Atalaya Mining Plc

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Atelier Mining PLC Q2 results presentation. Throughout this presentation, investors will be in listen-only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted anytime via the Q&A tab situated on the right-hand corner of your screen. Just click Q&A, type in your question, and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, we'll respond to all questions submitted today where appropriate to do so. And these responses will be available via InvestorMeet company dashboard and you'll be notified once they're ready for your review. I'd also like to remind you this presentation is being recorded. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Alberto Lavandera, CEO and Cesar Sanchez, CFO of Atalaya Mining. Good afternoon.

Thank you very much. Welcome everybody to this Presentation, that's the first time we do, thanks to this technology. With me, I have Cesar Santiago, our CFO, which is somewhere down south of the mine, and Mike Restainer, which is somewhere in London. And I'm sitting in the north part of Spain, close to the total project at this stage. So I am going to make a brief presentation of the company, assuming that some people that may be interested in this company are not shareholders and do not know the company. Sorry for those that know the company, but at least I would like to have this short introduction. And after that, we'll have some time for questions. So I suppose everybody has the presentation in front of them or can access through the So in the first page, you will see what we are mining right now. It's in Spain. It's called Cerro Colorado. It's an open pit producing copper in the north part of Spain. And we are located in slide five. We are located very close to Sevilla, about one hour from Sevilla. We have another project. about 20 minutes from Santiago, the capital of Galicia in the north part of Spain. You won't find mines assets so close to places where you can fly in from London and be there at the mine in less than one hour. We are a copper producer in a fantastic country with consistency, and I would try to emphasize that. Always, we always, always perform our targets. Some people say we are boring. Well, we like to be boring. Boring investment is quite a good thing. Always, no surprises, especially no bad surprises. We have a long life, strong pipeline of growth, and we have delivered the core, so trust me, we will continue to be delivering. And we will do that because we have a fantastic team, people that have built several mines in Spain and in Africa, and have done it before, and this has been the key to the success of this company. And just in the same page five, I'm going to ask you to point to the figure of market cap of the company. Enterprise value is around $550 million. That figure is important because we will see what is the type of cash that we are generating compared to this figure. So turning into the next page, which is six, you will see what are our assets. We have a producing mine with 700,000 tons of copper. We have another deposit besides it, which has around 800,000 tons of copper plus over 1 million tons of zinc. And then about 25 kilometers from now, we have another 400,000 tons of copper and a similar amount of zinc. So in our reserves, In our valuation, in our mine life, we only have the first 700,000 tons of copper enough for 12 years. Trust me that this rest of these resources are not going to stay in the ground. So the mine life is not going to be 12 years. It's going to be much more than that. In the north, it's around 700,000 tons of copper when you consider the copper prices who will stay as we are right now. So if I pass to the page, 7 briefly it just shows a picture of what the installation of Rotinto looks like there was nothing there four years ago all that has been constructed from scratch that shows you the capability in that picture you will see timeline timeline was in 2015 we started with first production I joined the company with my team in mid 2014 after I would say, ages of permitting, we got that up and running in less than one year. One year later, we expanded the first time. And two years later, we expanded the second time. And we tripled the production from that asset. If I turn to page eight, you will see how the growth of production of ore ponds treated through our installations have grown from 15-16 at the different stages of expansions. You will see there two important things. One is the consistency. We always deliver going upwards. And second, a figure that for some of you that are not familiar with it, which is a capital intensity, that the capital cost, the investment divided by the copper production. And that is very important because it tells you how efficient you are with your capital. It may be low because you are in a fantastic location with very good infrastructure like we are. It may be low because you care about the money, because you look at the best offers, because you don't give it to a turnkey contractor to do everything by themselves. Our cost of less than $5,000 per ton is one-third, one-third at least, of what it costs to replace production. In other words, somebody could pay double by our share price and say look i would like to pay for this company x million and it will still be cheaper than building new production this is like the price of let's say a house or apartment in the center of london when you see that it costs less than the bricks is there it's a good thing these people are doing a good job i think that's That picture of how we care of the CAPEX and how consistent we are is essential to be able to invest in our company. And what do we have besides Rio Tinto? Well, if you look at page nine, you will see a map. In that map, you will see some red stain in the center, which is called Project Rio Tinto. That's where we are. Left south, which is west south, is Maza Valverde. 