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Earnings Call: Q2 2026

Jan 28, 2026

Operator

In the interest of time, participants are requested to limit the number of questions to two per turn. If you have additional questions, you are welcome to rejoin the queue, and we'll be able to ask further questions if time permits. If we run out of time and do not have time for your question, we ask that you please call our office on 0862634494 or email boss@bossenergy.com and speak to our team. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Matt Dusci, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Thank you, Ashley. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for dialing into the Boss Energy December quarterly conference call. Joining me on the call this morning is Justin Laird, our CFO. We will be both happy to take questions at the end of this call. Turning to slide two, there's been another significant quarter for the company, which I'll talk through during the call. Some of the key highlights include, we delivered record quarterly production of 456,000 l bs of uranium drummed, up 18% from the prior quarter. C1 cash costs for the quarter were AUD 30 per pound, down 12% from the prior quarter, with all-in sustaining costs of AUD 49 per pound, down 3%. Average price of AUD 112 per pound, or US$74 per pound, was realized with sales of AUD 39.3 million. Alta Mesa produced 143,000 lbs of uranium drummed, of which Boss received 68,000 lbs during the quarter.

We continued to build drummed inventory to 1.62 million lbs, up 175,000 pounds, or 12% from the prior quarter. The balance sheet remains strong, with AUD 208 million of cash and liquid assets, including AUD 53 million of cash. We remain on track to deliver FY 2026 production guidance of 1.6 million lbs, and are pleased to announce downward revision of guidance of C1 and All-in Sustaining Costs. On the 18th of December, we announced the conclusion of the Honeymoon Review and outlined a clear pathway forward for Honeymoon Asset, with a new feasibility study initiated. This fundamental change to our wellfield design will enable an increase in residence time and lixiviant, reduce our cost structure, unlock lower-grade mineralization, improve the production profile, and extend the life of mine. Now turning to slide three. As noted, this was a quarter of record drum production at Honeymoon, with production of 456,000 lbs of uranium drummed.

This is up 18% from the prior quarter, reflecting a continued run on quarter-on-quarter growth since Boss commenced production in April 2024. IX production was up 8% from the prior quarter, with 406,000 lbs produced, with increased flow achieved from four Wellfields B1 to B4, being online for the whole quarter. Key activities for the upcoming quarter will include the completion of commissioning of NIMCIX columns 4 and 5. Flushing for Wellfield B5 is underway and expected to begin production in the coming few days. We're expecting production in the third quarter to be softer than in the current quarter, before lifting again in quarter four to deliver the 1.6 million lbs production guidance for the full financial year. The pullback in the coming quarter is due to phasing of wellfields with an expected decline in average tenor.

This quarter will also have a major shut associated with the tie-ins of columns four and five, along with power upgrades. In quarter four, we expect an increase in production as Wellfield B5 will be running for the full quarter, and we'll also bring in Wellfield B6 coming online at the very back end of the quarter. This Wellfield B6 will be the first of the wellfields to operate at Far East Kalkaroo. Turning to slide four. As noted earlier, C1 Cash Costs for the quarter was AUD 30 per pound. This was lower than both the original guidance of AUD 41-AUD 45 per pound and the prior quarter of AUD 34 per pound. This was a great achievement as we continue to see positive results from lixiviant optimization programs, reagent optimization in the plant, and other cost reduction programs driving cost savings and productivity improvements.

The all-in sustaining c ost for the quarter was AUD 49 per pound, below original guidance of AUD 64-AUD 70 per pound. The main variance relates to lower C1 cash cost and the phasing of new wellfield sustaining capital spend. Where there is an opportunity to delay wellfield capital expenditure under the existing plan, we are taking this decision while we execute the new feasibility study. We do not want to be spending capital under non-optimal plan. Project and supporting infrastructure capital costs increased in the quarter to AUD 11 million from AUD 9 million in the prior quarter.

