I would now like to hand the conference over to Brendan Harris, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Please go ahead.
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our financial results for the half year. As always, our executive team is here with me today, and I'll pass to Megan very shortly to walk you through the all-important numbers. But before we start, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we stand, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation, as well as the First Nations peoples of the lands on which we conduct our business. We pay our respects to their elders and leaders, past, present, and emerging. Starting with safety. We finished the period with a group TRIF of 1.3, down from 1.7 at the end of FY 2025.
While this outcome moves us a step closer to our goal of having a workplace that is free from injury, the number of high potential incidents in our business remains a concern and highlights the importance of the work we're doing to further strengthen our internal system of risk management and control. Of course, from a cultural perspective, the regular reporting of these incidents is an important indication that our efforts to build an inclusive environment where every employee and contractor feels safe to stop work and speak up is starting to take hold. More broadly, our two high-margin mining operations in Spain and Botswana really proved their worth in the period as the copper market firmed and their valuable byproducts of zinc, lead and silver further enhanced their competitive cost position. It was by no means our best half operationally.
While MATSA started the year well, building further operational resilience and consistency, it's been somewhat more challenging, as you know, at Motheo, where we brought forward planned maintenance and were impacted by a temporary drop-off in mobile fleet availability to finish the half at a collective 46% of annual production guidance, having delivered 48.6 thousand tonnes of copper, 49 thousand tonnes of zinc, 3.5 thousand tonnes of lead, and 2.4 million ounces of silver, for copper equivalent output of 72.1 thousand tonnes. But of course, that's only part of the story. We've always said we want to be judged on our ability to deliver on all aspects of the mining value equation, and in this regard, we've done well to control costs across an extended period that has been characterized by broad-based, industry-wide inflationary pressure.
Our track record remains intact, as we've retained annual guidance for underlying operating unit costs, production and capital expenditure at both MATSA and Motheo. Quite simply, our focus on the basics and fiscal discipline is keeping our house in order. I'll leave our broader financial highlights and achievements for Megan to summarize, which should also help you gain an even better understanding of our approach to capital management. But before I pass over to Megan, I'd like to formally introduce the formidable partnership we have formed with Havilah Resources to advance the Kalkaroo copper-gold project and establish an exploration strategic alliance across the highly prospective Curnamona Province in South Australia.
Under the terms of these agreements, we now have an exclusive right to earn an 80% controlling interest in what we believe to be one of the best copper and gold greenfield development opportunities in Australia, that has the potential to become a large scale, long life operation, ideally located in a preferred jurisdiction. Kalkaroo is an exciting opportunity for our shareholders that firmly reestablishes our exploration and development footprint in Australia. We expect to commence an extensive infill and extension drilling program at Kalkaroo once we have established camp facilities and received the required approvals, which are expected in the June quarter, if not sooner.
Make no mistake, we plan to move prudently but quickly to test the full extent of the Kalkaroo copper and gold deposit and establish the value-maximizing pathway for its development. In this regard, we are uniquely positioned. We have the balance sheet, we have the technical teams, and we have a proven and match fit projects team that only recently completed the successful construction and commissioning of Motheo. With that, I'll hand over to Megan.
Thank you, Brendan, and good morning to everyone on the call. I'm pleased to present our financial results for the first half of FY 2026. As Brendan touched on, we have delivered 72,100 tonnes of copper equivalent production for the six months to 31 December 2025. This performance, coupled with healthy pricing for our key commodities, delivered revenue of AUD 672 million, a record for a six-month period, which would have been some AUD 23 million higher, if not for the impact of the hedging program associated with the MATSA acquisition, which was fully executed by the end of the period, leaving all future sales fully unhedged and giving the group a pure exposure to commodity prices.
The combination of record revenue and good cost control delivered underlying EBITDA of $304 million, and an underlying profit of $107 million, which has more than doubled since the last half, for a statutory profit of $96 million. Digging deeper, at Motheo, despite the somewhat challenging start to the year, we delivered a robust set of financial results, with underlying operation EBITDA largely unchanged at $161 million, for a still healthy operating margin of 57%. As strong commodity prices mitigated the impact of lower than expected production. Motheo delivered an operating unit cost of $43 per tonne, marginally below our annual guidance of $44 per tonne, impacted by mining contractor and labor costs, and the previously advised 50% increase in power tariff.
