Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Agnico-Eagle Q3 results webcast conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be provided at that time for you to queue up for questions. (Operator Instructions). I would like to remind everyone that this conference call is being recorded today, Thursday, October 28th, 2010 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. I’ll now turn the conference over to Sean Boyd. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. We have our full team here in Toronto and prepared to answer your questions. What I’d like to do is go through some slides, some of them we’ll go through quite quickly. But I think we would characterize this quarter as continued improvement in our production. We saw a decline in our cash costs from the previous quarter, but there is still some work to do at a couple of the mines. But I think more importantly for us, we’re starting to see the cash flow generation ability now that we have six mines up and running. So I think we look at that as an important driver for us as we look for continued expansion and output in the coming years using that cash flow to expand output, but also to increase the dividend. And we’ve been asked after our announcement yesterday about dividends. And, if you recall, we paid 28 consecutive annual dividends. We decide on those dividends towards the end of the year, so we’ve kept the same schedule. So we will be announcing that mid December when we put out our five-year plan. In terms of the financial results, just moving through the slides, I think the biggest difference was Q3 to Q2 comparison, where we produced 28,000 more ounces or about 11% increase in production, and our cost went down about 10% or $46 per ounce. We saw a dramatic improvement year-over-year from last year to this year due to the production coming from the new mines that were commissioned in the last year. The key for us as we mentioned was the cash flow generation before working capital changes in the quarter of a $171 million. That’s a record. It beat the Q2 record of a $139…

Ladies and gentlemen, we will now conduct the question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions). Your first question today comes from Michael Curran with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Good morning, guys. I just had a question on unit costs at Kittila. It looks like you've resolved the recovery issues so I think you have the process sorted out. So of the EUR58 per ton operating costs, what percentage of that would be from the plant, the milling? Is it half, is it more than half?

Ebe here. The milling cost would be about 35%.

Okay, great.

That includes mill services and milling, both together.

Right. And then just a quick one on Lapa, can you give us a sense of the dilution improvement, the cost coming down there, what are you seeing in the way of the percentage dilution these days?

The average dilution for the year so far has been 53 and we planned 50, so that’s down significantly from the over 60 we had last year at this time.

Great, thanks a lot.

Your next question comes from John Flanagan with Fundamental Equities. Please go ahead.

Sean, I think you're on US GAAP, is that correct?

Yes.

Is it possible that you will follow others in your industry and shift over to the new international GAAP? And if so, what impact might that have?

I’ll turn it over to our CFO. The plan was to stay on US GAAP and not go onto IFRS. It has some accounting implications. But I’ll turn it over to Ammar Al-Joundi, our CFO.

Hi John.

Hi.

Right now, we are US GAAP. Obviously there is a discussion of convergence in the future and we will follow that. But right now we’re under US GAAP. The fact that we’re under US GAAP makes our costs frankly look higher than they would under IFRS, largely because of the stripping. We take all of the stripping against as an expense rather than being capitalized. That impact for us right now in the neighborhood of $15 an ounce.

Thanks a lot.

Your next question comes from David Haughton with BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Yes, good morning, and thank you. Sean, you had mentioned during the question time you talked to the Pinos Altos cost, a couple of one off weird things there, so perhaps this is the opportunity to run through some of your thoughts and whether these are really one off or can we expect to see them in future years?

Perfect. I’ll turn it over to Ebe.

Good morning, David.

Hi.

Several of these adjustments are one off. One, the stockpile adjustment; we lowered the stockpile inventory, that’s the first thing, by about a 100,000 tons. And then the material that we did place on the stockpile was lower grade as well. So we’ve reduced the value and took a charge for the reduced value of the stockpile. So this would be a one-time charge. As far as the bonus that we paid in all of our other operations, that was accrued across the 12 – over the 12 months, whereas at Pinos Altos they took a one-time charge end of this quarter, so that won’t happen again. Also what we have done is we’ve moved more material, waste material. With respect to prestripping over this quarter, it’s accelerated. We are actually ahead of plan, so that has been also expensed, but on a life of mine basis we should see those cost come down in the subsequent years. So those are the three main items that occurred. The other outstanding issue would be increased maintenance still on our filters on the back end of the mill. But now with spare – two additional spare filters, we expect that to come down significantly as well. So these were some of the issues that we faced in the third quarter at Pinos Altos.

All right. And also there you had made reference to transition to some underground mining.

Yes.

I was wondering what kind of ramp-up should we anticipate there?

