Welcome everyone to the AMROP Minerals full year 2025 results webcast, thanks for joining us. We're going to do a slightly different format to usual, there's no conference call line, so all questions will be written in via the webcast service. So please, if you have any questions, add those in and we'll deal with those at the end of the call. We'll follow the normal form today, Elder Holliston, the Chief Executive, We'll take you through the summary of the year and some strategic areas. Elliot Donaldson will take you through some of the financials and I'll finish off and host the Q&A at the end. So thanks very much for joining. Welcome.
I'm Elliot. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. It's good to be with you here today. I want to turn your attention to the first slide. I'm going to start this meeting here just to kind of set the scene a little bit where AMROC is at the moment. Now we have an operating mine where we've guided 25,000 to 35,000 ounces for 2026, a full year, first full year of production for our Nalmat mine. We have the West Greenland Hub, which is our next development project, which we are focused on putting together a feasibility study and some research development this year to start developing of that mine in 27-28. And then we have the NAMCO project, which we are actively pursuing to bring into resources. Now, in Gardag, we are drilling two early-stage projects, but very impactful projects, both in rare earth element and iron ore. And then the two enablers to allow us to do all of this is Zuliac and Emec. Zuliac being a service venture that we've set up and we've just announced this morning about cooperation with IFO and other Green Antic funds on that. This will help our working capital. It will help other mining companies and infrastructure companies green on working capital. And then Emec, where we have finalized our feasibility study to start producing green energy at a site which will decrease our uses of diesel by 1.6 million litres which will lower our operating cost and give more stability. Now at a glance you can see we are one of the largest license holders, very prospective licenses. We have developed a mine now in Greenland, we are operating a mine, we are actively pursuing exploration, we have a large resource scale both in Black Angel and in Naluna and effectively we have multiple company makers within NAMROG Assistants and we intend to use the experience from the great team that we built up today to develop these other opportunities as fast as possible. Now taking you over to the next slide. So this is how we do it. This is effectively, you can look at this as a five to seven year plan within Amarok. Now, what you see here on the right is the NALNAC phase one operating, which is now in full scale production, where we are producing through gravity recovery, making a Toribar onsite every month now, generating good cash flow. Phase two, we will have in which is the rotation recovery that means that we are taking moving the recovery of the gold from each town from 65 all the way up about 90 percent recovery phase two is progressing on plan on schedule we will have that operating by June and phase three is what we are analyzing now is to grow the potential production in Nalanuk from 300 ton per day to 450 tons per day so that is still being assessed uh but we've assigned that so this is where the production is going where the free cash flow is providing the group now black angel has a previous feasibility study that we are updating uh it was a mine we know the operating procedure we're doing the same thing again similar kind of a scale in terms of investment and in terms of timing from a very high-yielding asset and then we're moving up there which we call the elephant in Nanok, Kanka, Minasur, Ilua up the value curve by drilling them and defining them so we can see that there's a huge value potential that we are building up within in Amarok. Now we turn the focus on the next slide. So, year-to-date, the production was above 6,000 ounces last year and we got our initial revenues, we went through various different aspects of selling and moving the gold out, selling it and we got an average gold price about $3,600 per ounce. We transition our mining operation from an owner operating from from kind of a contractor to an owner operating uh operation this means that on site our biggest cost on site is is effectively people we now control all of our mining equipment our own people this has given us more efficiency more control and lower cost in the end and this is this has been very very uh successful pro process so far. We acquired the West Greenland Herb in May last year. This sets us up. So as you can see, now we're operating and generating hardware from NALMAC. We have a whole development team that is now moving towards the West Greenland Herb to bring that mine into production. And while we've been doing that, we've had a very successful exploration program in other assets and mainly NALMAC. That was what we drilled about 5,000 meters last year. And I just want to put this into perspective to the market that none of what we drilled about 27 holes. More than 63% of the holes that we drilled hit gold mineralization. To put this into perspective, in Nalunak, one out of eight holes gave us a grade. In this instance, we were getting more than 63% of the hole. So we're getting thick intersection all the way from one and a half meters up to nine meters with really, really high grade. So now our intention this year is that we are starting the infant drilling of this area, focusing on creating a maiden resource and then multiplying the scale of drilling to declare, hopefully, what we think could be a resource and a scalable kind of potential world class resources. So, last year, we obviously finished getting to a 300-something day. We finalized our phase one activities in terms of construction, so the last quarter lasted was very construction heavy, which was a great result for us because it gave us the opportunity to produce really well during this first quarter and finalize phase two during this quarter and next quarter. I'm going to turn now over to Elder to walk you a little bit through our finances before we go again on giving you a bit of an outlook for this year.
