Coeur Mining Q4 2025 Earnings Call - Record Cash Flow and New Gold Deal to Create a $3B EBITDA North American Precious-Metal Champion

Conference Operator: Good day, and welcome to the Coeur Mining fourth quarter 2025 financial results conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press Star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press Star, then two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mitchell Krebs. Please go ahead.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining our call today to discuss our fourth quarter and full year results. Before we start, please note our cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements and refer to our SEC filings on our website. One housekeeping item, you may have noticed we shifted our reporting to metric units starting this quarter, based on feedback we’ve received and to better align with our peers. You’ll see that prior period figures in the earnings release have been recast for comparability and additional details are provided. Our record fourth quarter results capped off an incredible year for the company that was full of all-time bests and record achievements. I want to take a couple of minutes to run through a few of them, some of which are shown on slide 4.

Record full year silver and gold production increased 57% and 23% year-over-year, respectively, driven by the impact of the Rochester expansion, the acquisition of SilverCrest in February, and consistent performance from our three other North American operations. Full year record EBITDA increased 200% to over $1 billion, and full year free cash flow increased to $666 million, versus -$9 million in 2024. Slide 8 does a nice job summarizing how far we’ve come in just the last couple of years, when EBITDA was just $142 million and free cash flow was -$297 million. Our year-end cash increased more than 10x to $554 million, and net income last year also increased tenfold to a record $586 million.

Our three U.S. operations accounted for nearly 60% of our 2025 revenue, and silver represented about 35% of total revenue last year. Rochester made consistent progress toward achieving steady state levels throughout 2025, with full year silver and gold production increasing 40% and 54% year-over-year, respectively. In the fourth quarter, Rochester made a strong statement by delivering record quarterly crushed tons and placed tons, along with $78 million of free cash flow, which sets us up for an even stronger 2026 at America’s largest source of domestically produced and refined silver. Las Chispas finished the year as our top cash flow generator, with $286 million of free cash flow in only 10 and a half months of contribution.

Just as important was the successful and safe integration of Las Chispas last year, which deserves a big shout out to the entire team. On the exploration front and our year-end reserves and resources that we issued yesterday, it’s really gratifying to see the success of our sustained exploration investments and how they continue to drive up our overall ROIC and extend our mine lives, which slide 16 does a good job of highlighting. The Wharf Reserve and inferred resource increases and the near doubling of its mine life to 12 years was especially eye-popping, and the Palmarejo results that drove a 5-year extension to its mine life were also very impressive, especially the resource growth off to the east. It was also great to see that we replaced a year of mine life at Las Chispas to remain at approximately 7 years.

Looking ahead to 2026 and beyond, it’s clear that Coeur is in the strongest position it’s ever been in its 98-year history and is poised to deliver another record year this year. Our newly issued standalone production guidance, summarized on slide 6, reflects solid year-over-year growth, especially in silver, with a 10% expected year-over-year increase, which incorporates a full year of production at Las Chispas and another expected step up in performance at Rochester. Between higher silver prices and this expected growth in our silver production, silver is expected to contribute approximately 42% of our total 2026 revenue, based on current prices and the midpoint of guidance. With the expected first half closing of the New Gold transaction, 2026 will represent an even more significant step change in the quality, scale, and resiliency of Coeur, which is highlighted on slide 7.

Adding New Gold’s two Canadian operations will further reduce our cost profile and enhance our geographic footprint for investors seeking lower risk silver and gold exposure and peer-leading margins. This new and unique platform is emerging at precisely the right time and will be ideally positioned as the industry’s only all North American senior producer with a cash flow of liquidity and market profile that is unmatched in the precious metal sector. As we said on the November conference call when we announced the New Gold acquisition, we expect the combined company to generate approximately $3 billion of EBITDA and $2 billion of free cash flow on a full year run rate basis, based on consensus commodity prices from last October....

I’ll note that the guidance we issued today does not yet include contributions from the New Gold assets, which will be incorporated in the Coeur’s production profile following the close of the transaction. Looking out over the next few weeks, we anticipate an active flow of news, including the close of the New Gold transaction, which remains on track and we believe has a good chance to close by the end of the first quarter. Updated SK-1300 technical reports for New Afton and Rainy River will be filed upon closing of the transaction, which will incorporate year-end 2025 reserves and resources for both assets, including a maiden resource at New Afton’s K Zone. We will also provide updated guidance for the combined company and share details of our updated capital return priorities once the transaction closes.

