Q1 2021 B2Gold Corp Earnings Call
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Good afternoon, My name is Jason and I will be your conference operator today at this time I would like to welcome everyone to the beach of Gold first quarter 2021 financial results Conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a quest.
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Thanks, Jason.
Welcome to lead.
The conference call to discuss the financial results for the.
First quarter.
2021, the thanks for attending we had another very strong quarters youre going to hear from Mike shortly hasn't been.
As laid out in the news release very good financial performance again, driven by <unk>.
Strong operating performance at the mines, which allowed us the significantly beat our non operating loss of the CD costs and all of this isn't one of its still awareness as of June COVID-19. So once again it speaks to the.
Two the tremendous leadership and the tremendous management and the employees we have in all of our sites every one of them. The same page, which was committed to continuing to mind, you and COVID-19. If we could do it safely and responsibly with the great relationship the governments of the in the countries of the mine and I think we've.
We've learned a lot of trust there I think over time with the.
The cultural approach of we bring to the business of treating people with fairness respect and transparency I think that pays off at the time of crisis or the situation of COVID-19, because we established the mutual trust for the government are employees of the company all willing to do the same thing.
For us to keep mining the do it safely.
The measure the impact of COVID-19. So we took many steps we've talked about before two of them assistant the areas.
The areas. We're in the office of COVID-19 as we do with all sorts of aspects of the launch, but I think it's been of great success.
The success of that.
The difficult scenario, where all of these countries. The one of the safety net so the protracted weak.
Can you continue the mining.
Okay taxes, and keep the good paying jobs totally the keep our communities the safest possible for them.
It's been a good thing for the for the industry I think there's the positive going forward potentially in the in the mining space because I think post COVID-19. Many governance will look at who of the good performers, who what where the good business has to happen to your country during COVID-19 and I think the responsible miner is not just of the others as well.
So the government should go of money can be very positive.
In a ton of questions. So.
Just the generally we're going to review the results of the quarter and then we're going to talk a little bit of a grandma zone as everyone sees in the news release, we we the delayed the completion of the final feasibility study in the grammar watching but everything but it will be about a year and the the economics of positive for what the peacefully work that we've done so far.
But we feel there was a much better project, there or sorry of potentially better project. There was an authorization for the drilling of other things that we can do so while the economics of a positive if we wanted to make it a better project and we're going to take the types of do that I think it's important to note that also we were gonna be looking at we had originally hoped for a potentially had boots on the ground in September of this year if it was the.
A positive development of decision that that was going to be some delay on that.
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