Graham Paul Briggs
Management
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is the quarter 3 results of Harmony for the financial year '13. I have with me here, Frank Abbott, as well as Mashego Mashego. Henrika and Marian are also in attendance, so we obviously can hopefully deal with any questions that you might have. It gives me pleasure in giving this presentation, it's a fairly long presentation, so we'll be going through slides at a reasonable pace. I hope that you all have the presentation, hopefully, from the webmail. And if there are any questions, if I go through something too quickly, please bring me back at the end of the presentation, and we will try and answer the questions. So we have our Safe Harbor statement that you should read through. Obviously, it talks about forward-looking statements. As far as the agenda goes, and I'm on Slide 3, I'm going to talk a little bit about the gold price. I'm not a good -- my crystal ball is probably as cloudy as everyone else's on what's going to happen in future. But I do want to talk about the gold price. And we'll then talk about the quarter 3 results. And then, we'll talk about finances, and Frank will do that section. We'll go to Papua New Guinea, talk around Papua New Guinea exploration, Wafi-Golpu and the like. And then, we'll talk a little bit about our mining communities and what we're doing around the mines and then, conclude. Let me start off by talking about the gold price. And Slide 5, just captures the gold price as it has been for the 9 months to March 2013. We compare it to March 2012. And you can see that the gold price in rand per kilogram terms increased by 10% there. In the U.S. dollar, it's slightly down to USD 1,672. Obviously, exchange rate differences there. However, towards the end of the quarter, price dropped dramatically. So in April, we were sitting at a situation, at one time, where the gold price was around $1,400 an ounce. In rand terms, somewhere between ZAR 410,000 a kilogram to ZAR 420,000 a kilogram. What we did, then, was to implement some actions to reduce costs and, in a way, forward -- looking forward, we are going to certainly apply a relatively conservative ZAR 400,000 a kilogram to our plans. And that's been labeled Project 400. There are quite a lot of 400s in this and you'll see why. Turning to Slide 6. In South Africa, curbing some costs in South Africa, and this is from our financial -- prediction on financial year '14, we believe we can reduce, reprioritize about ZAR 400 million worth of capital from that. And then, take a further ZAR 400 million out of our costs, looking at corporate costs, services costs, looking at suppliers, contractors and the like, various labor initiatives. So that will amount to, we believe, about ZAR 400 million. Obviously, those plans are in process and we'll be able to give you more clarity when we finish our plans. We don't have any shaft or mine closures envisaged at the present. Slide 7 talks about Papua New Guinea. Firstly, Hidden Valley. There's basically 3 areas of focus there. The first is the crusher and everything around that crusher. Remembering that the overland conveyor has been not performing very well. The reason for that is, really, that the rock that has been put onto that belt has often been slabby and too big for the belt because remember, it is a pipe conveyor and has been tearing the belt. So the crusher is being replaced with a gyratory crusher, and this will ensure that no big rocks get into the belt and we should be able to utilize that belt to its fullest. This means that we will be able to take all the trucks that are busy trucking the ore from the mine down to the plants. Take that out, that's a huge cost and obviously, we'll get better supply. That's the first initiative. The second one is looking at all the plants, the equipment, and that includes looking at metallurgy and better recoveries there. There's quite a few initiatives in that. Getting a more consistent feed will, obviously, help with the plant performance as well. Third measure is, basically, taking cost out, and the Hidden Valley mine has been geared up for slightly higher tonnage, and so we need to take that cost out. And so the plans for financial year '14 is, really, to get this mine back into profitability. There are savings and capital in PNG, and most of those savings in capital, will come from Wafi-Golpu. And I'll expand on that a little bit further on when I'm talking about that project. But basically, there's about ZAR 1 billion worth of savings there. Slide 8, talking about our capital and year-by-year, we have a prediction of our capital. We manage our capital fairly well, we believe, and we try and come in fairly close to what we predict. And if there are any poorer performers, then we obviously try and reduce our capital to that performance. So you can see, in financial year '13, our capital prediction at the moment is ZAR 3.8 billion. We predicted at the beginning of the year, and you got those numbers in August at ZAR 4.1 billion. And that's in rands. If you look at the next slide, it's looking at dollars. And I caution you here, if you're looking at dollars, please look at the exchange rates that we're using at the bottom because it can get a little bit confusing if you don't use the same exchange rates. But certainly, you can use the rand numbers, which are probably a little bit tighter, certainly, tighter on the South African operations, and use it for your own conversion if you want to do a prediction. Slide 10. Again, looking at capital expenditure. There are 2 graphs here, one is in dollars and one is in rands. Let's focus on the rands. The gray bar is the guidance that you were provided in August 2012. ZAR 4.1 billion for this year, that's the same as the previous graph, you will remember, ZAR 4.1 billion; now predicting ZAR 3.8 billion. So the red line is the prediction going forward. So at the moment, for 2014, you can see that we're giving you, in August '12, a prediction of ZAR 5.1 billion, that's quite dramatically down now. And it's down for '15. However, I have to caution you again that the final plans on all these assets and the capital expenditure is in progress. That gets completed by the end of June and normally, the company is ready to give you this information in detail somewhere around about August. Let's go to the quarter 3 results and look at those, and I'll start off with safety on Slide 12. Regrettably, we had 2 fatals during the quarter. And when you talk about fatals, often difficult when we talk about good performance as well in the same slide. But if you look at that fatality frequency rate, and this is per million man-hours, you'll recognize that 5.15 is the sort of performance that you would get from any international Western mine, whether it be North America