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Aura Minerals Inc. (ORAAF) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

Aug. 13, 2023 9:08 AM ETAura Minerals Inc. (ORAAF), ORA:CA
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Aura Minerals Inc. (OTCQX:ORAAF) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 8, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Rodrigo Barbosa - President and CEO

Kleber Cardoso - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Edgard Souza - Itau BBA

Victor Chen - Safra

Roman Rossi - Cannacord Genuity

Rodrigo Barbosa

Good morning all. And again, thank you for being here with us, so that we can explain and go through the quarter’s results. As we already predicted, now, we will go through. This was very important quarter for us, despite a weaker production that was already projected. We generated cash flows. We are moving significantly forward on the projects that I am going to share with you.

But first, going to the results and the production by itself. As we already released in early July, the production of this quarter was close to 48.500 gold equivalent ounces and that is lower than the first quarter mainly because of EPP when during last quarter we assessed lower grades.

This was already projected since the beginning of the years that we knew that this quarter would be weaker in EPP and that we will be reaching higher grades in Q3 and then Q4, significant higher grades.

I am going to show you that exactly what happened in 2021, in 2022. Now, in 2023, we should also have a strong Q3 and even stronger Q4. Not only by higher grades in EPP, but also with the -- we should -- we expect the start of commercial production for Almas very soon, plus a gradual increase in Honduras and stable production in Aranzazu.

Going -- so we maintained the guidance for EPP despite this weak quarter as it was already planned. Again, for those that are investing in Aura recently, mining gold different from other for iron ore, for example, sometimes you reach

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