Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ivanhoe Mines second quarter 2023 financial results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask the question during the session, you will need to press star 1 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To answer your question, please press star 1 1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Matthew Keevil, Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator. Hello, everyone, and good morning and good afternoon. It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Ivanhoe Mines Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results Conference Call. This is Matthew Keevil, and I'm the Director of IR on Corporate Comms with Ivanhoe Mines. On the line today from IBM, we have Founder and Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland, President Marna Cloutier, Chief Financial Officer David Van Heerden, Chief Operating Officer Mark Farron, and Senior Vice President Corporate Development and Investor Relations Alex Pickard. We will finish today's event with a question and answer session. You can submit a question using the Q&A box on the webcast page as well as through the conference operator via your phone line. Please do contact our IR team directly for follow-up questions that are not addressed during the call. And before we begin... I'd like to remind everyone that today's event will contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Details of the forward-looking statements are contained in our August 3rd news release as well as on CDAR Plus and at www.ivanhomeminds.com. It is now my pleasure to introduce Ivan Home Minds founder and executive co-chair Robert Friedland for some opening remarks. Go ahead, Robert.

Yes, thank you very much to all of you who are taking the time and trouble to attend this call. I'm addressing you from London, England, having flown from Washington, DC and New York to get here. I'm happy to report in the last few days that the United States Department of Energy has placed a number of the metals that we have under development and are already producing on the critical materials list. And with the support of the United States government, it's now, for the first time, I can address you with copper being on the critical materials list, as well as many other metals that we have in Ivanhoe mines, like nickel and platinum and gallium and germanium. So we've had a very good quarter, not only at Comocacoula, which has continued to break a number of records, and is running at least on schedule and on budget, but also at our other two projects, at Kapushi and our new plans for the Platte Reef. And I appreciate that there's an enormous amount of new information in our MD&A, but I can say that our teams are executing perfectly. We've never been as strong a position as we are today in our corporate affairs, and our dreams are expanding. And we deeply appreciate the support we've had from the Congolese government, the South African government, and our incredibly dedicated workforce. So I'll be back to you later to talk about exploration. I want to turn this over to Marna, our remarkable president, and she'll tell you about how things have been going. Marna?