Aris Mining Corporation (ARIS) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

Good morning, and welcome to the Aris Mining Corporation 2024 Annual General Meeting Audio Webcast. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's webcast is being recorded. I will now turn the meeting over to the chair of the meeting, Mr. Ian Telfer. Please go ahead, Mr. Telfer.

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to the 2024 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Aris Mining. My name is Ian Telfer, and I am the Chair of the Board of Directors of the company, and I will act as Chair of the meeting. Aris Mining is holding a virtual-only meeting this year to enable greater shareholder attendance and participation. This meeting will consist of the formal business of the meeting, following which I will provide an opportunity for general questions. This meeting is being hosted through LUMI, a virtual meeting platform accessible to all our shareholders regardless of physical location. I would like to remind you that only registered shareholders that have logged into the meeting with their previously obtained 12-digit control number or duly appointed proxy holders that have received a user name from Odyssey are entitled to vote at the meeting. The active participation by registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holders only is customary and consistent with our in-person meeting procedures. Any registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder with a question that is relevant to the business of this meeting is welcome to ask it through the web portal. If you have a question not directly related to the business of this meeting, I kindly ask that you wait and ask that question after the formal business of the meeting. In order to ensure this meeting covers the required business in an efficient manner, I will move all motions, and will dispense with the seconding of such motions. The meeting will now come to order. The first item of business is the presentation of Aris Mining's audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, and the accompanying auditor's report. Copies of the financial statements and the auditor's report have been delivered to shareholders as requested, and they have also been filed under Aris Mining's profile on SEDAR and with the SEC and are located on the LUMI dashboard page. I now declare that Aris Mining's audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, and the company auditor's report have been received by the shareholders as submitted to this meeting. The next item of business is to fix the number of directors of the company to be elected at this meeting. I move that the following resolution be adopted and approved. Resolve that the number of directors of the company to be elected at this meeting and fixed at 8. The next item on the agenda is the election of directors. The term of office for each of the company's directors is deemed to expire at each Annual General Meeting. The only persons who have been validly nominated to stand for election as director of Aris Mining are the nominees set forth in the management information circular for this meeting. Accordingly, no further nominations will be accepted and I declare the nominations closed. I move that the following nominees be elected as directors of Aris Mining to hold office until the next election of directors or until their successors are appointed. Myself, Ian Telfer, Daniela Cambone, Monica Greiff, David Garofalo, Attie Roux, Gonzalo Hernández and Germán Arce. The next item of business is the appointment of KPMG LLP as auditor of the company. Resolve that KPMG LLP be appointed as auditor of the company for the ensuing year and that the Board be authorized to set their remuneration. Sorry. I did that a little bit out of order here. I should have appointed Ashley Baker as Corporate Secretary of the company at the very beginning and appointed Bryce Docherty of Odyssey, who will act a scrutineer of the meeting. I also should have said I received a declaration prepared by an officer of Odyssey indicating that notice calling this meeting and accompanying notice and access notification and form of proxy were duly emailed on April 15, 2024, to registered shareholders as of the March 25, 2024 record date and as such, proper notice of the meeting has been given. I direct a copy of the notice of meeting and proof of mailing be kept with the minutes of this meeting. According to the preliminary scrutineers' report, at least 2 shareholders who in aggregate hold at least 25% of the issued shares entitled to vote at the meeting are present in person or represented by proxy. I adopt the scrutineers' report and declare the quorum is present. I now declare the meeting to be regularly called and properly constituted for the transaction of business. Before commencing with the business of the meeting, I would like to comment on the voting procedure. We will conduct each vote by way of a poll with votes cast on the LUMI platform and those submitted by proxy. I understand that the scrutineer has tabulated all votes prior to receiving a proxy cutoff. If you have previously voted, you do not need to vote again. By voting again, you will revote any previous vote made prior to the cutoff. We will now open the voting for all resolutions on the LUMI platform. This will allow you to choose to vote on each resolution immediately or any time prior to closing of the polls. We will address questions relevant to the business of the meeting after the resolutions have been introduced and prior to the closing of the polls. I will give you a minute to complete voting and then declare the polls closed. I direct the scrutineers' report on all matters to be annexed to the minutes of the meeting as of schedule. So I won't repeat what I mentioned as we went through the different items. So the polls are still open. For those of you who have not voted on the resolutions, please do so now. I will pause to allow you to complete your voting. [Voting]

Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls for the 2024 Annual General Meeting closed. Based on the scrutineer's report, I report that the fixing of the number of directors of the company to be elected at this meeting at 8 has been approved. All 8 nominated directors have been duly elected as directors. And KPMG LLP has been duly appointed as auditors for the ensuing year and the Board is authorized to set their remuneration. The exact number of votes on each of these resolutions will be reported and filed on [ Aris Finance ] profile on SEDAR and with the SEC. There being no further business to be conducted at this meeting, I now declare the formal part of the meeting terminated. I will move to terminate this meeting. There being no questions.

There are no questions...

Sorry.

There are no questions -- no questions, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. There being no questions relevant to other business, this Annual General Meeting is terminated. Thank you all for attending the meeting. And yes, thank you all for tuning in and congrats on voting for all the resolutions.