Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

Good day and thank you for stopping by. Welcome to the Ivanhoe Mines third quarter 2024 financial results. 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 a 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 withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. another kind of conference over to speaker today matthew keble director investor relations please go ahead matthew your line is on you thanks operator um yeah everybody thanks very much for joining us today our apologies there was a slight technical glitch on the back end of the system

We will ask you today to refer to the slides that are posted to our website at www.ivanhomeminds.com. You can click on investors and you'll see the deck there. If you could follow along with management on those slides, that would be great to just deal with this little bit of a technical glitch. We appreciate it very much and thanks for your patience. But welcome today. It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Ivan Home Minds third quarter 2024 financial results conference call. As the operator mentioned, my name is Matthew Keevil, and 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 Farron, Executive Vice President Project Steve Amos, and Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Investor Relations Alex Pickard. We will be finishing 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. If your question is not addressed, please do contact our investor relations teams directly for follow-up, and we'll be happy to answer that question offline. Before you begin, I will point to slide two. We do have 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 today's press release, as well as on CEDAR Plus and at www.ivanhomeminds.com. It is now my pleasure to introduce Ivan Home Minds' founder and executive co-chairman, Robert Friedland, for opening remarks. Please go ahead, Robert.

Well, greetings, everybody, and we certainly apologize for the technical delays. trying to get a global system that is reliable. I'm addressing you from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where we are at the Future Investment Initiative here in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Our opening photograph shows my standing next to Marna and a lot of our key people and a team of international investors inside the actual furnace in our new smelter under construction. That visit was fantastic. For those of you that haven't been to the Congo recently, the progress on site is stunning and remarkable. So I welcome you all to this session. You can walk through the slides with us as I turn this over to Marna, our president. Let's go to the first slide with a picture of this melter from a drone, and off we go. Thank you, Marna.