B2Gold Corp. (AMEX:BTG) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

Don DeMarco: And the total distance rose about 163 kilometers. If you build that over 2 months, 60 days, I guess, your target is roughly 3 kilometers per day, but you’re building it from maybe 3 different fronts, right, from the middle and then from both endpoints? Is that it?

William Lytle: Yes, that’s correct. And the key really is, remember, we’re going to do the sea ice last. And so that’s really where I think there’s 20 or 30 kilometers of sea ice maybe 40, if I remember correctly. That’s really the key stuff that has to freeze up, thicken up before we can go.

Don DeMarco: Okay, great. Maybe just shifting then to questions on Fekola has been answered. But on Calibre, can you share what your strategic intentions are with this with your 24% share in this? I mean I see from the financials ASICs still attractive, it’s running around $1,200 an ounce. But what are your thoughts, medium or longer term with Calibre?

Clive Johnson: Yes, [indiscernible] have done a good job. I think it was a great deal that everybody want the — the Nicaragua employees from the B2 tents stayed almost completely in place. And Calibre’s got some good technical people, they do a good job of what they’ve done, and they continue to look to grow their production profile. So we’re happy shareholders and they are good guys, well friends are doing a good job. We’re happy with our investment going forward. I’ve always said to the Calibre guys, if you are — whatever you’re doing going forward looking for to bring the shareholder and we would consider position. But we’re not in any rush to do that. And we’re not — we’ll work with them and with Calibre and we like what they’re doing, and we’re happy to.

Operator: This concludes the question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Clive Johnson for any closing remarks. Please go ahead.

Clive Johnson: Okay. Thanks all and of your participation and your good questions. And we look forward to continuing to update you, as I said, next thing out in terms of news would be the update on exploration in Back River, Goose and George. So thanks for your attention.

Operator: This concludes today’s conference call. You may disconnect your lines. Thank you for participating, and have a pleasant day.