Coeur Mining Q1 2026 Earnings Report

Coeur Mining EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.36
• Consensus EPS: $0.37
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.01
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.11

Coeur Mining Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $856.19 million
• Expected Revenue: $815.59 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$40.60 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +137.80%

Coeur Mining Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q1 2026
• Date: 5/6/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 11:00AM ET

Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) is a publicly traded precious metals mining company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company specializes in the exploration, development and production of silver and gold deposits, with a focus on high-grade underground and open-pit operations. Through a combination of operating mines and advanced exploration projects, Coeur Mining seeks to deliver consistent production of silver and gold bullion while maintaining industry standards for safety, environmental stewardship and cost management.

Coeur Mining’s portfolio includes five principal operating mines and several exploration projects across North America and Australia. Key assets comprise the Palmarejo mine in Chihuahua, Mexico; the Kensington mine in Alaska; the Rochester mine in Nevada; the Wharf mine in South Dakota; and the Silvertip mine in British Columbia, Canada. These operations feature both underground and surface mining techniques and are supported by regional processing facilities. In addition to its producing mines, Coeur maintains a pipeline of advanced exploration properties designed to leverage existing infrastructure and extend the life of current operations.

The modern Coeur Mining entity was established in 2004 following a corporate restructuring of Coeur d’Alene Mines, a company with roots in the historic Silver Valley of Idaho. Since that time, the company has grown through targeted acquisitions and organic exploration, bolstering its asset base and expanding its geographic footprint. Notable milestones include the acquisition of the Rochester and Wharf mines, as well as the recent addition of the Silvertip project in British Columbia. These strategic moves have diversified Coeur’s production profile and enhanced its ability to pursue new discoveries.

Under the leadership of President and Chief Executive Officer Mitchell J. Krebs, Coeur Mining emphasizes sustainable mining practices, community engagement and responsible resource development. The company employs industry best practices to manage environmental impacts and works closely with local stakeholders to support social and economic initiatives in host regions. Through disciplined capital allocation and a commitment to operational excellence, Coeur Mining aims to generate long‐term value for shareholders while upholding its core principles of safety and integrity.

Coeur Mining Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Record first-quarter results with $856 million revenue, $475 million EBITDA and $267 million free cash flow despite seasonality and only 11 days of contributions from New Afton and Rainy River, driving cash and equivalents to $843 million.
• Positive Sentiment: Company reaffirmed a strong 2026 profile — ~750,000 ounces of gold (≈+80% y/y), >20 million ounces of silver and ~60 million pounds of copper — with 100% of production from North America and full-year contributions from the acquired Canadian mines.
• Positive Sentiment: Enhanced capital policy and liquidity — a $750 million buyback program, inaugural semi‑annual $0.02 dividend, a modernized $1 billion revolver, multi‑notch rating upgrades, and management's 2026 forecast of >$3 billion EBITDA and ~$2 billion free cash flow.
• Negative Sentiment: Accounting and tax impacts from the acquisition — a non‑cash purchase‑price fair‑value uplift added roughly $85 million to Q1 CAS and created a deferred tax liability near $3.15 billion, which will distort reported CAS/earnings (though it does not affect cash flow) and will unwind over many years.
• Positive Sentiment: Operational integration and execution appear on track — quick post‑close integration, safety awards for New Afton and Rainy River, New Afton ramping toward ~16,000 tpd by end of Q2, and expected normalization at Rochester and Wharf supporting full‑year guidance.

Presentation

[Operator]

I would now like to turn the conference over to Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO. Please go ahead.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining our call to discuss Coeur's first quarter results. I'll kick off with some highlights from the quarter, followed by an update on several key strategic priorities in the wake of the recently completed New Gold transaction. I'll then turn it over to Tom for a recap of our first quarter results before opening it up for questions with the team who's here with me. Before we start, please note our cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements and refer to our SEC filings on our website. The highlights on slide four showcase our strong start despite the first quarter being the softest quarter of the year. Our record results also reflect just 11 days of contributions from the recently acquired New Afton and Rainy River mines.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

