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| We delivered on our plan for strong production and EBITDA growth in the quarter as seen on Slide 10 |
| Additionally, there are several opportunities to further increase production, improve costs, and extend mine life as upside potential beyond the technical report |
| The fourth quarter saw increased copper production, record gold production, and record financial performance, resulting in the successful achievement of our annual guidance metrics |
| These strong results were because of many successful capital allocation initiatives at Hudbay |
| 2023 was the first year we saw the significant benefits from our recent brownfield capital investments in Peru and Manitoba |
| And they've been successful at converting pyrite to pyrrhotite, which Peter described as what that does is we're working at eliminating the acid generation of the tails, and basically wiping out any water treatment out for the next 100 years is our goal, and so we see that as a huge upside |
| Additional high-grade areas were mined in 2023 ahead of schedule, resulting in gold production exceeding 2023 guidance levels |
| Delivering our second successful quarter of growing cash flows enabled us to continue to reduce debt and significantly improve our leverage ratio at the end of 2023 |
| We successfully acquired and integrated the Copper Mountain mine to further enhance our strong diversified operating platform and production profile, and throughout the year we looked for other opportunities to drive long-term growth, including the consolidation of a significant land package in Snow Lake with the acquisition of the Rockcliff and Cook Lake properties near Lalor |
| We achieved adjusted EBITDA of $274 million in the quarter, the highest quarterly level over the last five years and a 44% increase from previous high in the third quarter |
| With our continued efforts to reduce discretionary spending, we were able to deliver on our spending reduction targets for 2023 |
| We intend to generate strong cash flow by delivering copper production growth and maintaining strong gold production |
| This will enhance our ability to develop -- to deliver our leading copper growth pipeline |
| Our 2023 achievements are a testament to the outstanding team we have at Hudbay, which continues to deliver the plan while always operating safely and efficiently |
| Our commitment to continued financial discipline, together with our increasingly resilient operating platform, will allow us to prudently advance and unlock value from our leading organic pipeline of brownfield expansion and greenfield exploration and development opportunities |
| In the fourth quarter, we delivered on our plan for significantly higher production revenue and cash flow as we generated strong returns from our recent brownfield and growth investments across the business |
| We successfully doubled our production in the second half of the year compared to the first half, as shown on Slide 4 |
| Hudbay is uniquely positioned to benefit from the strong outlook for copper with attractive copper production growth and significant long term optionality for investors through our leading organic growth pipeline |
| Our strong operating platform with multiple assets in Tier 1 mining jurisdictions delivers a robust copper platform with more than 150,000 tonnes of annual copper production through to the end of this decade |
| The accelerated stripping program is expected to improve operating efficiencies and lower unit operating costs |
| This strong performance allowed us to achieve consolidated production guidance for all metals in 2023 and better than expected cash costs and sustaining cash costs for the year |
| Full year consolidated copper production increased by 26% year-over-year, while gold production increased by 41% and silver production increased by 13% |
| Slide 5 summarizes the strong financial performance driven by record production levels in the quarter |
| Consolidated cash costs were a remarkable $0.16 per pound of copper, an 85% improvement over the third quarter |
| We believe the stabilization initiatives will lead to consistent production levels and reduced cash costs over the mine life, representing an approximate 90% increase in average annual copper production and an approximate 50% decrease in cash costs over the first 10 years compared to 2022 |
| Peru exceeded the top end of the gold production guidance range, Manitoba exceeded the top end of the copper production guidance range, while Copper Mountain exceeded the top end of the silver production guidance range for the portion of 2023 since acquisition |
| The full year sustaining cash costs were favorably impacted by lower sustaining capital expenditures than planned, resulted in annual sustaining cash costs performing better than guidance and coming in below the low end of cost guidance range |
| This will be done through increased mining activities, accelerated stripping to access higher grades, improved mill throughput and recoveries, unlocking operating efficiencies and corporate synergies, and ensuring stabilized near-term cash flows |
| Our leading copper exposure with complementary gold revenue offers portfolio resilience and diversification, while we offer unique copper optionality with our world-class organic growth pipeline of development assets, including Copper World in Arizona and the highly prospective exploration satellite properties near Constancia |
| Copper Mountain provides stability in our consolidated cash flows and strongly positions us to prudently advance and unlock value from our development pipeline, including Copper World |
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| Gold production is expected to be 84, 500 ounces, lower than 2023 levels due to the smoothing of Pampacancha high-grade gold zones |
| Consolidated gold production in 2024 is expected to be 291,000 ounces, a slight year-over-year decline due to smoothing of the Pampacancha high-grade gold zones over the 2023 to 2025 period |
| Zinc production is expected to decline 10% year-over-year as certain high-grade zinc areas were shifted to 2023 and the mine continues to prioritize higher gold and copper grade zones in 2024 |
| Total annual sustaining capital expenditures in Peru were $28 million lower than the original guidance, primarily as a result of lower capitalized stripping costs |
| We -- you will recall during the Rosemont project that the state permits were issued and that they were, in fact, challenged by opponents, it's not unlikely that that won't happen again, but remember that we overcame those or the state overcame those challenges and the permits were upheld |
| Gold sustaining cash costs were $788 per ounce, a decrease of 16% from the third quarter based on the same reasons affecting cash costs combined with lower sustaining capital expenditures |
| So, our feeling is that there may be a challenge, but they will be fairly easily overcome, because of the technical merits associated with the permits |
| Manitoba's gold cash costs were $434 per ounce, 35% lower than the third quarter due to higher by-product credits and higher gold production in accordance with the mine plan |
| Full year 2023, consolidated cash costs were $0.80 per pound at the very low end of the annual guidance range |
| Sustaining cash costs in Peru also decreased by 20% in the fourth quarter and by 23% for the year ended 2023 |
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