Before handing the call over to Mick, I’ll close with a big thank you to the team for the incredible amount of work that has gone into getting the company to where it is today. Closing out strongly in the fourth quarter is always a challenge, and year-end reporting is always a heavy lift. But these efforts are even more impressive this time around in light of the New Gold transaction and the related integration planning process. Higher prices certainly help, but there is absolutely no doubt that we’re as well positioned as we are because of the talent, resiliency, and dedication of our people across the entire organization. Mick, over to you.

Mick Dighton, Chief Operating Officer, Coeur Mining: Thanks, Mitch. Our fourth quarter was a tour de force of the core portfolio, with all five mines hitting the straps in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Strong finishes at all of the mines, especially at Rochester, helped ensure the achievement of our annual 2025 production and cost gains. Consolidated production for the quarter totaled 112,000 ounces of gold and 4.8 million ounces of silver. Adjusted cash per ounce for gold and silver also continued to be well managed, with an impressive $1,207 per ounce and $1,729 per ounce, respectively, and allowed for a strong margin expansion across the business. Turning to the assets and beginning with Las Chispas, the team turned in another solid quarter to cap off a great 2025 in its first year in the core portfolio.

Silver production of 1.4 million ounces and gold production of 15,000 ounces led to $79 million of quarterly free cash flow. The operations’ 2026 guidance reflects a full year of production compared to the approximate 10.5 months of 2025 contributions. Turning to Palmarejo, the mine followed up one of its strongest quarters in terms of tons milled, with an even better result in the fourth quarter, with over 470,000 tons milled, averaging over 6,000 tons per day. Together with strong grades and recoveries, Palmarejo’s free cash flow totaled $63 million. The team in Chihuahua has demonstrated great results with its fill-in-the-mill strategy, a unique skill set that we expect to leverage at Rainy River in the future, which is undergoing a similar transition from open pit operations to underground.

Our 2026 guidance points to another great year ahead for Palmarejo. Turning to Rochester, key performance metrics along the crusher circuit saw marked improvement versus the prior quarter, concurrent with the fourth quarter completion of planned modifications and belt improvements. We exceeded 7 million tons or 6.4 million metric tons crushed this quarter, which was a nice achievement for the team. It has been impressive to see the main steady improvements in silver and gold production as the power of the new crusher train continues to drive results, reaching their highest levels in 2025 at 1.7 million ounces of silver and 17,000 ounces of gold, respectively, in the fourth quarter. On an annual basis, the positive impact of Rochester’s larger scale really stands out, with silver and gold production increasing 40% and 54%, respectively, compared to 2024.

I’m pleased to report that the average particle size continued to beat the budget level for material passing through all three stages of crushing at a P80 around 0.84 inch in the fourth quarter. Importantly, related recoveries continue to track our PSD models as expected. The team is also hard at work on the next phase of the leach pad 6 expansion, most of which we expect to complete this year. Rochester is well positioned for an even stronger 2026. We are off to a great start, with over 2.3 million metric tons crushed in January. Grades are expected to be lower in the first half of the year, consistent with the main plan, which is reflected in our 2026 guidance.

Our long-term focus remains on building consistency and momentum through the three-stage crushing line and continuing to deliver quarterly crushed tons in the 6.2-7.2 million metric tons per quarter range as we drive towards our ultimate objective of a top size of 5/8 of an inch. Based on the midpoints of our 2026 guidance ranges, we expect silver and gold production to increase substantially compared to 2025. Moving to Kensington, the positive benefits of their multi-year underground development program continue to manifest in the form of new efficiencies and operational flexibility.… The team knocked it out of the park with its highest tons milled and gold grade of the year in the fourth quarter, leading to gold production of 30,000 ounces and the mine’s lowest quarterly cost of the year at $1,533 per ounce.