Of the AUD 11 million spent in the current quarter, AUD 4.5 million of this related to ongoing completion of the NIMCIX columns, AUD 6.5 million of the AUD 11 million related to wellfield supporting infrastructure for East Kalkaroo, with AUD 4 million spent on the trunk line, monitoring wells, and high-voltage power upgrades, and AUD 2 million spent on delineation drilling. In terms of guidance for the remainder of FY 2026, we continue to reconfirm production guidance of 1.6 million lbs of drummed uranium. We are also pleased to revise downwards our C1 cash costs and all-in sustaining cost guidance. Our new C1 cash cost guidance is AUD 36-AUD 40 per pound, down from the previous guidance of AUD 41-AUD 45 per pound. All-in sustaining cost guidance has also been reduced from AUD 64-AUD 70 per pound to a new revised guidance for FY 2026 of AUD 60-AUD 64 per pound.

This is largely driven by the team's efforts to increase productivity and efficiencies while reducing costs for the business. This is an area that we'll continue to focus on. Sustaining costs remain mostly consistent as we balance this potential transition from existing plan to a new wide-space wellfield design. Where possible, we do not want to spend capital on executing a suboptimal plan. It is in the shareholder's interest that we defer as much of this capital as possible in parallel to the execution of the new feasibility study. Project and supporting infrastructure capital has been increased by AUD 3 million from AUD 27 million- AUD 30 million to a new guidance of AUD 30 million-AUD 33 million for the full financial year. This increase is primarily due to the inclusion of the Honeymoon Delineation Drill Program. Turning to slide five.

The company is in a strong financial position, and I continue to reinforce that we are very well positioned to fund what we need to do as a business to drive value. We closed the quarter with no debt and AUD 208 million of cash and liquid assets. Cash increased from AUD 47.8 million to AUD 52.9 million at the end of the quarter. There has been a slight decline in the total cash and liquid assets quarter-over-quarter due to mark-to-market declines in fair value for our strategic equity shareholdings. Drummed uranium inventory increased during the quarter from 1.44 million lbs -1.62 million lbs. We continue to view this inventory as strategic for the company as we continue to see tightening of the uranium market. Sales during the quarter consisted of 350,000 lbs at an average realized price of AUD 74 per pound or AUD 112 per pound.

First delivery into a legacy contract will occur in Q3 and will continue in Q4. This contract is linked to the Honeymoon Mining license from when Boss originally acquired the asset. The contract is for a maximum of 1.7 million lbs linked to either 20% of the previous calendar year's production or a maximum quantity of 250,000 lbs per year. This contract and material, 250,000 lbs, will reflect a realized price of approximately 65%-70% of the spot price for those pounds. Moving to slide six. In terms of our 30% stake in Alta Mesa, a joint venture with enCore, production for the quarter totaled 143,000 lbs on a 100% basis during the quarter. Boss received 68,000 lbs of drummed production during the quarter. The production decline was associated with the timing of bringing new wellfields online. Additional modules are currently being installed at Wellfield 7 and Wellfield 3.

Drilling at Alta Mesa East continued to confirm the potential extensions of mineralization from Alta Mesa West. Turning to slide seven. As noted, on the 18th of December, we released the findings of the Honeymoon Review and have identified a clear pathway forward, a pathway that we are generally excited about. It's a pathway that has the potential to unlock significant value for the company. We have commenced work on the new feasibility study centered around the alternative wellfield design, which has the potential to reduce operating costs and sustaining costs, unlock lower-grade mineralization, improve our production profile, and extend the life of mine plan. Successful delivery of this new wellfield design at Honeymoon would also have a positive impact on our satellite deposits.

This significant program of work has been initiated as we work toward delivery of the new feasibility study, including continuation of the resource delineation. Additional sample collection to improve geology, geometry, and hydrological characterization has commenced. Additional reactive transport simulations have also been completed. We've continued to advance the updated mineral resource model, and we have completed planning for trial test work patterns, with drilling also commenced on establishing these trial wide-space patterns. Turning to slide eight. Work progressed during the quarter on advancing the technical and baseline studies at Gould's and Jason's satellite deposit. An updated mineral resource statement and timeline of work required to provide the permitting pathway will be provided in this coming quarter.

