of the year is well underway. This will also put us in a strong position to move forward with a potential restart decision at Levack following the completion of the PEA. At our permitted Crean Hill mine, which we are really excited about, we're making great progress on the pre-feasibility study, which builds on the 2024 PEA and will incorporate updated commodity price assumptions. With completion of both the PFS on Crean Hill and the PEA on Levack anticipated in Q3 2026, this will be a very busy summer at Magna. We are well-funded to execute these plans with working capital of almost CAD 55 million as of the end of Q1 and positive cash margins at McCreedy West. On May 4th, we proudly announced the receipt of conditional approval to uplist our shares to the Toronto Stock Exchange. A TSX listing will provide greater visibility and access to a wider range of potential investors, as well as the opportunity to be included in various indices. Final approval of the listing is subject to the company fulfilling all the requirements of the TSX. We will issue a news release once the TSX confirms the date on which trading of Magna Mining's common shares is expected to commence on the TSX. Operator, we'd now like to open up the line for questions. Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. To ask a question via the web, please type your question in the ask question box and click submit. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Eleanor Magdzinski with SCP Resource Finance. Your line is now open. Can you guys hear me okay? Yes. Yep. Good morning, everyone, and Jason team, great job on the past quarter. Just a few questions, more detailed on the operations side of things. Just was wondering if you'd be able to speak to the grades per metal in the breakdown of the copper equivalent number? Sure. I don't have that number right in front of me. Greg or Jeff, do you happen to have that available? Yeah, Eleanor, it's Greg here. Broadly speaking, in the quarter, copper was slightly higher and precious metals overall were a little bit lower. I can get you a little bit more granularity there offline. Okay. That sounds good. Thank you. Second question on the stream. We know, as of last quarter, the reporting of the stream has changed. Just wondering if you'd be able to break down, say, a pre-stream revenue, and then just that breakdown between the royalty and stream that would've come off of that. Yeah, I can answer that, Eleanor. It's Scott here. The actual payment to Franco-Nevada would've been CAD 7.2 million. You would just gross up our revenue by that amount. Wonderful. A couple other questions here. Sorry to hog the line a little bit. Is it possible to know what the long hole drilling meters that were completed in the quarter was? I don't know if that number's handy from anyone. Jeff or Greg, do you have that number handy? Yeah, I'm just pulling it up for you here, Eleanor. I have it close to me here. Long hole drilling, which is, I would say, an unreconciled number, Eleanor, because it's an estimate, obviously, of the drilling prior to blasting the stope. Nothing, obviously, is surveyed with long hole, but as far as reported drilling from- just give me one second here. We drilled an estimated 38,455 ft in the first quarter of 2026. Okay, awesome. Thank you so much. Two last ones. There is a line on the site maintenance in the income statement. Just wondering what that encompasses. There isn't a note attached to it. Yeah, just wondering is that more for Levack and some of these other properties? Sorry, could you repeat that question, Eleanor? I didn't quite catch it. Yeah, no, absolutely. There's a line item called site maintenance cost in the income statement. There's not a note attached to it. I was just wondering if that's specific to the other assets or if you could speak to that line item if possible. Yeah. For sure. The site maintenance captures the Levack and the Podolsky cost. As the project is still in care and maintenance for Levack, any work that's being done there is also being captured in there. Okay, Well, actually there's two more, but with discussions in the Vale union negotiation, just wondering if there is a Vale strike, what kind of impacts would we expect in terms of production and what could happen this coming up quarter? Yeah, I can answer that, Eleanor. It's Jeff here. We've been contingency planning and working alongside Vale for a number of months already, just in preparation for the potential disruption. There won't be any effect to us. We have room to stockpile at McCreedy West, and to give Vale time to get the proper injunctions in place to allow ore to be flowing into the number of stockpile areas that we deliver to in Sudbury. At this point in time, there's no disruption at all anticipated for production for us. Our McCreedy West Mine is separate from Vale properties, we access off public roads. Yeah, there won't be any disruption that's anticipated at this time. Okay, great. Just the last one, because there was a bit of discussion on receivables and things kind of changing first quarter. Could you roughly speak to, I guess, what current cash position is like following quarter end? I didn't quite catch that. Is that a question for Scott? Maybe we've lost Eleanor there. I think, Scott, Eleanor was looking for a little bit more color on what the current cash position would be, just given the movement on the trade receivables. We're pretty close to around CAD 40 million. We get paid at the end of each month, so that's when we have an actual real hard number. Okay, great. Thank you so much. That's it from my side. Sorry for hogging the line there and apologize, I need new headphones. Sorry about that. All good. Great questions, Eleanor. Thanks, everyone. