Coeur Mining Q3 2025 Earnings Report

Coeur Mining EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.23
• Consensus EPS: $0.25
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.02
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.12

Coeur Mining Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $554.57 million
• Expected Revenue: $511.20 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$43.37 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +76.90%

Coeur Mining Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q3 2025
• Date: 10/29/2025
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 11:00AM ET

Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) (NYSE: CDE) is a precious metals mining company that explores for, develops, and produces gold and silver. The company’s activities include mine operations, mineral exploration, project development, processing, and the sale of refined or doré metals to commercial customers.

Coeur’s operating and development portfolio has included assets in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Key operations have included the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska, the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota, the Palmarejo silver-gold complex in Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Las Chispas silver-gold operation in Sonora, Mexico. The company has also maintained exploration and development interests, including the Silvertip project in British Columbia.

Founded in 1928 as Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, the company adopted the name Coeur Mining in 2013. Coeur Mining is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and is led by President and Chief Executive Officer Mitchell J. Krebs, who has served in that role since 2013.

Coeur Mining Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Very strong 2025 financial outlook — management now expects full-year EBITDA to exceed $1 billion and free cash flow to top $550 million, with cash projected to exceed $500 million putting Coeur in a net cash position heading into 2026.
• Positive Sentiment: Las Chispas acquisition fully integrated and outperforming — the operation generated $66 million of free cash flow in Q3 and led to higher 2025 silver and gold production guidance after strong production and high‑grade exploration intercepts.
• Negative Sentiment: Rochester still stabilizing after ramp-up — successful crusher corridor modifications improved particle size and recoveries, but unplanned belt wear and downtime reduced crushed tonnes, pushing some ounces into 2026 and tempering near‑term production.
• Neutral Sentiment: Tax accounting milestone and longer‑term tax implications — Coeur recorded $630 million of U.S. NOLs and a one‑time $162 million non‑cash tax benefit in Q3, but expects to begin paying U.S. income taxes (roughly mid‑20% effective rate including state) as NOLs are consumed in coming years.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good day and welcome to the Coeur Mining Third 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, President and CEO. Please go ahead.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Good morning everyone and thanks for joining our call today to discuss our third quarter results. Before I kick off, please note our cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements and refer to our SEC filings that are on our website. The third quarter highlights on Slide 3 showcase our second consecutive quarter of record results driven by higher realized prices, strong production levels, and solid cost management. As a result, our cash balance is growing rapidly and is expected to exceed $500 million at year end, placing us solidly in a net cash position heading into 2026. Based on recent price levels, we now expect our full year EBITDA to exceed $1 billion and our full year free cash flow to top $550 million, both of which are higher than our prior estimates.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Mick and Tom will provide some further operational and financial details in a few minutes, but a couple of other highlights I wanted to quickly mention. Our Las Chispas silver and gold operation in Sonora, Mexico had another consistent quarter of production during its second full quarter. Since the SilverCrest transaction closed back in February, its free cash flow increased by 34% to $66 million in the third quarter. In addition to their solid operational and financial results, we issued an exploration update last month that highlighted several high-grade intercepts at Las Chispas. We couldn't be more pleased with the SilverCrest transaction and the addition of the Las Chispas operation and its team.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

It's a great example of well-timed M and A that has allowed us to significantly up-tier our asset portfolio by adding low-cost silver production and immediately bolster our balance sheet, which has put the company in a terrific position as we look ahead to what should be an even stronger fourth quarter and a record-breaking year in 2026.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

On.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

The share repurchase program. We managed to get nearly 10% of our initial $75 million program completed so far, and we'll continue to evaluate our repurchase activities and overall capital allocation priorities with our board over the coming months. At Rochester, the team continued to make solid progress toward achieving steady state. We mentioned during our last call that we took extended downtime early in the third quarter to make some modifications to the crusher corridor, which have proven to be successful. Mick will talk more about the progress there in a few minutes. Finally, you'll see we fine-tuned our full year production guidance ranges, and we also tweaked our cost guidance ranges. These narrower production guidance ranges resulted in a small increase to the midpoint of our full year gold production guidance and a slight decrease to the midpoint of our full year silver production guidance.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