This led to quarterly free cash flow of $51 million, Kensington’s best result ever. Coupled with the successful reserve additions announced yesterday, the mine remains on excellent footing and well-positioned to deliver a strong 2026. Finishing up at Wharf, quarterly gold production totaled 25,000 ounces, leading to free cash flow of an impressive $62.3 million. These good results were overshadowed by a fire in the mine’s tertiary crusher following routine maintenance in the fourth quarter. The tertiary crusher area sustained some damage in the upper levels, impacting conveyor belts, ancillary equipment like the hoist, crane, and electrical systems, and those parts will need to be repaired or replaced. There was no damage to the four tertiary cone crushers in that area on the ground floor. The team quickly mobilized temporary mobile crushing units at site in January to supplement crushed ore tons.

Repairs are expected to be completed over the course of the second quarter. Slide 6 provides an indicative expectation for 2026 quarterly production, showing a second half-weighted crushed tons as the site returns to normal operations throughout the year. As highlighted in yesterday’s reserves and resources update, the future at Wharf is more exciting than ever. Thanks to the rezoning success of recent exploration and technical work that have unlocked new gold reserves, leading to a near doubling of mine life, with additional upside remaining from a significantly larger resource pipeline. We look forward to many great years ahead at this one-of-a-kind asset. With that, I’ll pass the call over to Eva.

Eva, Exploration Lead, Coeur Mining: Thanks, Mick. 2025 was a very successful year for exploration, with great results seen across the board. Key highlights include not only replacement of depletion across the portfolio, but growth of reserves by 10%. As Mitch and Mick have mentioned, Wharf and Palmarejo were standout contributors in this regard. Inferred resources also grew by a whopping 40% across the portfolio, led by a 216% increase at Wharf, an 86% increase at Palmarejo, and 30% growth at Rochester. Moving to key highlights for the year. At Wharf, the Juno, North Foley, and Wedge exploration and technical programs were very successful. In addition to increasing gold reserves by 500,000 ounces, 1,000,000 ounces of inferred resources were added.

This is a phenomenal result for relatively modest levels of investment, and it has set us up for another year of conversion to reserves in 2026 and in the future. Earlier stage scout work will also restart this year to help build an even longer-term future at this operation. We had a very busy year at both Mexican operations, with up to 26 rigs across both sites. At Palmarejo, reserves saw a very large increase of almost 40%, moving from 1.4 million ounces on a gold equivalent basis to 2 million ounces. Our other key aim of bolstering the inferred pipeline was very successful, with over 1 million gold equivalent ounces added, and this is in addition to 400,000 new ounces in the measured and indicated categories.

The non-Franco-Nevada area of interest deposits of La Union, San Miguel, and Independencia Sur were key contributors, along with Hidalgo on the main mine corridor. All these deposits will continue to undergo aggressive exploration in 2026, along with ongoing early-stage work across the district. At Las Chispas, exploration programs resulted in maintaining mine life, in addition to the discovery of multiple new veins, including Augusta, La Promesa, and Lupita. The exploration pace is expected to continue at similar levels in 2026, involving a healthy mix of scout, expansion, and infill drilling. Programs at the other sites also fulfilled their aims as laid out at the start of 2025, with depletion more than replaced at Kensington and nearly replaced at Rochester. Our understanding of the system at Silver Tepe is progressing rapidly, and programs successfully grew the mineralized footprint by another kilometer to the south.

This gives a new focus area for infill drilling over the coming years in order to support the study programs underway. Looking ahead to 2026, total exploration investment is expected to increase to between $120 million and $136 million to continue pursuing the high return opportunities we have across the portfolio. With that, I will turn the call over to Tom.

Tom, CFO, Coeur Mining: Thanks, Eva. Beginning with the financial summary on slide 10, we are excited to reveal the record-setting full-year results that Mitch highlighted a few minutes ago. It was truly a transformative year. There were so many highlights and quarterly financial records to choose from, but here are a few of our favorites. It was particularly gratifying to see every mine deliver at least $50 million of free cash flow in the quarter. We saw a 66% increase in free cash flow to $313 million during Q4, highlighted by Rochester’s $78 million of quarterly free cash flow. Adjusted EBITDA margin increased 63%, which was a 60% increase quarter-over-quarter. Our return on invested capital was a peer-leading 26% in 2025.

Quarterly realized gold and silver prices increased 21% and 40%, respectively, and have only continued to strengthen in 2026. We are expecting another record-setting year in 2026 for the CDE standalone portfolio, and look forward to providing updated guidance, including Rainy River and New Afton, once the transaction closes. One note of caution, Q1 is always seasonally low from an operating cash flow profile, with significant year-end payments, primarily related to Mexican tax and our annual incentive plans. As shown on slide 9, you can see the net effect of this cash deluge coursing through Coeur’s balance sheet. As previewed during last quarter’s call, we achieved our long-standing goal of being net cash positive.

