Calibre Mining Corp. (CXB) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

Hello, and welcome to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Calibre Mining Corporation Annual General Meeting 2021. [Operator Instructions] Guests will not be able to submit questions. [Operator Instructions] It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Darren Hall, Chief Executive Officer of Calibre. Sir, the floor is yours.

Thank you, Peter. Welcome to the Annual General Meeting of Calibre Mining Corporation. My name is Darren Hall, and I'm the Chief Executive Officer of Calibre. In accordance with the articles of Calibre, I will act as the Chair of the meeting. These are unprecedented times, and the decision to hold this meeting by virtual means was made as a result of orders given by public health and government authorities restricting public gatherings and to comply with social distancing measures. As this meeting is being held virtually, it is necessary to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting. Questions in respect to the business of the meeting can be submitted by registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders using the "ask a question" feature on the virtual meeting room. Please keep your questions brief. I also encourage you to submit your questions as early as possible so that we may address them at the right time during the meeting. Questions will be read out by the Secretary of the meeting before being addressed. Please note that due to time constraints, we may not be able to address all of your questions. Only registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders are entitled to vote at this meeting. If you've already voted in advance of the meeting, you do not wish to change your vote, then you do not need to do anything. Voting on all matters will be conducted by electronic ballot using the Cast Your Vote feature by the virtual meeting room. The polls are now open for all items of business to be voted on. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders who have properly logged in will be able to see the screen on all motions being brought forth at this meeting, and can vote on them at any time up to the closing of the polls. Thank you to those of you who have already voted in advance of the meeting. For those who have not yet voted, we encourage you to vote. You may vote on each item immediately or, if you prefer, you may wait until the conclusion of the discussion on each item prior to casting a vote. Claire Lehan of McCarthy Tétrault LLP, and Corporate Counsel to the company is present, and I appoint her to act as the secretary of the meeting. In addition, Evelyn Hsu of Computershare Trust Company of Canada is present, and I appoint her to act as scrutineer of this meeting. The notice of meeting and management information circular dated May 6, 2021, were mailed to the shareholders of record on or about May 18, 2021, in accordance with applicable laws. I have confirmations of mailing from Computershare and Broadridge as does the scrutineer. Provided there are no objections, I will dispense with the reading of the notice of the meeting. A copy of the notice will be filed with the minutes of the meeting. The scrutineer has provided me with a preliminary report setting out the number of shareholders present in person or by proxy at this meeting, and the number of shares held by them. The scrutineer's preliminary report certifies that there are 72 shareholders, holding a total of 227,705,660 common shares of Calibre represented in person or by proxy at this meeting. This group represents 67.72% of the 336,242,496 issued and outstanding common shares of Calibre entitled to vote at this meeting. As Chair, I adopt the preliminary scrutineers report and declare the attendance of this meeting to be set forth therein. I direct that, when delivered, the final scrutineer's report be kept with the records of this meeting. Pursuant to Calibre's articles, a quorum is present at this meeting if at least 2 or more Calibre shareholders holding at least 5% of the issued shares of Calibre are present in person or by proxy. Based on the scrutineer's preliminary report, I declare that a quorum is present at this meeting. Notice of this meeting, having been given in accordance with applicable law, and there being a quorum present, I declare this meeting to be regularly called and properly constituted for the transaction of business. To expedite the formal part of this meeting, I will move to Douglas Forster, who will second all motions. While this procedure will facilitate the handling of the formal matters, registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holders may address the meeting when there is a call to discuss the motion by typing in your question in the message section once it opens during the discussion period. If there's any discussion or question, the secretary will read the question aloud. As the first item of business on the agenda for today's meeting, I now present to the meeting the audited consolidated financial statements of the company as at and for the fiscal period ended December 31, 2020, together with the auditor's report to the shareholders thereon. Copies of such documents have been mailed to the shareholders who requested such statements and is not proposed to read them to this meeting. The next item of business is the election of directors. The Board expects the total number of directors to be elected at 9. Pursuant to our advanced notice bylaw, there have been no director nominations put forward other than the directors nominated on behalf of management as set out in our management information circular. I'll ask Doug Forster to make the nominations.

Mr. Chair, I nominate the persons specified in the management information circular delivered with the notice of meeting, namely Darren Hall, Blayne Johnson, Douglas Forster, Raymond Threlkeld, Douglas Hurst, Edward Farrauto, Audra Walsh, Mike Vint and Randall Chatwin, have been nominated as directors for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed. Each of the persons nominated has confirmed that he or she is prepared to serve as a director.

As noted, since there were no prime nominations under our advance notice bylaw, I declare the nominations closed. I move that the 9 persons donated as directors of the corporation be so elected.

Mr. Chair, I second the motion.

Thank you, Mr. Forster. The next item of business is the appointment of auditors of the company for the ensuing year, and to authorize the directors of the company to fix the remuneration of the auditors. The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the company has approved, subject to shareholder confirmation, the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditors of the company. I move that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be appointed auditors of the company until the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, and that the Board of Directors be authorized to fix their remuneration.

Mr. Chair, I second the motion.

Thank you, Mr. Forster. This concludes the presentation of formal business of the meeting. I would ask the secretary to please advise whether any questions have been received in connection with these motions from the registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holders of the meeting.

Mr. Chair, there are no questions with respect to the motion.

I now call for a vote on the motions before the meeting. As previously mentioned, voting today will be conducted by electronic ballot by the Cast Your Vote feature of the virtual meeting room. If you've already voted in advance of the meeting then you do not need to do anything. The polls have been open since the beginning of the meeting, and at this point, all registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders, who are properly logged in with their control numbers that wish to vote, should do -- should now do so. [Voting]

The polls on all items of business will remain open for another minute. We will now take a short break while the polls close and the results tabulated by the scrutineer. I confirm the polls are now closed and the scrutineer has tabulated the results. I'm pleased to confirm and declare that each of the resolutions put to the shareholders of the meeting today have passed. The voting results will be filed on SEDAR shortly following the meeting. Ms. Secretary, can you please advise whether any formal business has been properly brought before this meeting?

Mr. Chair, I confirm that no other formal business has been properly brought before this meeting.

Thank you, Ms. Secretary. The formal business of this meeting has now been concluded. If there is no further business to be brought before this meeting, I declare the meeting terminated. Thank you for attending. As the formal portion of the meeting has concluded, we will take a few moments to answer any questions received during the meeting.

Mr. Chair, there are no questions at this time.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our shareholders for their continued support as well as our employees for their commitment and their diligence in the face of the challenges presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The safety and well-being of our employees and contractors continues to be Calibre's highest priority while ensuring the continuity of business. My thanks to everyone for their continued -- and participation here today.

This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.

Thanks, everyone.