First quarter silver and gold production increased 18% and 11% year-over-year, respectively, driving quarterly revenue to a record $856 million. EBITDA increased 12% versus the fourth quarter and nearly four-fold year-over-year to a record $475 million. We generated a very strong $267 million of free cash flow despite over $200 million of quarter-specific and one-time items that Tom will describe in more detail shortly. These accelerating cash flows continue to supercharge our balance sheet with cash and equivalents increasing nearly eleven-fold over the past year to $843 million and growing. A real shout-out to the team for getting us out of the gates cleanly and safely in 2026.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

The production summary on Slide five provides the clearest portrait of what we expect will be a truly watershed year for the company. Among many other positive catalysts on tap, the remaining three quarters will reflect full contributions from New Afton and Rainy River, rising production and cash flow from Rochester, and a strong rebound at Wharf now that its rebuilt crushing circuit is back up and running, thanks to a tremendous effort by the team there following a fire in the crusher building last November. Putting that all together, along with consistent performance from our three other operations and taking the midpoint of our guidance ranges, we expect to produce approximately 750,000 oz of gold, over 20 million ounces of silver, and nearly 60 million pounds of copper in 2026.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

The two new Canadian operations are the main drivers behind an expected 80% increase in our 2026 gold production compared to last year, while also introducing copper into our metals mix and driving down our overall cost profile. The +20 million ounces of silver production we expect to generate this year represents about a 13% increase over last year, driven by a full-year of contribution from Las Chispas, which was added in mid-February last year through the SilverCrest acquisition, as well as a further expected step-up in production at Rochester. This level of silver production should keep us in the top five of all silver producers globally and is expected to represent over 30% of our revenue this year based on recent prices.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

It's also important to highlight that 100% of our 2026 gold, silver, and copper production will come from North America, with about 70% of our revenues coming from the U.S. and Canada. A couple of other quick updates. You likely saw on March 23rd that we provided a corporate update following the closing of the New Gold transaction that laid out an enhanced financial policy reflecting our priorities of establishing and maintaining a flexible balance sheet and reinvesting back into our assets, all while returning capital to shareholders through a substantially increased share repurchase program and an inaugural dividend, which Tom will talk more about shortly. On the integration front, we're very pleased with where we are after seven weeks since the closing. There's been an incredible amount of planning, effort, and collaboration throughout the combined organization, which deserves a big thank you.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

The teams are engaging in the work of integrating the two companies, and everyone is excited about the stronger and larger platform we've created and the tremendous potential that lies ahead. Before turning it over to Tom, one final note from me. We published our 2025 responsibility report on April 15th, which is summarized on slide 23. Coeur's approach has always been grounded in driving sustainable growth and long-term value creation, and we focused this year's report on clearly tying our sustainability priorities to underlying business value. Tom, over to you.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Thanks, Mitch. I'll begin with a brief review of our first quarter financial results as presented on slide nine. Record quarterly performance in revenue, EBITDA, GAAP net income are just the latest signs of the emerging power and consistency of Coeur's combined portfolio. Key headline financial results included a seventh consecutive quarter of free cash flow and an eighth consecutive quarter of positive earnings per share. This consistent track record of positive earnings and free cash flow, along with our new dividend policy, bodes well for future additional index inclusions. Our first quarter is always a little choppy, with our traditionally seasonally low first quarter operating performance and significant working capital outflows. Add in the complexity of closing a transaction during the quarter, this led to a lot of moving parts in the quarterly results.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

We included a waterfall chart on slide 11, where we called out quarter specific and one-time items totaling over $200 million. With the tailwinds of stronger realized prices and a focus on monetizing the opening inventory balances at our newly acquired Canadian operations, we managed to achieve our second highest free cash flow in company history at $267 million. Our day one integration efforts have paid off, leaving us set up for a memorable 2026 as we emerge as the new go-to North American only precious metals company. Slide eight highlights the incredible turnaround story of our balance sheet. With last 12 months adjusted EBITDA increasing by over $1 billion compared to the same point one year ago.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