Total debt declined $250 million, or 42% year-over-year, and we ended the year with a cash balance of $554 million, and now have total liquidity nearing $1 billion and climbing. We made some progress on our $75 million pro-buyback program that we announced during the second quarter. We were fairly limited in our ability to execute the buyback program during the second half of the year due to trading restrictions related to the New Gold transaction. This limitation will end upon the closing of the transaction, when we intend to announce a robust update to our return of capital strategy. Our capital allocation framework will remain disciplined, with a continued focus on generating strong returns on invested capital and deploying excess cash where it creates the greatest long-term value for stockholders.

Concurrent with the strengthening price environment, we enhanced our annual guidance related to cash taxes and royalties to reflect the champagne problems of higher commodity prices. One final update from me: We look forward to the closing of the New Gold transaction and welcoming our new Canadian colleagues to the Coeur team. Robust integration planning has been underway since mid-November, and we are prepared for day one after closing. With that, I’ll now pass the call back to Mitch.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Thanks, Tom. Before we open it up for Q&A, I just want to touch on several key priorities and themes for the year ahead on slide 18. Of course, continuing to build on our safety and environmental performance always remains priority number 1. Successfully closing the New Gold transaction and accomplishing a smooth integration is obviously a critical priority for the year. A full year of steady contribution from Las Chispas, a further step up at Rochester, and delivering on Wharf’s back-half weighted plan are also key drivers for the year ahead. And as Eva mentioned, we are allocating a record amount of capital to exploration investments in 2026, a 47% increase compared to 2025 levels. Delivering the expected results from these programs to keep driving our ROIC higher and adding mine life is also a key priority in 2026.

At Silvertip, we plan to continue advancing the project with a potential transition into a pre-feasibility study based on the results of the initial assessment that is now wrapping up. With higher silver prices, continued drilling success, solid project front-end loading, and Canadian support for critical minerals projects like Silvertip, there could be an attractive path forward to adding to our future silver profile that we look forward to evaluating together with our board. And finally, we look forward to updating you on the impacts of the New Gold transaction once it closes, with combined full year guidance, reserve and resource updates from New Afton and Rainy River, and details regarding the path forward for returning capital to stockholders. With that, let’s go ahead and open it up for questions.

Conference Operator: We will now begin the question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star, then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question today comes from Wayne Lam with TD Securities. Please go ahead.

Wayne Lam, Analyst, TD Securities: Yeah, thanks, guys. Morning, everyone.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Morning, Wayne.

Wayne Lam, Analyst, TD Securities: Congratulations on a good quarter. Maybe I just wanted to start off with a question on the reserve grades at Las Chispas. It seems as though there was a bit of a haircut taken on the grades now the past couple of years. Is that a function of a lower cut-off grade or a reinterpretation there? And then, just given the mine grades have been well ahead of reserves since the startup of the mine, when will we start to see a bit of a normalization of the grade profile there?

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah, sure. Hi, Wayne. Thanks. Thanks for those questions. I’ll start and Nick, Eva, if you want to chime in. Just, I think on the Las Chispas grade profile, it really reflects a more conservative approach to modeling that we took here after taking the reins last February. It’s consistent with, you know, how we do it at our other mines. It’s something we had identified in the diligence, actually, that grade was being overestimated, tons underestimated, and so after operating it for 10.5 months, we incorporated that into the year-end resource model. But Mick, anything you wanna add to that, or Aoife?

Mick Dighton, Chief Operating Officer, Coeur Mining: Yeah, from an operational perspective, that is what we expected, and after running the site for a year, that’s exactly what we found. It reconciled very well to the due diligence that we saw. We tested the plant to make sure that it could run at those slightly higher run rates, to make sure we could still deliver against the budget, and we did exactly that. Aoife, any thoughts?

Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think on it, it’s certainly not due to disappointing drill results. I think we’ve actually seen the opposite to that this year, particularly at Las Chispas, where we had in our due diligence and our expectations were for lower grades than that block. So we’ve been very pleasantly surprised with the tenor of the grade out there as well.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: To Wayne’s second question about just go-forward grades, should we see more of a tighter fit between reserve grades and actual results?