The main drivers to these adjustments are Las Chispas, Palmarejo, and Wharf being nicely ahead of plan, offset by some Rochester ounces being pushed into 2026 to reflect lower than planned crushed tons so far this year. Before I turn it over to Mick, I just want to quickly thank the team. Our safety and environmental performance this year is among the best in our company's 98-year history, and the operational and financial results speak for themselves. It's great to see these themes all coming together at the same time. The impact of our recent investments in expansions and exploration, the SilverCrest acquisition, and now these higher prices to generate these strong results for our shareholders from our balanced platform of North American assets. Mick, over to you.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Thanks Mitch. The third quarter was another solid step forward for Coeur, marked by strong execution and operating discipline throughout the business. Consolidated gold and silver production continued a 2025 trend of positive sequential quarterly increases, delivering over 111,000 oz of gold and 4.8 million oz of silver. Adjusted cash per ounce for gold and silver also continued that positive trend compared to Q3 2024 at $1,215 per ounce and $14.95 per ounce, respectively. Looking in more detail at each of the operations, rock solid consistent production and cost performance with a balanced portfolio was the key takeaway in the quarter. Beginning with Las Chispas, the operation continues to perform exceptionally well, with silver production increasing to 1.6 million ounces and gold production to 17,000 oz, generating $66 million of free cash flow.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

As Mitch mentioned earlier, the mine's outperformance to date and expectations for a strong finish to the year led us to increase the range of 2025 silver and gold production guidance. I'm also pleased to report that the full integration of Las Chispas is now complete. Kudos to the entire team for a job well and safely done. Turning to Palmarejo, the mine delivered $47 million of free cash flow during the quarter with strong recoveries and mill throughput that reached their highest levels in six quarters. The pace of exploration activity has also increased in the east district outside the Franco-Nevada Goldstream area of interest, including drilling, mapping, and site work in the highly prospective Camachin and Guazaparas trends, which we believe will be key drivers in Palmarejo's next leg of growth.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Palmarejo's strong performance year to date and expectations for a good finish to the year supported an uptick in their full year 2025 production guidance ranges and, driven by continued strong cost management, a reduction in their full year 2025 CASS guidance ranges. Turning to Rochester, the priority in the third quarter remained on building consistency and momentum through the three stage crushing line, which continues to drive steady sequential growth in production at a lower overall cost profile. Gold and silver production increased 3% and 13%, respectively, compared to the second quarter, driving a second successive quarter of free cash flow at $30 million.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

I'm pleased to report that the average particle size continues to trend downward for material passing through all three stages of crushing from a P80 of around 0.92 inches in the second quarter to slightly better than budget levels of 0.84 inches in the third quarter, and the related recoveries continue to track our PSD models just as we expected. As mentioned last quarter, the team took an extended down period in July to successfully implement several modifications after startup to further enhance the tremendous processing power and efficiency of the crushing train. We also managed through some premature belt wear challenges in the secondary reclaimed feeder during the quarter with a few more minor modifications to address this in the fourth quarter. This downtime resulted in a slight decrease in tonnes crushed compared to the prior quarter.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

However, total tonnes placed on stage six in the third quarter increased over 9% to 8.3 million tonnes by utilizing our available fleet and supplementing crushed tonnes with direct to pad material. Revised 2025 production and cost guidance ranges at Rochester reflect the cumulative effects of this year-to-date downtime and the expected timing of ounces coming from stage six moving to Kensington. The positive impact of the recently completed multi-year underground development program continues to shine through in the form of a stronger, more consistent production profile. Gold production increased for the third consecutive quarter, exceeding 27,000 oz. CAS per ounce at Kensington has shown similar sequential improvement in 2025, reaching $1,659 in the quarter. These positive trends contributed to free cash flow of $31 million, Kensington's highest quarterly cash flow in over six years.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

