Mitch Krebs
Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please go ahead
Yes, I'll start Joe and I'd go back. I know it's a busy slide, but in the materials at Slide 5, I think does a good job of flagging where we are at each mine after one quarter. And then what we need to do in the remaining three quarters to get into the guidance ranges that we put out. And as you pointed out, Joe is a different story for each mine. Terry fill in whatever I miss, but we started just with Palmarejo and clearly the grade on the silver and the recoveries on silver where the main driver there in the first quarter. And as Terry pointed out, as we had transitioned out of where we were mining into higher grade stopes with better recovery characteristics on silver and with the Nacion production coming on in the second half. Those are really the keys that should deliver Palmarejo into the guidance ranges. Rochester is probably a little lower than expected on the gold just given the weather that we obviously couldn't have predicted as we started the year. And as you can appreciate that hits the gold faster than it hits the silver. We've – I think more than made up for that now in terms of what we have placed out on the Stage IV pad with a higher gold grade in that material. So as that material comes off now throughout the remainder of the year, that's really going to be the key driver on the gold side. And then you marry that up then with what we expect HPGR to do on the silver side. And that creates probably the biggest, I don't want to say hockey stick, but compared to the first quarter, what Rochester is expected to do throughout the remainder of the year, it's a pretty dramatic rise. So we're very excited about everything we have going on out at Rochester. Kensington, it's really a great story driven by Jualin, as we do more mining in Jualin and it becomes a more, a bigger portion of the tons that we’re processing that grade kicker will drive unit costs down and cash flow up. We feel really good about where Kensington is. It's actually our best performing mine year-to-date relative to plan. Wharf does have a big step up from the first quarter to the remaining three quarters. But again, kind of like Rochester, we feel like the cake has kind of already baked there in terms of what's been put out on the leach pads in terms of what's been mine and at what grade. And that will come off here as expected and drive those production rates higher. Obviously, Silvertip is a bit of a different animal given the phase that it's in, in this kind of stabilized and then optimized sequence that we're working our way through. But we're getting much, much closer now to the optimized point and out of the stabilizing phase than we were when we talked to you last. So I think we – like Terry said, we feel good about where things are moving there. It's obviously we're all wishing it had come along faster than it has. But the important thing is it is coming along. It's a wonderful ore deposit there, 300 gram silver, 8% zinc, 6% lead, that's a pretty compelling business there waiting to unfold. And so we're excited about reaching that point where we can start to deliver that kind of margin and cash flow from that asset. So I don't know if that extra detail helps, but if not, direct us to a certain asset and we can give you more.