29 kilometers, and to the right, an area dashed with green. Those are our mineral rights. In red, the stars, arrows, are existing deposits. That's the pirate belt. It's full of deposits. West of us, that's left in the picture, you will see Aguas Teñidas, Badalena, Sotiel. Those are mines being managed and operated by Mugadala and Trafigura, which right now, they're on sale, by the way, for a price tag of $1.5 to $2 billion. They have a center hub where they transport the ore from the two other mines south and west to a central mine in Aguastanides. We are going to do exactly the same thing. So our future expansion does not need new installations. We already have set the foundations for that further expansion of whatever we find in the concessions that are shown in green. That's the key of our pipeline. Why I insist so much in a pipeline? That's in page 10. I insist so much because investing in a mining company requires long life because that means optionality. It means you will have lots of years where you would still enjoy some good prices. Remember, for those of you that are not familiar with our company, when we came here in 2015, the mine life was 12 years. We have been producing six years and the mine life of Rotinto is still 12 years. By doing that, by extending the mine life and spending inspiration like we did, we now are enjoying still lots of years on good prices. It's very important that the mine life is long because that's the essential sustainability of a mining company. And that's what we show in page 10. We have routine to producing in the right side. We have total getting permits with the facility study completed. Something called ELEX, which is basically a system to add value to other assets. Then further to the left, we have impermitted MPA what we call Mazabal Verde, San Dionisio, and San Antonio, which are additional deposits which are going to pass through the same stages that we went through with Rio Tinto. And then forward to the left, we have Mazabal Verde, Majabales, which is a new discovery, and the whole concessions of what we call Rio Tinto East. It's essential that the mine line goes beyond 15 years, 20 years, the maximum possible. That will give you time to find more and to create value to the shareholders. We love copper, and all these concessions contain mainly copper. If we go to page 11, you will see why we love copper. I'm not sure how familiar you are with copper, and excuse me if I state the obvious, but copper has only one way to go. up and the reason is look at where's the supply coming from peru political problems chile they're going to implement a huge tax zambia congo i lived there seven years one of the most unstable places in the world perfecting is getting more difficult all over the place not only in spain in the us in chile there are no new discoveries because companies have not invested in the last year when the prices were low so at the end what means that bringing new mines in production is very difficult just takes time but in the other hand we have politicians saying hey we need to have more copper because we want clean energies we want green energies so at the end we want more copper we need to get the stimulus We need to do something to fight the COVID. We need to do investments. If you do investments, you need electricity. If you need electricity, you need copper. Everybody likes to live in towns, so towns require more copper. Electric vehicles, where the hell are we going to get the copper for the motors and the grids to load them? So then we have a lower supply, higher demand globally, and that means the copper price will have to go up significantly in order to maintain production and also to incentivize new products coming on stream. And before getting into the results itself, which is the main purpose of this call, and before getting into questions, let me show you in page 12 where we are versus others. First, I will show you in page 12 how we are in size. but especially what the market is telling us, the consensus of what the beta should be in this year. They are saying that we are going to have, based on consensus, 200 million U.S. dollars. Remember that figure I told you in the first slide. It was our enterprise value is 550. So we're going to have a beta of just shy of less than two times well, a little bit more than two times EBITDA. And the free cash flow, they're saying we are going to have around 93 million. Well, that means the rate use, if we go to next page 13, the rate use of enterprise value versus EBITDA is 2.7 times. And free cash flow yield is 17%. And compared to what other peers have in our universe, like your copper, Tseko, Central Asia, Copper Mountain, all of them much higher than us. But that's based on consensus. The reality is that the results have been much better than that. So if I summarize what we have been doing in the first part of 2001 before letting Cesar go through the results, I would say that during the first quarter, first half of the year, we continued performing. Consistent, consistent, consistent. In good cover prices and with very good controls of costs. If you look at our expenditures, it had been very consistent and similar to the previous quarter. As a result of that, with higher cover price, more cash flow. And of course, our position of net cash position, it continues to grow. We continue to delivery, delivery, delivery. That's the important thing. We have additional reserves. We highlighted what we have in San Dionisio. We are already reducing the costs by installing water thickeners, by installing solar plant. And what are we doing in the future? Well, finalizing all these reports that are needed to give full value to the reserves and resources at San Domingo Planes in San Antonio. So we have started for the three 101 technical reports in all of them, which as soon as they are available, it will be given to the market. And of course, we continue to like what we have in TOTO and we are doing big effort in TOTO. And I'm a strong believer that we will get the permits of TOTO this time. And now I may pass it to Cesar to speak a little bit about the financial results and economic results that are shown in page 16 and 17. Cesar, do you want to go?