In light of strong results to date, coupled with greater flexibility and productivity taking root throughout the mine, Kensington's 2025 production guidance has increased and its 2025 CAS per ounce range has been narrowed downward. Finishing up at Wharf, the mine achieved its third consecutive quarter of increased production and lower costs applicable to sales. Quarterly gold production increased by 16% to 28,000 oz, leading to free cash flow of an impressive $54 million. This great year-to-date performance led us to increase full-year gold production guidance by 3,000 oz, at the same time moving CAS guidance down by $125 per gold ounce. As Mitch mentioned, the power of Coeur's balanced North American portfolio is fully enjoying this moment of record-setting metals prices. With that, I'll pass the call over to Tom.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

Thanks Mick.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

As highlighted on Slide 8, our strong Q3 financial results demonstrate the power of our five-asset portfolio which is delivering as expected. It was pretty exciting to see the surge in quarterly free cash flow and EBITDA margin during the quarter. Perhaps more exciting is the resulting dramatic improvement of the company's financial position in such a short period of time. Metal sales climbed 15% to $555 million during the quarter, driven primarily by a healthy increase in the number of ounces sold and further accentuated by the 15% higher silver price quarter over quarter. This strong top line revenue growth combined with overall solid cost control led to several new quarterly financial records for net income, adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, and adjusted EBITDA margin.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

One neat metric to highlight is that Coeur's free cash flow party continued at a pace of roughly $2 million per day during Q3 and we expect this rate to increase with the expected higher Q4 realized prices. Turning to the balance sheet on Slide 11, our cash balance grew to $266 million. We took advantage of our improving financial position to early repay $10 million of higher cost capital leases as we aim to drive down our interest expense even further. We have now repaid over $228 million in debt during 2025, driving our net debt below $100 million. We closed the quarter with a net debt ratio of 0.1 times. We are prepared to declare victory on achieving our long-term goal of net debt to EBITDA of nil during Q4 2025, which is nicely ahead of schedule.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

Included in our Q3 2025 earnings was a significant milestone around our $630 million of U.S. net operating losses. As the students of accounting on this call will appreciate, we recorded these U.S. net operating losses on the balance sheet during the third quarter. This accounting requirement resulted in a one-time $162 million non-cash tax benefit for accounting purposes during the quarter, which is a reflection of the strong performance of the U.S. operations over the past three years. On a cumulative basis, we have enhanced our guidance and disclosure relating to tax matters to provide additional color on the go-forward effective tax rate and on quarterly taxes paid. Speaking of guidance, we have fine-tuned our 2025 production and cost guidance as is the normal cadence after the end.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

Of the third quarter.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

As Mitch referenced, the overall production changes are truly minor tweaks and speak to our overall predictability over the past three years. This is despite a stronger peso than we had budgeted and higher royalty obligations due to stronger gold and silver prices. We are particularly excited to lower our cost guidance at three of our five mines, which reflects the efforts of our business improvement culture and signs that our 2025 inflation estimates were conservative. With that, I'll now pass the call back to Mitch.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Thanks, Tom. Before moving to the Q and A, I want to quickly highlight slide 13 that summarizes our top priorities for the remainder of the year. We've made tremendous progress this year by delivering on our strategy and pursuing opportunities to further improve the quality of the business. We expect this discipline and focus to result in a strong finish to the year and to position us exceptionally well for a record year in 2026. With that, let's go ahead and open it up for questions.

[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. Our first question comes from Mick Siperco with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

[Michael Siperco, Director of Global Mining Research at RBC Capital Markets]

Thanks, operator, and good morning, and thanks for taking my question, team. Maybe starting possibly with Mick on Rochester, or I assume it's Mick anyways, none of the guidance change and what you're seeing in the second half at the crusher. Can you talk a bit more about what's needed to get the operation up to full capacity or steady state, let's say into 2026 from a throughput perspective.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Mick, you want to go ahead and take that?