Well, we were – I would say over the next couple of months we should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 tons per day. We have already had several base where we were able to mine or produce 300,000 tons a day from underground. Presently we are still in an area where there are more artisanal workings than what we had expected on our survey plans and so the odd time we get thrown a curve and we delay a mining block because we have to fill – backfill these artisanal workings. But we've gained control of that, our development is ahead of plan. The stopes are developed so we foresee an excellent ramp-up by the beginning of the first quarter of next year we should be in the 2,000 ton to 3,000 ton per day range.

And are you seeing similar grades there to the open pit?

No. The grade will be significantly higher in gold and silver. The reason our grade is down in the open pittable material is not because of Santo Nino but because of the upper part of Oberon to Weber which is lower grade than in our block model.

Similar questions for Kittila with regards to underground there just starting in the current quarter, what's your ramp-up and grade expectations going forward?

Well, we’re actually processing underground or as we speak Kittila ramp-up will be slower than Pinos Altos. We still have the pace backfill plan to put in, so we’re backfilling it with cemented rock fill, but we expect to have about 30% to 40% of our ore next year from Kittila underground.

And to get that kind of level, are you anticipating similar grades at the underground to the open pit or would you have better grades? What kind of split should we be thinking about?

The grades will be similar. There is not a variation vertically as there is at Pinos Altos. We saw that in our block model from the open pit to underground. The underground grades will be similar in the 5 gram, 5.5 gram per ton range.

And that means then we should be looking at something like 300,000 tons to 400,000 tons for the year from the underground?

Yes, to start, and then within about two years, it will be totally underground.

Okay. Just looking at the balance sheet – at the P&L now, the exploration expense was a little bit higher than what we've seen in previous periods as far as the rate. Would we expect to see more expense versus capitalized going forward or how should we think about that?

More expense certainly in the fourth quarter, because we still have a balance of the much larger 2010 budget to spend in the fourth quarter.

All right, thank you. That’s my questions for now.

Your next question comes from a private investor by the name of Richard Herman [ph]. Please go ahead.

My question is about the quantitative easing program that the Federal Reserve in this country is about to begin, that depending on the number of billions of dollars or trillions of dollars that will be coming into our economy here over the next six months or so will have probably a negative effect on the value of the dollar, which would be a positive effect on gold prices. But my question is basically, what negative effect would that have on your company specifically with respect to the currency devaluation vis-à-vis the Canadian dollar, the Finnish currency and the Mexican dollar and also on your overall cost of production?

I think if you look at sort of the last few months where we have had some weakness in the US dollar, we’ve only had modest strengthening of the Canadian dollar. And so I wouldn’t anticipate if we get a big QE2 package and we have further weakness in the US dollar, I don’t think we’re going to see a significant strengthening in our other sort of operating currency. So we don’t think it’s going to have any negative impact if we see a big QE2 initiative, we can just see positives because of its impact on the gold price.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from John Tumazos with John Tumazos Very Independent Research. Please go ahead.

Congratulations on the huge profit margins in output. As we look forward the next five years or so, how should we expect the operating cash flow to break down between dividends, let's assume share repurchases don't happen because you want to grow, and reinvestment in existing mines and projects already defined as opposed to new projects?

I’ll try to answer that John. I think we’ve been fairly consistent and we based this off of sort of ramping up to sort of 1.4 million ounces by 2014 with the expectation that we have some expansions of the current production base in place. So if you anticipate some expansions over the next sort of five years plus some CapEx from Meliadine, which would come in late 2015, you’d be looking for sort of average production over that sort of five-year period of maybe in the 1.4 million ounce range, you’d be looking at EBITDA of about $1 billion or so. We’ve ballparked our CapEx for expansions and from Meliadine over that period of maybe $400 million a year for four years to five years, so you’d still see a significant wall of free cash flow there. We haven’t set a dividend we’re going to through that process now during our budgeting for next year and our five-year plan which we’ll put out in the middle of December. But from a dividend perspective, we’re paying $30 million now which is very small compared to the cash – free cash flow generating capacity of the asset base after building all these new mines. So we should see a nice bump in the dividend. We’ve certainly – we’re certainly focused on our pipeline, in the pipeline now is the expansion plus Meliadine. We have capacity for another project so we continue to look at opportunities there. What we’d like to do with some of that cash is continue to make cash investments in other sort of promising situation that we see and those cash investments maybe in the third of $25 million to $75 million. So we’d like to use some of that cash to position ourselves in those situations, very similar to what we did with Ritter Hitton, and we did it in a little way with Cumberland. So that’s how we see it, but we don’t have definite percentages now of what we’re going to do with that net free cash flow.

