Magna Mining Inc.

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Magna Mining Inc. first quarter conference call and webcast. 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 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. To ask a question via the web, please type your question in the ask question box and click submit. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call first over to Greg Huffman, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Thank you and good morning. Before getting started, I would like to mention that we will be making forward-looking statements or provide forward-looking information on this call in accordance with applicable securities laws. Please review the press release announcing your Q1 2026 operating financial results for cautionary language regarding the use and reliance on forelooking statements, which may be materially different from the actual results obtained by the company, and for the risk factors applicable to such forelooking statements that could cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Any scientific or technical commentary on this call has been reviewed and approved by Dave King, our Senior Vice President, Exploration and Geoscience, who is a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101. With respect to non-IFRS performance measures that are referred to on this call, please refer to the Reconciliation to Measures of Performance Prepared in Accordance with IFRS Accounting Standards in the company's most recently filed MD&A. All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. Our press release, MD&A, and financial statements are available on CR Plus and our corporate website. With us today are Chief Executive Officer Jason Jessup, Chief Operating Officer Jeff Huffman, Chief Financial Officer Scott Gilbert, Senior Vice President Exploration and Geoscience Dave King, General Counsel Tim Bradburn, and Executive Vice President Paul Fowler. Following formal remarks from management, we will open the lines for further questions. I would now like to introduce Magnum Mining CEO, Jason Jessup, to comment on the quarterly results.

Jason? ...operating the MacReady West mine in Sudbury, Ontario.

Our team at MacReady West safely mined and shipped 82,296 tons from the 700-foot wall copper zone producing 4.1 million pounds of payable copper equivalent in line with our forecast. I am proud to report that Magna realized zero reportable injuries in Q1. This is the result of a combination of strong leadership and engaged workforce and taking ownership over the work that we do and is a reflection of the corporate culture that we're building at Magna. I would now like to hand over to our CFO, Scott Gilbert, to present an overview of our financial performance in Q1.

Thanks, Jason. In Q1 2026, the MacReady West mine generated $25.9 million of revenue. Cash costs and online sustaining costs in Q1 2026 were $3.48 U.S. and $4.21 U.S. per copper equivalent payable pound. Our cash margin in the quarter improved to $6 million or $1.06 per copper equivalent payable pound up from 3.3 million or 49 cents US per copper equivalent payable pound in Q4 of 2025. For Q1, 2026, the company had operating cash outflow of 16.2 million and free cash outflow of 19.5 million. Our cash balance at March 31st, 2026 was 35.8 million and our working capital balance was 53.7 million. a decline of only $6.8 million from December 31, 2025. Of note, at March 31, 2026, our trade and other receivables had increased to $36.7 million, which included $28.2 million in metal receivables, as well as $7.8 million from reimbursable costs related to an egress project for a neighboring mine. Subsequent to the end of Q1 2026, 11.5 million of the trade and other receivables has been received. I will now hand the call over to our COO, Jeff Hoffman, for an overview of our operational performance on the quarter.

Thanks, Scott.

As stated by Jason, in Q1, no reportable injuries were realized across the company. Our trailing 12-month total recordable injury frequency rate, or TRIFR, is an industry leading 0.78 with all hours worked on all Magna sites, including those of the many contracting firms that we work alongside. In Q1, MacReady West produced 4.1 million copper equivalent payable pounds from the 700 foot wall copper zone at an average copper equivalent grade of 3.38% based on realized metal prices in the quarter. As was previously disclosed, grades during the first quarter of 2026 were anticipated to be at the lower end of the full year guidance range. However, higher than forecast commodity prices mitigated the impact on a copper equivalent basis. Higher grade areas continue to remain available to be mined later in the year. Our production costs per ton processed in Q1 2026 declined by 5.3% quarter over quarter to $214 per ton. Underground development in Q1 totaled 2,252 feet or 25.3 feet per day on average, a quarterly record under Magna ownership. Sustaining capital expenditures on equipment development and exploration in the quarter was 2.4 million, Definition drilling at Macready West continued with three underground diamond drills to support near to midterm production with infill drilling to facilitate detailed stope design and optimize production rate. In Q1, 99 diamond drill holes were completed for a total of 28,117 feet in line with our plan. At our adjacent Lavac mine, Following completion of the breakthrough to connect to Valet's Coleman mine, focus has transitioned to infrastructure readiness to support early ore sources and new underground exploration platforms to test the R2 footwall zone. Engineering, procurement and planning activities commenced for the production hoist plant repairs. as did the recommissioning of existing underground equipment and work to begin preparing for potential construction activity, the timing of which will be determined subsequent to the completion of the PEA study in Q3 of 2026. At Crane Hill, work continued during Q1 2026 to advance the project towards an expected construction decision. With power, engineering, commercial discussions, and water pretreatment design and installation activities. Completion of the preliminary feasibility study at Crane Hill is anticipated for Q3 of 2026. I would like to hand over to Jason Jessup for some additional comments.