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, Mike, thanks for the question. Absolutely. You know, we telegraphed a little bit that we're going to do those extended shutdowns during July. We did that and we got three really strong projects done: one on the primary, which was really to help us get more efficiently in and out of the primary, to maintain that asset around a real system underneath the primary. That allows us to then run more consistently at the primary level. On the secondary, it was about some modifications that we did to split the two secondary systems up so that we can run one of the systems while maintaining the other one, which also impacts productivity improvements.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

The third key project that we did during the quarter was an auto sampler downstream around the tertiary system that allowed us to both drive uptime to get more tonnes through the pipe and to get better visibility of the size fraction online during dynamic operations. All three of those projects have really driven the opportunity for more uptime for size control and productivity. At Rochester, that was done in the third quarter and we've seen some good signs that's getting some traction and we're looking forward to better results going forward.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Mike, to piggyback on what Mick just highlighted, to get to the point of what's needed to get up to capacity out there, I'd say that the unplanned downtime late in the third quarter regarding that conveyor belt under the secondary crusher stockpile that cropped up, which caused us to lose a little bit of momentum there on the back of completing those projects that Mick just highlighted, that'll get addressed here in November and that should, you know, there's always going to be something, I'm sure, that pops up from time to time, but that's probably the one thing that we need to get behind us and then, you know, we'll hopefully have some clear runway on the backside of that. Is that fair to say, Mick?

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

It's absolutely fair to say the trend is positive. We're seeing some better numbers as we go through this month and year to date. Now that we've got those projects behind us, we'll just continue to tweak. I'm really actually quite happy where we're at. It's not unusual that we do some of these modifications after startup. In relative terms, compared to the industry average, it's been quite a lean set of modifications, to be fair. So far, so good.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Does that help, Mick?

[Michael Siperco, Director of Global Mining Research at RBC Capital Markets]

I guess just to follow up on that, that was going to be my next question. I mean, when you look at the issues that you have been addressing, either sort of planned or unplanned, would you say this is more normal course adjustment during a ramp up of an operation this size, or are you seeing more with respect to either the conveyors or the wear or the material you're running that maybe needs more of a step back and some readjustment, or is it both?

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

I'd say it's much more the former. Mike, things that when you run a large pressure train like this for a little while, something pops up, you fix it and then you move on. Mick, fair to say?

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Absolutely fair to say. They're not your typical conveyors, belts, adjustments to chutes, a little bit on striker bars around the secondary that we'll make adjustments on that'll give a bit more longevity on the belts, and we should see the benefits of that going forward.

[Michael Siperco, Director of Global Mining Research at RBC Capital Markets]

If I can ask, and maybe without getting into guidance specifics, the original 2025 guidance had called for about 20,000 oz of gold and 2 million oz of silver in Q3 and Q4. Is that still a quarterly run rate that you feel confident can be reached next year?

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I'd say the step up from 2025-2026 will be pretty material out there. Getting closer to that on a full year basis, that annual kind of plus 30 million ton crushing rate, which is really where we need to be to achieve that kind of annual 7 million oz-8 million oz of silver, 70,000 oz of gold on an annual basis. We expect to see some momentum in the fourth quarter heading in that direction and then sustain that more throughout 2026. That's going to give us a nice incremental step up year over year out there.