At MATSA, underlying operations EBITDA increased by 37% to $184 million at a 47% margin, primarily driven by higher commodity prices and lower TCRC, which more than offset a 15% increase in underlying operating costs that were impacted by recent strength in the euro to US dollar exchange rate. An increase in costs associated with recovery improvement initiatives, and a release of working capital as ROM stocks were consumed for an operating unit cost of $87 per tonne, which is broadly in line with FY 2026 guidance. Below the line, our D&A expense of $144 million included $113 million at MATSA and $30 million at Motheo, which decreased by 6% in comparison to the prior corresponding period, primarily as a result of lower mining rates.
We expect our D&A expense to rise in the second half to reflect the planned increase in throughput at both MATSA and Motheo. Our overall underlying net finance expense of $11.4 million decreased by 58% compared to the prior half, as the group experienced a significant 16.2 million dollar reduction in net interest and facility fee expenses to $9.3 million in the half, reflecting the injection of $301 million into our balance sheet across the prior twelve-month period and the lower margin that our corporate revolver facility provides.
The rise in the group's profitability led to an increase in our underlying income tax expense to $42 million, for an underlying effective tax rate of 28%, which continues to be impacted by the limited ability to recognize benefits associated with tax losses in Australia and the USA. On the topic of tax, subsequent to the period end, we paid our inaugural tax installment for Motheo of $11.6 million, following the utilization of carry forward tax losses, a reflection of the operation's strong cash generation and buoyant commodity market. Looking ahead to the second half of FY 2026, we expect cash payments to step up, trending toward our effective tax rate in future years.
Total capital expenditure across the group increased by 14% from the prior half to $112 million, as the strength of the euro and commencement of activity to construct our new tailings storage facility at MATSA, an incremental investment to support the optimized 5.6 million tonne per annum throughput rate and ongoing A1 drilling and PFS costs at Motheo, saw an uplift in our level of investment. The group's balance sheet has been fundamentally transformed. Strong operational performance, buoyant commodity markets, have delivered $489 million into our balance sheet over the past two years.
This is a significant leap forward for the group's financial position when you consider that our balance sheet had peak net debt of $481 million just 21 months ago, and we are now sitting on a net cash position of $13 million. In accordance with our capital management framework, excess capital will be deployed in a manner that maximizes TSR and our per share metrics. In simple terms, this means that any discretionary investment alternatives will need to compete with shareholder dividends and share buybacks.
The agreement that was struck with Havilah Resources is a good example of this framework in practice and has seen an initial AUD 31.5 million cash payment to Havilah subsequent to period end as part of the stage one payment, and a further AUD 15 million cash payment has also been made subsequent to period end to fund exploration in the Curnamona Province, in the Curnamona Province. These additional commitments were an important consideration for the board when contemplating the recommencement of shareholder dividends, while balancing preservation of the group's strong financial position, ensuring that any distribution doesn't move the group away from its targeted net cash position. With this in mind, no dividend has been declared in respect of half one FY 2026.
As Brendan touched on, we've retained annual guidance for underlying unit costs, production, and capital expenditure at both MATSA and Motheo. However, we've incrementally increased group capital expenditure guidance by AUD 10 million to AUD 240 million to capture the planned ramp-up of activity at Kalkaroo, and guidance for exploration and evaluation expenditure by AUD 5 million to AUD 51 million, to reflect both the planned commencement of regional exploration in the Curnamona Province and additional activities to keep the Black Butte project moving forward following completion of the PFS in December.
Turning to future concentrate sales, our recent tender for Motheo concentrate was well received by the market, and we secured approximately 75% of calendar year 2026 and calendar year 2027 sales with a select number of customers at TCRC terms, which reflect the prevailing market. The high number of participants and competitiveness of the bids reflect the tightness in the concentrate market and the quality of the Motheo concentrate. We expect these positive outcomes to benefit our C1 Unit Costs in half two. Our strong financial position and growing profitability continues to give us confidence for the future, and we will remain financially disciplined. With that, I'll hand back to Brendan.
Thanks, Megan. Look, as you rightly said, we're in a strong position, and we're not taking our foot off the accelerator. With a lot of hard work needed to ensure we make good on the commitments we've made for the remainder of the year. Can I stress that we expect volumes in the second half to be weighted toward the fourth quarter, like last year, with a circa 47-53 production skew? I'll say that again, 47-53 production skew across the first half, third quarter and fourth quarter, as access to higher grade ore at both MATSA and Motheo is progressively established across the period. Turning to exploration, evaluation, and development. We remain on track to declare a maiden reserve at A1 in the fourth quarter.
