Jervois Global Limited (JRVMF) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Jervois Global Limited (OTCQX:JRVMF) Q4 2022 Results Conference Call January 29, 2023 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Bryce Crocker – CEO

James May – CFO

Conference Call Participants

Tim Hoff – Canaccord

Adam Baker – Macquarie

Mitch Ryan – Jefferies

Bryce Crocker

I’ve often said to many of you during investor meetings that building mines is not easy and the last couple of months for Jervois certainly demonstrated that. But despite the recent winter challenges in Idaho, I’m nonetheless pleased with our overall progress as a company. Following the USD150 million equity raise in November 2022, we’re now well capitalized. Clearly, like you, we’re disappointed with how our shares have traded since albeit the cobalt price has decreased from $23 per pound since we commenced the institutional wall crossing process to $17 per day, largely associated again with China and China’s oversupply. But let me be clear that we remain extremely positive on the outlook for the cobalt market.

Whilst we’re cognizant of investor feedback to reduce cobalt inventories, we do not believe that this is the right time and the price or demand cycle to aggressively pursue this in a commercially unbalanced way. The financier of our physical cobalt and substantial shareholder, Mercuria remains supportive of this strategy. And we strongly believe it’s the right approach to maintain pricing and product upside for our shareholders to when China does turn back on and the cobalt market rebounds. We placed material sales tonnes into a European gigafactory in Q4, and the OEM inquiries for 2024 and beyond are now large numbers, far more than what we can provide today. This is very encouraging, and it’s an early endorsement of our strategy to maintain 100% ownership of all assets while over November equity raise. At ICO, mine development is now complete.

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