[Michael Siperco, Director of Global Mining Research at RBC Capital Markets]

Okay, great. Maybe one more for me and then I'll turn it over. Just one growth. Nice segue to M&A. Obviously Las Chispas has worked out pretty nicely for you over the 12 months or so. You seem to be, anyways, well into cash harvest at this point. How are you thinking about other opportunities, either producing or in development, out there in the market? Maybe if you can address that in the context of how you're thinking about Silvertip in the longer term.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, sure. Thanks for the question. Look, we came into this year very internally focused on some clear priorities around closing and integrating SilverCrest, ramping up Rochester to steady state, paying down debt quickly. Now here we are almost in November and you can say that we've either completed or are well on our way to checking the box on all of those. We're always looking right at things that we could do to potentially make this a better business, up to the quality of the company and the operations that we have. Not that much of a focus on going back into the development stage game after having just come out of a period of pretty heavy investment at Rochester, at Kensington and exploration. Being in this free cash flow positive phase is somewhere where we'd like to remain for a while.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Any opportunities that we look at, though, have to fit a fairly rigid set of criteria around being gold and silver and improve the quality of the business, sticking in our jurisdictions where we are. We're always looking at those things. There's not a lot of those, frankly, that fit all those criteria. We're always actively monitoring and evaluating those kinds of opportunities. Just turning to Silvertip for a second, that's very much a part of how we think about growth in the future. Not necessarily in the near term, but looking out a bit longer term, that's a significant leg up in growth in particular on the silver side. That could bring in a pretty chunky amount of annual silver production, assuming Silvertip becomes a mine. I think I said last quarter we kicked off an initial assessment here to take a look at that project.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

We'll need to complete that next year, consider whether we move on to the PFS phase and then, if that clears, if the project clears that hurdle, then onto the feasibility study stage, obviously permitting and then a lot of drilling. All of those things take time. We don't want to do anything to cut any corners or any shortcuts. We want to make sure we get it right. Of course, Canada is providing a lot of support for critical minerals projects like Silvertip. We're getting our arms around that and seeing how that might affect the overall timeline. It's out there a few years, but it's something that we're continuing to advance and I think it's probably going to look pretty attractive, especially in the current metals price environment.

[Michael Siperco, Director of Global Mining Research at RBC Capital Markets]

Okay, great. Thank you very much. Appreciate you taking my questions.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, thanks, Mike. Appreciate it.

[Operator]

Our next question comes from Joseph Reagor with ROTH Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

Hey, Mitch and team, thanks for taking the questions.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. Hi, Joe.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

The first thing, I know you.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

Guys gave a little bit of guidance.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

On how the tax rate's going to look this year, what should we be thinking about as far as next year and beyond, now that.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

You know this is, you have this.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

Deferred tax asset.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Tom.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

Sure. Thanks. We're taking bets on whether we get a tax question. Thank you. It was critical to highlight the setting up of the tax asset. For years we've really had basically a zero effective tax rate on our U.S. earnings. That will change starting next year. The federal rate is 21%. The states are, you might want to add in like 3% on average. That should be the go forward kind of rate. We'll tweak that. Of course, we have to wait and see how fast we chew through all of the net operating losses. Trying to predict how fast that's going to happen with these increasing commodity prices has been, it's a high class problem to have. We should even be in a situation where there's a potential to actually pay U.S.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

income tax, which was in 2026 federal income tax, which was a pipe dream many, many years ago. I don't know if that gave you enough color, Joe, but that's how you should be thinking about it.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

That's helpful.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

And then.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

was a good quarter overall.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

I did note Palmarejo and Las Chispas saw a little bit of a drop in grade. Was there anything to that or is it just sequencing?

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

Is it at Las Chispas, was it.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

Related to stockpiles that were processed.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

Any color you guys can give there?

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

What drove that?

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I think you actually just almost answered the question with your answer there, with your suggestions at least. Mick, do you want to give a little more color?

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I mean in underground thin vein mines, of course, we're always characterizing a little bit more ore as we go through the production phase. When we do that, we then look to see whether that ore is economic. You can either stockpile that ore or you can run it through the pipe with Palmarejo. Of course, we've got upside in one mill and capacity there. You know, we chose to run some of that. We ran about, I think, 6% more tonnes through the pipe in the quarter and that helped to make those adjustments to the gains. That's just past for sure. We ran a lot of that historic stockpile down and that's a great thing, so that we've now got a very clear view of the stockpile that we have sitting there at last.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Cheese Pass.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

Okay.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

All right, congrats on good quarter.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners]

I'll turn it over.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Okay, thanks a lot, Joe.

