Bianca Pisciola

All right, everyone. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where in the world you're signing in from today. Great to see a packed house for today's event.

I've got with me today Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, CEO of Contango Silver and Gold; and Mike Clark, the company's CFO.

Here's how today is going to work with the folks in the room. I've got some questions based on this morning's press release, but this is also an interactive event. So please do enter your questions in the chat section on the bottom of the screen.

We're going to try to stick to half an hour today. So if we can't get to your questions, I'll make sure the Contango team receives all the content as soon as the event is over, but we will try to get to as many as we can today. The event is also being recorded and will be available for replay this afternoon Eastern Time.

So let's get into the meat and potatoes here. Rick, before we get into the Q1 numbers, even telegraphing forever that this quarter was going to likely be the lightest production quarter of what is presumably the lightest production year for Manh Choh under current mine -- the current mine plan. Can you remind investors how the 2026 mine sequencing was designed and why Q1 was always going to look the way it was relative to what's coming in the back half of the year?

Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse
CEO & Director

Sure, Bianca. Good to see