
Mcewen Mining: Q1 2025 Results
Q1 | Full Year 2025 Guidance Range | ||
2024 | 2025 | ||
Consolidated Production | |||
GEOs(2) | 33,037 | 24,131 | 120,000-140,000 |
Gold Bar Mine, Nevada | |||
GEOs | 11,716 | 7,688 | 40,000-45,000 |
Cash Costs/GEO(1) | $1,088 | 1,146 | $1,500-1,700 |
AISC/GEO(1) | $1,201 | 2,197 | $1,700-1,900 |
Fox Complex, Canada | |||
GEOs | 7,486 | 5,520 | 30,000-35,000 |
Cash Costs/GEO | $1,555 | 2,060 | $1,600-1,800 |
AISC/GEO | $1,928 | 2,504 | $1,700-1,900 |
Total Gold Bar + Fox | |||
GEOs | 19,202 | 13,208 | |
Cash Costs/GEO | $1,268 | 1,504 | |
AISC/GEO | $1,481 | 2,318 | |
San José Mine, Argentina (49%) | |||
GEOs | 12,934 | 10,924 | 50,000-60,000 |
Cash Costs/GEO | $1,607 | 2,275 | $1,600-1,800 |
AISC/GEO | $1,947 | 3,047 | $1,900-2,000 |
Notes:
Cash gross profit, cash costs per ounce, all-in sustaining costs (AISC) per ounce, and adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA per share are non-GAAP financial performance measures with no standardized definition under U.S. GAAP. For definition of the non-GAAP measures see "Non-GAAP- Financial Measures" section in this press release; for the reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the closest U.S. GAAP measures, see the Management Discussion and Analysis for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, filed on Edgar and SEDAR. 'Gold Equivalent Ounces' are calculated based on a gold to silver price ratio of 90:1 for Q1 2025 and 89:1 for Q1 2024. 2025 production guidance is calculated based on 85:1 gold to silver price ratio. Represents the portion attributable to us from our 49% interest in the San José Mine.CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-GAAP MEASURES
We have included in this report certain non-GAAP performance measures as detailed below. In the gold mining industry, these are common performance measures but do not have any standardized meaning and are considered non-GAAP measures. We use these measures to evaluate our business on an ongoing basis and believe that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, certain investors use such non-GAAP measures to evaluate our performance and ability to generate cash flow. We also report these measures to provide investors and analysts with useful information about our underlying costs of operations and clarity over our ability to finance operations. Accordingly, they are intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. There are limitations associated with the use of such non-GAAP measures. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our US GAAP results and using the non-GAAP measures supplementally.
The non-GAAP measures are presented for our wholly owned mines and our interest in the San José mine. The amounts in the reconciliation tables labeled“49% basis” were derived by applying to each financial statement line item the ownership percentage interest used to arrive at our share of net income or loss during the period when applying the equity method of accounting. We do not control the interest in or operations of MSC and the presentations of assets and liabilities and revenues and expenses of MSC do not represent our legal claim to such items. The amount of cash we receive is based upon specific provisions of the Option and Joint Venture Agreement (“OJVA”) and varies depending on factors including the profitability of the operations.
The presentation of these measures, including the minority interest in the San José, has limitations as an analytical tool. Some of these limitations include:
- The amounts shown on the individual line items were derived by applying our overall economic ownership interest percentage determined when applying the equity method of accounting and do not represent our legal claim to the assets and liabilities, or the revenues and expenses; and
Other companies in our industry may calculate their cash cost per ounce and all-in sustaining costs differently than we do, limiting the usefulness as a comparative measure.
Cash Costs and All-In Sustaining Costs
The terms cash costs, cash cost per ounce, all-in sustaining costs (“AISC”), and all-in sustaining cost per ounce used in this report are non-GAAP financial measures. We report these measures to provide additional information regarding operational efficiencies on an individual mine basis, and believe these measures provide investors and analysts with useful information about our underlying costs of operations.
Cash costs consist of mining, processing, on-site general and administrative expenses, community and permitting costs related to current operations, royalty costs, refining and treatment charges (for both doré and concentrate products), sales costs, export taxes and operational stripping costs, but exclude depreciation and amortization (non-cash items). The sum of these costs is divided by the corresponding gold equivalent ounces sold to determine a per ounce amount.