In Q4 we had sales of 1,949 ounces for gross proceeds of 10.7 million Canadian dollars. The average prices we were able to sell at was 3,920 US per ounce. In comparison, gross revenue in Q3 was slightly higher at 12.8 million and it was lower in Q4 due to the shutdown for commissioning activities that took place in the quarter. And as I mentioned, for the year as a whole, we recorded revenues of 27 million from the sale of 5,310 ounces. The expiration and devaluation expenses were 4.6 million in a quarter. Most of it was incurred at the Nano campaign, where we drilled roughly 5,000 meters this year with good results as mentioned. And after incorporating other income and expenses, the company recorded in that loss of 3.2 million for the period and moving on please. On the balance sheet side cash balance at year end sits at 21.5 million compared to 55 at the end of September and this is mainly driven by continued capex which was quite heavy in the quarter at Nalunak mainly processing plant construction as well as starting off of spares and consumables in relation to finalizing commissioning of phase one and also driven by investment in a new mining fleet alongside taking over mining operations in Q4. We continue to see an increase in metals inventory which stands at 15.8 million at quarter end compared to 11 million at the end of Q3. This represents our gold contained in ore stockpiles, gold in circuit in the processing plant and as well as gold bearing tailings which we will be bringing back to the processing plant once phase two is operational in Q2. So that puts us at total current assets of 67 million at year-end. On the non-current assets the main movement here consistent with prior periods is a 30 million dollar increase in capital assets to 252.7 million at year-end, again driven by the Nalunak project and the 300 ton per day processing plant. On the liability side accounts payable stay roughly the same between quarters at around 20 million. The main change here between current and non-current liabilities is the amendment to our RCF facilities we announced in Q4, where we extended the facilities to February 2028. So that takes them from current liabilities to non-current liabilities. So total liabilities at 74.4 million at year end, which results in an equity ratio of 79%. And on the bottom there you will see cash balance at GARDAC or joint venture at 2.6 million with not very much activity in Q4. So moving on to cash flow. So we recorded a net loss of 18.6 million for the year after adjusting for non-cash items, cash flow used in operating activities negative 30 million roughly and cash flow used for investing activities at 84 million roughly which represents the CapEx at our NALUNAC project predominantly and against that we had positive cash flow from financing activities of 90 million which is mostly due to an equity raise that was closed in June of last year of 80 million roughly and they draw down on our facilities of about 10 million. So all in all this results in a reduction of cash of 23 million throughout the year 23.6 and the cash balance was sitting at 21.5 million at year-end and in access of that we had undrawn credit facilities of 8.9 million at year-end. The table on the bottom is where we show the main cash flow movements in relation to the nylon project in and of itself. Now that that is closing to completion, we had a total of about 25 roughly outflow of cash due to additions to capital assets. And then we had, as previously stated, we stocking up on supplies and consumables in relation to the commissioning of phase one and increasing our metals inventory as well. I think that's it on this one. Thank you Ed. Back to you, Elder.
Thank you. Now, turning your attention to 2026 and walking you through a bit what really, really exciting year we have ahead of us. If we look at our guidance for 2026, so this will be our first full year of operating the Narmouth mine and our guidance is 25 to 35 thousand ounces. Now, using the current gold prices today, we are looking at a cash flow of anywhere between 112 to 160 million euros dollar within this year. If we then look at the cost for the overall year, that's it if you take into account all in sustaining cost for NAVNAC, investment in NAVNAC, as well as the base case of exploration outside of NAVNAC of a total of 100 million dollars. So the free capital generation will be or is targeting on these kind of gold prices to be very very good. Now to give us ample liquidity throughout the year and to even faster some of our programs because we have the potential to grow our exploration budget and develop faster this year. This means that we're effectively doing more this year. We have announced this morning that we have increased the loan facility we have by another 35 million, taking it from 35 to 70 million, doubling it, and lowering the interest rate at the same time. And so this shows really the development of where we are going from, you know, more of a development or exploration company to a more of a cash flow generating business which is great see and to help further on the enabling our strategy of developing faster and creating value quicker we have now come to an understanding with one of our largest investor IFO to support us in the venture of setting up Zulia which is a servicing venture we have in Greenland now to give you an idea why this is important not only for our company import for all mining and infrastructure company in greenland and working capital uh in greenland is of importance you need to buy equipment drill rigs and maritime equipment and mining equipment up front and and that obviously finds a lot of capital so having a servicing venture in greenland will help us and a lot of other opportunities in greenland and it will be a very good business because this is a very growing market so we're extremely pleased with that not only for this but also years to come and this will allow a lot more equipment availability in the country like Greenland as well as consumers and others so we're extremely pleased with that and underpinning all of that we have announced to the market in this quarter that we are going on the main market in London this year we appointed city group to to to to assist us in that progress all we can say right now is that the work is progressing really well and we are getting a lot of very good feedback from from the market there we have subsequently delisted from the front of stock exchange and the focus here is a little bit of plumbing of the business so to say in the way that we want more and more liquidity to remain within fewer markets to help with indexing and various other liquidity for the company as a whole but overall our you know we couldn't be more excited about the study going forward we have extremely strong team both on the ground