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Bryce Adams with Desjardins. Your line is now open. Thank you. Good morning, Team Magna. Can you hear me okay? I had an issue on the last conference call. Yeah, I can hear you. You bet. Okay, thanks, Jason. Yeah, on the Q1 mining rates, you did 82,000 short tons for the period. Can you talk to the breakdown of mining rates for January, February, and March? Then the follow-on to that is there anything you can say on April and May so far? Well, I'll hand it over to Jeff. What I will say, just without being able to disclose too much, Q2 is off to a great start. I think we've really improved on a productivity standpoint with multiple scopes on the ground. We expect a strong Q2, but I'll let Jeff speak to the tonnages produced in each of the months of Q1. Okay. Thanks, Jason. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, unless, Greg, you have them right in front of you, but we did have a slight dip in February. January and March were more in line with our annual guidance, with a slight dip in tonnage in February. Greg, I don't know if you have those numbers handy in front of you. Yeah, Jeff, it was roughly about 29,000 tons in January, around 22,000 tons in February, and then about 32,000 tons in March. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. There were some weather impacts sort of scattered through there. Yeah, that's the overall breakdown. Thanks, Greg. Yeah. Good call. Thanks, both. For Q3 and Q4, what do you target for mining rates in the back half of the year? Would those two quarters, would they be flatlined or do you think the asset is still ramping up a little bit in Q4? Yeah, I think I would say a general statement is we're targeting about 1,000 tons a day. We're making a lot of the initiatives that are moving forward with midterm and long-term planning right now at McCreedy. Essentially, we've spent the last year investing in mine development and long-term planning initiatives. I think, the result of that, for the rest of the year, we're targeting a much more consistent sort of daily rate and monthly output from the mine. We're targeting in and around 30,000 tons a month is the target for the rest of the year. Okay. You're basically there already, as of those March numbers we just heard. A couple of quick nickel questions, if I can. For the potential restart of the Intermain, what do you need? What are the final hurdles there? What do you need to see to sanction that restart? I'll speak to that. The team has been doing quite a bit of work at McCreedy West on looking at a restart plan and putting together how that would be executed. What I've asked for from the team is I'd like to see a longer-term one-year plan that we can put in place. I think without that, we don't want to get started and sort of be scrambling to keep going ahead of ourselves. As Jeff said, a lot of the work that's been put into McCreedy West from a technical services standpoint is all around that long-term planning. I think we're making good progress in the 700 Copper Zone. I'd like to see that same kind of progress. I do believe there's a good potential, pretty strong potential that we will mine some Intermain nickel ore in the second half of the year. We can give more guidance on that once we have that plan completed. Okay. Does that plan for having a one-year operating plan, does that include doing drilling today to support the plan? Without drilling. I believe there is some planning being done for drilling. I don't believe we've started any yet, but I know there has been some talk of planning some drill holes to support that. Okay. For the Crean Hill, the PFS, do you expect that to be pretty linear with the past studies or do you see higher level changes for the CapEx or the time needed to initiate production there? In general, I think it's going to be generally in line with it, with the PEA. Obviously there's a number of things that will be different, including the metal prices used in our assumptions. Which changes cut off grades and continuity of zones and things like that to the positive. I'm quite excited to see where we are going to land with that. We still have months of work ahead of us to get that completed, but generally in line, is my expectation. Obviously, there's going to be some price inflation over the last couple of years and with more detailed work being done in the PFS. I expect some additional costs, but