All-in sustaining costs consist of cash costs (as described above), plus accretion of retirement obligations and amortization of the asset retirement costs related to operating sites, environmental rehabilitation costs for mines with no reserves, sustaining exploration and development costs, sustaining capital expenditures and sustaining lease payments. Our all-in sustaining costs exclude the allocation of corporate general and administrative costs. The following is additional information regarding our all-in sustaining costs:
- Sustaining operating costs represent expenditures incurred at current operations that are considered necessary to maintain current annual production at the mine site and include mine development costs and ongoing replacement of mine equipment and other capital facilities. Sustaining capital costs do not include costs of expanding the project that would result in improved productivity of the existing asset, increased existing capacity or extended useful life.
Sustaining exploration and development costs include expenditures incurred to sustain current operations and to replace reserves and/or resources extracted as part of the ongoing production. Exploration activity performed near-mine (brownfield) or new exploration projects (greenfield) are classified as non-sustaining.
The sum of all-in sustaining costs is divided by the corresponding gold equivalent ounces sold to determine a per ounce amount.
Costs excluded from cash costs and all-in sustaining costs, in addition to depreciation and depletion, are income and mining tax expenses, all corporate financing charges, costs related to business combinations, asset acquisitions and asset disposal, and any items that are deducted for the purpose of normalizing items.
The following tables reconcile these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measure, production costs applicable to sales.
Three months ended March 31, 2025 | ||||||||||
Gold Bar | Fox Complex | Total | ||||||||
(in thousands, except per ounce) | ||||||||||
Production costs applicable to sales (100% owned) | $ | 9,094 | $ | 10,511 | $ | 19,605 | ||||
In‐mine exploration | 67 | - | 67 | |||||||
Capitalized mine development (sustaining) | 7,597 | 2,338 | 9,935 | |||||||
Capital expenditures on plant and equipment (sustaining) | 665 | - | 665 | |||||||
Sustaining leases | 13 | (75 | ) | (62 | ) | |||||
All‐in sustaining costs | $ | 17,436 | $ | 12,774 | $ | 30,210 | ||||
Ounces sold, including stream (GEO) | 7,935 | 5,101 | 13,036 | |||||||
Cash cost per ounce sold ($/GEO) | $ | 1,146 | $ | 2,061 | $ | 1,504 | ||||
AISC per ounce sold ($/GEO) | $ | 2,197 | $ | 2,504 | $ | 2,318 | ||||
Three months ended March 31, 2024 | ||||||||
Gold Bar | Fox Complex | Total | ||||||
(in thousands, except per ounce) | ||||||||
Production costs applicable to sales (100% owned) | $ | 13,268 | $ | 11,842 | $ | 25,110 | ||
In‐mine exploration | 799 | - | 799 | |||||
Capitalized underground mine development (sustaining) | - | 2,302 | 2,302 | |||||
Capital expenditures on plant and equipment (sustaining) | 551 | - | 551 | |||||
Sustaining leases | 21 | 539 | 560 | |||||
All‐in sustaining costs | $ | 14,639 | $ | 14,683 | $ | 29,322 | ||
Ounces sold, including stream (GEO) | 12,190 | 7,614 | 19,804 | |||||
Cash cost per ounce sold ($/GEO) | $ | 1,088 | $ | 1,555 | $ | 1,268 | ||
AISC per ounce sold ($/GEO) | $ | 1,201 | $ | 1,928 | $ | 1,481 | ||
Three months ended March 31, | |||||||
2025 | 2024 | ||||||
San José mine cash costs (100% basis) | (in thousands, except per ounce) | ||||||
Production costs applicable to sales | $ | 56,588 | $ | 47,884 | |||
Mine site reclamation, accretion and amortization | 67 | 304 | |||||
Site exploration expenses | 1,330 | 2,104 | |||||
Capitalized underground mine development (sustaining) | 8,761 | 7,331 | |||||
Less: Depreciation | (694 | ) | (799 | ) | |||
Capital expenditures (sustaining) | 920 | 1,200 | |||||
All‐in sustaining costs | $ | 66,972 | $ | 58,024 | |||
Ounces sold (GEO) | 21,977 | 29,802 | |||||
Cash cost per ounce sold ($/GEO) | $ | 2,575 | $ | 1,607 | |||
AISC per ounce sold ($/GEO) | $ | 3,047 | $ | 1,947 | |||
Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA per share
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“Adjusted EBITDA”) is a non-GAAP financial measure and does not have any standardized meaning. We use adjusted EBITDA to evaluate our operating performance and ability to generate cash flow from our wholly owned operations in production; we believe this measure provides valuable assistance to investors and analysts in evaluating our ability to finance our precious metal operations and capital activities separately from our copper exploration operations. The most directly comparable measure prepared in accordance with GAAP is net loss before income and mining taxes. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated by adding back McEwen Copper's income or loss impacts on our consolidated income or loss before income and mining taxes.
