Electra Battery Materials Corporation

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Electra third quarter 2023 results conference call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there'll be an opportunity to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. Should you need assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star then zero. I would now like to turn the conference over to Joe Racanelli, Vice President, Investor Relations with Electro Battery Materials Corporation. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Gaylene. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for our Q3 call. We do have quite a bit of material to go through. Before I turn it over to Trent, I want to point out a couple of things. All of our disclosure material related to our Q3 results, including the MD&A Financial statements and the press release were issued last night. They've been filed on Cedar Plus and they're also available on our website. We will be making use of a presentation today. That presentation is on our website and I encourage you to follow along. I do want to make note that we will be making some forward looking statements on the meaning of Safe Harbor. And as well, I want to point out that we will have a Q&A session today that will be open to the analysts who do follow us. For any shareholders that would have additional questions, please reach out to me at any time. And so with that, I do want to point out that in addition to Trent Mail, our CEO, we do have Peter Park, our CFO, on the line with us, as well as Mark Trevisio, who's our VP of Project Development. So with that, let me turn it over to Trent for his opening remarks.

Thank you, Joe. Good morning, everybody. So yeah, I'll start. Peter will say a few words, then Mark. I will wrap up before we open the call up to questions from our analysts. So over the past quarter, since completing the rebaseline engineering report on our cobalt refinery, we've been particularly focused on our capital, our balance sheet, strengthening the balance sheet in two ways. One, despite some pretty tough markets and uncertainty that hopefully has peaked, at least in regards to inflation, we did get pretty strong support raising $21.5 million Canadian in the month of August to support our efforts and our use of proceeds. In addition to that, over the quarter, I think we've received some real encouragement from sources for non-dilutive financing that could get us the $60 million USD amount that we're going to need to complete our refinery. So some great progress there, can't say much about the latter part, but we can come back to it if we like. On the other developments listed here, we're gonna go through these, so I won't dwell on it too much, but slide four here talks about the black mass trial that Mark will go into some detail about, three fires and formalizing or advancing our joint venture. I'll come back to that at the end. And then this partnership, commercial relationship with LG, cornerstone partner, And I would say a really, really great partner for us as well. So before we elaborate on all that, though, why don't we go to Peter, and he will review our liquidity and talk about Q3 highlights.