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Edited Transcript of CS.TO earnings conference call or presentation 29-Jul-15 3:30pm GMT

VANCOUVER Aug 27, 2015 (Thomson StreetEvents) -- Edited Transcript of Capstone Mining Corp earnings conference call or presentation Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 3:30:00pm GMT

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Corporate Participants

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* Cindy Burnett

Capstone Mining Corp. - VP, IR and Communications

* Darren Pylot

Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director

* Jim Slattery

Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and CFO

* Gregg Bush

Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO

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Conference Call Participants

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* Ralph Profiti

Credit Suisse - Analyst

* Stefan Ioannou

Haywood Securities Inc. - Analyst

* Cliff Hale-Sanders

Cormark Securities - Analyst

* Peter Campbell

Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst

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Presentation

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Operator [1]

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Capstone Mining Corp's second-quarter 2015 financial results conference call. (Operator Instructions) This call is being recorded on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.

I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Cindy Burnett, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

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Cindy Burnett, Capstone Mining Corp. - VP, IR and Communications [2]

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Thank you. I'd like to welcome everyone on the call today. The news release announcing our 2015 second-quarter financial results is available on our website along with an updated corporate presentation with summary information on the Company and our financial and operating results. Also on the website are webcast slides to accompany our commentary today.

With me today are Darren Pylot, Capstone's President and CEO; Jim Slattery, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Gregg Bush, Capstone Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and Rob Blusson, Vice President of Finance.

I would like to advise you that this call is being recorded for replay through our conference call provider and is being broadcast live through an Internet webcast system. Comments made on the call today will contain forward-looking information.

This information by its nature is subject to risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from the views expressed today. For further information on these risks and uncertainties, please see Capstone's relevant filings on SEDAR. And finally, I'll note that all amounts we will discuss today will be in US dollars unless otherwise specified.

Now I'll turn the call over to Darren Pylot.

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [3]

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Thank you, Cindy, and good morning, everybody. Jim will lead off with a review of our financial performance, followed by Greg, who will provide an update on our operations. We will also provide an update on our development projects and corporate activities followed by your questions. So I'll now turn the call over to Jim.

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Jim Slattery, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and CFO [4]

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Thanks, Darren. Our net income for the second quarter was $1.3 million and included a $5.7 million income tax recovery as well as a $7.1 million non-cash unrealized gain on our copper collars. This was partially offset by a $6.9 million non-cash write-down of inventory at Minto.

Operating cash flow before changes in working capital was $21.8 million for the quarter, up from $16.5 million in the first quarter of 2015, but down from the same quarter a year ago when we realized significantly higher copper prices. Now with the decline in copper prices, we managed our business to maintain over $200 million in liquidity at quarter end and remained within our debt covenants.

To further solidify our financial position, we did 2 things this quarter. First we locked in a price of approximately $2.81 per pound on almost 20,000 tonnes of copper with quotational periods running from April 15 to August 15. At the end of this quarter, approximately 8,700 of these tonnes remain unsettled.

Second, we took advantage of the copper price rally in early May to put a zero cost collar copper program in place with a floor price of $2.60 and a ceiling price of $3.10. This collar program allows us to execute our planned 2015 capital program, particularly with the investment we're making at Pinto Valley for the PV2 expansion.

The collars cover our production up until the end of September 2015, with pricing periods running until February 2016. These collars are in place to ensure that covenant compliance and adequate liquidity to manage our business. With 2015 being a year of abnormally high capital expenditures, the downside risk in the market appeared at the time more significant than the upside potential when we executed the transaction. And recent market volatility has supported this assessment.

Consolidated C1 cash costs for the quarter were slightly over our annualized guidance, which reflects both the uneven distribution in mine plans on a quarterly basis and also the shortfall in production at Cozamin. With the necessary adjustments underway at Cozamin, our current forecast has us meeting our C1 guidance for the year. As a result, we're not changing our overall costs guidance, but expect the distribution by mine to be slightly different, with Minto outperforming while Cozamin underperforms.

Now I'll turn the call over to Gregg for our operational update.

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Gregg Bush, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO [5]

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Thanks, Jim. At Pinto Valley, we met our quarterly production and cost guidance with grade above mine plan offsetting lower-than-planned tonnage and recoveries. We have made good progress on our maintenance reliability program at Pinto Valley and we're seeing the benefits by June in both throughput and reduced variability, which have continued through July. We're putting systems in place to ensure the ongoing sustainability of these improvements and will continue the process of optimizing our maintenance programs.