The following tables present a reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA:
Three months ended March 31, | |||||||
2025 | 2024 | ||||||
(in thousands) | |||||||
Net loss before income and mining taxes | $ | (7,349 | ) | $ | (22,940 | ) | |
Less: | |||||||
Depreciation and depletion | 6,171 | 10,278 | |||||
Loss from investment in McEwen Copper Inc. (Note 9) | 8,578 | 18,012 | |||||
Interest expense | 1,309 | 972 | |||||
Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 8,709 | $ | 6,322 | |||
Weighted average shares outstanding (thousands) | 53,270 | 49,440 | |||||
Adjusted EBITDA per share | $ | 0.16 | $ | 0.13 | |||
Technical Information
The technical content of this news release related to financial results, mining and development projects has been reviewed and approved by William (Bill) Shaver, P.Eng., COO of McEwen Mining and a Qualified Person as defined by SEC S-K 1300 and the Canadian Securities Administrators National Instrument 43-101 "Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects."
Reliability of Information Regarding San José
The Company accounts for its investment in Minera Santa Cruz S.A., the owner of the San José Mine, using the equity method. The Company relies on the management of MSC to provide accurate financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. While the Company is not aware of any errors or possible misstatements of the financial information provided by MSC, MSC is responsible for and has supplied to the Company all reported results from the San José Mine, and such results are unaudited as of the date of this release. McEwen Mining's joint venture partner, a subsidiary of Hochschild Mining plc, and its affiliates other than MSC do not accept responsibility for the use of project data or the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
CAUTION CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and information, including "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements and information expressed, as at the date of this news release, McEwen Mining Inc.'s (the "Company") estimates, forecasts, projections, expectations or beliefs as to future events and results. Forward-looking statements and information are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, risks and contingencies, and there can be no assurance that such statements and information will prove to be accurate. Therefore, actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements and information. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results or future events to differ materially from current expectations expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements and information include, but are not limited to, fluctuations in the market price of precious metals, mining industry risks, political, economic, social and security risks associated with foreign operations, the ability of the Company to receive or receive in a timely manner permits or other approvals required in connection with operations, risks associated with the construction of mining operations and commencement of production and the projected costs thereof, risks related to litigation, the state of the capital markets, environmental risks and hazards, uncertainty as to calculation of mineral resources and reserves, foreign exchange volatility, foreign exchange controls, foreign currency risk, and other risks. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information included herein, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to reissue or update forward-looking statements or information as a result of new information or events after the date hereof except as may be required by law. See McEwen Mining's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the caption "Risk Factors", for additional information on risks, uncertainties and other factors relating to the forward-looking statements and information regarding the Company. All forward-looking statements and information made in this news release are qualified by this cautionary statement.
The NYSE and TSX have not reviewed and do not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the contents of this news release, which has been prepared by management of McEwen Mining Inc.
ABOUT MCEWEN MINING
McEwen Mining Inc. is a gold and silver producer with operations in Nevada (USA), Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The company also owns 46.4% of McEwen Copper, which develops the large, advanced-stage Los Azules copper project. Los Azules aims to become Argentina's first regenerative copper mine and is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2038.
Focused on enhancing productivity and extending the life of its assets, the Company's goal is to increase its share price and provide investor yield. Rob McEwen, Chairman and Chief Owner, has a personal investment in the companies of US$205 Million. His annual salary is US$1.
McEwen Mining's shares are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "MUX".
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