Do you think a bump in the dividend, Sean, as a double or a triple in the dividend, given that the dividend is sort of more a one mine than a six mine dividend?

It’s hard to say. It’s really up to the Board. I think you know how Mr. Pena used to treat the dividend and we used to pay dividends when we didn’t have the money to pay them in the old days and I was even the CFO back then, so it’s a little bit more disciplined this time. But the big difference being now and then is we have much more cash available to us to pay the dividend. And I think all we can say there is that like hedging, most people eventually come around to our position and we paid a dividend for 28 years and everybody wants to pay a dividend now-a-days, so we were the leaders in that, among the leaders in paying a dividend, so we’re proud of our record. So we like to pay dividends and so that will be our bias as we consider it.

Sean, do you view a doubling in the 1.4 million ounces or 3 million ounces plus kind of size a good thing or would you rather the organization be smaller and very high quality mines?

Smaller and very high quality, and that’s part of the strategic exercise we’re going through right now with the Board, because we’re at the tail end of a five-year plan which transformed the business. And so as we look out we can actually see the ability to grow a 1 million ounce production days currently over the next 10 years and do it consistently sort of year-on-year. In order to do that as we said, ideally we’d like another project in the platform. And one of the things we try to avoid as a magic number – so we won’t sort of post a magic number out there, because if you try to reach for a magic number, you can tend to get yourself in trouble. So we’ve never as you know viewed it as a race. So we would like to just continue in a very measured focused way drilling our current deposits, taking advantage of expansion opportunities as those deposits grow and making quality investments in early-stage opportunities where we can sort of bring some of our expertise to the table whether as an investor early on or whether we take the entire asset. But more sort of smaller, not bet the company type of things I think will get us in the right position. Really what we try to do is take something that has a low NAV and try to build that NAV and then get our higher multiple attached to the growth in the NAV of that story.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from Anita Soni with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.

Good morning, Sean.

Good morning.

Congratulations on a good result this quarter.

Thank you.

May question is just – I have two questions. First off, the cost per ton at Goldex, how will that be reduced now that you're almost completed the blasting there?

I’ll turn that over to Ebe. It’s cost per ton at Goldex, Ebe, how will that look going forward?

Good morning, Anita.

Good morning.

The cost per ton will decline slightly by about $1 or so. We will be expensing some of the development on the satellite zones, but we do expect a decline of about 10% going forward.

And then, the second question is with respect to year-end reserves and resources. So the target out there is 20 million ounces to 21 million ounces. Your last reserves were at 18.4 so that implies a good 10% bump this year. Are you on track to achieve that?

So far we are Anita. We’ve had some excellent growing success at Kittila. So Kittila is on track. So we’ve got a bit of work to do between now and the end of the year, when we will be recalculating, but we did a recalculation in the middle of the year. And so far we’re on track.

I would just add to that, Anita, I think the way it’s likely going to unfold because we have delayed the Kittila study by six months, I think what you will see is the number will come out in February and then get updated again in the middle of the year when the study comes out, because we have deeper resource there that we can’t move into reserve unless we have an expansion study completed. So I think you should look at it now in two stages. The first stage being February and the second stage being midyear, and the midyear update would take you likely nicely above the target. So what we would do is before – we are likely in a position in February to add some of Meliadine to the resource, to the reserve, but not the deeper material at Finland, because we haven’t completed the 43101 feasibility study. So I would look at it in two stages next year.

Okay, so the February update may or may not get you to the 20 million ounces?

No, it should.

Midyear, okay.

It should with Meliadine.

All right.

Because we’ll be able to convert because we’re working on an economic study there, it may not be ultimately how we can figure that mine, but it is economic. So I would suspect that when we add Meliadine, we’ll be over the 20 million ounce, and then we’ll have another update in midyear once we get the feasibility study done on the Kittila expansion.

Okay, thank you. And then just on one last question. I came into the conference call a little bit late. And were you mentioning anything in terms of smaller asset divestitures?

Well, what we’re just trying to do is just provide some color on our thinking with respect to the strategy and the strategy is to still continue to make investments – strategic investments in situations that we think have some upside and we have a willing sort of partner, but we cannot just put our money on the table, but also provide some technical expertise. And a perfect example of that was Ritter Hitton. But on the flipside, what I was mentioning is we did some profits on the sale of some investments in the quarter and really what demonstrates is that we do have a very active portfolio for removing things in and out.

And which assets were those?

I don’t want to say right now on one of the stock positions that we sold, because we still have part of that position.

Okay.

So I just don’t want to telegraph that.

