Operator

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to McEwen's First Quarter 2026 Operating and Financial Results Conference Call.

Present from the company today are Rob McEwen, Chairman and Chief Owner; Ian Ball, Executive Vice Chairman; William Shaver, Chief Operating Officer; Perry Ing, Chief Financial Officer; Jeff Chan, Vice President, Finance; Stefan Spears, Vice President, Corporate Development; Kevin Bromfield, Project Director, Grey Fox; Michael Meding, Managing Director of McEwen Copper; Carmen Diges, General Counsel and Secretary.

[Operator Instructions]

I will now turn the call over to Mr. Rob McEwen, Chief Owner. Please go ahead, sir.

Robert McEwen
Chairman, CEO, President & Chief Owner

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for McEwen Inc.'s first quarter 2026 results conference call.

Our vision is clear and ambitious. McEwen Inc. offers investors a unique and powerful combination, direct exposure to growing gold and silver production, proven hard money assets that have served as stores of value for millennia, along with large optionality to copper, a foundation metal of modern civilization, essential for electrification, renewable energy, electric vehicles, data centers and the infrastructure of the future. We are scaling the company to 250,000 to 300,000 gold equivalent ounces GEOs per year by 2030, while maintaining a strong balance sheet.

We just released our Q1 results, and I'm very