While the initial infill and extension drilling program produced modest results, as I mentioned on our recent quarterly call, we have commenced the second phase of drilling to test for further continuity of mineralization at depth, which is shaping up as an important driver of the economics. We also expect construction of a dedicated 21-megawatt solar facility to commence in the coming months at Motheo, which will provide up to 33% of the operation's stationary power requirements from midway through FY 2027. Importantly, construction of this solar array is underpinned by sound economics, a robust risk assessment, and our commitment to decarbonize. Separately, we expect to complete the review of our 87% shareholding in Sandfire America, which, as you know, owns 100% of the fully permitted Black Butte Copper Project before we report our results in August.
The recent release of the pre-feasibility study outcomes for Johnny Lee and mineral resource estimate for Lowry confirmed the economic case for the project's development, and our review is primarily considering the materiality of the project and feasibility study outcomes within the context of the growth we've achieved in the 11 years since our initial investment was made. So, as I said, we've got our foot down, and we're building momentum across all four pillars of our strategy. We have the right team. We're producing the metals the world needs to electrify. Our global portfolio is becoming increasingly cost competitive. We have the right balance sheet for the times, and we're now very selectively deploying capital to opportunities that have a favorable risk-reward equation and the potential to generate an excess return for our shareholders. Thank you, and with that, let's go to questions.
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Hi, Brendan and Team. So on your remarks, Brendan, you mentioned just a skew for the second half of production. Can I just clarify, I think you said 47%-53% split from Q3 and Q4. Is that both assets, and also at MATSA, in the mine sequences, you know, is there a copper dominance or a zinc dominance, you know, obviously, you can have a lot of movement around the ore sources?
Yeah. Yeah, look, good question. So look, let me deal with the first part, and I know Jason's eager to talk about MATSA and, and obviously the nature of that, the polymetallics there. So when I talk about that split, I think, Dan, you know, as you work through your numbers, you, you'll see very quickly that MATSA is much more balanced across the third and fourth quarter to make those numbers work. It's probably somewhere in the order of 48-52, 49-51. It'll be in that order, and then obviously the differential is Motheo.
Motheo naturally has a more significant skew because as we open up the A4 ore body, we really get access into that high-grade ore, and because of the fleet availability, discussion we had, of course, at the quarterly call, you'll be mindful that we progressively start to release more high-grade ore from the T3 pit as well. So hopefully, that gives you a sense as to how that, that should play out. It's not a perfect science, but we're just trying to give you a bit of a sense of how that balance will work across the quarter. And maybe, Jason, if you can go to MATSA in terms of the polymetallics.
So if we look at Dan, the split between copper-only ore and also poly ore for the year, we'd originally planned around about one million tons of the 4.6 being copper-only ore. If you look at it, half to date, we're sitting around about 550,000 of copper ore mined. So largely that proportion that we've seen in half one will be maintained through to half two. But if you look at appendix A from the quarterly there as well, it'll give you an indication there around our guided grades for the year, and particularly for Q2, we expect to see copper-only ore probably increase slightly in terms of copper grade and overall, probably a slight increase in zinc grade going into the second half as well.
Yeah, maybe just to round that out and turning back to Motheo, and Jason, feel free to add. If you think about it, Dan, remember we brought forward maintenance because of the issues we had in the SAG mill. That was planned for the second half. So not only do we expect to see some of the best grades coming out of Motheo in that fourth quarter, particularly with T3 and A4 providing a benefit, but we are expecting a higher throughput rate in that period as well, which will obviously, by definition, be above the average of the year of 5.6. So, again, the last thing I would add, as you know, pretty typical in most processing plants, as we push higher grade material in, we'll get higher recoveries. So, all of those things we anticipate are working for us and really provide that kicker in the back end.
Thank you, Brendan. It would be remiss of me this week to not mention silver. BHP obviously has done a big silver stream. Just wanted to, you know, hear your perspectives on your silver revenue, you know, highlighting it and, you know, how can you maximize the value of it for shareholders?
Thanks, Dan. We did anticipate we might get a question or two about silver. Topical at the moment for all sorts of very good reasons. Look, I guess the first thing I'd say is I'm certainly not gonna comment on BHP and what they've done and the reason they're in. But I would just make a general observation that a large diversified mining company is very different from a mid-tier emerging global copper producer with primarily two high-quality operations, high-margin operations, and one development, you know, option beyond Black Butte, being Kalkaroo, that we're going to accelerate with regards to activity on the ground to hopefully move us towards the confidence in time to develop and make an investment decision.