Mick Dighton, Chief Operating Officer, Coeur Mining: Yeah, and as we’re seeing that, we saw some of that and we thought we’d trend in that direction, and that’s what we did. So, going forward, we should see that normalize to the expected planned levels.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Does that, does that help, Wayne?

Wayne Lam, Analyst, TD Securities: Yeah, that’s really good color. Thanks.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah.

Wayne Lam, Analyst, TD Securities: Maybe on the exploration results, you know, pretty good update on the resource additions across the portfolio. Just wondering on the maiden resources you guys reported at East Palmarejo, are those all outside of the Franco stream? And when could we envision those being brought into production? And then just wondering, with the guided sales under the stream in the 40%-50% range this year, which is slightly lower year-over-year, how should we be thinking about that number over the next few years? And should we expect that to continue to decline?

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah. Yeah, I’ll start off, and then maybe Tom on the, or Mick, on the shape of the percentage, inside and outside over time. But in short, Wayne, all of those ounces are outside of the area of interest that the Franco-Nevada Gold Stream covers. The bulk of them were, you know, further off to the east, out there in that Guazapares area that Aoife mentioned. And so, you know, the nearer term stuff, the Independencia Sur, kind of, extension of Independencia down there to the south and east, you know, that represents a nearer term opportunity for us.

And then in the meantime, we’ll continue to expand and extend, hopefully, those resources off there further to the east, and that can develop a, you know, a potential future source of ore, or maybe even a standalone operation, depending on where we end up with that, with that additional drilling here over the next few years. In terms of percentage inside, outside, how should we think about that?

Tom, CFO, Coeur Mining: Yeah, it’s virtually all inside the AOI for the next couple of years, until we get some more success in the areas that you just described, Mitch.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: But exploration-wise, we’ll be, this year, 70% or so of the exploration budget of Palmarejo will be outside of the area of interest over there to the east, Wayne.

Mick Dighton, Chief Operating Officer, Coeur Mining: Do you want me to comment on Augusta, Mitch?

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Sure.

Mick Dighton, Chief Operating Officer, Coeur Mining: Because that is... The Igazua area is close to infrastructure underground, and so, you know, there’s some ventilation work that we’ll need to do to develop that and some minor permitting. But as Aoife and the team characterize that better, then that’ll certainly fall into the nearer term, next few years, as we get a little bit off the AOI and look at that bounds.

Speaker 2: Yeah. And in terms of the upside at Guazapares, we have a number of deposits out there, like San Miguel is a mix of gold and silver, and La Union is predominantly gold, so it’s really gonna give us some nice operational flexibility as we develop that further in the next number of years.

Wayne Lam, Analyst, TD Securities: Okay, perfect. Yeah, sounds like quite a considerable future opportunity. So appreciate the detail on that. Maybe just last one from me. Just on the cash tax guidance of $400 million-$500 million this year, do you have any additional color on what a breakdown of that looks like between Mexico versus the other operations? And just wondering if you still have tax pools to draw on, particularly in the U.S., or does that guidance assume at some point full depletion of those capital pools?

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Tom, you wanna take that?

Tom, CFO, Coeur Mining: Oh, my favorite. Thanks, Wayne, for asking the tax question. I would think 80% of the taxes are going in Mexico, and so, you know, we are going to be paying some cash tax in the United States, and it’s just mainly because of the way the tax pools or the tax losses work. We’ll be sheltering the bulk of the net income, but there’s still gonna be a little bit that ends up being paid. So if you wanna use that 80/20 breakdown and apply that to the guidance, that would be my... That’s the guidance.

Wayne Lam, Analyst, TD Securities: Okay, great. Thanks. That’s really great color. Congratulations again on a good quarter, and looking forward to seeing the closing of the New Gold transaction. Thanks, guys.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah. No, thanks for the questions, Wayne.

Conference Operator: Your next question comes from Josh, Josh Wolfson with RBC. Please go ahead.