Yeah. Thank you, Alberto. Hello, everyone. So on page 16, we have a summary of the H1 2021 production results. We also have some historical production metrics since we started the operation in Q1 2016 for the output for the copper production. As you will see, since we started consistent in our production, as you can see in the trends in the metrics on the graph on the right-hand side, we have been producing steadily since the beginning of 2016. Growth, we have done two plant expansions from 5 million tonnes per annum in 2016 to 9.5 million tonnes per annum, and then to 15 million tonnes per annum to get to the 16th 28.3 thousand tons of copper production in 2021. And we also deliver copper production. So we have delivered since the beginning with no exemptions, not even when we were in the transitions when we were funding the plant. So as Alberto mentioned, it's almost boring to keep the production levels very quite steady. In terms of guidance that you have on the bottom, the guidance that we have released at the beginning of the year, which remains unchanged. But given the production level during H1 2021, we expect to be towards the end of the production and therefore towards the lower end of cost. But again, we're being conservative. We still keep an eye on COVID, for example. On slide 17, that's on the next slide, we have, if someone can just click for the next slide, please. Thank you. On the next slide, we have a summary of the financial results of Atalaya for H1 2021. So we had two continuous quarter delivering production, as I mentioned. So good production levels together with high copper prices means high revenues, which amounted to 197.1 million. Atalaya has a high leverage to copper price. So if you're bullish on copper price, as we are in the future, revenues level will continue or even increase the level that we have in the first half of 2021. So good revenues followed by a good cost control policy means better debita, which amounted to 99.4 million for the six months and a net profit of 66 million euros. On the cash flows, we have generated 71 million in operation cash flow. And as we don't have to invest much annually to run the plans, we have a good level of free cash flow amounted to 53.1 million. So it's a representation of a good level of cash generating ratio from EBITDA. As you can see, the impact of the cash generated by Atalaya on the bottom right graph, where we have the net cash debt position of the company since Q1 2016 showing a negative working capital of around 40 million, which increased to a negative working capital of about 50 million in Q4 2016 and Q2 2017. You can also see the improvement due to the equity raise that we did in December 2017, where we raised 31 million sterling and then progressively improving all the way through to get to a positive net cash position of 37.8 million as of 30 June 2021. Now, if you see the cash generated by Atalaya in Q1 and Q2, you will easily get to the expected cash balance at the end of the year as we're building up cash at a very high speed. So in summary, the main metrics for the balance sheet are on the bottom left where we have cash of 92.9 million and continue growing. We have 55 million in borrowings that will be repay over the next three years up to December 2024. By the way, these borrowing are unsecure and have an average rate of 2%. This gives us a net cash position of 37.8 million and a working capital surplus of 90.9 million, as I already noted.

In slide 18, we have... Let me... In slide 18, I think most of the questions, most of the targets here where we mention our priorities are related to questions that... that have come, and I think it may be better that we answer them, because people are asking about ELIX, are asking about Rheumatoid Siding to the UK, and all these things. So maybe I can summarize here and get into the questions directly, because we have some very interesting questions, and we may get much more. But in summary, 2001, let me summarize one thing. I forgot to say that If you look at the, as Professor has mentioned, the cash generation of 53 million in one half, which means analyze of 100 million euros, which is roughly $120 million, is 20% higher, the reality, than what the consensus is believing. So those numbers based on consensus, actually the reality for the first six months are low. So what are our plans for 2021? To continue production and probably go to the high end of the guidance, to continue to get growth options. Capital returns, we are going to get to that because lots of questions about dividends and capital returns. I'm sure this will be decided this year. Near term, continue growing, continue growing. continue delivering as a corporate level to get to the UK, to pass to the main board if possible, and also to improve liquidity. We have been working on that for a long time, and we slowly, slowly, we are improving that liquidity. And long term, we would like to have a couple assets. Of course, the best one would be in Spain with Toto, but if not, we'll find it in any other place. So that's more or less in a nutshell