In overall net cash position, along with the new modernized and materially upsized $1 billion revolving credit facility, the balance sheet and overall liquidity levels are in great shape. Of note, our cash balance increased by almost $300 million during the quarter, more than offsetting the $272 million in net debt that was assumed at the closing of the New Gold acquisition. I would also highlight that we received multi-notch upgrades from our rating agencies as we completed the acquisition, which is external validation of the immense progress and stability we have built. A couple of final notes on the balance sheet. The obligor exchange related to New Gold's 2032 bonds that we launched on the transaction closing was completed on April 22nd.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

This innovative transaction has allowed us to novate over 96% of the outstanding New Gold notes to become Coeur notes, which will provide significant benefits, including no restrictions on our ability to return capital, additional U.S. tax shield, and lower filing and compliance costs. On April 30, we repaid the bulk of our remaining $45 million of capital leases early to further reduce our overall interest expense going forward. With our 2026 guidance reaffirmed and using our 2026 budget prices, we expect to generate more than $3 billion of EBITDA and $2 billion of free cash flow, as shown on slide seven, even with only nine months and 11 days of contributions from New Afton and Rainy River.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

This overall confidence in the portfolio was the basis of the updated financial policy, as outlined on slide 10 for the company, including our return of capital strategy that we announced on March 23rd. As a brief reminder, our board authorized capital returns strategy is comprised of a $750 million buyback program, which allows for the possibility of continuous activity even during blackout periods, as well as a discretionary component to allow us to execute repurchases opportunistically based on our underlying share price and valuation. We look forward to executing on this program following several months of inactivity due to blackouts. Coeur's board has also approved an inaugural dividend policy of $0.02 per share semi-annually, with payments expected in the second and fourth quarters.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

This amount was selected to make the dividend sustainable for the long run, even under extreme low case pricing scenarios, and allows for potential dividend growth over time. Two final comments from me. Slide 12 includes our usual snapshot of inflationary pressures that we keep a close eye on every day as we manage the business. In the wake of the recent surge in oil prices, we wanted to highlight that diesel represents approximately 6% of Coeur's total operating costs, and our 2026 cost guidance assumes a diesel price of $3.19 per gal. A 10% increase in diesel prices would typically increase our cost by about $10 million, which equates to roughly 1%-2% increase in our CAS per unit. While we are not immune to this cost pressure, it is less acute than most people might think.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

During the March 23rd call, I highlighted several accounting nuances that impact our CAS guidance, with a special focus on the fair value uplift of opening inventory that arise from the purchase price allocation from the New Gold acquisition. With all of Rainy River and New Afton's Q1 2026 sales coming from opening inventory, the CAS for the quarter at those mines approached current spot prices as required under U.S. GAAP, as those inventories were recorded at their fair market value. As a reminder, the associated $85 million non-cash impact on CAS during the quarter from this pointy-headed accounting matter is the same concept that we saw at Las Chispas last year. Our overall company-wide adjusted gold CAS would have been $689 less per ounce to give everyone a sense of the significant accounting impact of this non-cash item.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

The champagne problems of having so much opening inventory. This nuance will carry throughout 2026 at Rainy River, as we are fortunate to inherit an approximate 2 million ton short-term stockpile. We will likely have some tweaks to the final non-cash impact of this fair value uplift that we will clarify with our Q2 2026 interim results as we finalize New Gold purchase price allocation. With that, I'll now pass the call back to Mitch.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Thanks, Tom. Before opening it up for Q&A, as shown on slide 20, our key strategic priorities for the year ahead remain unchanged. I'm very proud to report that Coeur finished 2025 as the safest mining company among our peers in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year based on MSHA data. Congratulations to the entire team for having the courage to care and for always pursuing a higher standard when it comes to our commitment to keeping everyone safe. I'm also extremely pleased to announce that both New Afton and Rainy River received the John T. Ryan Regional Safety Trophy for lowest reportable injury frequency earlier this week at the annual CIM conference. New Afton has received this award 11 out of the past 12 years, while Rainy River is a first-time recipient.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Our leadership in the safety and environmental areas are two great examples of how we at Coeur set the bar high and then strive to exceed our expectations. As we look out over the remainder of the year, we will continue working tirelessly to complete a smooth integration of New Gold and to deliver consistent and predictable performance across our expanded and strengthened platform of seven North American operations. Another key priority will be to continue bolstering our liquidity while making the transition to returning capital to shareholders through our new share repurchase program and initial dividend policy. Carrying out the largest exploration investment in the company's history and delivering impactful results from these programs will remain a top focus over the remaining nine months of the year.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