in operation development exploration we're standardizing everything within the business and and this will be a transformational year for the business as we see it thanks other um i just thought we might dive a little bit into that expression program it is the busiest we've done to date and it's across the whole portfolio and it's the first time we've been so polymetallic in our exploration campaign. Clearly focusing on the Nanak mine to begin with, we're going to continue to underground exploration. We're looking at, if you take our current MRE, we're at about 485,000 ounces, which gives us around a 10-year mine life. The idea is we're replace results each year through underground exploration to try and tap into some of that over 2 million ounce exploration target that we've got. So that'll be the strategy going forward at Nananac and we'll continue to talk about it in that way and give detail on the results of that this year. But we're extremely excited about the opportunity there. Nanoc, which Elder has talked about briefly there, is an incredibly exciting opportunity for us. given the results we got from last year, we're going to continue drilling this year on that. We've already winterized the rig, they're outside already, there's infrastructure there in place. So as soon as the exploration season starts, we'll be there drilling, looking to target a maiden mineral resource estimate, as I highlighted earlier. So again, look out for that this year. That's a very exciting next goal project for us. And then around that, you've got the satellite gold. We'll continue to define targets there. We will continue to do some geophysical work on those as we look to de-risk that whole gold, the Nautilet gold belt that we talked about down in the south there. Outside of that, we've got our critical minerals asset base. Black Angel, we've talked about clearly after the acquisition last year and the completion of it, there's been a lot of work on the technical data. James and Will and the team and his geological team have been doing quite a lot of work on the data set that they've now received post-completion, and they're quite excited about that. Clearly, since the successfully assay of the stockpile, there's also really interesting internal discussions going on around the commercialization of the germanium and gallium that we have there, which is quite a topic at the moment generally in the world. Outside of that, and within our GARDACJV, the midterm IOCG and iron ore prospect in the far north, we had some really interesting and successful surface work done on that, indicating it's a very high-grade magnetite iron ore. This year it's going to be all about doing some scouting on that to see the depth and and volumetrics of that. And this asset is right in the far north, right up, just quite near Canada actually, in an area that seems to be an Arctic desert, very flat. So we're looking at all the logistics of that at the moment as well. Down in the south again, we've got the Ilua Rarer element exploration campaign. Again, scout brewing on that coast, some really interesting surface work that we did last year, and this is a pegmatite rare earth, so a sort of conventional rare earth. And again, it's going to be working out the volumetric of that through scout drilling, which will give us the opportunity then to introduce some resource drilling on it thereafter. And Spend Island, that's still very much in the portfolio, still looking to target a high-grade copper and nickel there. We'll be doing some further geophysical work on that. So we just wanted to lay out some of the exploration catalysts this year, which we're very excited about. The last slide is a sort of nice to have, really. This is just some photos showing you the work to date on Phase 2 progress with at NALIMAC. Clearly, you can see a lot of the civil works that are already completed, and a lot of the equipment is now being installed in there, as you can see. So really just to highlight that things are on track very much on schedule. A lot of work is going on there at the moment, which is great to see and certainly having gone through the winter season so far to date, we're really pleased with the progress there.
So, I think we'll wrap up there. What we're going to do is we'll take some questions from the line and I'll just give I'll just give a couple of seconds for people if they want to just take a minute to type in some of those questions there, and I'll crack on the stars in the meantime. So, first question, can you please discuss the timeline to profitability in any potential significant investment from government agencies?
So, I mean, profitability is something we see within this year from our absolute free cash flow, and we're in a positive E territory already this year. So that is very good. And as we mentioned earlier, in relation to, I mean, I reiterate here in the current gold prices, you know, the range from 25,000 ounces to 35,000 ounces, it ranges from 112 million up to 160 million dollars in cash flow. Now, that is on a $4,500 gold price. All of the capital investment within the group, both in terms of all-in cost of Nalanac, further investment in Nalanac, as well as all exploration expenditures within all of the group, we're still well above the free cash flow there for this year. And in addition to that, we have the new loan facility to give us even more wiggle room if we intend to do more this year. So, that puts it in a very good position. Now, on what we said on various different agencies being Denmark, European Union and or US agency, we maintain a good dialogue with all of these different agencies. We have been in dialogue with all of these agencies now for four or five years and we will continue to do so going forward. Thanks, Alan.