It is worth noting that the wide-space wellfield design that is being developed as part of the new feasibility study could potentially significantly improve the recoverable uranium metal and reduce capital intensity and C1 costs both at Jason's and Gould's Dam. Turning to slide nine. Provide a quick summary of the quarter and our priorities. We delivered record quarter production at Honeymoon, which is a credit to the team. Production was our highest ever quarter with 456,000 lbs of uranium produced. This was at a C1 cost of AUD 30 per pound and an all-in sustaining cost of AUD 49 per pound. Given the results of optimization, productivity, and cost reductions, we have revised our guidance downward for both C1 and all-in sustaining cost while maintaining our production guidance of 1.6 million lbs for FY 2026.

The company's financial position continues to strengthen in the quarter with cash of AUD 53 million and total cash and liquid assets of AUD 208 million as we continue to build inventory, which is now at 1.62 million lbs of uranium. Work has commenced on the new feasibility study, which defines a clear pathway forward to unlock significant value both to the Honeymoon Deposit but also to Gould's and Jason's. Before moving to Q&A, I'd also note that during the quarter, Wyatt Buck, our Chairman, has informed the board of his intentions to step down as chair. Upon appointment of the new chair, Wyatt will continue to apply his extensive uranium operational and technical expertise as a non-executive director on the board. I'm grateful to Wyatt, who has supported me and stepped into the CEO and MD role, and his wanting to continue to assist the company as a non-executive director.

With that, I'll hand back to Ashley, the operator, for questions and answers.

Operator

Thank you. If you wish to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. If you wish to cancel your request, please press star two. If you're on a speakerphone, please pick up the handset to ask your question. As a reminder, in the interest of time, participants are requested to limit the number of questions to two per turn, after which you may then rejoin the queue. Your first question today comes from Alistair Rankin with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Alistair Rankin
Associate VP of Equity Research, RBC Capital Markets

Good day, Matt and team. First question just on that legacy contract that you've called out. So you mentioned it's 65%-70% of the spot price is going to be the realized price for that.

Just wondering, is that implying that you're going to have part of that as fixed contract and you're estimating that it will be about 65%-70% of the prevailing spot price, or is it still a spot price mechanism and it's just at a lower percentage of the spot price? I'm just looking for a bit more color on how that pricing mechanism works.

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

Hey, Alistair, thanks for your question. It's Justin here. So the precise terms of that contract are commercially sensitive. It does have a couple of different tranches for that contract and has different pricing mechanisms for those tranches. Given that commercial sensitivity, what we have done is tried to simplify it for you with noting that it would be 65%-70% of the spot price at the time of delivery.

Alistair Rankin
Associate VP of Equity Research, RBC Capital Markets

Okay. Thanks, Justin. Appreciate that. Second question just about the outlook for quarterly production.

So you've flagged that it's going to be declining in the third quarter of FY 2026 and then lifting again in the fourth quarter with the connection of some additional well fields. So included in those well fields is the East Kalkaroo, I think, B6. That's your first well field coming in from East Kalkaroo. Can you just remind me, are you still anticipating those East Kalkaroo production levels to boost your production at the mine and sort of what are your expectations for production performance from the East Kalkaroo well fields?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. Okay, Alistair. So yeah, so we remind you my next quarter will be a little bit softer compared to the current quarter, but reminding ourselves that we'll finish the final actual year at 1.6 million lbs. B6 from Far East Kalkaroo will come into production at the back end of that quarter.

Production, it's not heavily weighted in terms of delivery of the 1.6 million lbs of that B6 production profile. B6 will provide production profile into FY 2027. One of the things we're also considering is just balancing between delivery of this new feasibility study and continuing to support sustaining capital into that future production profile. What we're wanting to do is make sure that we don't, if we can, we're deferring capital going into existing plan while we complete that new feasibility study.

Alistair Rankin
Associate VP of Equity Research, RBC Capital Markets

Okay. That's clear. That's my turn. Cheers.