We remain confident that we can meet our target to sustain production of 52,000 tonnes per day, given the progress that we've seen through June, where we averaged just under 49,000 tonnes per day and for July, where we expect to close the month at or very close to 50,000 tonnes per day.

At Cozamin, we carried the development shortfall over from 2014 and were experiencing development shortfalls earlier this year due to changes in rock support standards implemented in 2014. In addition, higher percentages of ore sourced from the footwall zone compared to previous years highlighted some deficiencies in our grade control practices.

These issues have been addressed through training programs directed at our long hole drilling and development crews. In the past several months, we have met or exceeded the development rates needed to get us back on track and we have gotten the dilution issues under control. We expect to have sufficient development completed by September to maintain planned throughputs in the mill going forward. Additional high-grade tonnage will lower but not eliminate the Cozamin production deficit by year end.

With the new leadership at Cozamin at both general manager and my manager levels, we believe that we have the full domino effect of operational issues under control. By mid July, our grade was back up and we averaged the last several weeks over 2% copper.

Tonnage did initially fall off, but now we have a common understanding of the priorities in the leadership in place. We are seeing a comeback and expect to continue to improve throughout this quarter. As we mentioned in our disclosure, we do not expect to make either production or cost guidance at Cozamin for the year.

At Minto, we significantly outperformed our plan for the second consecutive quarter as a result of ongoing positive grade reconciliations to the underground block model as well as more unplanned ore production from our cheap mining of Area 2 early in the quarter. The strong outperformance at Minto has allowed us to maintain our overall consolidated 2015 production and cost guidance.

And finally, we received a draft water use license yesterday and now expect to begin stripping Minto North in the next couple of weeks. This will have ore to the mill starting in December with the bulk of the high-grade hitting in Q2 of 2016.

I'll now turn the call back over to Darren.

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [6]

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Thank you, Gregg. This quarter really served to demonstrate the advantage of having multiple operations. Minto was able to step up and offset the production shortfall at Cozamin, allowing us to reach our midyear targets and maintain our guidance for the year.

Our priorities for the year have not changed. We remain centered on careful management of our financial resources, advancing our growth projects at a measured pace, and maintaining flexibility in our operations to ensure that we remain on

At Pinto Valley, we are on track with the implementation of the PV2 mine life extension project and expect to be complete the PV3 prefeasibility study this quarter. For PV3, we've evaluated both a base case, which includes a 10% to 15% increase in throughput with the potential for a mine life extension. We also looked at a much larger case, which increases to 90,000 tonnes per day, also with a mine life extension.

We've done enough work now to determine that the 90,000 tonne a day case is not expected to generate returns sufficient to justify the additional development capital -- additional development and capital risk over the base case. So as a result, only the base case will be advanced in the PV2/PV3 final prefeasibility study.

At Santo Domingo, we received approval of the EIS in early July. And with the iron market not expected to recover quickly, we are assessing a phased approach, focusing on evaluating the copper portion of the project first with the option to add iron facilities should the outlook for that market improve.

We are advancing a feasibility study for the phased approach towards a mid-2016 completion date. And our pro rata share of the revised budget for the second half of this year would be approximately $10.9 million, which will advance the feasibility study, retain the Santo Domingo team, and maintain and advance various activities related to our social license and legal title in Chile.

Given the size of the project as its currently scoped and expected extended downturn in the iron market, we have determined this to be the best and most prudent course of action for development of this -- advancement of this project.

In closing, at the midway point of the year, we have managed our revenue through our copper collars to allow us to complete our 2015 capital program, which positions the Company for the future. Once 2015 is behind us and the large capital program concluded, 2016 sets up to be a significantly lower investment year for us.

In the near-term, our key catalysts are the receipt of the final water license at Minto, which will allow us to get to the stripping of Minto North in the next couple of weeks. As Gregg mentioned, we did finally yesterday receive the second draft of the license, which corrected a number of errors and admissions that were in the first draft. There is a very short turnaround now and we expect the license to be finalized and issued early next week. And our second major upcoming catalysts would be the completion of the PV3 prefeasibility study, which is scheduled for completion in this quarter.