without getting into details because i i would love to get as much more time to reply to to the very interesting questions that we have received that sounds that sounds fantastic yeah we'll move on to those alberto cesar thank you very much indeed for the presentation um as alberto said um ladies and gentlemen do please continue to submit your questions using the q a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen just click q a type in your question and press send just while the team take a few moments to review those investor questions submitted already i'd like to remind you that recording the presentation along with a copy of the slides and the published q a can be accessed via your investor dashboard on the investor meet company platform i'd also like to remind you that your feedback is important to the company and immediately after the presentation has ended you will be redirected for the opportunity to provide feedback in order that the management team can better understand your your views and expectations Alberto, as you said, we did receive a number of pre-submitted questions along with having questions submitted during today's event. So perhaps we can start with the pre-submitted. If I may, I'll just read out the first one and we can work through them. The first one reads as follows. What are the criteria around paying a dividend to shareholders and what timeframes are you considering?

Okay, yes, we have discussed this at the board level the last time yesterday, actually. And of course, the common sense tells us that without having a formal decision done you so i cannot announce a formal decision obviously this platform but just think that we will end up uh we'll end up the year with over 150 million dollars if things go correctly we have two shareholders sitting at the board withhold 24 percent of shares uh they are not going to leave that money they are sitting down just for the sake of sitting down we don't have any special need even if we got permits for total you have seen all of you how frugal we are with with construction with capital expenditures we don't we do not um overspend and we have not issued lots of shares to dilute So this attitude is not going to change. The money will be returned to the shareholders starting, I would say, this year. I cannot say specifically when, because it would be insider information, but certainly the common sense tells you that we are not going to be sitting there. Remember, that's only the second quarter that we have cash in our balance sheet, but things are growing extremely fast, as we have seen in slide 817. It's expected sometime this year. As about amount, also not a specific number approved, but the logic tells you that looking at what the market is doing, between 30% and 50% of the free cash flow available normally is returned to the shareholders. What I mean available is that's not going to be needed next year. That's the normal dividend. We believe that dividends should be sustainable, not extraordinary dividends. And if the year continues as it's going, or things go up, or even copper price continues to go up, there's no reason why an uptick of the dividends could be given as an extraordinary dividend at the end of the year or starting of the next year.

Alberto, thank you very much indeed. And the next question we have here is, what other expansion plans are Atelier currently considering for its existing assets around Rio Tinto? And is there anything you can do to improve the grade?

Look, I think both are linked, both of these points. Because when we are limited, we are limited by water and power as we attain to self. Remember, this project is going to be $9 million per year. We are in $16 million per year. It's not much more than we can do with our existing installations. So how can we expand? Well, we expand by bringing in higher value materials, higher grades and things. So if you look at the grades of San Dionisio deposit, they contain around 0.7% copper and around similar rates, slightly higher or 1% of zinc. So by substituting some of the tons that go into the mill from Cerro Colorado by a few tons coming from this only issue will improve the grade by producing more copper and produce a byproduct of zinc, which means It will be a byproduct. So basically this is like a copper equivalent will be higher. It means with the same installation, we are going to be producing more, not treating more tons, but treating more tons with quality. And that's the closest expansion that we see including to bringing in San Dionisio. San Dionisio open pit is around 150 million tons, sorry, 52 million tons. San Antonio is around nine. So we have like 50% more tons with higher rate around existing pit. So the logical thing to be mining this at the same time and improve the grade.

Fantastic. Thank you Alberto. Next question we have here is what are your plans for the Elix system and how will this technology benefit Atalaya?

Elix is a, I think it's a fantastic system that I think it will be almost a change in the world. So we have the luxury of being able to participate in the development. I will tell you first what I want. It doesn't mean it's going to happen because we have to agree with the owners and also agree with our board to do it. But I would love to build a demonstration plant, not a pilot plant like we have right now, which is quite big, but a real plant, to treat some tons with basically to take out the different problems because this is a new system. And I would like to have this up and running next year with a very modest investment, like we do things, and to demonstrate that we can do it. We have looked at the numbers, the numbers look good. What is the benefit that can bring to Guataraya? The benefit is that this is a system that leaches copper and zinc very well, very fast, and is able to produce metal directly. This has the potential, especially, to be able to treat, complex sulfides with copper, zinc, and lead that are combined, intermingled, they're combined, and in this way you get better recovery. So the benefit comes from better recoveries and lower costs. And what we insisted a lot when we financed the owner of this technology was to have the exclusivity in the Parrot Belt because this can be applied for lots of the deposits that are available in the Parrot Belt that always have a combination of copper, lead, zinc, in the ores, which often, if you want to separate them with differential flotation, you lose some of them. For example, just to give an idea, if you do differential flotation to recover copper and zinc, you get 75% copper and another 75% zinc. If you produce a global flotation and you treat with the system, you can get 90% of each. So you get from the same tons to the mill, you get more metal. That's the beauty of the system. basically dissolves out the copper in the sink.

