B2Gold Corporation (NYSE:BTG) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 9, 2023 1:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Clive Johnson - President, CEO & Director

Michael Cinnamond - SVP, Finance & CFO

William Lytle - SVP & COO

Conference Call Participants

Ovais Habib - Scotiabank

Anita Soni - CIBC Capital Markets

Carey MacRury - Canaccord Genuity

Don DeMarco - National Bank Financial

Operator

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to B2Gold Corporation's Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions].

I would now like to turn the conference over to Clive Johnson, President and CEO of B2Gold. Please go ahead.

Clive Johnson

Thanks, Isha. Welcome, everyone, to as Isha said to our conference call to discuss the results of the third quarter of 2023. I want to say a few introductory words, and then I'm going to pass it on. We have our Board here in Vancouver, most of our executive team, and you're going to hear from me and then Mike will walk us through, Michael Cinnamond our CFO, will walk us through the financial results for the quarter, and then Bill Lytle, COO, will walk us through an update on -- a brief update on projects around the mines, but also on the development projects, what we're doing and [indiscernible] update also, also talk about the way forward and potential for Mali expansion to give you a good update on that.

Many of you have seen the results, of course, through the filing that was done yesterday. We're pleased with the results for the third quarter. We had another solid quarter and some good costs that are well run by our extremely good operating teams on all of the sites. Michael will take you through some of that.

But as importantly as the results for the quarter are, I think we're really very comfortable about being on track for our guidance for 2023. So we'll update you on that and tell you why obviously, working for Fekola, scheduled for a good quarter coming up in the fourth quarter. We'll talk more in more detail about that.

In terms of where we are and our focus a little bit and talk about looking forward a bit and some strategy where the key point as always is to continue to be a responsible miner and optimize the gold production from our existing mines to continue [indiscernible] we do on the ESG front in so many different places. Obviously, the focus now going forward on the development side is the Goose, which you'll hear more about going extremely well the construction at Goose and we're on schedule, on track, expecting first gold production in the first quarter of 2025 as we'll hear more from Bill. But that's going extremely well. We're very pleased with that. We've also had quite a bit of exploration.