For the balance of the year, our focus will be on sustaining improvements in mill throughput at Pinto Valley, getting Cozamin back to plan on throughput and grades throughout the remainder of the year, and analyzing the rescoping options at Santo Domingo on a basis that our free cash flow allows us in this current market.

Operator, that concludes our prepared remarks and we are now ready to take questions.

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Questions and Answers

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Operator [1]

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(Operator Instructions) Ralph Profiti, Credit Suisse.

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Ralph Profiti, Credit Suisse - Analyst [2]

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Good morning, everyone, and thanks for taking my questions. Firstly, understanding that it's still early days on PV3, but the MD&A referred to targeting all the remaining measured and indicated resources there.

Now with this smaller scale being looked that, can we assume or could you come back to that 968 million tonne resource that had the higher cutoff grade? It's smaller, but it's higher quality and still gives you the sort of 35- to 40-year mine life. Is that something that we could see upcoming in a few months?

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Gregg Bush, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO [3]

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Yes, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. Obviously, we're looking at all the remaining resources. We never had any expectation that all of those resources will convert into reserves for this PV3 study. Did that answer your question?

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Ralph Profiti, Credit Suisse - Analyst [4]

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Yes, I'm just trying to get at sort of -- this copper environment, your long-term views, then sort of how you're kind of rebasing the expectations on what is the sort of conversion target.

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Gregg Bush, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO [5]

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Well, I don't think we can talk about -- we can't really talk about reserves. I mean, the study is not completed.

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Ralph Profiti, Credit Suisse - Analyst [6]

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No, that's fine.

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [7]

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Ralph, I think it's safe to say that we expect a mine life extension with all of those resources as you mentioned. But 100% of those resources are not going to convert to reserves in this PV3 study.

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Ralph Profiti, Credit Suisse - Analyst [8]

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Okay, thanks, guys. And just secondly, some strong improvements on the throughput Pinto Valley. But recoveries were a bit below expectations and sort of trend against the copper grade. Is there something particularly anomalous in the quarter on recoveries or is this normal variation? And you still have confident in this kind of 88% target for the year?

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Gregg Bush, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO [9]

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Yes, there's not any major issue there. As the reliability improves, we do expect the recovery to improve as a general rule. But we started a new pushback, so some of the ore is not as -- or I should say is slightly more oxidized on those upper benches. So you would expect to see some lower recoveries.

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Ralph Profiti, Credit Suisse - Analyst [10]

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Excellent. Thanks very much, guys.

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Operator [11]

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(Operator Instructions) Stefan Ioannou, Haywood Securities.

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Stefan Ioannou, Haywood Securities Inc. - Analyst [12]

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Just good to hear that it sounds like the water use license amendment is coming very shortly here at Minto. Just wondering with stripping starting up in the next couple weeks then, do you think you'll get through that sort of $23 million budgeted pre-stripping program this year and into actual ore this year? Or what's sort of timeline for high grade coming out of Minto there?

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Gregg Bush, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO [13]

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Yes, we do expect to get through the pre-stripping. We do expect to see some more in December. Even though we are starting later, we split Minto North into two smaller phases so that we could get the ore a little bit earlier. However, we don't expect to see any really high-grade ore until probably the second quarter of next year.

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Stefan Ioannou, Haywood Securities Inc. - Analyst [14]

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Okay, okay. And then just on previous calls with regards to the -- it's a capital cost-intensive year. And the budget is at $168 million right now. But on previous calls, you mentioned that you thought there was about $30 million of, call it, discretionary spending, most of it back weighted to the second half of this year.

What's your thoughts on that discretionary component? Are you going to go ahead and spend it all or are you taking some stuff off the table or what's the thought there?

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [15]

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Well, Stefan, most of that discretionary would be choosing not to strip Minto North in 2015. But with the collars in place and the $2.60 downside protection, that ensures that we can spend all the capital should we decide that prudent. And really, the two big capital items left are that stripping at Minto North that we think we definitely want to do this year because of the high-grade ore that it is going to expose.

And then secondly, it's completing the PV2 expansion, obviously with the tailings. The tailings [operate] left to do for the remainder of the year. So those two things I think you'll see will happen.

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Stefan Ioannou, Haywood Securities Inc. - Analyst [16]

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They'll happen; okay. Okay, then maybe just one last question. Just with regards to the debt itself right now, I know you've got the collars in place, which give you $2.60 copper. But sort of once we get past the end of September, is there a copper price that starts to get you guys concerned, like a sustained copper price, where the covenants underpinning the debt come into question? Or are we far away from that, even at call it $2.35, $2.40 copper?

