Artemis Gold Inc. (ARTG) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Artemis Gold Inc. [Operator Instructions] The conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Dale Andres, CEO and Director of Artemis Gold Inc. Please go ahead, Mr. Andres.

Thank you, operator, and good morning. The meeting will now come to order. I am Dale Andres, CEO and Director of the company, and with your approval, I will act as Chair of the meeting. With your approval, Mr. Erik Marchand, our Chief Financial Officer, will act as Secretary of the meeting. We are hosting the meeting through the Chorus Call teleconference platform. The company's registrar and transfer agent is Computershare Investor Services Inc. On behalf of Computershare, Ms. Deanna Hintersteininger is also in attendance and will act as scrutineer of the meeting. If there are any shareholders present here in the meeting room who have not registered with the scrutineer, please let us know so that we can inform the scrutineer. The Notice of the Meeting and Information Circular were mailed on June 25, 2026 to all the registered holders of common shares and certain nonregistered holders of common shares, and describe the matters to be considered at today's meeting. The quorum requirements are set out in the articles of the company, which provide that a quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of shareholders is 2 shareholders who are present or who are represented by proxy and who, in the aggregate, hold at least 5% of the issued shares entitled to be voted at the meeting. The scrutineer's report has been received and it shows there are a total of 156 shareholders present in person or by proxy at this meeting, holding a total of 164,685,785 common shares which are entitled to be voted at this meeting, or 70.65% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the company. There is a quorum of holders of common shares present at this meeting. Accordingly, as a quorum is present and Notice of the Meeting has been given in the proper manner, I declare this meeting regularly and duly called and constituted for the transaction of business. The first item of business is the presentation of the audited annual financial statements of the company for the year ended December 31, 2025. The financial statements, Auditor's Report and related Management's Discussion and Analysis were filed on SEDAR+ on February 18, 2026. Are there any questions about the financial statements? There being no discussion regarding the financial statements, I shall consider them received by the shareholders as submitted to this meeting. The next item of business is to set the number of directors of the company at 8. We will now vote on the motion. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. [Voting]

All those opposed, please raise your right hand. [Voting]

The next item of business is the election of directors. Management's nominees for directors, as outlined in the Management Information Circular sent to shareholders in advance of this meeting, are as follows: Steven Dean, David Black, Ryan Beedie, Elise Rees, Lisa Ethans, Janis Shandro, George Salamis and myself, Dale Andres. We will now vote on the motion. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. [Voting]

All those withholding, please raise your right hand. [Voting]

I now declare the motion adopted and that each of Steven Dean, David Black, Ryan Beedie, Elise Rees, Lisa Ethans, Janis Shandro, George Salamis and I, Dale Andres, have been duly elected as directors of the company to hold office until the next Annual General Meeting of the company or their earlier resignation. Congratulations to each of our directors, many of whom are here in the room, on their election to the Board. The next item of business is to reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditor of the company, and to authorize the directors to fix the remuneration to be paid to the auditors. We will now vote on the motion. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. [Voting]