I've said many times that I believe in the space that we operate, our job is to be effective risk managers. And I think it's really important, therefore, this concept that I've talked about, about suppressing beta. Our job is to suppress beta, reduce risk, reduce volatility, be safe, consistent, and predictable with a fundamentally simple strategy. And I think ultimately, that's what delivers a rating. Now, obviously, you know, we keep all things on the table and I think one's got to be careful, you know, ruling things out in perpetuity. But primarily, what that means in this regard is that a stream for us would increase beta. It would increase the underlying cost structure of our assets. It would make us more vulnerable through the cycle, and ultimately, should lead to a higher cost of capital.
Now, of course, you can realize capital upfront for that. The question is then what you do with that, but you've got to be very careful in the context of knowing you have effectively a liability, but you also have much less resilience to commodity price and macroeconomic volatility. So look, we still stand by the premise that we want to give our investors largely pure exposure to the commodities that we produce. We think that's why they own us. We want to very much do everything we can in a world which is, you know, has the typical levels of volatility. Our operations have the typical complexity that exists in mining, that we do everything we can to enhance our cost position, our byproducts play into that.
They're a core difference, and point of difference with respect to a number of the large Andean producers, which, you know, are not blessed with byproducts. Typically, some have some moly, some might have a little bit of gold, but not a lot of byproducts. And it's the silver, and in Mat's case, the additional lead and zinc that really keeps those assets well positioned on the cost curve, and we think that'll serve us best across time, and we think it'll certainly help us with our ultimate rating, that the market ascribes over time.
Okay. Thank you, Brendan, for your perspectives.
Thank you. The next question comes from Ben Lyons, from Jarden Securities Limited. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Good morning, Brendan, Megan, and team. Firstly, just a couple of clarification questions up front, please. Brendan, your comments around the solar facility at Motheo assume that's being done off Sandfire's balance sheet with a PPA in place, but maybe you can just confirm that firstly, please.
Yeah, it's effectively a third-party lease agreement. And the way it works in the current sort of energy price environment, it really leads to no meaningful impact on our PNL relative to the current status quo with regards to how power prices, et cetera, feed through. What I would say, though, is we think it's not only something that's the right thing to do, also, aligned with our commitment to decarbonize, but it actually plays an important part in mitigating risk against further power tariff hike, but also, any grid instability.
Awesome. Thank you. And secondly, Megan, just taking into account your comments around the Motheo concentrate offtake, and I think you said approximately 75% of calendar 2026 and 2027 sales have been locked away at TCRC terms, which reflect prevailing market conditions. Could you possibly just elaborate on what you're seeing, with regards to prevailing market conditions at present, please?
Hi, Ben. Thank you for that question, and you heard that correctly. We've locked in approximately 75% of our concentrate sales for calendar year 2026 and 2027, and we do refer to, you know, having secured prevailing market conditions. As you'd be aware, market pricing has been TCRCs in that negative territory in recent months, you know, ranging from sort of -50s upwards to -100. And so it's reasonable to assume, within that range is thereabout where we've landed for calendar year 2026. Calendar year 2027 is a little bit more kind of intricate, if you like. It's a combination of the market pricing that we've seen in recent months, but then there's also links to benchmark.
I think for calendar year 2027, a more conservative approach is probably the best way to think about modeling that TCR benefit beyond calendar year 2026.
Great. Thank you very much for the clarification. Looking forward with the final question, just on slide 27, great to see some of your plans coming to fruition so early for the Kalkaroo opportunity. And I can see you've got in place there a number of proposed drill collars. I guess maybe the first question on that schematic would be just the interplay between the couple of mine, the granted mining leases there, and then there's an MPL, which I think might stand for Multi-Purpose Lease down in the southwest quadrant, and how those drill collars align with historical drilling. But basically just trying to get a sense for how much confirmation drilling is planned versus extension and infill, going forward. Thank you.
Yeah. So look, thanks, and I'll take that up front, and then Jason, obviously Ian Kerr, you know, the mastermind behind obviously the construction and development of Motheo is, you know, he's basically been moved across onto this permanently now. That's what, you know, when I referred to a match fit team, we're quite blessed to have that, that capability. It's not just Ian, it's his broader team and all the support around him. If you look at that schematic, a couple of things to note. You, you'll notice that the gray is in effect, the, the saprolite gold resource and the sulfide mineral resource. You can see a large part of that drilling, Ben, is really to test depth extents. So this ore body remains open at depth and along strike in multiple directions, primarily the southwestern edge.