All right. Do you still own – I’m sorry the West – what's that one called that’s attached to Westwood? There you have a small reserve and I've forgotten the name of it, but it would be somewhat close to the Westwood property of IM Gold.

We have the Ellison property –

That’s right, yes.

Which is right next door to Westwood.

Okay, you still own that.

Yes, we still own that.

Okay, thank you very much.

Okay.

Your next question comes from Steven Butler with Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.

Good morning, guys, almost afternoon. Question for you on Meadowbank, Ebe, you alluded to or suggested here that throughput is actually coming closer towards 8,500 tons per day, I'm not sure if it's there yet or not, but the two temporary portable crushers, when were they installed? I think it may have been installed when we were there in June, I can't recall. And so you saw an increase in production in Q3 from Q2 which is good on the throughput, but still well below 8,500 tons per day. But are you on track for that and can you get there with those two portable crushers before the mainstay is there next year? Thanks.

Good morning, Steve. Yes, we feel that we will be able to get somewhere between 8,000 and 8,500 tons per day before the end of the year. We’ve got some other grinding issues on the SAG mill that we have to resolve. But one thing is certain that it’s a maintenance on the portable crushers over a week ago and we saw a drop of anywhere between 75 tons per hour to a 100 tons per hour, so we know that works. And, therefore, we also know that the permanent solution which is currently under construction and will come on screen at midyear next year will work and resolve the issue, and will also lower the cost per ton. Currently we’re paying in the neighborhood of $4.50 to $6 per ton to crush this material and we are not crushing 100% of the ore, whereas with the permanent installation which is very similar to the one that we installed at Goldex, we will crushing all of the ore.

Okay, that’s good. Thanks for that clarification, Ebe. Bye.

Your next question comes from John Bridges with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Good morning, Sean, everybody. Just wondering, you've given a great color on the expansion projects with your front line mines, but just wondered what the very longer term plan was with LaRonde now? You've got the expansion project, extension project coming on, that's a pretty target rich environment. Has there been any developments there as to what happens after the extension or are there opportunities to put some ink there in parallel?

Good morning, John. LaRonde extension is on plan, on budget, and on schedule. We expect to have the first production from it in Q4 of next year. The deposit is open at depth we do know that. And like any of our other projects we want to get all of infrastructure in, get it built. Currently, we’re excavating the crusher room and the maintenance facilities and the ore silo. But once that is done we have ideas or plans to grow the deposit at depth, so that will happen once we start ramping up production, very similar to what we did in the early ‘90s at LaRonde, very similar to what we’re currently doing at Goldex and Lapa.

Okay, great. And congratulations at Goldex, that’s [inaudible], isn’t it?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from David Christie with Scotia Capital. Please go ahead.

Hi guys. Just quickly on the LaRonde extension, just wondering what the grade is supposed to be next year and how much of the ore will be coming from the old part of the mine versus the new part?

We’ll be – it will actually be very similar to this year David, because the ore from LaRonde extension is back ended towards the end of the quarter, so it won’t make a significant difference. So we’re just going over the mine plan and budget now. So it should be a very similar year to this past year.

As far as grade.

And then we start ramping up.

Okay. So there’s more – you move into more and more ore from the deep part of the mine as the year goes on kind of thing?

Yes, but the first production stopes will be in the fourth quarter. We’ll have preproduction ore, development ore, things like that which really in the big picture isn’t significant, but then the first blocks will be coming on stream in the fourth quarter.

Great.

And then anytime you develop a pyramid, it’s always a bit slow until you’re still – once you start building up the pyramid.

Okay. And how has the [inaudible] been down there so far?

We have had no ground conditions. It’s been very, very surprising. There’s been no really significant increase in seismicity and as a result the development is on track. Even the larger excavations like maintenance facilities we really haven’t had any problems whatsoever and that’s a tribute to our ground control programs and engineers at LaRonde they’ve done a great job for us.

Perfect. The other question just on Goldex, I can't remember the name of the new zone you discovered at depth there below. But are you going to have some of that in reserves do you think by the end of the year?

No, we won’t David, because there is a lot more drilling to be done at depths, like we’ve got some interesting thick intercepts. It’s got the potential to grow so before we are able to do anything, we’d like to fully delineate the zone, and we’re drilling it right now and then be able to do a resource estimate on it, and then conduct or complete a feasibility study. But there are thicknesses in there that are similar to the Goldex extension zone.

It does look good. Okay, thank you.

You’re welcome. Your next question comes from Greg Barnes with TD Securities. Please go ahead.

