Equinox Gold Corp. (NYSE:EQX) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call August 4, 2022 10:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Rhylin Bailie - VP, IR
Ross Beaty - Chairman
Christian Milau - CEO
Peter Hardie - CFO
Doug Reddy - COO
Scott Heffernan - EVP, Exploration
Conference Call Participants
Anita Soni - CIBC World Markets
Wayne Lam - RBC
Kerry Smith - Haywood Securities
Mike Parkin - National Bank
Operator
Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Equinox Gold Second Quarter 2022 Results and Corporate Update. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to turn the conference over to Rhylin Bailie, Vice President, Investor Relations for Equinox Gold. Please go ahead.
Rhylin Bailie
Thank you, operator and thank you everybody for joining us today for the Q2 conference call. We will of course be making a number of forward-looking statements today, so please do visit our website, SEDAR and EDGAR to read the rest of our continuous disclosure documents.
I'm now going to turn the call over to our Chairman, Ross Beaty, to make some opening remarks.
Ross Beaty
Thank you, Rhylin, and good morning ladies and gentlemen.
I don't usually get involved in these quarterly calls but this particular one is important. I think I'm going to talk a little bit about the CEO transition and a little bit of the background of that. Obviously, it was a poor quarter. And I just want to make a couple of editorial comments here to all investors whether they're short-term investors or medium-term or long-term. If you are short term, I want to point out that our Q3 and Q4 of this year should be much better than our first two quarters.
We signaled that at the beginning of the year and we expect that to happen again just like it did last year where we had a blowout quarter in Q4 last year. So, short-term things should be much better as the year progresses. If you're a mid-term investor, I would like you to focus on our growth.
Obviously, Greenstone is the biggest growth project we have that will add a couple of hundred thousand ounces at least to our gold production profile in the next couple of years, but we also have a dramatic growth potential at Los Filos in Mexico, Aurizona in Brazil, Castle Mountain Phase 2 in United States and, of course, our new Santa Luz mine in Brazil. Tremendous amount of growth, I think, we probably leave the entire sector in terms of growth of our production profile and our decrease in cash, cash cost profile.