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [17]

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Technically, if copper went down today to $2.35 and continued on ad infinitum, that would cause us to just brush one of the covenants at the end of the third quarter this year. We can go down as low as $2.20 and there's a -- there would be a small technical breach on the total debt covenant, but we've got lots of coverage on the interest coverage.

But that only lasts about three, quarters, and at almost any copper price that you can reasonably imagine beyond the midpoint of 2016 will be in compliance with all of the covenants. We're not seeing any kind of an urgent financial issue to take any steps that could have a long-term negative impact on the Company just to make it through the short term.

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Stefan Ioannou, Haywood Securities Inc. - Analyst [18]

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Okay. But sorry: you said $2.35 through the end of Q4 of this year? Or sorry, what was the time on that?

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Jim Slattery, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and CFO [19]

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If as of today we ran at $2.35, we would still be -- through the next 5 years, we would still be in compliance with all of our covenants.

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Stefan Ioannou, Haywood Securities Inc. - Analyst [20]

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You would still be in compliance, okay.

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Jim Slattery, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and CFO [21]

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That's correct.

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Stefan Ioannou, Haywood Securities Inc. - Analyst [22]

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Okay, got you. Thanks very much, guys.

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Operator [23]

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Cliff Hale-Sanders, Cormark Securities.

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Cliff Hale-Sanders, Cormark Securities - Analyst [24]

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I just wanted to make sure I understood what Darren said. And then I have a follow-up question on the Minto North's pre-stripping. Obviously, it sounds like you fully expect to get the permit within the next week, week and a half, and that would be great. Then you could make your final decisions.

But the way you were talking about the capital, it sounded as if you still haven't quite made that formal decision that you're going to spend that money this year. At current copper prices, how would that adjust your thinking or would it be better off to postpone for six months once you had the license in hand?

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [25]

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Sorry, Clint, to clarify. I know I was saying we are definitely going to spend that capital on stripping Minto North because it's only a kind of a, call it, a year and a couple months of reserves there at Minto North. And the grade is so high, it doesn't make sense to postpone, because obviously, we don't have the -- we won't have the stockpiles and we rely solely on underground ore, if we didn't have that Minto North. So we fully expect to do all the stripping in 2015 and start to mine Minto North at the end of 2015 and all of 2016.

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Cliff Hale-Sanders, Cormark Securities - Analyst [26]

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Okay. Just going on from that, obviously Minto North is a, call it, 1, 1.5 year high-grade opportunity. What would you need longer term to continue mining at Minto beyond that?

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [27]

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Well, we've seen our underground mining production and cost come in much -- obviously, the grade has been higher than planned because the dilution has been -- they've done a very good job on dilution underground, so the grade has come back higher than planned, resulting in much lower operating costs than we had originally budgeted before we started mining there.

So we've seen good things, but we're going to have to have a look at Minto beyond Minto North and understand its cost structure ultimately. And can we -- does it make sense and depending on what the copper price is, does it make sense to run as an underground mine. We don't have all that information yet and obviously we need to know what the copper price is going to be. But that's what it would be beyond Minto North is basically an underground mine.

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Cliff Hale-Sanders, Cormark Securities - Analyst [28]

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Okay. And just my other actual question was on Pinto Valley. Now we had been -- or you'd indicated you were hoping to target coming out of the second quarter at full throughput rates. It looks like we're a little bit behind there. Is there anything to read into that or it was just -- it's taking a little while to bed down the new procedures and get the spare parts and things of that nature?

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Gregg Bush, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO [29]

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Yes. Sorry, I didn't know. We didn't target to be at full throughput rate second quarter. We expected to be there by the end of the second quarter. And I think we're getting pretty close, but I don't want to -- Cindy will hit me if I speculate on what they were going to be there.

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [30]

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But there's nothing in particular to read into it.

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Gregg Bush, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and COO [31]

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No, no.

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Cliff Hale-Sanders, Cormark Securities - Analyst [32]

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Okay. I just wanted to make sure there was nothing -- you hadn't found anything new that you had to go back and redress. That's just slowing things down just that little bit.

