Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ivanhoe Mines Second Quarter 2024 Final Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there'll be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star one one on your telephone. You'll then hear an automated message advising you to raise. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Matt Cavell, Director of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator. And it's my pleasure, everyone, to welcome you to the Ivanhoe Mines second quarter 2024 financial results conference call. My name is Matthew Cubeland. I'm the Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications with Ivanhoe Mines. On the line today from the company, we have Founder and Executive Co-Chairman Robert Friedland, President Marna Klote, Chief Financial Officer David Van Heerden, Chief Operating Officer Mark Farren, Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Investor Relations Alex Pickard, and Executive Vice President Project Steve Amos. 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 contact our investor relations team directly for follow-up questions that are not addressed during the call. Now, 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 news release today, as well as on CDAR+, and at www.ivanholminds.com. It is now my pleasure to introduce Ivanhoe Mines founder and executive co-chairman Robert Friedland for some opening remarks. Robert, please go ahead.

Thank you. From London, England on a sunny day, it's a great pleasure to introduce our management team after such a strong quarter on behalf of all of the stakeholders at Ivanhoe Mines. As I speak to you today, import premiums on copper are up. The domestic inventories of copper in China are down. And so China's back in the copper market this morning. We've had quite a correction from recent highs. And on such a pleasant day with the world understanding how badly we need copper for the energy transition and also the tremendous demands for national security drawn on metal production. It's a great pleasure to introduce our team and to review the results of this very strong quarter, where our team will continue with over 20,000 people to be the fastest growing, highest grade, and greenest of copper producers on the planet. So with that, let's turn this over and begin our session. Thank you.