Thanks, Jeff. Well, the listeners, I think, would agree 2026 is off to a great start for Magna. Operations at McCree West are hitting their stride in a strong commodity price environment, and cash margins continue to improve, having increased to $6 million and a quarter. With both tonnage and grades from the 700-foot wall copper zone expected to increase from Q1, we're confident in our ability to achieve our full year guidance on all metrics. In addition, with stronger nickel prices, the team at McCree West continues to evaluate the potential restart of mining at the nickel-rich inter-main contact type deposit The work completed in 2025 and early 2026 has positioned McCready West to meaningfully support our growth initiatives at Lavac and Crane Hill. And this was always our plan. We saw McCready West as being a driver of our growth and our first producing mine that can help us start other mines. At Lavac, we continue to make solid progress in advancing the project towards a restart decision. The PEA is well underway and on track for completion in Q3, 2026, as previously guided. In parallel with the PEA, underground development has provided access to early sources of potential ore as well as new underground drilling platforms to both expand the R2 footwall zone and test the presence of thicker copper precious metal rich veins. Work to recommission the loading pocket in order to start hoisting waste before the end of the year is well underway. This will also put us in a strong position to move forward with a potential restart decision at LEVAC following the completion of the PEA. At our permitted Crane Hill mine, which we are really excited about, we're making great progress on the pre-feasibility study which builds on the 2024 PEA and will incorporate updated commodity price assumptions. With completion of both the PFS on Crane Hill and the PEA on LEVAC anticipated in Q3, this will be a very busy summer at Magna. We are well-funded to execute these plans with working capital of almost $55 million as of the end of Q1 and positive cash margins at MacReady West. Finally, on May 4th, we proudly announce the receipt of conditional approval to uplist our shares to the Toronto Stock Exchange. A TSX listing will provide greater visibility and access to a wider range of potential investors, as well as the opportunity to be included in various indices. Final approval of the listing is subject to the company fulfilling all the requirements of the TSX, and we will issue a news release once the TSX confirms the date on which trading of Magnum Mining's common shares is expected to commence on the TSX. Operator, we'd now like to open up the line for questions.

Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. To ask a question via the web, please type your question in the Ask a Question box and click Submit. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Eleanor MacZynski with SCP Resource Finance. Your line is now open.

Eleanor MacZynski Can you guys hear me okay? Yes.

Okay, good morning, everyone, and Jason and team, great job on the past quarter. Just a few questions more detailed on the operations side of things. Just was wondering if you'd be able to speak to the grades per metal in the breakdown of the copper equivalent number?

Sure. I don't have that number right in front of me. Greg or Jeff, do you happen to have that available?

Yeah, Eleanor, it's Greg here. You know, just broadly speaking, in the quarter, copper was slightly higher and precious metals overall were a little bit lower. But, you know, I can get you a little bit more granularity there offline.

Okay. That sounds good. Thank you. Second question on the stream. So we know, you know, as of last quarter, the reporting of the stream has kind of have changed. Just wondering if you'd be able to break down, say, a pre-stream revenue and then just that break down between the royalty and stream that would have come off of that.

Yeah, I can answer that, Eleanor. It's Scott here. So the actual payment to Franklin, Nevada would have been $7.2 million. So you would just gross up our revenue by that amount.

Okay, wonderful. A couple other questions here, so I need to hog the line a little bit. Is it possible to know what the long-haul drilling meters that were completed in the quarter was? I don't know if that number's handy for anyone.

Jeff or Greg, do you have that number handy?

Yeah, I'm just pulling it up for you here, Eleanor. I have it close to me here. So long-haul drilling, which is, I would say, an unreconciled number, Eleanor, because it's an estimate, obviously, of the drilling prior to blasting the stope. So nothing, obviously, is surveyed with long-haul, but as far as reported drilling from... Just give me one second here. We drilled an estimated 38,455 feet in the first quarter of 2026.

Okay, awesome. Thank you so much. And two last ones. There's a line on, so it's the site maintenance and the income statement. Just wondering what that encompasses. There isn't a note attached to it. So, yeah, just wondering is that more for like the VAC and for these other properties.

Sorry, could you repeat that question, Eleanor? I didn't quite catch it.

Yeah, no, absolutely. There's a line item called site maintenance costs in the income statement. There's not a note attached to it. And I was just wondering if that's specific to the other assets or if you could speak to that line item.

Yeah, for sure. The site maintenance captures the LAVAC and the Podolsky class. And as the project is still in care and maintenance for LAVAC, any work that's being done there is also being captured in there.