Operator

Your next question comes from Henry Meyer with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Henry Meyer
Executive Director, Goldman Sachs

Morning, team. Thanks for the updates. Just hoping you can share a bit more detail on plans to test the new wellfield design. Any color on what areas are currently being developed with that strategy? How long could you need to test it and get confidence in effectiveness?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yep. Hey, Henry. So it's Matt. Yeah. So as I noted in the commentary, we've planned those test work patterns associated with wide spacing. They vary. So they actually vary in spacing and location. Initial programs have actually commenced in terms of establishing some of those test work patterns around the Honeymoon resource as we currently have defined it. So extension to that Honeymoon B1 to B5. Some of that spacing within that area varies. We're going up one of the patterns will be up to 100 m spacing. We also plan as part of the feasibility study to also test Far East Kalkaroo on a wide spacing. Wide spacing B6 becomes quite an important part too to this new feasibility study because it's also B6 is on that original plan of close spacing. So we're wanting to compare B6 production with wide spacing program production at the Far East Kalkaroo.

In terms of timeframe, that will all fit into that delivery of the new feasibility study due in Q3.

Henry Meyer
Executive Director, Goldman Sachs

Perfect. Thanks, Matt. And second one for me, any other detail you could share on recent drilling performance, I guess, over the last month since we got the updates late last year? Grade thickness sort of in line with the results being observed before or a bit of an improvement or perhaps not as good as the block model suggested?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. Good question. The results can generally confirm what we're expecting. We are seeing some opening up of mineralization to the south at Far East Kalkaroo. So we are opening up some exploration areas that will come up, hitting some high-grade mineralization outside of design. But holistically, continue to confirm what we're seeing, where we're seeing continuity of lower-grade mineralization with high-grade mineralization, but not necessarily as continuous as we previously thought.

Henry Meyer
Executive Director, Goldman Sachs

Got it. Okay. Thanks, Matt.

Operator

Your next question comes from Daniel Roden with Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Daniel Roden
Equity Research Associate, Jefferies

Hi guys. Thanks for taking my question. Just wanted to ask on, I guess, back to the contract that you've disclosed. And I just wanted to get some clarity on maybe some of the other contracts under your book and that you've got several that you've signed over the past few years. Are you in a position to be able to provide, I guess, a sensitivity on various price points that those various contracts and mechanisms might influence on your realized pricing? How should we think about that? And maybe something you can probably answer right now, but what volume of your production expectations for FY 2026 and 2027 are contracted?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. I'll jump in and then I'll hand across to Justin.

Ultimately, as a business, we'll try and provide as much transparency as we can. It's one of the things we are talking about is how do we continue to provide that transparency on those contracts and potentially look at doing that at some point as we work through the business. In terms of this contract, it represents about 15% of production at 1.6 million lbs. Still, what's important to note is a company we remain significantly uncontracted. Our contract book represents about 3 million lbs out to early 2030. So it doesn't change that position in terms of us being relatively uncontracted. What we tried to do in this is just provide a little bit of look-through on realized pricing that you'll probably see in Q3 and Q4 as a result of that legacy contract.

So still highly exposed to uranium price as we see uranium price tighten both through our contracting strategy and the inventory that we do hold. I don't know if you only—yeah. So yeah, Daniel, you want to start?

Daniel Roden
Equity Research Associate, Jefferies

Yep, yep. Yeah, sure. Yep, yep. So that 15% for FY 2026 in 2026, that's the only contract that is applicable for FY 2026? Is that 15% or the 250,000 lbs?

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

There are additional contracts that we will be delivering into in calendar year 2026. Those contracts have a mix of base escalated and market-related with floors and ceilings. For Q3 of this financial year, most of those pounds have already been executed in terms of a forward sale or delivery into this legacy contract from Q4 onwards of this financial year.

So then coming into Q1 and Q2 of the next financial year to complete calendar year 2026, we are mostly undercontracted for that period. If you were to look further ahead in terms of calendar year 2027 onwards, our current contract book would get you a realized price that's probably around mid-80s% to low 90% in terms of a correlation to the spot price at the time of delivery.