This includes continued drilling at the Silvertip project in British Columbia, where the higher silver price, Canada's strong support for critical minerals projects, and our own ability to advance this one-of-a-kind silver asset are all coming together to create a potential window of opportunity. Much work remains to be done, and we look forward to sharing our progress there later in the year after the busy summer drilling season. Starting with this current quarter, we're excited to begin delivering the tremendous potential of the company that we've built through our recent investments in exploration and expansions and two well-timed high-impact M&A transactions. I can't think of a better positioned company in our sector, given our production and cash flow profile, metals mix, growth, geographic footprint, trading liquidity, balance sheet, and most importantly, the team to deliver it. 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 now press star then one on your telephone keypad if you are using speaker phone please pick up your handset before pressing the key .If 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 momentary to assemble our roster. First question comes from Cosmos Chiu with CIBC. Please go ahead.

[Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets]

Great. Thanks, Mitch and Tom and team for a very good presentation. Maybe my first question is on the free cash flow. You kind of touched on it, you know, some Q1 specific items, $200 million, and it's in slide 11. Could you maybe elaborate on it? Just wanna make sure that these are non-recurring, like it won't come up again in Q2. Maybe it'll come up, maybe in Q1, the Mexican taxes, you know, certainly won't be recurring for Q2, Q3, and Q4.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, hi, Cosmos. It's Mitch. Thanks for the question.

[Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets]

Hi, Tom. Oh, hey, Mitch.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

It's Mitch. I'll ask Tom to say something here in a second. Just high level, and you referenced slide 11, which is a great place to talk about this. Each first quarter, you're really not gonna get away from the Mexican tax payments, the interest, and the Rochester property tax. The others were one time. I mean, the incentive payment is variable year to year. Strong performance last year led to a larger annual incentive payment in the first quarter of this year. Obviously the tax payments were higher than they've been in recent years due to the Las Chispas addition last year and just overall strong performance from both Palmarejo and Las Chispas. Tom, anything else you wanna add to that?

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. The only thing I would add is just the way we time the interest on the notes. Those will happen in Q1 and Q3. The rest are only gonna happen in Q1 and obviously transaction costs, that was a one time.

[Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets]

Perfect. Thank you. Maybe if I can ask about the capital return program. Mitch, you know, great to see the dividend now in place and now the $750 million repurchase program now in place. I went through the MD&A. It doesn't seem like you've utilized the share buyback program just yet. Is that something that you look forward to doing, you know, sometime in 2026? Is it dependent on free cash flow coming in, dependent on kinda like, you know, Coeur Mining share price levels? I guess number one, to confirm that hasn't been used. Number two, will it get used sometime in 2026?

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for the question. Absolutely. We look forward to enacting that enhanced repurchase program. You know, we've been constrained with blackouts from the New Gold transaction from first quarter. Those now will lift after today. We look forward to becoming more active here starting in the second quarter and beyond on that repurchase program.

[Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets]

Understood. You know, sorry to, you know, come back to this PPA, you know, in terms of a purchase price accounting to inventory. I'm just trying to wrap my head around it. I understand, you know, it's been marked up to market and, but the New Afton number over 4,000 in CAS. Rainy River over $4,000 in CAS. That seems fairly high. Is it gonna be, you know, as we go into Q2, Q3 and Q4, is it gonna be dependent on sort of how much is being drawn out of inventory versus how much fresh ore you are gonna be kinda, you know, supplementing the inventory production with? That's gonna be a determinant in terms of what CAS is gonna look like each and every quarter.

[Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets]

The, I guess 11 days of over 4,000 in ounce CAS was just a function of it being all inventory and maybe just anomaly over 11 days.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, you got it. No need to apologize for the question. You made Tom's day. Tom, do you wanna elaborate?