Okay. And the last one I have, well, actually, there's two more. But if, you know, the discussions in the Valley, Union negotiations just wondering if there is a valley strike what kind of impacts would be you know expect in terms of production and What could happen this coming up quarter?

Yeah, I can answer that Eleanor. It's Jeff here So we've been contingency planning and working alongside ballet for a number of months already just in preparation for the potential disruption there won't be any effect to us. So we have room to stockpile at McCree West and to give the valley time to get the proper injunctions in place to allow or to be flowing into the number of stockpile areas that we deliver to in Sudbury. So at this point in time, there's no disruption at all anticipated for production for us. Our McCree West mine is

separate from valet properties so we access off public roads and so yeah there won't be any disruption that's anticipated at this time okay great and just the last one there was a bit of discussion on receivables and things kind of changing post quarter could you could you roughly speak to what current cash position is like following quarter end

I didn't quite catch that. Is that a question for Scott? Maybe we lost Eleanor there.

I think, Scott, Eleanor was looking for a little bit more color on what the current cash position would be just given the movement on the trade receivables.

We're pretty close to around $40 million. We get paid at the end of each month. So that's when we have an actual real hard number.

Okay, great. Thank you so much. That's it from my side. Sorry for hogging along there and apologize. I need a new headphone. Sorry about that.

All good. Great questions, Eleanor.

Thanks, everyone. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Bryce Adams with Day Jordan. Your line is now open.

Thank you. Good morning, Team Magna. Can you hear me okay? I had an issue on the last conference call. Yeah, I can hear you. You bet. Okay, thanks, Jason. Yeah, on the Q1 mining rates, you did 82,000 short tons for the period. Can you talk to the breakdown of mining rates for January, February, and March? And then the follow-on to that is, is there anything you can say on April and May so far?

Well, I'll hand it over to Jeff. What I will say, just without being able to disclose too, too much – Q2 is off to a great start. I think we've really improved on a productivity standpoint with multiple scopes on the ground. We expect a strong Q2, but I'll let Jeff speak to the tonnages produced in each of the months of Q1.

Thanks, Jason. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me unless, Greg, you have them right in front of you. But we did have a slight dip in February. So January and March were more in line with our annual guidance with a slight dip in tonnage in February. Greg, I don't know if you have those numbers handy in front of you.

Yeah, Jeff, it was roughly about 29,000 tons in January, around 22,000 tons in February, and then about 32,000 tons in March. Yeah, and there were some weather impacts sort of scattered through there. But yeah, that's the overall breakdown.

Thanks, Greg.

Yeah, good call. Thanks, both. And then for Q3 and Q4, what do you target for mining rates in the back half of the year? Would those two quarters would they be flatlined or do you think the asset is like still ramping up a little bit in Q4?

Yeah, I think I would say, you know, a general statement is we're targeting about a thousand tons a day. So we, you know, we're making, you know, a lot of the initiatives that are moving forward with midterm and long-term planning right now at MacReady. So essentially, you know, we've spent the last year investing in, you know, mine development and long-term planning initiatives. So I think, you know, the result of that for the rest of the year, we're targeting a much more consistent sort of daily rate and monthly output from the mine. So we're targeting, you know, in and around 30,000 tons a month is the target for the rest of the year.

Okay. You're basically there already as of those March numbers we just heard. For the couple of nickel questions, if I can, for the potential restart of the inter-mine, What do you need? What are the final, you know, hurdles there? What do you need to see to sanction that restart?

I'll speak to that. So the team has been doing quite a bit of work at MacReady West on looking at a restart plan and putting together, you know, how that would be executed. What I've asked for from the team is I'd like to see a longer term, you know, one year plan that we can put in place. I think without that, um, you know, we're, we don't want to get started and sort of be, uh, you know, scrambling to, to keep going ahead of ourselves. So as Jeff said, a lot of the work that's been put into McCready West from a technical services standpoint, it's all around that, that long-term planning. Um, I think we're making good progress in the 700 copper zone. Um, so I'd like to see that same kind of progress. Uh, I do believe there's a good potential. Um, pretty strong potential that we will mine some intermane nickel ore in the second half of the year. But we can get more guidance on that once we have that plan completed.

Okay, so does that plan for having a one-year operating plan, does that include doing drilling today to support the plan?

I believe there is some planning being done for drilling. I don't believe we've started any yet. but I know there has been some talk of planning some drill holes to support that. Okay.

And then for the cream Hill, the PFS, do you expect that to be pretty linear with the past studies or do you see like, you know, high level changes for the CapEx or the time needed to initiate production there?