Daniel Roden
Equity Research Associate, Jefferies

Perfect. That's very helpful. Thank you. And just a last one from me. But you kind of—as you go through the process of building and designing wide space wellfield patterns, obviously, there's some lead time into that. And I noted B6 is going to be under the original, I guess, wellfield design and plan. At what point do you start needing to, I guess, allocate some of the capital changes and capital spend? I imagine it's FY 2027.

But I guess from my perspective, that would seem like it would be, I guess, front-running or pre the final study results release. So I guess, how do you think about deferring some of that CapEx? What's the amount of CapEx that, I guess, you would need to commit pre the final results of the study?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. So this is where we're working that balance while we're completing a new feasibility study and also having to ensure that we can sustain capital to provide that production profile going forward. Ultimately, from a market perspective, we'll be able to provide all that transparency with the new feasibility study to give an understanding of total capital and sustaining capital over that life with that study. Having said that, we are managing within what we're saying with our guidance, both on a sustaining and total capital for execution of these trial patterns.

So what you're seeing is we haven't changed sustaining and/or total capital projects only by that AUD 1 million and AUD 3 million, respectively. That includes the trial patterns that we're doing as part of the new feasibility study. So those patterns include uranium pounds, which we haven't yet allocated either to any production profile.

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

I'll just add to that. I'll just add to that as well. And so it is a balance, but there is a lot of wellfield capital that will still be relevant regardless of the wellfield design. So examples of that would be the well house, the pumps, some of the surface infrastructure pipes, cables. A lot of that would be relevant regardless of the spacing of the wellfield. And so we're continuing to invest in that type of wellfield infrastructure.

Where we are holding back a little bit is in terms of drilling production wells as that could materially change depending on the spacing of the well field.

Daniel Roden
Equity Research Associate, Jefferies

Yep. Yep. Got it. And so just a clarification, if I'm understanding it correctly, but I suppose the findings of the wide space drilling don't—they won't change the pre-committed capital spend for these studies and projects. And you're not going to have to go in and rework some of the infrastructure if the study and findings, I guess, outline something different. So there's not really going to be a change in, I guess, capital expenditure expectations from yourselves depending on the study outcomes.

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

Yeah. No, we don't expect any changes, Daniel. And the updated guidance that we've provided today reflects our latest view. And we don't expect any changes to that view for the financial year.

Daniel Roden
Equity Research Associate, Jefferies

Understood. Thanks, guys.

Operator

Your next question comes from Regan Burrows with Bell Potter. Please go ahead.

Regan Burrows
Equity Research Analyst, Bell Potter

Hi, Matt and Justin. Thanks for taking my questions. Just on commissioning of column 4, it looks like it's a little bit delayed there. Would have thought that you would have wanted to have that up and running as you saw the leach tenors coming off to sort of balance that production. So I guess, is there something that's intentional there or is there something else that sort of hiccups that?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. It is a little bit delayed in terms of that original schedule, but it's not really the key driver. The key driver actually is the flushing of B5, and that will increase flow. So although you see it as a delay here, one of the drivers to where we are probably is about a month on B5, relatively. Okay.

Regan Burrows
Equity Research Analyst, Bell Potter

So it's driven by the well fields rather than the B5s themselves.

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Correct. So it's all linked together.

Regan Burrows
Equity Research Analyst, Bell Potter

Yep. Okay. And then just on, obviously, the results from the wide space pattern from, I guess, the original call, you said it would take up to sort of 90 days to get some initial results coming through. Curious, I guess, you're still targeting sort of Q3 feasibility study timeframe to release those results from the wide space pattern. Are we going to get an update before then on whether or not this is successful?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. Regan, as we're trying to do, we'll provide as much transparency and inform the market as we get data. How we've designed the feasibility study is to ensure that happens by breaking it up into components. So yes, the answer is, yeah, we're happy to try and give as much clarity as we work through it.