Josh Wolfson, Analyst, RBC: Yeah, thanks very much. Just looking forward at the upcoming closing and the capital returns comments that were made earlier, is there any kind of preference the company has, you know, in terms of dividends or buybacks here, and, and sort of how is the company thinking about those two aspects? Apologies, not, not to totally front-run your, your upcoming announcement.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: ... Yeah, we don’t wanna steal our own thunder before we get to the closing, when we’ll roll out a more, a clearer path forward on return of capital. But suffice to say, you know, those are the two levers that we’re, we’ve been looking at, and thinking about, and talking about with our board. You know, obviously a slight preference more for the buyback route, just given the flexibility that that provides.

But recognizing that, look, as on a combined basis, you know, you look at across the peers and, you know, we’re sensitive to making sure that we’re benchmarking well against the peers as far as how we think about returning excess cash back to our stockholders.

Josh Wolfson, Analyst, RBC: All right. Thanks. And then another question sort of along the same lines. You know, given the financial positioning and free cash flow, look, the company’s been, you know, active in increasing the exploration budgets and investment across the portfolio. You know, how are you thinking about that for the New Gold assets? You know, is there anything that you can look to accelerate in 2026 there? Are there any specific opportunities, at least, you know, in some of the early integration analysis? Thank you.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah. Yeah. No, thanks, Josh. Good question. I think, you know, let’s get past the close and the integration, you know, ensure continuity. But we are looking at, you know, how can we allocate some additional capital to exploration at both sites, in particular, probably Rainy River, as you think about some of the regional opportunities there on that big land package. But I think we’ll, you know, we’ll wanna take a little bit of time, make sure we’ve got our ducks in a row, got the team aligned, and then we take the next step as far as potentially ratcheting up the level of investment and exploration, in particular at Rainy River. Aoife, anything you want to say?

Mick Dighton, Chief Operating Officer, Coeur Mining: No, that’s pretty much covered, isn’t it?

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah. Some great opportunities there. I mean, both operations obviously, but I think, you know, at Rainy River, we’ll apply that same playbook, Josh, that we’ve used successfully at our other operations, and, you know, it takes time and capital and some commitment, but I think over time, there’s a lot of potential there.

Josh Wolfson, Analyst, RBC: Great. Thank you very much.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah, you bet. Thanks for the questions.

Conference Operator: Your next question today comes from Joseph Reager with Roth Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

Joseph Reager, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: Hey, Mick and team. Thanks for taking the questions.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah. Hi, Joe.

Joseph Reager, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: So, just gotta ask on Rochester, and I know Mick touched on it a bit, but I know that the model seems to be internally matching, but the recoveries, you know, as we see them, seem a bit light on the silver side, particularly. At what point do you guys have to, like, go back and kind of like reassess the economics of the project? Or is it just a matter of getting the crush size to where it’s supposed to be, and then do you expect the recoveries will improve accordingly?

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah, it’s much, much more the latter there, Joe, and Mick, you can add to anything that I say, but you’re right, the actual results are tracking model for the product size that we’re putting out there on that stage 6 leach pad. As we continue that progression from a P80 7/8 down to P80 5/8, you know, we’d expect to see the recoveries continue to track model and improve. Gold, you know, is less sensitive, but in particular on the silver, you know, we’d expect to see as we get closer to that 5/8, those recoveries ratchet up to just shy of 60% level.

It’s just as you know, Joe, it’s lower and longer on the silver recovery curve, relative to gold. Mick, anything you want to add?

Mick Dighton, Chief Operating Officer, Coeur Mining: Yeah, and, you know, the focus in 2025, as we said a few times, was really around getting that throughput level up above the 7 million tonnes or the 6.2 million tonnes per quarter. And we’re starting to get really into that range and look to make that sustainable. There were some really good development projects that we did in November to help us with that and to focus on the reliability of the crusher. And so now, 2026 is really about trying to hone that in and drive those crush sizes down with the equipment that we’ve got, and then a few small projects throughout the year to get that in tune.

Yeah, it’s a good path forward, and we’re really in the range of what it said it would do on the packet. We’ve now just got to match the ore body knowledge with the capability of that crusher and make sure that it’s doing it every day. Overall, really happy about the progress so far.