Next one, does the potential RCF upsides and equity conjecture into SUDAC mean you can now spend more than the minimum on exploration in 2026?
Yes, it does. However, we also need to take into account operational efficiencies, meaning we need to make sure we have the people in the rigs and all of that at the mid. Now, the good thing about our programs is that most of the programs start around mid-summer, June, July when a lot of our cash flow this year as we've said in our release in the first half of the year we're looking at seven to ten thousand ounces and in the second half of the year we are looking to produce more because then we're getting the flotation. Now that helps us assessing how much we want to spend and how much we want to do but we need to make sure we can secure the rigs and secure all of the people to be able to do the work so that is also an element there that we need to look into yeah um a question on Zuliac do you already have potential clients or customers contacting you for these services or do you and do you currently have leases out of equipment to other companies currently we don't have leases out to other companies but we have been contacted by various different parties I mean the whole idea behind Zuliac being Zuliaq is servicing AMROC it can be servicing various different projects within AMROC who we either own 100% or partially and the idea is that we need to have an arms length agreement with AMROC so meaning we will offer the same terms to anyone operating Greenland so it's a cost plus model and therefore we've already had three in-bounds to us and more actually and you know There are 33 companies in mining in Greenland, but mining is one thing, there's also a lot of infrastructure. There is hydro projects, there are governmental services, there's defense projects, so there's a lot of interest here to set something up. And I do want to emphasize the fact that this company comes as a servicing opportunity, a site with all of the great Greenland servicing companies who lack often the equipment but have the people. So there is a win-win scenario here for all parties involved. Thanks, Alec.
Alec, there's probably one for you. Can you just confirm those 2026 cash flow numbers, were they in Canadian dollars or US dollars?
I think that's in relation to Alec's comments earlier, and that would have been in the US, in line with the guidance that we gave out.
When do you expect to move to the main market? when will that be completed and what are the costs involved? Do you want me to take that? Yeah. So we are, as others suggested, we're right in the midst of that process at the moment. We're looking to get the draft of the prospectus in. There's a CPR green draft in the background as well. So there are two windows, normally the end of June window and then the autumn window. We're We're working towards the first window if we can, but if we're not, then it'll be in But currently, our expectation is we're trying to do it by the end of June. One of the reasons we're coming to the main market is because dropping a listing in Canada, et cetera, is to drop costs. So, whilst I'm not going to give you the exact cost of the process, the point of it is to drop costs in the first place, so thanks for that. Would it be possible for Elder to comment on the data points he looks at that are coming in from which gives him comfort on the 2026 gold target?
Yeah, no, I can certainly. I think the data points you want to be looking for there is the following. I mean, we are estimating not a full production this year, meaning in terms of tonnage. So we are estimating about 75 percent of tonnage of the total production to give us to be kind of on the cautious side. Now what then controls the what the ounces will come out is the grade and is the recovery. And I can say without going into the details here because we will ask it in the Q1 is that both the grade and the recovery are very good in this first quarter. We are seeing them and so we are confident on that. And furthermore, from the drilling, underground drilling, the resource drilling we're doing and resource conversion drilling, we're also seeing the grade as well as what we call a call factor. That means what the mining model is telling us and what then actually comes out of the grade. These are all positive indicators so far. And therefore, yes, these are all very positive for us. And therefore, we are very confident for this guidance.
A question just on diesel and energy costs. Obviously lower impact from leaving less diesel which is great, but can you talk a bit about the sensitivity forecast of the diesel price?
Yes, certainly. I mean to give you a little bit of kind of idea of cost base, I mean about 50-60% of our cost base is actually people or something related to people. Then we have travel and we have consumer boats and so on. So actually the energy cost in Nalanat for the year, we're estimating about 8 million, which is only about 8 percent of our total cost in that oil and sustaining cost number. So we don't see a massive impact there. What is also important, we've purchased all of our diesel or energy up until mid-summer, so we are quite well protected from there. There is another angle here as well, Greenland, due to the fact that they are very much dependent on diesel for the heating of their towns and operated they purchase much of the diesel and they fix the prices usually for two years in a time that can be negative you know because sometimes the prices are higher than the market but it can also be positive because then you know you're operating on a diesel price that it you know doesn't have the impact or something that is happening in the middle east at the moment but very much this energy cost is not the big item in or cost category, and secondly, we have diesel now up until mid-year, and thirdly, the green of the government, or Polaroil, has purchased a fair bit of diesel for the next two years for the country.