we don't expect it to be far off of what was in the PEA. Okay, got it. That's it from me. Thanks so much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Dalton Baretto with Canaccord Genuity. Great. Thanks, operator. Good morning, Magna team. I just wanted to follow on some of Bryce's questions there. We'll start off with the nickel Intermain zone. I'm just wondering what the relative content of precious metals is in the Intermain versus the 700, and how that plays through margins, given the Franco stream on the precious metals. Thanks. Well, I'll let Dave speak to the composition of the metals in the Intermain zone. As far as how that plays into margins, we can only speak to it very generally, but I'll let Dave comment on metals. Yeah. The Intermain is the majority a nickel zone. Even the copper there is quite low. If you have around 1.2 nickel average, you're probably going to be about 0.3 copper. Very low copper, and that means along with that, the precious metals are low. Almost negligible precious metals, less than 0.1 grams. Again, to speak to what does that mean with the Franco-Nevada stream? Essentially, it means that there's a lot less impact by the stream with. Right. Very low precious metals. Again, as Dave mentioned, this zone is very much dependent on nickel. It is probably 75% or more of the revenues would be generated by nickel. It is very dependent on that, and it doesn't have a lot of by-product credits. Great. Thanks. Just maybe following up on that. My understanding is that if you choose to mine the Intermain, that is incremental to what you'd be mining at the 700, and then you'd have a one-year plan there, potentially Levack coming out on the back of that. Is there a limit on how much you can ship Vale? There is a limit. It's not a limit that we would expect to hit probably with all of the operations we have all running together. There's a lot of capacity at the Clarabelle Mill. There's also significant capacity at Glencore Strathcona Mill. Just speaking to the Vale's Clarabelle Mill, back in 2008, it was running at about 32,000 tons a day. It is approximately half of that right now. A lot of capacity there. We don't see any issue with running out of room for milling capacity. Got it. Thanks, Jason. Then just maybe on sequencing. When I think about Levack versus Crean Hill, Levack right next door to McCreedy West, but you're at the PEA level, you've got the R2 zone you need to drill. Crean Hill, more advanced PFS level. It's outside any sort of Franco impact. Both studies are going to be done in Q3 of this year. How should we think about the sequencing post that? Again, I'm not going to say definitively that we will have a positive restart decision at Levack post PEA, but there's definitely a good possibility. Really it's because Levack is such a turnkey operation in our eyes. Again, we have people, underground miners doing development. We have mechanics in the shop doing work. It's an active site where we already have a partial workforce that would be required. We see it as very turnkey, a lot of development in place already. We've intersected our intermediate ore body on the 1,800 level, which is an unmined nickel copper PGM ore body that we believe could be some early ore potentially. Yeah, we see it as very turnkey. We're, again, very excited about what we believe Crean Hill will be in the PFS and where we'll be in the future as a mine under Magna's operation. Yeah, it's a very turnkey Levack operation. We believe we could start, if we make a positive decision, potentially shipping ore to Vale, in the first half of 2027. It could be that quickly. That is why we think it will be our next mine. Thanks, Jason. Just maybe one last one for me. Can we get an update on some of the exploration drilling targeting the R2? Absolutely. Dave? I was on mute. We currently have three drills turning at Levack. Two surface rigs. Those are both targeting in and around the R2 zone, a couple of infill holes trying to target where we believe we may be able to find thicker veins. The second more expansion drilling. The one underground drill, like Jason mentioned, is up on the 1,800 level. It is beginning to target the R2 as well as do some infill drilling on the intermediate ore body that Jason mentioned that could be early production from Levack. We do have a second underground rig that should be mobilizing to site in the next couple of weeks and a third scheduled within the next couple of months. As Jason and Jeff also mentioned, we do have development and are rehabbing additional underground platforms that will allow shorter drill holes to test R2 in both infill and expansion. Thanks, Dave. That's all for me, guys. Thank you. I'm showing no further questions via the phone. I'll turn it back over to you, Greg. Thank you, operator. I'm seeing that we've addressed all of the online questions. With that, I think we'll wrap up there and hand back over to you for closing. Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you all for participating. You may now disconnect.
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