Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Centamin Corporate Update presentation. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session through the phone lines, and instructions will follow at that time. I would like to remind all participants that this call is being recorded. I will now hand over to Michael Stoner, Head of Corporate. Please go ahead. Thank you, Kevin. Before we begin, I'd like to draw your attention to the disclaimer on slide two. As you'll have seen, earlier this morning, we announced the recommended firm offer from AngloGold to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Centamin. As a result, we're under a number of restrictions in terms of what we can discuss today, due to the requirements of the UK Takeover Code. We will, of course, do our best to be helpful during the Q&A. However, please note that we are unable to provide further detail beyond what is disclosed in the 2.7 announcement. With that, I'll hand over to Martin. Thank you very much, Michael, and thank you everybody for joining us this morning in respect of this corporate update presentation. As Michael said, we're here today following the announcement of the recommendation of a firm offer by AngloGold Ashanti to acquire Centamin, which follows the receipt of an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from AngloGold. The board of Centamin has unanimously recommended the firm offer and believes the transaction and its terms represent highly compelling strategic and financial value for our shareholders. The transaction delivers an immediate premium, and it creates a more diversified combined group with enhanced operating and financial profile. The transaction implies a valuation of approximately GBP 1.9 billion, or $2.5 billion. Based on the closing price of Centamin shares, the transaction reflects a premium of 36.7% to the closing price on the 9th of September 2024, and 37.6% to the 30-day VWAP as of the 9th of September 2024. The form of consideration also allows our shareholders to benefit from the value creation potential of the combined group, while also receiving cash. Shareholders will be entitled to receive, for each Centamin share, 0.06983 new Anglo shares and $0.125 in cash. Centamin shareholders will now own approximately 16.6% of the combined group. The transaction represents an endorsement of our achievements in reestablishing Sukari since 2020, which has included a multi-phase life of asset review, culminating in the release of the new life of mine plan in October last year. Management's continued pursuit of value accretive opportunities for 2024 and beyond, including grid power connection, completion of the accelerated waste stripping program, and solar expansion study, as well as our successes in the exploration, greenfield of the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Of course, the advancement of our West African exploration portfolio, which results in the completion of a positive definitive feasibility study for the Doropo. In terms of next steps, the transaction is to be implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement, with completion subject to satisfactory satisfaction of conditions, including Centamin shareholder approval and Egyptian Competition Authority approval. The expected transaction timeline targets the scheme documents to be mailed to Centamin shareholders as soon as practicable. The court meeting and Centamin general meeting to be on or around the 28th of October, with the scheme expected to become effective by the fourth quarter 2024. We also wanted to highlight that AngloGold will be hosting a conference call later today to discuss the transaction further. The details of this webcast can be found on the firm offer announcement. In terms of today's announcement, we've issued a trading update for the first two months of the third quarter 2024. Our full Q3 results will be released in October, in line with our normal reporting cycle. I'm pleased to say that Sukari continues to perform safely, and the positive operational momentum that we achieved during the second quarter of this year has continued into July and August, and most notably resulting in 1.9 million tons of total ore being processed. Feed grade of 1.59 g/ ton gold, and metallurgical recoveries of 89.3%, and that's resulted in production of 93,000 oz over the first two months of the quarter. From a financial perspective, that strong production and cost discipline focus has enabled us to benefit from the robust gold price, and that's resulted in revenue generation of $249 million from gold sales of 103,000 oz quarter- to- date. Sales were higher than production, as the elevated level of bullion held at half year unwound. Cash costs came in at $715 per oz, and an all-in sustaining cost of $1,290 per oz sold quarter- to- date Capital expenditures of $36 million was expended in the period, including raising tailings profile storage at TSF2, open pit fleet purchases, and some equipment rebuilds and group adjusted free cash flow of $76 million over those first two months, which is 77% higher than the $43 million generated in the first half of the year. This leads us to our 2024 guidance remaining unchanged, with production performance tracking towards the midpoint of the guidance provided during our full year 2023 results. Thank you for listening, and with that, we'll now go to questions. Please noting Michael's earlier comments on restrictions on what we're able to discuss on this call. Thank you, Michael. If you are dialed into the call and would like to ask a question, please signal by pressing star one on your telephone keypad. That is star one if you wish to ask a question on the phone. Once again, if you wish to ask a question on the phone, please press star one. There are no questions at this time on the conference line. I will now hand back to Martin for closing remarks. Well, thank you, everybody, for taking the time to listen in this morning. As we noted, we are somewhat restricted in terms of what we can update you around. But thank you for their time in dialing in and listening to this what we believe is a compelling and exciting transaction at the next stage of Centamin's evolution development. Thank you very much.
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