Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ:ELBM) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 17, 2023 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Joe Racanelli - Vice President-Investor Relations

Trent Mell - Chief Executive Officer

Peter Park - Chief Financial Officer

Mark Trevisiol - Vice President, Project Development

Conference Call Participants

Matthew O'Keefe - Cantor Fitzgerald

David Talbot - Red Cloud Securities

Operator

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Electra Third Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] The conference is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Joe Racanelli, Vice President, Investor Relations with Electra Battery Materials Corporation. Please go ahead.

Joe Racanelli

Thank you, Galine, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for our Q3 call. We do have quite a bit of material to go through before I turn it over to Trent. I want to point out a couple of things. All of our disclosure material related to our Q3 results, including the MD&A, financial statements and the press release were issued last night. They've been filed on SEDAR and they're also available on our website.

We will be making use of a presentation today. That presentation is on our website, and I encourage you to follow along. I do want to make note that we will be making some forward-looking statements under the meaning of safe harbor. And as well, I want to point out that we will have a Q&A session today that will be open to the analysts who do follow us. For any shareholders that would have additional questions. Please reach out to me at any time.

And so with that, I do want to point out that in addition to Trent Mell as CEO; we do have Peter Park, our CFO, on the line with us; as well as Mark Trevisiol, who is our VP of Project Development. So with that, let me turn it over to Trent for his opening remarks.

Trent Mell

Thank you, Joe. Good morning, everybody. So yes, I'll start. Peter will say a few words, then Mark, I will wrap up before we open the call up to questions from our analysts.

So over the past quarter, since completing the re-baseline engineering report on our cobalt refinery, we've been particularly focused on our capital, our balance sheet, strengthening the balance sheet in 2 ways: one, despite some pretty tough markets and uncertainty, that hopefully -- that peaked, at least in regards to inflation, we did get pretty strong support, raising CAD 21.5 million in the month of August to support our efforts and energy proceeds.