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [33]

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No, I think Cliff, what we're saying is we've got everything in place. So at any day now, we could be sustaining that 52,000 tonnes. We are running at about 50 now, but there's nothing stopping us from being at the 52. It's just going to happen. We just don't know when it's going to actually kick in, but we fully expect it to be any day, any week. There's nothing left for us to do. It's just going to happen.

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Cliff Hale-Sanders, Cormark Securities - Analyst [34]

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Okay, great.

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Operator [35]

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research.

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst [36]

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Thank you very much. Just a quick question on TCRCs, if I may. Are your treatment charges negotiated annually or are you on more of a spot basis?

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [37]

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The contracts that we have with Cozamin and Minto are annual. A lot at Pinto Valley is spot.

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst [38]

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Okay. And it seems that despite the depressed copper price that there's a bit of a scarcity for copper concentrates. Are you experiencing that, too, and therefore might expect some like downward pressure on your treatment charges?

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [39]

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That's a pretty accurate observation. There's opportunities in the market for swaps as well. All part of taking advantage of the market, which is basically broken down between very clean concentrate and not-so-clean concentrate, with traders in between trying to blend them to take advantage of the arbitrage opportunity that exists. And we are certainly taking advantage of that, given that we've got nothing but very clean concentrate.

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst [40]

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And so I guess I take from that, then, that you've got no plans at this point in time to push PV into a term-based TCRC?

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [41]

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Sorry, what was that?

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst [42]

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You're not going to negotiate a term-based treatment charges for Pinto Valley, correct? You're going to stay on a spot basis, basically.

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [43]

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Not at this phase, no. We're going to continue along the route that we're currently traveling.

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst [44]

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Okay.

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Jim Slattery, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and CFO [45]

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Peter, with a lot of concentrate obviously coming out of Pinto Valley. So we have a number of spot lots scheduled throughout the year. And then we do have some long-term relationships with smelters for obvious needs to maintain a long-term relationship. So we blend those two together, but to add to Jim's comments, we just sold a spot lot last month at what I believe has been the lowest price in the market to date in 2015, which was in the mid-60s.

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst [46]

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Oh, geez. That's a very good price.

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Jim Slattery, Capstone Mining Corp. - SVP and CFO [47]

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That gives you a sense of how the market is -- the demand that the market is looking for for good clean con, which we have at all of our mine sites.

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Peter Campbell, Mackie Research Capital Corporation - Analyst [48]

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Okay. That was the entirety of my questions. Thank you very much.

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Operator [49]

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Thank you. That concludes our call today. I will now turn it back over to Darren Pylot.

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Darren Pylot, Capstone Mining Corp. - President, CEO, and Director [50]

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Well, thank you for joining us today, everybody. And please don't hesitate as always to contact us with any additional questions you may have. And have a good day. Thank you.

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Operator [51]

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Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call. We thank you for participating and ask that you please disconnect your lines.

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Capstone Mining is a copper producing company based in Canada.

Capstone Mining produces copper, gold, lead, silver and zinc in Canada and in Mexico, develops copper, gold, silver and zinc in Canada.

Its main assets in production are MINTO MINE in Canada and COZAMIN BACIS in Mexico and its main asset in development is KUTCHO in Canada.

Capstone Mining is listed in Canada, in Germany and in United States of America. Its market capitalisation is CA$ 3.7 billions as of today (US$ 2.7 billions, € 2.5 billions).