You know, it's a, uh, in general, I think it's going to be generally in line with it, uh, with the PDA, but, uh, Obviously, there's a number of things that will be different, including the metal prices used in our assumptions, which changes cutoff grades and continuity of zones and things like that to the positive. So I'm quite excited to see where we are going to land with that. We still have months of work ahead of us to get that completed. But generally in line is my expectation. Obviously, there's going to be some price inflation. over the last couple of years, and with more detailed work being done in the PFS, I expect some additional cost, but we don't expect it to be far off of what was in the PEA. Okay, got it. That's it from me.

Thanks so much for your time. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Dalton Barreto with Canaccord Genuity. Your line is now open.

Great. Thanks, operator. Good morning, magnet team. I just wanted to follow on some of Bryce's questions. We'll start off with the nickel intermaine zone. I'm just wondering what the relative content of precious metals is in the intermaine versus the 700 and how that plays through margins given the Franco stream on the precious metals. Thanks.

Well, I'll let Dave speak to the composition of the you know, the metals in the intermane zone. As far as how that plays out to margins, we can only speak to it very, very generally. But I'll let Dave comment on metals.

Yeah, so the intermane is, you know, the majority of nickel zone. Even the copper there is quite low. If you have around 1.2 nickel average, you're probably going to be about 0.3 copper. So very low copper. And that means along with that, the precious metals are low. So almost negligible precious metals, less than 0.1 grams.

And again, sort of speak to the, you know, what does that mean with the Franco stream? Essentially it means that there's a lot less impact by the stream with very low precious metals. But again, as Dave mentioned, this zone is very much dependent on nickel. It is a probably 75% or more of the revenues would be generated by Nickel. So it is very dependent on that and it doesn't have a lot of by-product credits.

Great, thanks. And then just maybe following up on that. So my understanding is that if you choose to mine the intermain, that is incremental to what you'd be mining at the 700. And then, you know, you'd have a one-year plan there potentially coming out on the back of that. Is there a limit on how much you can ship ballet?

There is a limit, but it's not a limit that we would expect to hit probably with all of the operations we have all running together. There's a lot of capacity at the Clarabelle Mill. There's also significant capacity at Glencore Strathcona Mill. Just speaking to the Valet's Clarabelle Mill, back in 2008, it was running at about 32,000 tons a day. It is approximately half of that right now, so a lot of capacity there. We don't see any issue with, you know, running out of room for milling capacity.

Got it. Thanks, Jason. And then just maybe on sequencing. So when I think about Levac versus Crean Hill, you know, Levac right next door to McCready West, you know, but you're at the PEA level. You've got the R2 zone you need to drill. Crean Hill, more advanced PFS level. It's outside any sort of Franco impact. Both studies are going to be done in Q3 of this year. How should we think about the sequencing post that?

Well, again, I'm not going to say definitively that we will have a positive restart decision at LAVAC post-PEA, but there's definitely a good possibility. And really, it's because LAVAC is such a turnkey operation in our eyes. Again, we have people, underground miners, doing development. We have mechanics in the shop doing work. It's an active site where we already have a partial workforce that would be required. We see it as very turnkey, a lot of development in place already. We've intersected our intermediate ore body on the 1800 level, which is an unmined Nickel Copper PGM ore body that we believe could be some early ore potentially. Yeah, we see it as very turnkey. Now we're, again, very excited about what we believe, you know, Crane Hill will be in the PFS and where we'll be in the future as a mine under Magna's operation. But, yeah, it's a very turnkey Lavac operation. So we say we believe we could start, you know, if we make a positive decision, potentially shipping over to Valais, you know, in the first half of 2027. It could be that quickly. So that is why we think it will be our next mine.

Thanks, Jason. And just maybe one last one for me. Can we get an update on some of the exploration drilling targeting the R2?

Absolutely. Dave?

I was on mute. Yeah, so we currently have three drills turning at Lavac, two surface rigs. Those are both targeting in and around the R2 zone, so a couple sort of infill holes trying to target where we believe we may be able to find thicker veins, and the second kind of more expansion drilling. The one underground drill, like Jason mentioned, is up on the 18 level, and it is beginning to target the R2 as well as do some infill drilling on the intermediate ore body that Jason mentioned that could be early early production from Lavac. We do have a second underground rig that should be mobilizing to site in the next couple of weeks and a third scheduled within the next couple of months. As Jason and Jeff also mentioned, we do have development and are rehabbing additional underground platforms that will allow shorter drill holes to test R2 in both infill and expansion.

Thanks, Dave. That's all from me, guys.

Thank you. And I'm showing no further questions via the phone. I'll turn it back over to you, Greg.

Thank you, operator. I'm seeing that we've addressed all of the online questions. So with that, I think we'll wrap up there and hand back over to you for closing.

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you all for participating. You may now disconnect.