Beyond that boundary, you know, obviously, we've got plans to initially test it, but it appears to us that there's at least up to of open strike. It's currently defined over about three kilometers. So what you'll note is that primary objective initially is to really get out there and understand what the true scale of this ore body is. You know, and test, I guess, our underlying assumption that this ore body has the potential to grow substantially and support a very large scale operation. Low cost, large scale mining fleet, high productivity, ideally located next to already installed infrastructure, highways, rail, available renewable energy in the area, et cetera, et cetera. So that's really the plan. So most of it is really step out.
Now, of course, over time, if we get the results that we would expect to see, then in time we will also look to increase drill density and move more. So, you know, we would think a minimum 50-meter type spacing, and that's currently at around about a 100-meter centers on average. So over time, that will also evolve. But, you know, again, largely a plan initially to really test our thesis of the scale of opportunity that exists here.
Now, I would just say that we're also through due diligence, we've been lucky enough to look at some of the work that other third parties did to go and, I guess, assess some of the historical data, you know, for want of a better term, twinning drill holes, and they actually saw high correlation and replication of original results. And that's led us to believe the most important thing is to get out and understand the ore body and do new work, rather than start off trying to replicate results that seem to us to have, you know, been to some extent or seems to have already been done. So Jason, maybe just test-
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I think you've covered it really well. The only thing I might add there, Ben, is Havilah have drilled and prior involved parties as well have drilled a lot of RC drilling with some diamond drilling. We've also done a lot of work on looking at, is there an inherent potential bias there between the different drilling techniques? And at this stage, we believe that RC is a good representation of the known ore body as we stand at the moment. So as part of our drilling program, we will be doing a mix of RC and diamond drilling. So obviously with diamond, collecting very good structural, lithological, like metallurgical data, and then RC being able to step out very quickly and rapidly assess the size and scope and the detail of this deposit as well.
Ben, maybe just to round that out, and this won't be lost on you, but just maybe for the benefit of others, that this is a sedimentary copper deposit. You know, it's highly metamorphosed and cooked. As we've said before, the mineralized zone, the main sort of prize is it looks like a chair, it's cooked that much. But the key point being is that we have no indication of any discontinuity of this sedimentary layer.
That's what we need to test, and that's what that, particularly that drilling as we move out towards the southwest, is designed to do, because that's, again, a big part of the prize for us. It's an ideally dipping point of a portion of the stratigraphy. It's what lends itself to a low strip ratio, and as we mentioned, it also lends itself, we believe, to large scale bulk mining equipment, which will bring with it significant benefits from a productivity and efficiency point of view.
Well, that's very helpful. Thank you, Jason and Brendan. Just the final part was just the relevance of that MPL versus the MLs, and then I'll hand it on. Thank you.
Yeah, look, so a number of these things are a function of the past. There are different configurations that have been considered in terms of where specific infrastructure might be placed, things like workshops, camp facilities, tailings dams, and so on and so forth. As we work through the entirety of this project, I think a lot of those things will evolve. Indeed, we anticipate, along with Havilah, that in time we will seek to add to the call it the acreage that the MLs actually cover and or have additional MPLs, because it's likely, as you know, we hope that the opportunity grows in scale, that we will actually need to look at alternative areas for some of the infrastructure that I've mentioned.
There are also off this map, there are borrow pits and things where there are applications in already, such that we can get access to aggregate and other forms for building and construction and so on. So yeah, they look, we look forward to, at some point in the not-too-distant future, once we've got a meaningful presence up there, you know, providing an opportunity for analysts and investors to go up and get a feel for the ground and obviously how we think things will evolve over time.
Thank you once again. To ask a question, please press star one on your phone. The next question comes from Adam Baker, from Macquarie. Please go ahead.
Oh, hi, Brendan. I was just wondering if you could make a quick comment. Just looking at some of the news snippets in February, it appears Spain had a pretty wet month. Just wondering if there's been any impact to MATSA throughout this period.