or Australia. I'm talking underground operations now. So in general, our safety performance has improved dramatically over the last few years, and there's a graph here that's backing that up. And there are some highlights from different operations. Huge amount of focus on safety. We continue to look at safety in detail and have a large number of initiatives on this, on safety. On Slide 13, the highlights. I've talked about the first one, which is safety. Evander transaction is completed. I'm sure you may have some questions on the finances there, as to what that works out to in the financial statements. Frank will be here to help you. A decrease in underground grade, a little bit skewed by the Kusasalethu issue but also really skewed, I think, about the March quarter, which is traditionally, a little bit of underperformance in grade and also gold production. Gold production decreasing by 15%. A lot of that is Kusasalethu, which basically produced nothing for the quarter. But as -- in Phakisa, I'll talk a little bit more about Phakisa. And then, the balance is really talking about the Christmas break. But I will compare 9 months a little bit later and then, you can see what the performance is. Headline loss per share of ZAR 0.47. Operating profit is lower at ZAR 821 million. And then, Kusasalethu, of course, dominated last quarter and this quarter. But the watershed agreement that we signed there in the middle of February, labor is then coming back, commencing to come back from that time. We now have about 90% of the labor back and they're all signing these documents as the individuals come back. So it's an agreement not only at a major sort of structure, union level, but also individual by individual. Slide 14. Just looking at sort of the history of the March quarter, looking back at the sort of seasonality of things. And this is, really, the festive season. Sometimes Easter also falls in this quarter. And towards the end of March, that happened I think, this year as well. We've just taken Kusasalethu out of these figures just to give you the comparison. So really looking apples-with-apples, the Kusasalethu, of course, does skew the figure somewhat. But that gives you an idea of the seasonality of the quarters that we have. Grades, we've had a few quarters of improving grade. This quarter, a little bit disappointing, but there's no concern from our side on the grade. We are managing it well. We need to improve it, obviously. It's still destined to go up. And on the next slide, which is Slide 16, I demonstrate to you some of the development grades and this just goes to show that the guys are developing in the right places. And remember that in underground, we're never really [ph] stopping. This hole that we are busy developing at the moment will only be coming out and stopping in 18 months to 30 months time, so it's sort of 18 months, 1.5 years to 3 years time sort of period. And so all looks well for the improvements in the grade. It is plotted versus a reserve grade here. Looking at Slide 17, really, some of the detail quarter-on-quarter. December being a good quarter and March being a poorer quarter, down by 15% we've chatted about that. Gold price slightly down at around ZAR 470,000 a kilogram. Costs dramatically up here, mainly because of the lower gold production. I will show you some of the figure stripping Kusasalethu out and you can see the effects there and then, operating profits, obviously, affected operating profit. If we look at the group operating results on Slide 18, and here, we're looking at the total, you'll see gold production down by 1%. Of course if you put Kusasalethu back in there, about 2.5 tonnes of gold loss at Kusasalethu during the last quarter, as well as the previous quarter, that will obviously dramatically change that production number and that's why we gave you the revised guidance last quarter. But you can see all the other numbers there, rand per kilogram, for instance, skewed again because of the cost of Kusasalethu but not the production of Kusasalethu. You can also see the underground recovery grade. If you look at Slide 19, this is now excluding Kusasalethu, so we had stripped out Kusasalethu from both periods. The 9-month up to March 2013, that's in the highlighted area and the 9 months to March 2012. And you can see that, basically, the operations besides, of course, excluding Kusasalethu actually improved by 8% in production. The gold price was slightly higher from about ZAR 420,000 to just over ZAR 460,000 a kilogram, improved by 10%, operating costs were down by 10%. Grade improved from the 4.2 to the 4.66, so that's all good news. So basically, operations are performing well, obviously, and getting Kusasalethu back into production will really dramatically change this picture. I think the measures that we've done at Kusasalethu are already setting us up for the long term. Talking on Kusasalethu, I've given you some numbers here, Slide 20, I'm on. 90% of the workforce back at work. We probably are getting about 50% of our tonnage there. For the quarter, we've got a prediction of about 50% of our gold production for the quarter. So just around plus 800 kilograms of gold coming out of Kusasalethu. And that means towards the end of June, we will be expecting to get sort of back into the normal production. Obviously, it won't affect at all -- they won't be for the whole quarter, but just towards the end of the quarter. Code of Conduct signed. The relationship has been established. It's obviously, got a lot more AMCU members now are 60% of the Kusasalethu workers are AMCU at the moment and in total Harmony, that's around about 10%. We continue to engage employees and this is an area where we have a monitoring committee so that any issues that come up are dealt with, in a way, rapidly. And so we prevent it from getting to any boiling point at all. Phakisa was an underperformer this quarter. There are some ventilation issues there. The ventilation is normally returned via Freddies 3 shafts. It's a shaft where part of the shaft lining has collapsed in the clear [ph] rocks, which is shale, and has been collapsing. And we're busy attempting to repair that now. The repair is certainly going to take some time. At the moment, we have a prediction of end of December to get that back in. So it is producing, but it's not building up as predicted. So that ventilation constraint is preventing us from building its -- building up further production at the moment. 22, a slide we produced on looking at total costs. We look at cost plus capital. Again, this graph is very skewed by Kusasalethu. But that's the graph so a very much narrower margin in the last quarter. Slide 23 is equivalent in dollars. And then, I'm going to hand it over to Frank talking about the financials. So we'll start off with Slide 25.