Fantastic, Alberto. Next one we've got here is around Toro. What is the current situation at Toro? Can you describe the new development plans you're submitting?

Look, Toro got stopped due to a negative environmental pact declaration, although the main reason was political. There were some anti-mining groups making a lot of noise. And in a moment where there were local elections and the government decided to say, look, there's a risk of lots of noise. Everybody had seen this disaster of Brubadinho tailings in Brazil with the videos of that wall of mud going down and killing 200 people. And this was sent all over the nets. So then they said, look, there's too much risk. We don't want to approve this in the middle of elections. What things have changed? Well, there's no election until three years, first thing. Second thing, the party that was opposing the project, which was the very left-wing party called Podemos in Spain, disappeared from the local parliament. They had 15 seats from 75, and now they have zero. The third thing is that we have now a group, a kind of very large group, promoting the mining. So if I... went to to the page of total where this is this is shown you will see that there is a group of demonstrators and actually they are not opposing the mind they are they are saying yes we want the mind that's that showed in in slide 31. so that's people making the same noise that in the past The anti-mining groups did. Now they're making the noise, we want the mine. We have polls saying we want the mine. They are asking us to push ahead and promote the mine. So that's from the demand side. And from our side, what we have done to change the mind of the local government is if you think the water on top of the tailings was a problem before it breaks, because if it breaks, it can create a disaster, what we will do is remove the water on top of the tailings. So our tailings will be plastic lined. It will not be without water because it rains a lot, but we'll have a system of pumping where the water will be pumped out to a mined out pit under the level of the rock, which means the level of the ground, which means if there is no water on top of the tailings, it's impossible you create a mud rush in the event of failure, although it is impossible to fail because this is constructed with a rock will seem like you construct a water dam so what we have done is change the project make it more safer and have now a proactive people saying that they want the project and the people that are anti-project they have basically disappeared so we are quite hopeful although you never know with politicians but technically this project has no issue at all to be permitted

Thank you, Alberto.

But it takes time.

Thank you. The next question we've got here, which I remember is on your final slide there. The company has been considering a main market listing for a while. What's your current thinking? Would you consider a dual listing in Spain?

Look, dual listing in Spain, we have not considered, to be honest. I mean, people have asked us, but there's no tradition in Spain for mining companies, although Berkeley was there for a while. It's funny because we have a probably around 25% of our shareholders, or 20% are Spanish funds. Cobas, Magallanes, Urquijo, Sabadell, Solventis, Trea, I could name lots of them, some of them with 2%, 3%, and one of them with 9%. So all of these Spanish funds that I have, all of them visited the mine, all of them have been on site, so they have seen how we control, how we do things. All of them are investors already through AIM. So I don't think we are looking at Madrid. But yes, we would love to be in the main listing, in the main board. And liquidity has improved, which is a key point. And one of the first things we're doing is really, really domiciling the company from Cyprus, which is only one office with one person and a half right now, sending that to London to be seen as a London company. But this, as you well know, is a heritage of the old times of EMET mining, where the founder, Harry Adams, was a Cypriotic Australian, and they decided to stay there for probably tax reasons or whatever. But we are doing all the steps to be set in London.

Perfect. Thank you so much. We've got another question here. Are you looking at overseas copper interests or are you focused on being a Spanish-European pure play?