[Operator]

Our next question comes from Kevin O'Halloran with BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

[Kevin O’Halloran, VP and Equity Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at BMO Capital Markets]

Hey, Mitch and team, thanks for taking my question.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Hi, yeah, sure.

[Kevin O’Halloran, VP and Equity Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at BMO Capital Markets]

Great to see the cost guidance coming down at most of the operations, and looks like that's mostly on the back of higher guided production. Can you guys comment on what you're seeing from a unit cost perspective and any cost pressures that you might be seeing across the portfolio?

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Thanks for the question. I think we have that inflation slide in the deck that we typically include that shows, from our perspective, we're still squarely in that sweet spot of strong rising prices and flat input costs into the business. I think slide nine in the deck combined, those are close to, I think, around 60% of our total OpEx. You can see that whether you look over the last 12 months or the last 24 months, it's a pretty attractive cost environment that we're seeing. Not a lot of pressure there. No tariff pressure at all, at least yet. I don't know. Mick, Tom, is there anything on the unit cost side that.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I mean, look, we saw inflation three years ago or two years ago, and we put really robust cost controls in place at all of the sites, and they're holding true. We're still focused on costs even in this nice price environment, and being disciplined in that space helps drive the margin. Yeah, we're enjoying that.

[Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO at Coeur Mining]

Kevin, one thing to pile on is just, you know, from a royalty perspective, I mean, that's something that can impact costs. Despite paying some higher royalties, even out at Rochester, we've had a royalty that will start paying based on these prices. That drove a lot of the Rochester increase. I think it's fantastic that we're able to lower the cost at the other three mines despite the higher royalty pressure. Don't forget the peso as well. The peso has been very strong and Mick and Sandro and the team down in Mexico have done a great job on costs. Really happy.

[Kevin O’Halloran, VP and Equity Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at BMO Capital Markets]

Great. Yeah, thanks, that's helpful. Just moving on. Kind of already touched on this at Palmarejo, but with higher metals prices, I think pretty much everyone in the industry is facing the decisions of whether to send lower grade ore to the mill. Maybe it was previously considered waste and now with metals prices, it can go to the mill. You mentioned you're seeing a bit of that at Palmarejo. Are you seeing or facing any of those sorts of decisions at any of the other operations? Do you expect that going forward or do you expect to be sticking largely to the mine plans?

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, Mick, you want to.

[Mick Routledge, SVP and COO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I mean look, on an annual basis we'll try our best to stick to the main plans, but always finding that marginal ore and then we make a decision about that to stockpile that or do we run it. The great thing is though we don't just look at that grade, we look at the recovery. If you look at Palmarejo, for instance, some of that lower grade material actually recovered better. The balance of play on that was good and that's why you see that positive, that positive outcome. Palmarejo or just the grade by itself has to be coupled with the tonnes and the recovery performance.

[Kevin O’Halloran, VP and Equity Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at BMO Capital Markets]

Great, appreciate that, guys. That's all for me. I'll leave it there, thanks.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Okay, thanks Kevin.

[Operator]

Again, if you have a question, please press star then one. There are no further questions at this time.

[Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Coeur Mining]

Okay, we appreciate everybody's time today. Thanks for joining our call. We wish you all a happy Halloween, safe, healthy holiday season ahead, and we'll talk to you when we report fourth quarter and year end results early next year. Thanks, have a good day.

[Operator]

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Mitchell Krebs, President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors
• Tom Whelan, SVP and CFO
• Mick Routledge, SVP and COO

Analysts

• Kevin O’Halloran, VP and Equity Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at BMO Capital Markets
• Joseph Reagor, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in Metals and Mining at ROTH Capital Partners
• Michael Siperco, Director of Global Mining Research at RBC Capital Markets