Yeah, it's unfortunate, isn't it? It's something we see time and time again. These major weather-related events are becoming more common, and I guess in some ways people would say are consistent with a lot of the modeling that was undertaken many, many, many years ago, particularly in the middle latitudes, of higher frequency and intensity of these storm events. Jason, I just think
Yeah. Firstly, Adam, if we look at it, there's been thousands of people quite heavily impacted by these very heavy rains. And while it wasn't as dramatic as the October 2024 rains that we saw last winter, this one is more of a cumulative impact of heavy rains across multiple seasons. So what we've seen, particularly in the southern Spain area around Andalusia, a lot of the water storage facilities in that region have built up in the previous winter and not really been drawn down. Now, what we've seen is then heavy rains come in. We've got a lot of those water storage facilities where they're overflowing straight away, and what we've seen as a result of that is very heavy impacts to communities down close to the coast.
So Huelva itself has had thousands of people impacted, and a number of our people and their families are obviously impacted by that, given that we draw people as employees and stakeholders for our site at MATSA from that region as well. Now, stepping back towards the mine itself, our MATSA team have managed this event really well. Last year, in between the two winter rainy seasons, we invested in the construction of a south tailing or a water storage dam, which set us up really well for water management during this period, and the team have managed that very, very well. If you look at it, overall impact to operations, you know, we've made sure that we've utilized those new facilities well. The only real impact that it has had to us is that we've
Once again, what we see when our ROM area gets very, very wet, the ore gets saturated, and it impacts our crushing and our ability to put the ore up the conveyors during that time and get it through the mill. So we've suffered a reduction in throughput rate in the first half of February, but we're recovering well from that at the moment, and we don't expect that there's any material impact for the full year from MATSA.
Yeah, I think the way I put that timing difference, it's more of a frustration, but given the way that the mine's configured or the processing facility, as Jason said, we don't expect that to be a permanent impact. But I think the bigger issue is just for our people, and that creates some level of stress, you know, in any organization and any region. Good question, though, Adam. Thank you.
Thanks for that one. Just following up on Kalkaroo, maybe slide 28. You know, clearly quite a large array of tenements here, but it's 9,000 sq m . Just wondering, looks like you've done, or looks like Havilah has done quite a bit of work with regards to the geophys perspective, and you've kind of got walk-up targets to put drill holes into. Can you just make a quick comment on, you know, what you're seeing outside of the main Kalkaroo deposit, you know, with regards to mineralization and deposit formation? And is there anything in particular you're looking for, or should we just assume this is a regional kind of exploration target?
I'll say something slightly facetious to start with. As an old exploration geologist, we all know that sometimes the worst thing you can do is put a hole into something. It's the best way to turn something from a target, you know, to nothing. But look, the reality is this, this opportunity, you know, it's clearly anchored by Kalkaroo. Now, we don't say lightly that we think it's the best undeveloped copper gold opportunity in the country. Now, that's our view. Not to be tested, others to judge, that's our view. It's what we're doing, what we're doing. We've structured a deal in a way that we think really puts the risk-reward in our shareholders' favor. It mitigates risk, provides a lot of opportunity.
But it is absolutely right to say that the broader tenement package and the prospectivity of the Curnamona province has also played significantly into our thinking. If you think about our strategy and you step right back, what do we like about our business? It's that we not only have MATSA. It's that we have a basin opportunity in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, where we have a significant landholding. We like the Kalahari, not only because we have Motheo and modern processing hub, but we have a very large land holding, just under 10,000 square kilometers or soon to be. That provides an enormous opportunity for future discoveries. What we like about Kalkaroo and the Curnamona, one, Havilah has got the most experience in the basin. You know, what they don't know about the Curnamona really is not worth knowing.
They have the large land package. It gives us that basin opportunity, and as you said, they've done a lot of work over a long period of time, and there are walk-up targets. Now, again, you know, drilling those targets, time will tell. There's a little bit like what we see in the Kalahari. You're looking for a lot of these sedimentary-type deposits, which means you will find a lot of copper. What you're trying to find is aggregations of high-grade copper with continuity. We think that there are some very, very attractive targets, and, and time will tell. But, but we think this is gonna be AUD 30 million over two years of money well spent.
Thank you. I'll hand it on.
Thank you. At this time, we're showing no further questions. I'll hand the conference back to Brendan for any closing remarks.
Look, I know I say it a lot, but it's a very busy day. We see how many companies have reported this morning. We do appreciate the effort you go to, to understand our company and help others, and, of course, we really appreciate everyone who's dialed in today. You know, we are, as I've said, keeping our foot to the floor. We've got a big second half in front of us. We want to be held to account. We are committed to delivering on our guidance, and we look forward to speaking with you again in April, if not before, at either BMO in Miami or on our roadshow as we move around the country. But thank you again, and have a great day.