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Let's, let's go asset by asset. New Afton, think that is pretty much we flushed everything out there, from the opening WIP and finished goods through that, those first 11 days. That $20 million impact, which was $25.60 on the CAS and $3.10 on copper 'cause it's a co-product, that should kind of be in the rearview mirror. Again, as I referenced, at Rainy, it's a champagne problem. We inherited, just to give you a sense, 30,000 oz of gold in finished goods and doré balances at the end of the quarter, or on acquisition, and as well as I referenced a 2 million ton stockpile. That's well over $400 million of fair value of gold.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

As I mentioned, we're finalizing that purchase price, like, allocation exercise here in the second quarter as we're allowed to. $65 million of that flowed through. There'll be a continuing impact through Q2 and Q3. As we get a little bit more visibility on exactly how quickly we'll draw that down, and chew through that stockpile, we'll be able to give you a little bit more guidance. I just wanna keep going back to you. This is just pointy-headed accounting. It definitely impacts our earnings, but doesn't impact free cash flow.

[Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets]

Great. Thanks, Tom. Maybe one last question in terms of operations. Q1, you know, Rochester and Wharf were impacted by certain issues, maintenance, sort of at Rochester and of course the fire at Wharf. Just to confirm, it sounds like, you know, the issues are behind you. It sounds like everything's, you know, all the fixes have now been put in place. For Q2, Q3 and Q4, should we expect sort of more normalized level in terms of tonnage, in terms of throughput at Rochester and Wharf?

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I'll start, Cosmos, and then Mick, you can clean up anything that needs to be cleaned up. If you go back, Cosmos, to the guidance that we put out in February in that investor deck, you know, we laid out the production profile by quarter, by mine. Like for Wharf, you could see, the first quarter was, you know, by far the weakest and then, you know, continuing strength throughout the rest of the year. Looking at our results here from the first quarter, you can see Wharf was actually just a little ahead of that profile that we laid out back in February. So the team's done an amazing job there of getting back up and going.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

We feel good about that continued progression through the remaining three quarters of the year to land within that full-year guidance range that we put out back in February. Similar story at Rochester. You know, it was a little ahead of plan when you look at expected first quarter versus actual. When you think about some of the things going on on the ground there from the crushing standpoint, of course the first quarter has fewer days in it than any other quarter. There was some scheduled downtime for maintenance. There was a lot of overliner being crushed in the first quarter to go out onto the phase II, stage six leach pad.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

A few of those things were going on in the first quarter, but we expect to see, you know, things continue to build there as well through the year to land, you know, within the guidance ranges that we put out last in February. Mick, anything I failed to mention?

[Mick Routledge, COO at Coeur Mining]

No. Perfect. At both sites, building momentum throughout the year, as per that quarterly breakdown in the plan. Particularly at Wharf, team did a fantastic job at that recovery curve and got really a couple of weeks ahead and we're already right on plan for Wharf for the year. Rochester, we knew that was gonna be a shorter quarter, a little bit less grade, and we're seeing that picking up throughout the year. Yeah, right on plan. Super happy.

[Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets]

Great. Thanks again, Mitch, Tom and Mick for answering all my questions. Congrats on getting the deal done and a strong start to 2026.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

No, thanks a lot, Cosmos. Appreciate it.

[Operator]

The next question is from Joseph Reagor with ROTH. Please go ahead.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director at ROTH]

Hey, Mitch and team. Thanks for taking my questions.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Hey, Joe.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director at ROTH]

Some of them were just answered, but I did have one question which is probably for Tom. On the balance sheet, the deferred income tax, you know, jumped from $300 million- $3.15 billion. I'm assuming it's all related to deferred income tax that New Gold had on their balance sheet previously, but is there anything we should think about there? With the accounting around the change in the notes, is there any impact to deferred income account, deferred income tax account?

