B2Gold Corp. (NYSE:BTG) Q4 2022 Results Conference Call February 23, 2023 1:00 PM ET
Company Participants
Clive Johnson - President, Chief Executive Officer, and director
Michael Cinnamond - Chief Financial Officer & Senior VP-Finance
Randall Chatwin - Senior Vice President, Legal and Corporate Communications
Victor King - Senior Vice President Exploration
William Lytle - Senior Vice President, Operations
Conference Call Participants
Ovais Habib - Scotia Bank
Carey MacRury - Canaccord Genuity
Harmen Puri - Bank of America
Operator
I'd like to welcome everyone to the B2Gold Fourth Quarter and Full Year Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.
I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker, Mr. Clive Johnson, President, CEO and director. You may begin your conference, sir.
Clive Johnson
Thank you, Sherry. Well welcome everyone. As the operator said, we're here to discuss the year-end financial results for 2022. We had a very good year again and achieved our production and consolidated cost guidance and in a very strong financial position for the year. And also, we also declared another dividend of $0.04 share for three quarter.
I'm going to pass it over to Mike Cinnamond now, the CFO, who's going to walk you through the highlights of the financial results. I think our news release is quite extensive about our disclosure discussion material. Michael will put the highlights and then we can answer your questions. We've did a lot of marketing in the last couple of weeks since the announcement of the Sabina deal. And we can answer or update your little bit on that and answer some questions after we finish discussing the financial results.
So, with that, over to you Mike,
Michael Cinnamond
Thanks Clive. So, I'll start with the quarter and then comment a little bit on the full year results. So for the quarter, I think the story for Q4 is that our operations came through and delivered on the sort of forecast that we were going to have a big Q4. I think if you may recall, by the end of Q3, we were close to budget, but there were some delays in production at both Fekola because of water in the pit that was dewatered and then resolved at the start of the fourth quarter. And then some delays in Otjikoto just with accessing the Wolfshag underground.