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10/13/2015Capstone Mining 2015 Third Quarter Production Results
9/9/2015Capstone Mining Announces Spending Cuts in Response to Marke...
9/8/2015Capstone Mining to Attend Upcoming Investor Conference
8/27/2015Edited Transcript of CS.TO earnings conference call or prese...
8/5/2015Capstone Mining Receives Water Use Licence for Minto Mine
8/3/2015Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: Avino Silver and ...
7/28/2015Capstone Mining Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results
7/13/2015Capstone Mining 2015 Second Quarter Production Results
7/8/2015Capstone Mining Receives Approval of Environmental Impact As...
4/13/2015Capstone Mining 2014 First Quarter Production Results
4/1/2015Capstone Mining Publishes Inaugural Sustainability Report
4/1/2015Publishes Inaugural Sustainability Report
2/19/2015to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
12/1/2014to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
10/29/2014Capstone Mining Reports Another Quarter of Record Cash Flow
10/14/2014Capstone Mining to Attend Upcoming Investor Conference
9/12/2014Discontinues Planned Offering of $300 million Senior Notes
9/5/2014Announces Launch of $300 million Senior Notes Offering
5/7/2014Reports Operating Cash Flow Increases 134% to $47.1 Million
4/10/2014Record 2014 First Quarter Production Results
3/26/2014Extends Pinto Valley Mine Life to 2026
1/20/2014Capstone Mining to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
1/20/2014to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
1/20/2014to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
1/13/20142013 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Production Results
12/11/2013Capstone Mining Files Updated Technical Report for Pinto Val...
12/11/2013Files Updated Technical Report for Pinto Valley
11/14/2013Capstone Mining to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
11/14/2013to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
10/7/2013Capstone Mining Provides Update on Pinto
10/7/2013Provides Update on Pinto Valley Acquisition
7/31/2013Capstone Mining Delivers Consistent 2013
7/11/20132013 Second Quarter Production Results
6/13/2013Capstone Mining Files Pinto Valley 43-101 Mineral Resource E...
6/11/2013Provides Update on Pinto Valley Acquisition
5/30/2013Capstone Mining to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences
5/10/2013Capstone Mining Reports Annual General Meeting Voting Result...
4/29/2013Capstone Mining to Purchase Pinto Valley
4/28/2013to Purchase Pinto Valley Copper Mine
3/13/2013Capstone Mining Reports 2012 Year End
2/18/2013to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
1/10/2013Capstone 2012 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Production Result...
1/10/20132012 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Production Results Meet Gu...
10/31/2012Capstone Reports Senior Management Change
10/31/2012Reports Senior Management Change
10/23/2012Capstone Reports Board Change
10/23/2012Reports Board Change
10/11/2012Capstone 2012 Third Quarter Production Results on Track
7/12/2012Capstone 2012 Second Quarter Production Results On Target
5/14/2012Capstone Reports Board Change
4/13/2012Capstone Mining Announces New $200 Million
4/12/2012Capstone 2012 First Quarter Production
3/14/2012Capstone Reports Strong 2011 Results
2/10/2012Capstone Mining Reports Board Change
1/26/2012Capstone 2012 Operating and Capital Guidance
1/17/2012Capstone Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Production Result...
1/16/2012Capstone Awards Contract for Santo Domingo
10/6/2011Capstone Third Quarter Production Results
8/15/2011Capstone Reports Pre-Feasibility Study
8/10/2011to Hold Second Quarter and Santo Domingo PFS Conference Call...
7/6/2011Capstone Second Quarter Production Results
6/20/2011Capstone Mining Board of Director Changes
6/14/2011and Far West Mining Approve Acquisition and KORES Agreement
6/2/2011Independent Proxy Firms Recommend Capstone Shareholders Vote...
5/23/2011Mails Information Circular with Respect to Acquisition of Fa...
5/20/2011Capstone Mining Mails Information Circular
5/10/2011to Hold First Quarter Conference Call May 25, 2011
4/26/2011Capstone Reports First Quarter Production
4/17/2011Capstone Mining to Acquire Far West Mining
4/14/2011Capstone Reports Change to its Board
3/15/2011Capstone Reports Record Revenue and Strong
1/26/2009Commences US$ 3 Million Resource Expansion Drill Program at ...
1/22/2009Reports Debt Repayments, Funding of Debenture Repurchase and...
12/10/2008Reports Final Drill Intercepts of Near Surface Copper-Gold a...
11/25/2008Reports Minto Mine Connected to Yukon Electrical Grid
11/24/2008Sherwood and Capstone Announce Closing of Business Combinati...
11/14/2008Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve Business Combination wit...
9/8/2008Announce Combination to Create Intermediate Copper Producer
7/29/2008Reports Record Revenues of $35.3 Million and Record Operatin...
7/15/2008Announces Normal Course Issuer Bid
2/28/2008December 31, 2007 Four Month Stub Period Results
2/21/2008to Release 4 Months Ended December 31, 2007 Results on Thurs...
1/17/2008Provides 2008 Expansion And Exploration Plans And Increases ...
11/8/2007 To Release 2007 Year End Results On Wednesday November 14,...
7/19/2007Provides Cozamin Mine Expansion Update
6/28/2007Reports Q3 Results: Operating Profit of $7.8 Million, $0.09 ...
4/5/2007Closes Previously Announced Agreement to Sell Cozamin Silver...
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