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Well, I'm blushing with all the accounting questions. This is exciting. Thanks. On the debt, A good astute observation. It's carried on the books at $425 million, but the face value is only $400. The rules require you to estimate the fair value. Just given that higher coupon that those notes bear at six and 7/8 versus sort of what our market rate would be, you record that at a little higher value. The bigger impact is what you talked about, that deferred tax liability. This is all driven by the accounting rules.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

For the purchase or the mineral interests that we've acquired and the, and the, and all the various equipment, et cetera, et cetera, that's been recorded at a very high value, obviously, as we went through our valuation exercise. The tax basis of those assets remains at whatever New Gold's tax basis was. That creates a difference between the accounting value and the book value. You just take that difference in the, in the, in those values, multiply it by the Canadian tax rate, and there you have it. That liability is gonna reverse over time, similar to what we saw out at Las Chispas last year, where we had a large tax liability.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

That's just gonna reverse slowly but surely as the accounting values and the book values get closer and closer. That'll take literally, you know, 10 years to reverse out. Thanks for the question. I hope I gave you good explanation. This isn't like additional hidden taxes in New Gold's books or anything like that. It's just driven by the accounting for the purchase price.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director at ROTH]

That was very helpful. Just kind of, you know, big picture, you guys do have a plan of how to redeploy capital. You know, if you look at the balance sheet, you know, slightly net cash as of the end of the quarter, how aggressive do you guys wanna be on reducing the rest of the debt?

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I think both of the notes, the New Gold notes and then our five and an eighth, you know, pretty low interest, pretty patient, pretty flexible. You know, as you think about allocating capital to the highest returns, you know, those aren't gonna be anywhere near the top of the list. For now, we're fine, you know, and comfortable leaving them alone, letting cash build up a bit, getting to a probably more appropriate level of overall liquidity, and then keep looking for ways to reinvest the excess cash back into the business. You know, we talked about our largest exploration program in company history. We're being aggressive on that front.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

You know, we'll look at things like Silvertip, towards the K-Zone out there in the, in the future. As far as those outstanding notes, we're comfortable leaving those alone for now at least.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director at ROTH]

Okay, thanks. I'll turn it over.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Okay. All right.

[Joseph Reagor, Managing Director at ROTH]

Thanks, y'all.

[Operator]

The next question is from Josh Wolfson with RBC. Please go ahead.

[Josh Wolfson, Managing Director and Head of Global Mining Research at RBC]

Thank you very much. I guess my questions are on the New Gold assets. I know there's not a huge amount of data here to go through, given the short period between closing and the end of the quarter. First question, just on Rainy. You know, within the data that was reported, production looked, you know, relatively good. Grade was lighter relative to what I guess the recent tech report would have discussed. I think it was something like 1.2, 1.3 g, and the processed material was only 0.9. How should we think about the quarters going forward? Or is there some change maybe on stockpile processing versus what the tech report says? Thank you.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Sure, Josh. Thanks for the question. I'll start and you guys can fill in. I think on Rainy River specifically, yeah, second half of last year, Rainy River had some really high-grade open pit material that drove some exceptional performance in the third quarter and the fourth quarter. You know, our grade profile this year reflects a lower grade open pit profile, but increasing over the year. Of course, the other big theme there is seeing the underground mining rates step up over time and transition to more of a balance in the second part of the year between open pit and underground. As far as those open pit grades in particular, yeah, a little bit lower, I think according to plan to start the year.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Like you said, Josh, very small data set there with just the 11 days. That should build a bit over the remainder of the year. Anything you guys.

[Josh Wolfson, Managing Director and Head of Global Mining Research at RBC]

Thank you.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, I would again just point back to the guidance in February where we gave it by quarter. You'll see actually, rainy should have a bit stronger second quarter than third quarter, and then a pretty solid fourth quarter based on the mine plan as it stands. Yeah, it's gonna be a very significant free cash flow generator, and really excited.

[Mick Routledge, COO at Coeur Mining]

Just from a tech report perspective, clearly the tech report grades are on an annual basis, and we try and break that out into that quarterly profile to help show how we're gonna perform from first quarter to the next. Certainly, after we close the deal for Q2 to Q4, we're expected to be around the grade profile that was planned.