Regan Burrows
Equity Research Analyst, Bell Potter

Okay. Great. And if I could just squeeze one in, any sort of driver why Alta Mesa performance drops so materially quarter-over-quarter?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. So you saw that drop in production. Again, timing on wellfields really becomes critical in these ISRs. And that's a reflection at Alta Mesa as well as they look at bringing in new additional wellfields and extending wellfields onto and prospectivity onto Alta Mesa ISR project.

Regan Burrows
Equity Research Analyst, Bell Potter

Okay. Great. I'll leave it there. Thank you for taking my questions.

Operator

Your next question comes from Milan Tomic with JP Morgan. Please go ahead.

Milan Tomic
Metals & Mining Associate, JPMorgan

Yeah. Hi guys. Thanks for the call. Just one from me. How should we be thinking about sales over the second half? Is it going to be broadly consistent with what we've seen in this quarter or, yeah, should we be expecting it to move higher?

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

I'll take that question.

So in terms of sales quantities, as we said, we will continue to see sales quantities roughly in line with production. In terms of realized price for quarter three, this financial year, we'll obviously have the 125,000 lbs of the legacy contract. And then the remainder of the Q3 sales were largely executed in the prior quarter. So they will be based on a forward sales price from the prior quarter. For Q4 in this financial year, we'll have 125,000 lbs of the legacy contract. Again, we'll be in that range of 65%-70% of the spot price. And then we're still yet to execute the forward sales for Q4 of this financial year. So that remains uncontracted.

Milan Tomic
Metals & Mining Associate, JPMorgan

Yeah. Just in terms of delivering sales into those legacy contracts, how should we be thinking about that?

I mean, you're kind of going to be looking to maximize those sales at 250,000 lbs per quarter or so, or would you be looking to kind of extend it out a little bit further?

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

The exact timing of the 250,000 lbs is out of our hands. That's based on the terms of the contract, the utility advises a delivery date, which is consistent with other utility contracts. And we would then deliver into that contract at the date advised by the utility.

Milan Tomic
Metals & Mining Associate, JPMorgan

Yep. Thanks. That's it from me.

Operator

Your next question comes from Branko Skocic with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Branko Skocic
Associate Director, Morgan Stanley

Yeah. Good morning, guys. Just on the topic of royalties, I just want to confirm if Honeymoon is now in a position that they're required to pay royalties moving forward. I guess my understanding was you weren't required to pay royalties across the first AUD 1.25 million.

I think you just clicked over that in terms of sales.

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. So we are in a position we are commencing to start to pay royalties, Branko. And we'll see that in this half.

Branko Skocic
Associate Director, Morgan Stanley

Thanks, sir. And the other question I had was just on the topic of fixed costs. I know you're not disclosing it anymore in your quarterlies, but it said about AUD 7 million per quarter in the second half of FY 2025. And just was wondering if that was kind of a sensible run rate to be assuming over the next 12 or so months.

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

Branko, yeah, we haven't disclosed the fixed cost. It's largely consistent with the fixed cost proportion is largely consistent with what we've previously disclosed, though.

Branko Skocic
Associate Director, Morgan Stanley

All right. Cool. Thanks, sir.

Operator

Your next question comes from James Bullen with CG. Please go ahead.

James Bullen
Equity Analyst, CG

Good morning, guys, and congrats on the results from the core area. Just a question around that legacy contract. So you're saying the counterparty is a utility there, but is there any chance that you could buy your way out of that contract at all?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

I think there's something that we'll probably look at whether we want to or not. Probably the ideal position would have been to do that earlier than we're at. But ultimately, it becomes a small part of the production profile as we go forward too.

James Bullen
Equity Analyst, CG

Great. And I guess, apologies if I've missed it, but this is the first time that this has been disclosed. Have you now gone through and checked pretty much everything? And is there any other artifacts here which could come back and bite you?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

I feel comfortable that from a sales and contracting perspective, it's all there.

Like I said previously, we'll try and provide a little bit more transparency. We can try and provide a little bit more transparency on some of that. We talked about that and when the right catalyst and the time going forward is. But I mean, it's a three-year contracting position, 3 million lbs, sold through to 2030. Again, relatively deleveraged from contracting.