Joseph Reager, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: Okay. And then one other one. Some of your peers have been, maybe not as successfully, but, purchasing, you know, puts on things like gold and silver, as a way to hedge downside, you know, given we’ve seen some record high prices. Is that something you guys are going to consider doing? Or, you know, I think in the past you’ve used some collars or you guys, you know, given the cash flow situation of the company, just gonna kind of leave it exposed, to the market.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah, you’re right. You know, as you recall, Joe, we did use some hedging during the Rochester capital project to kind of help shore up the cash flow and the balance sheet. You know, we’re always looking at those things, but as we sit here today, you know, we’re gonna remain unhedged, you know, keep focusing on what we can control on the cost side to keep pushing ourselves down the cost curve and retain that full exposure to prices.

Joseph Reager, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: Okay, good to hear. I’ll turn it over. Thanks.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Okay. Yep. Thanks, Joe.

Conference Operator: Again, if you have a question, please press star, then one. Your next question comes from Brian MacArthur with Raymond James. Please go ahead.

Brian MacArthur, Analyst, Raymond James: Good morning, and thank you for taking my questions. So mine go back to what Wayne was asking. I had the same questions. Just on the tax pools, you made a comment that you know, they’re slightly different. I thought they were fairly substantial NOLs. Will they last, like, a number of years, or are they something that, you know, obviously, we’ve got pretty good profitability now that we’re going to use them up in two or three years? Or can I continue to think that on the U.S. operations, you know, those will last, like, three or four years, and you’ll only pay fairly low taxes? Is that fair, or is there something different in the structure of the NOLs based on your comments, that it’s not going to work that way?

Tom, CFO, Coeur Mining: Yeah. So, in the 10-K, you can look to the tax note. So we’re down to $530 million, year-over-year, it was $630 million. So that gives you a sense that we used up about $100 million last year.

Brian MacArthur, Analyst, Raymond James: Yeah.

Tom, CFO, Coeur Mining: And so again, you know, at these prices, that’s probably two years, Brian?

Brian MacArthur, Analyst, Raymond James: Got it.

Tom, CFO, Coeur Mining: We’ve blown through them. But again, just the way the limitations worked, some of the years you can only shelter 80%, and so that’s why we’re in a cash tax position in the United States this year. Anyway, I hope that gives you a sense.

Brian MacArthur, Analyst, Raymond James: Yeah, that’s quite helpful. Thank you. And just on the question about at Palmarejo, you find all this new ore that’s off grounds. I mean, you mentioned we’re gonna stay up at a 40 or 50 for the next couple of years, let’s say. Does that drop... I mean, in the past, you’ve been down as low as 35. Does that drop pretty substantially, though, as we go out 5 years? Or you’re still just finding so much ore at different areas, you just don’t know what your sequencing is gonna look like yet?

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Tom, you want-

Tom, CFO, Coeur Mining: Yeah, look, I mean, Ethan and Nick are absolutely focused on finding as much off the AOI as possible. You know, we at this stage do not have it, but we’ve highlighted all of the opportunities that are emerging, and, you know, I feel really excited about, you know, getting less of that production coming from from the area that’s covered by the Franco stream. But, but for the near future, expect virtually all, all of the production to be subject to the to the stream.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Brian, what’s great there is obviously the Palmarejo reserve and resource increases were quite significant, and in particular, that extension to the mine life. You know, that’s just building out more runway for us, as we continue to allocate more and more of our exploration dollars off to the east, to over time, you know, develop that next, next chapter of Palmarejo more and more to the east over time, starting with the Independencia Sur extensional stuff. But then, you know, while we do that, we’ll, we’ll in parallel work to better define what that, those further east deposits mean in terms of the, the future production profile at Palmarejo. So it’s a good, good strategy.

It’s taken a long time to kind of put all the pieces in place, but we just need to stick with it, and hopefully, over time, we’ll. Like Tom said, we’ll see more and more opportunities open up to the east and, over time, we’ll make that slow transition.

Brian MacArthur, Analyst, Raymond James: No, I totally agree. I just, I guess I was just trying to push a little bit to see when you saw that transition, just when I was looking at it, those additional years we were adding up. But that’s okay. We can take that offline. Thank you very much.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Yeah. No, thanks, Brian.

Conference Operator: This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Mitchell Krebs for any closing remarks.

Mitchell Krebs, CEO, Coeur Mining: Okay, well, we appreciate everybody’s time today, and we look forward to speaking with you again in the spring to review our first quarter results. Thanks a lot, and have a great rest of the day.

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