[Josh Wolfson, Managing Director and Head of Global Mining Research at RBC]

Got it. Okay. Good to hear. Then on New Afton, you know, with the C-Zone, I guess, final drawbell blast done, you know, how should we be thinking about the ramp up there? Is there anything you can walk us through in terms of expectations maybe? I know we have the production volumes, but just maybe more on a high level, just understanding execution risks and how the company's managing that. Thank you.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. Yeah. Also a back half year expected there at New Afton on the back of that C-Zone ramp up with B-Zone now behind them as of the end of last year. The target there is to be approaching that 16,000 t per day throughput as we end the second quarter. I think we started at the end there of March and early April, more around 11,000 t per day. We'll be targeting that 16,000 t a day here in coming months. That'll drive a much stronger, you know, back half of the year there to land within the gold and copper guidance ranges that we issued. Mick, anything else there?

[Mick Routledge, COO at Coeur Mining]

Mitch nailed it. Since the close, it actually trended up a little bit, it's definitely gaining momentum. We've got around that 13,000 average post-close alone. It's getting stronger, we certainly wanna get it up towards that 16,000 t per day. Expect that to be in and around the end of Q two, the way it's trending at the moment.

[Josh Wolfson, Managing Director and Head of Global Mining Research at RBC]

Great. Those are all my questions. Thank you.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Okay. Thanks, Josh.

[Operator]

The next question is from Brian MacArthur with Raymond James. Please go ahead.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. Can I just go back to the I hate to do this, the accounting again. You talked about how everything at New Afton squashed, which is good. You made a comment, too, that you had 30,000 oz on the books of gold as well as material on the pad at March 31st. Those 30,000 oz, is that gonna be additional cash flow that you liberate out of working capital over the next few quarters, i.e., it's over and above the guidance of production that you've given this year for Rainy River? Just so I'm clear on this.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

I'll go ahead. No, that the guidance includes the monetization of this stockpile and the work, and the work in process. No, that's thick with the guidance that's in there. The key, of course, is that those oz that come out of the inventory are gonna be at the higher CAS rate, but it's not obviously gonna impact the free cash flow.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Right. You're just going to bring them out. It's just, there's no extra cash being liberated is what I'm really getting at here.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Correct. Yeah. You get it. Yeah. Correct.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Perfect. Thank you. Second thing, you also made a comment about with restructuring the New Gold back, it helped your tax structures. Sorry, I didn't quite hear that clearly. Is that U.S. tax structures, or by doing that, does that help you on your Canadian side as well?

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Again, this obligor exchange that closed on the 22nd of April, what that does is it will novate the 2032 New Gold bonds out of the Canadian entity and into the U.S. entity. We'll get that tax shelter in the U.S. against our U.S. income.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Not, not the Canadian assets.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Correct.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Just additional U.S. Okay. That's what I was trying to figure out.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Correct.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Thanks very much.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Again, this is gonna make, you know, it's gonna make the rating agencies' lives easier because they're not gonna have to rate two bonds.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Yeah.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Most importantly, it's removed. We've got full financial flexibility around return of capital. 'Cause if not, it was gonna be a little cumbersome to deal with those, with those two different indentures. You know, great work by our treasury team to have, and our legal team who executed that extremely swiftly. We're really pleased to have seen such a large uptick on the, on the amount of folks who took advantage of it.

[Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James]

Great. Thanks very much, Tom. That's very clear.

[Operator]

Again, if you have a question, please press star then one. Next question is from Wayne Lam with TD Securities. Please go ahead.

[Wayne Lam, Director of Mining Research at TD Securities]

Thanks, guys. Just two of follow-up questions. First one, some really good color that you guys have provided on the overall diesel exposure. Just more specifically at Rochester, that would seem to be where you'd have the most exposure, just given the scale of the mine. Just wondering what kind of cost pressures you might see, be seeing there specifically on the energy front. Just wondering if you had any more detail on the timing of planned maintenance activities on the crusher through the year.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. Thanks, Wayne. Hi. Appreciate the questions. Tom and Mick, I'll throw it over to you on the Rochester specific-Diesel question. Then maybe you can also hit Wayne's second question around maintenance timing relating to the crusher out there.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah.

[Mick Routledge, COO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. On the diesel front, yeah, we've got, of course, the biggest exposures are the open pits, so, Rochester, Wharf, and Rainy River. But the overall impact around the total cost, and Tom can weigh in on the percentages here, but it's not too significant. We're not seeing too much from Q1 flowing through into Q2. Clearly we're watching that very carefully. On Rochester's maintenance program, the bigger shutdown is really towards the early part of Q4 of this year, where we're gonna do some work around their feeders on the secondary of the crusher. After that, which is also built into the profile and the plan. You'll see that in the quarterly profile.