Actually, you look at my history when I say mine, it's also my team, of course. We did several mines. We started in gold mining in Spain, which is now 25 years later still mining in Urbana. Then we did another mining in... and then another one in Mauritania, which is now Kinross in Gold Bank, huge. And we also bought 80% of a company in Peru, which is Minajusta, which is now being started up production, basically one month ago. And we also bought 18% of another company, Allegiance Binding in Tasmania, called Nickel. So, and then I moved to Congo seven years after we were bought by Lundin. So there's no problem at all going outside if we can add value. So the places we're looking at are places where we can add value, which I believe are South America and Central America because of the language. Language is important, so places like Peru, Ecuador, Chile would have a certain advantage versus other Australian, British, Canadian companies. That's all. And yes, we are concentrating in base metals, mainly copper. I personally like also nickel, but copper is the main case for South America. But we have also been looking in everything that moves in Spain and Portugal, and also everything that has been available in Europe. It's easier to say places where we are not going to go, which are most of the places of Asia, Africa, North America, because we wouldn't be able to compete with Canadians, which are fantastic, or Americans. Only places where we can add some value.

Thank you very much. Next one we have here reads as follows. It looks like Liberty Metals is selling its position. Do you think this is an overhang to your share price? And the second part is, how confident are you of attracting new institutional investors to take Liberty's stake?

I'm sure it's an overhang and it's a pity. It's a pity they have been selling and they resigned from the board specifically not to be insiders. And since then they have already sold about 3 million shares. And I'm sure they continue. It is a pity because they continue to be changing the selling point because we have had some brokers sending them offers for blocks. So yes, it's an overhang. Yes, they are selling. We don't know when. They are not selling through the three brokers that are, let's say, making them offers. And I can tell you that I have confirmation that we have at least $50 million or $40 million of demand of shares from institutions if they wanted to sell. So hopefully one day this will be out. As soon as there is a block available, it's is followed by an institution.

Thank you. And the next one we've got here is you're perceived to be a high-cost producer. Is this accurate, or is there a difference with how you report your costs versus peers?

That's a very good point. It's a very good point. I always insist and compare with others. I say, look, just go and compare what others do from cash flows. I think the problem is that we have is that all the people, there's no standards for reporting. And if I direct you to the page of the presentation that's in page 36, which I'm not sure if this is in euros per whatever, it's total cash cost plus sustaining capex in dollars per pound. I'm not sure if it's euro or the scale is right. But whatever it is, this is coming from Wood Mackenzie. And we are there located in the center. with costs just slightly higher than pre-ports, but lower than Barrick, like AeroCopper, BHP, KGM, Chem, the producers of Antofagasta, First Quantum. So we are lower overall cost of all these people. And that's the reason why you see that we, how come that we are high cost producer and we produce such a high cost cash? The reason is that the way we report oil cost is that We include everything, including DNAs, including interest, including everything, while all the people forget those costs. Another thing is that we have a contractor that mines for us, so we don't have to buy equipment every year. We don't need to make huge capital investments in replacing the fleet. So it would be like if a taxi driver said, look, my cost per mile, whatever it is, is 10, and he's forgetting the price of the car that he has to change is two years. Same thing. They're operating costs and then they forget that each year they had to put 50 million, 40 million to buy new diggers, new excavators and so on, and new trucks and so on. And that's what happened with other peers. So yes, we are high cost. We are not low cost for sure because we have very low grade, but we are quite efficient and we have a quite good margin. The reality is that look at the cash flow yield. Maybe other people that have low costs, how come they have lower low? If they have lower costs, how come they have lower cash flow yield than us? Something's not matching. So we are right in our reports and we are honest and we have very good yield. As you can see, we are giving almost 30% of cash flow a year.

Alberto, thank you. We've probably got time for a few more questions, but if you could just review, if you just go through the Q&A tab and just review the questions there. Thank you. If you could just read them out, please, that'd be great.