James Bullen
Equity Analyst, CG

Yeah. Understood. Thank you. And just around the PLS, the tenor, you're telling us not to extrapolate that because it is performing better than the previous feasibility study. Do you have any guidance around the profile it's going to have from the core area? How will it trend downwards?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Yeah. So we do. We haven't disclosed that, but PLS head grade will come down as we see some of the life of those wellfields continuing to drop.

And then with B5 coming back online, PLS tenor will jump again. And it's all got to do with that sequencing of well fields with the tenor. Having B5 come in line enables us to continue to increase flow. And that's with column four also coming back into production profile.

James Bullen
Equity Analyst, CG

Understood. Thank you, Matt. That was all.

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

No problem, James.

Operator

Your next question comes from Glyn Lawcock with Barrenjoey. Please go ahead.

Glyn Lawcock
Head of Resources Research, Barrenjoey

Morning, Matt. Sorry. I just wanted to clarify the legacy contract again. So it's the maximum of 250,000 lbs each delivery year. Is that a calendar year? I mean, obviously, you said it's at the discretion of the utility. So does that mean there's nothing then in the first half of fiscal 2027?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

It's calendar year, correct. So it's calendar year, 250,000 lbs per year up to a maximum of 1.7 million lbs capped.

Discretion to the utility on when in that calendar year.

Glyn Lawcock
Head of Resources Research, Barrenjoey

Yeah. So there'll be no deliveries in the first half of fiscal 2027 then as a result.

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Correct.

Glyn Lawcock
Head of Resources Research, Barrenjoey

And then just the second one, another way just to think about the dollar spend, because I know looking at your waterfall quarter-on-quarter, Honeymoon costs are up 30% from sort of AUD 12.4 million spend in Q1 to just over AUD 16 million. You've got more well fields coming on, more columns coming online to obviously lift production as well. Where do you feel that dollar spend caps out at? I mean, I know you've got well field design coming as well, which can change it, but are we still going to see increasing dollar spend quarter-on-quarter, you think, into the second half?

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

You're seeing that increase because ultimately, production profile is also increasing quarter-over-quarter from a total dollar perspective. Once production profiles level, then that dollar spend would also level approximately. The only variance then would be head grade.

Glyn Lawcock
Head of Resources Research, Barrenjoey

All right. So if you take the first half total dollar spend and first half production, you're sort of sitting at the top end of your guidance range, I guess. But you look for more production in the back half.

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

Yeah. I mean, Glyn, for the operating costs in there, some working capital movement. So probably the primary driver or difference between that and the C1 cost, we purchased some resin during the quarter. That will be amortized over quite a few years. We do have some capital accruals that you wouldn't have seen in the difference between our CapEx spend for the half compared to the cash flow waterfall.

And we expect that CapEx accrual to unwind from a cash perspective over the next two quarters. And then other than that, kind of those kind of working capital overhangs from the current quarter, we've given you the cash costs and CapEx for the remainder of the half. So that's your best indication in terms of CapEx or, sorry, cash spend for the remainder of the half as well.

Glyn Lawcock
Head of Resources Research, Barrenjoey

Okay. So the cost of production will sort of start to match the cash, you think, as opposed to there's sort of the inventory movements, accruals, etc.?

Justin Laird
CFO, Boss Energy

Yeah. That's right.

Glyn Lawcock
Head of Resources Research, Barrenjoey

Okay. Thanks very much.

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Thanks.

Operator

There are no further questions at this time. I'll now hand back to Mr. Dusci for closing remarks.

Matt Dusci
Managing Director and CEO, Boss Energy

Thank you, everyone, for joining the call this morning. As noted on the call, it's been a record quarter, record production, and below guidance cost.

As a result, we've downward decreased our cost guidance for C1 and all-in sustaining cost. We're also very clear about the pathway forward on how we drive value for both Honeymoon and satellite deposits, which is the delivery of this new feasibility study. With that, I thank everyone for joining the call. Thank you, Ashley.

Operator

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