Thanks, Alder. Alder, maybe one for you. Are we looking at putting a hedge in the gold prices higher at the moment?
We haven't hedged gold prices at all up to this point. and we are looking into whether we can opportunistically hedge a part of our capitalized costs this year. Other than that, we'll continue, we'll be opportunistic. We're not too precious with kind of 100% no hedging at all, but we haven't done so so far. If you were to do it this year, it would be to cover the rest of the capex.
Yeah. As an example, I mean, we pre-sold 1,500 ounces a couple of weeks ago on a $5,000 per ounce. So there are opportunities like that. I don't want to say we are very good at predicting the prices here, but there are opportunities to cover your capital cost for sure.
Thanks. Working capital outflows were consistent through 2025. How do you see them flowing this year?
Yes. So it will be different this year. So for the first six months, we'll continue capex and construction of the processing plot facilities, but that should recede quite quickly post Q2. And the non-sustaining capbacks that we've guided on will be front heavy. But then once the flotation recoveries kick in and the capbacks recedes for the second half of the year, working capital will become quite benign. And we should see that reflected in the cash balance, especially in age two.
Super. I think the next one is around capex and capital spend, so can you confirm the 2026 capital spend? Was it 100 million U.S. and this is due for minimum exploration?
And is any of the 2026 capital spend on expanding to 450 times per day?
We will do some assessment on that, but just to give you a little bit on the assessment there and an idea of increasing to 450. When we designed the plant in Narlanac, the only thing we need to expand is to put in a second mill. The rest of the plant is designed for 450. So, we are doing the assessment now on the lead time of the mill and the construction. So, that and we will be updating in either the next quarter or the following quarter with that plant. Now, Well, that needs to be followed with more mining, of course. And so having 450 tons a day doesn't only potentially give us more cash flow. It also gives us also the opportunity to have lower grades for the plant if that would be the case in future years. Because the operating cost stays really the same if you're doing 450 tons a day versus 300 tons a day. So it gives you an idea of why we're looking at that.
Thanks, Alder. But this is a question regards sort of reconciliations of grades. Can you give us any indication on how the grade in Nananac is now when you've experienced the processing compared to the drilling results?
Yeah, so what we're seeing, the core factor from the mine plan towards what we're mining is positive. So we're having getting higher grades. That is not only to look for is that we're getting higher grades, but we also have to what we also have to kind of look into is, you know, what is a dilution, how well we mine it. That has also been going really, really well. So those are the two elements, but positive and positive on both how we're mining it and also the grid so far.
Thank you, Alec. Alec, maybe one for you here. Could you give us more insight on the gross profit margin and how you see that going forward with increased scale? Do you have a target margin in mind for the long term?
Yeah so we don't have a target margin in the long term but I would say that the point to the ASIC really that we've guided on in Q4 being the range of 1250 to 1450 US dollars per ounce and then And depending on the gold price, you can calculate kind of net margins from those numbers.
A question on likely impacts, obviously very present at the moment, what's the impact in the current Iran situation on costs and will our ATIC be impacted by it?
We don't see that as changing anything from now. Obviously, we are impacted by general inflationary effects, but again, as Elder alluded to earlier, fuel costs are quite a low percentage of our overall costs, so that we don't see a large effect at this moment, no. So we're reiterating our guidance today. Yeah, and clearly Elder highlighted the slight hedge we have on diesel crops and things, but that's...
And I just made it as a comment. I mean, it's a very reasonable question to ask. In a mining operation where you have low grades, you need a lot of power to power big mills and so on. So, the impact of higher oil prices does have an impact, whereas in an operation like we have that is high-grade, high-yielding, the impact of power and so on is much, much, much Thank you.
Last question. And so, if anyone has any more questions, please add them in now, but this is the last question for the moment. Can you please elaborate on the support that the executive management receives from the board in relation to any negotiations it has to have with government agencies in Denmark, Greenland and the US? Do you feel that the existing board is providing all the support and contact base that it has?
Yes, the existing board is doing that and the board has kept abreast to any discussion or potential opportunities within discussion with these agencies and the government.
Thanks, Alda. So there are no further questions currently, but please, if you have any, please send them through to me, Ed Westrup, my emails and details on the bottom releases, et cetera, and we'll get to those if you need them. Thanks very much for joining. We will be coming back for another one of these at the time of the Q1 results in May, so look forward to speaking to you all then. Thanks very much.