Yes, thank you. Ebe, what do you think cost per ton are going to be at Meadowbank going forward once you get the secondary crusher installed?

Well, we are hoping to get our tonnage rate – our ton cost per ton down into about the low $60, $60 per ton range. We have some other issues to resolve there as well. I think we’ve made head weight with respect to mine performance, equipment availability, we’re starting to reduce contract workforce, so that is our objective. And we’re going through the budget process and mine plan right now. What we’re also looking at Meadowbank is accelerated stripping for the coming years, so we might be expensing a significant part of that. But in the life of mine, the total quantities that we will be moving will not have changed.

Okay. You did mention in the press release you had problems with equipment availability and other issues during the quarter. What were they?

Ebe, he’s just wanting to know about equipment availability.

Okay, the equipment availability was, we had issues with the shovels, shovel performance; we had issues with drill performance, some of the availabilities were down in the low 40s, 25%; and then we also had some issues with the truck, so generally with the whole mining fleet. And that was largely due that some of the maintenance facilities for those that came out of the opening saw they were completed in June. And as a result now we have a fully equipped maintenance facility and we’re able to tackle some of these maintenance issues. Of course, last year, we just had temporary facilities, and with the weather conditions being what they are on the Canadian Arctic, the working conditions, et cetera were less than ideal. And so we accumulated a backlog of maintenance that had to be conducted and in the process we are catching up. And more importantly, we’ve had new equipment deliveries, we’ve had 150-ton trucks delivered in this quarter, we’ve had an additional shovel. So that will provide us with more flexibility and more reliability going forward. And then, of course, we got one year of operating experience in an arctic environment.

Okay, it was pretty comprehensive, thank you.

Your next question is a follow-up from Richard Herman. Please go ahead.

This question is primarily about debt management. And I'm wondering first of all if you anticipate any further significant drawdowns on your credit lines or issuing new debt? And follow-up to that is how do you feel about the current level of your debt equity ratio?

Hi Richard, it’s Ammar here. We are generating a lot of cash. We expect to continue to generate a lot of cash certainly enough to fund all of our internal projects with Sean identified available cash to increase potentially the dividend as well. So we do not anticipate drawing down materially under our facility and we are quite comfortable with the liquidity we have.

I have one follow-up question if I may. With the price of gold continuing to go up, the junior miners out there may be a little bit more attractive even though they may not be in production and only have reserves and I'm wondering if you have a screening process and could even take a look at those on your radar screen from time to time for any possible acquisitions of gold or zinc or other reserves?

Well, that’s sort of an ongoing part of the business, where we have our operators and mine builders participate in assessments of smaller opportunities, so that’s still a big part of our strategy. So that is ongoing as part of the strategy.

Thank you.

Your next is a follow-up from Anita Soni with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.

Hi. This is just a question for Ebe. Is there a maintenance shutdown at Kittila scheduled for the fourth quarter and how long will that be?

No, we have the shutdown at the beginning of October, so the next schedule shutdown is scheduled for April of next year in the autoclave. So we expect to have continuous operations from here on in.

Okay. So October is always fourth quarter.

Yes, and we’ve already had it.

Yes, so can you tell me how long it was?

It was about just over a week to nine days.

Okay, thank you.

(Operator Instructions). Your next question comes from Tanya Jakusconek with National Bank Financial. Please go ahead.

Hi, thanks. I just have a couple of questions, and I'm sorry, I got on the call late, and it was fading in and out. Sean, I got in when you were talking about Q3. Were you mentioning that Q4 was supposed to be similar to Q3 operationally?

We're saying production is slightly higher with around the same costs.

Okay. And then just on the news flow that's coming through in December, I think you talked a little bit about making a change on the dividend policy. Your life of mine plan is coming out, I think an exploration update –

That’s correct.

Kittila and Meliadine. Any expansion plans at all?

Not the major expansion plans. The major expansion plan will be Kittila.

Midyear, mid 2011, yes.

Yes. So I wouldn’t think in our December, we'd be incorporated. We delayed Meadowbank as well, as we worked on the commissioning over the last six months, so that will be coming out earlier in 2011.

Okay. And then I guess the reserves and resource is coming out in February?

Yes.

Okay. And then just lastly, just on – I remember you used to own some of the Gold Corp warrants, have those been sold?

No, we still have those.

Okay. Okay, perfect, thank you.

Thank you.

Mr. Boyd, we have no further questions at this time. Please continue.

Thank you, operator. Thanks everyone for participating in our call and I think look forward to the update in mid December for the five-year plan and the dividend. Thanks.

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the conference call for today. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect your lines.