Yes, I have a couple of interesting questions which we have not touched on. One is that we are seeing cost inflation coming back across the mining industry. You reiterated your cost guidance for this year, but can you comment on the situation in Spain? Are you experiencing cost pressures at all? Is COVID having an impact on costs? Well, let me start by the back end. COVID is not having any impact. We are taking all kinds of measures. The important thing, different for us from other producers, we are not remote. Everybody goes back to sleep in their own house. And 80% of our workforce is living around the mine. In other places, they're going to camps in the middle of the Andes, in the middle of Indonesia, in the middle of the jungle. The camps is a perfect place for COVID. That's why you're seeing these outbreaks in Australia or in other producers, especially copper producers in Chile. So COVID is not having any impact right now. About the inflation. So far, not much, but I expect it to be a little bit. Let me show you. The main components of our costs are energy, manpower, by that order, energy, manpower, mining, of course, steel, balls, and liners, and then reagents, which are lime, the main one. Labor is not changing at all. inflation is less than 1%. Energy, we have a fixed price so far until next year. Let's see what happens with next year. Right now, the daily average is very high in Spain, but all the expectations are going to be low. But the things where we are seeing a slightly higher price is demanded by suppliers is balls, steel balls, and chrome balls for the milling, and lime, because lime As you know, it's burning limestone, which creates CO2 and the rights of CO2 are a crazy thing in Europe and the prices are very high and everybody's demanding higher prices. We have overcome that by having lots of stocks from the past at fixed prices. In the case of lime, we are going to small suppliers that do not have to pay the CO2 rights so that basically we are keeping the big suppliers honest by buying to the small suppliers. But those are the places where we have seen higher prices. But higher prices like in the range of 1% or 2%, not talking about more than that. In these five or six years that we have been running, our cost per ton have been going down all the time. This year is basically the same as last year. But until now, we have been able to control the costs. In the future, if things continue, we'll see maybe up to 5% in some cases. And then there's another interesting question here. Can you please share your capital raise plans in relation to developing the total mine? Well, we won't have any issue of capital, I believe. We don't need to. If I go back to some slides, let me back a little bit. I'll show you in the slide. I'll show you the history. I'll show you the history, and this is... We don't plan because we always try not to dilute, and we have the cash, and we have been able to build this mine and these expansions without cash. If we go back to slide 17, in the bottom part of that graph, as Tester showed, you will see that there was net negative cash during two periods. Those were the two periods with expansion. What does it mean? It means that we were able to build the mine without having positive working capital by using the cash flow from the mine, which at that time was just starting, and using contracts with suppliers to pay them later. As soon as we finished the first phase, then you saw immediately we start producing cash flow. And in December 2017, we made the next placement to make the final expansion and immediately our negative cash position went down again during the expansion and immediately as soon as we finished the expansion, we started producing cash again. And what happened there? We had a capital expenditure of around 90 million and we only raised half of that, which means if we don't need it, we will not use it. Right now, more than 100 million, it's called euros, in the bank at the end of the year will have. And if things continue like they are, even if we get the permits at the end of this year, we will have enough cash to start building. And remember, we don't have any significant debt. We also finance the three expansions without debt. So I don't see why we wouldn't do it again. The only reason I could see to issue some shares is to try to improve the liquidity. But I would rather try to buy one of the existing blocks, for example, Liberty is an example, and then redistribute the gain, which achieves the same thing without diluting the shareholders. And that's what I have here. There was a question about dividends, which I believe has been withdrawn because we had a reply. But I'm happy to receive and to answer any more questions if needed.

Fantastic. Thank you, Alberto, for answering all the questions that we've had come through so far. And if there are, of course, any other questions that do come in, you can review those and we can put responses where appropriate to do so. And these will be published on the InvestorMeet company platform. As we are drawing to the close of the meeting, perhaps if we don't get any further questions through, Alberto, if I may just ask you just for a few final words, just to wrap up before we redirect the attendees to give you some feedback, please.

Well, yes. I would like to thank everybody. Thanks for those of our shareholders who have been shareholders for a while, for their patience. I mean, I'm a shareholder myself. I believe in this company, and we have a great future. Our team is very proud of delivering. We always like to do that. We are committed to the long-term success of this company. And that's all I can say. Normally, when we say we're going to be doing something, we'll do it. We don't like to promise. We don't like to say we're not promoters. And at the end, the true value will prevail. So I think there is a reason why maybe our share price is low. because of the pressure of the selling, maybe because people didn't believe our numbers until now they are seeing them. So slowly, slowly we're getting there. And the main question here is that there is no liquidity. So people try to buy stock and the stock is not available. But anyway, we will continue pushing and never give up. And thanks to all for your support. and especially for local shareholders, once in a while, send us a message of support.

Thanks a lot, Dan. Thank you very much. Alberto, Cesar, thank you for updating investors today. Could I please ask investors not to close the session, as you'll be automatically redirected for the opportunity to provide your feedback. In order that the management team can better understand your views and expectations, this will only take a few moments to complete, and it's greatly valued by the company. On behalf of the management team of Atazaya Mining PLC, we'd like to thank you very much for attending today's presentation. That concludes today's session.