TRX Gold Corporation

It's now my pleasure to introduce Christina Lawley, Vice President, Investor Relations with TRX Gold. Christina, the floor is yours.

Thank you, Gaylene, and welcome everyone to the TRX Gold Corporation second quarter 2024 results presentation. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the meeting is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. If you wish to ask a question, please click the Q&A icon on the left-hand side of the screen. You will see the options, raise your hand and be able to join the queue and ask your question verbally, or write a question to submit your question in writing. Analysts who have dialed into the conference call may press the star then one on your telephone keypad to join the question queue. I would like to now turn the meeting over to Stephen Maloney, CEO of TRX Gold. Stephen, please go ahead.

Yeah, thank you, Christina, and welcome, everybody, to our Q2 conference call. Hopefully, we'll have a good connection here for the remainder of this call. I am in Dar es Salaam. I just landed this morning, so I may be a little bit tired and hand over a large portion of this to Mike. Andrew Chidor, COO. is unable to join us today. I believe he may be stuck in the rainstorm in Dubai on his way back to Toronto. And we also have Mike Leonard, our CFO, joining myself and Christina here this morning for this conference call. So Q2 2024, really, as I've mentioned before in the past, this is about the growth phase of the company and getting our expansion online. We've accomplished that in Q2. The new crushing circuit, which I'll get to see tomorrow, is up and running. The tertiary crushers, the final piece of that, have arrived on site, are being installed, and will come online mid to late next week. The plant has been being built. and will be poured starting tomorrow. All the steel works are done and rings for new tanks are being constructed and welded as we speak. So a lot of action going on at site. And so we'll be very excited to get there tomorrow to see a lot of this. So without further ado, Christina, can you move into the presentation? First and foremost, I always have a disclaimer. You can go to our website to view this. There may be forward-looking statements. And back to the pictures, Christina. We got a little surprise for you. We have actually updated our photos, and the reason for the updated photos is There will be a new website coming. It's currently in the queue and being put in place. And obviously, for the new website, we have new photos. And I must say, look how nice Mike is looking in that photo. You can tell where he came from before he joined TRX and Barrick. He's got the blue suit, the nice blue tie on with the white shirt. He's looking very, very good. Aren't you, Mike?