[Mick Routledge, COO at Coeur Mining]

That's Q4 projection is accurate, and the rest of them are really just short, routine maintenance shutdowns. One, two, three days to change cones and other bits and pieces that are all planned and will continue each year.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Wayne, the only thing I'd add is absolutely Rochester, and Rainy River are the two assets where we spend the most money to produce all the amazing amounts of gold and silver that we're forecasting. But we've got a team that are laser-focused on monitoring this, robust monthly reviews, cost reviews, kind of looking out ahead, understanding when contracts are expiring to keep a really close eye on that. I feel really comfortable that we're monitoring it as best we can. So far so good.

[Wayne Lam, Director of Mining Research at TD Securities]

Okay, perfect. Maybe just to follow up on that one. Sorry. You said there was maintenance planned in Q4, and that is already baked into the quarterly guidance where you have a pretty big step change in production in the last quarter of the year?

[Mick Routledge, COO at Coeur Mining]

Correct.

[Wayne Lam, Director of Mining Research at TD Securities]

Okay, perfect. Then I guess my only other question was on the labor cost front. Again, a lot of good detail on the inflation that you guys are seeing. Just wondering what kinda exposure, or maybe a breakout on the labor cost pressures that you're seeing between the U.S. operations versus Mexico?

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. I'll start, Wayne. It's Mitch. Just that inflationary cost pressure slide that we have in the deck, slide 12, that bottom left bar chart that shows the year-over-year increase of something like 15%. A decent amount of that is incentive comp, higher year-over-year. I just wanted to flag that. As far as labor pressures in Mexico versus the U.S., I think where we're seeing it more is in the, in the U.S. context versus Mexico. Mick, Tom, do you wanna provide any more detail or context?

[Mick Routledge, COO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah. I mean, general levels of turnover, we've been recruiting. We need to recruit. We haven't got any shortfalls in labor availability, just that general mining turnover rate and recruitment performance is normal. Yeah, not feeling too much pressure there at the moment. From a cost perspective, as Mitch said, we're focused on that and we're seeing a little bit of increase in cost, but not unusual for Mexico.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

If this is the first quarter's the quarter where you implement annual incentive, or it's not annual incentive, base increases. Those have happened. You know, typically, if you've really under-egged the pudding in terms of salary increases, people get their bonus and then head off the other way. I think we're feeling really comfortable for now. For what it's worth, we do a sort of a mid-year review just to make sure that we're keeping an eye on labor rates, 'cause as we all know, you need the bodies to deliver all this production safely and profitably.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Good point, Tom and Mick, on the turnover rates. We haven't seen an uptick at all. In fact, we've seen things go the other way.

[Tom Whelan, CFO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah.

[Wayne Lam, Director of Mining Research at TD Securities]

Okay, perfect. Well, hopefully we see that same year-over-year share price performance, so you'll be paying out those incentive bonuses again next year. Congratulations.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

There you go.

[Wayne Lam, Director of Mining Research at TD Securities]

To you both, guys.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Yeah, thanks, Wayne.

[Operator]

This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Krebs for any closing remarks.

[Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO at Coeur Mining]

Okay. Well, thank you for your time and all the great questions today. We look forward to getting back together again this summer to talk about our second quarter results, which should really start to reflect the power of the platform and we can share our progress on what should be a record-breaking 2026. Thanks again for your time. Have a good day.

[Operator]

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

Participants

Executives

• Mick Routledge, COO
• Mitchell Krebs, Chairman, President, and CEO
• Tom Whelan, CFO

Analysts

• Brian MacArthur, Managing Director at Raymond James
• Cosmos Chiu, Executive Director of Institutional Equity Research at CIBC World Markets
• Joseph Reagor, Managing Director at ROTH
• Josh Wolfson, Managing Director and Head of Global Mining Research at RBC
• Wayne Lam, Director of Mining Research at TD Securities