Peter Steenkamp
Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead
Thank you, Marian. Maybe we can just elaborate a bit since there is no other further questions. Our FY'16 objectives we achieved. We have improved safety, increased our grades. We achieved our production guidance, increased our margins. We generated strong cash flows and repaid our debt. And we’ve got a very good growth story in copper resources in both Golpu and Kili Teke. Obviously, we had a share upliftment. On the safety side as from a lost-time injury perspective, we managed to crawl back where we were in FY'13. We really did quite well in this year. Unfortunately, we still had a high level of fatalities and we haven’t improved as far as that’s concerned. Certainly, it is a management focus going forward. Year on year, our South African production increased by 4%, so we are quite thankful for that. Our margins obviously we have, most of operations have fairly decent margins with the Bambanani, Tshepong and Phakisa being the stars in our portfolio. Unfortunately, for Kusasalethu and Hidden Valley, we didn’t make a profit for the year, and I think it’s one of the things we have to discuss is the Kusasalethu long-term future and also Hidden Valley. Our net debt decreased as we said with 61% to $74 million. Our Golpu -- and if you look at our gold and copper portfolio I think of note is that our resource -- we saw a growth in resources at Kili Teke which we 100% hold. It increased to 6 million ounces. But 30% of that is gold and 70% of that is copper. Harmony, since the start of this financial year, the FY'16 year, actually were the best performing share compared to all our peers, so we are quite happy. So what is our value upliftment? First of all, our increase in grade is obviously something we are really proud of because it’s fourth year in a row that we in actual fact increase our grade. It’s 54% or 61% in reduction of net debt, a profit of $64 million and I said the $0.15 of headline earnings and then of $0.04 of dividend that we’re paying. In this morning, we talked a lot about our objectives. The first thing is I think you -- what everybody needs to understand we are mining safe and profitable ounces, and we want to increase our margins. How are we going to get that right? First of all, by operational excellence, cash certainty and thirdly, efficient capital allocation. And our aim is to produce 1.5 million ounces at less than $950 per ounce over a three-year period, in the next -- at end of the next three years, to be in that position. And the reason why we want to do this is because we do have some of our operations that we are now harvesting. So we need to replace them and we need to make acquisitions to get us back to the level. We will not only be able to do it through organic growth or through exploration. We are operating in South Africa and we are operating in Papua New Guinea. What is of note in terms of our reserves is that the South African gold is now 45% of our reserves at 16.8 million ounces, of a total reserve of 37 million ounces. Copper now makes up 38% of our reserves at 13.9 million ounces. And then obviously Papua New Guinea in gold is 17% or 6.2 million ounces. This morning we had a lot of elaboration in terms of our grades in terms of why it is improving. And I think one of the things that we are very proud of is that the growth projects that Harmony worked on for quite a while is now actually delivering good results. The Phakisa, Tshepong decline is on track with their grades. The higher grades of Doornkop and Kusasalethu later that we started with a deepening, we continue with that. We are mining the Bambanani high grade shaft pillar. And then there’s also some upside as far as Joel is concerned, because we are completing, busy completing a decline which will deliver higher grades. And then we’ve got a lot of good grade discipline in place. No mining below cutoff, mining to average reserve grade and also focusing on quality. We also this morning talked a little about Phakisa in terms of the Phakisa it is really, really a good story for us. We had a very big increase in production and also increase in grade, delivering on this plan this consistent development -- development plans, so ensuring proper flexibility for the future. And there is also very good new technologies are being put out there, for instance, our ice plants is quite unique, ice plants are being installed there. And also, our rail-veyor that we transport -- our semi-automated horizontal ore transport system that we have between Phakisa and Nyala, a five-kilometer horizontal transport system. How are we going to get to the 1.5 million ounces per annum? First of all, we need to focus on our core business activities there’s nurture and develop, and grow some of those and harvest the other. We also look at new and emerging businesses and Tshepong and Phakisa integration is a very important one. Tailings re-treatment in the Free State, Golpu Stage 1 and also diversification into copper or other commodities. And then growth possibilities, we are looking at expansion in South Africa and also into Africa. Golpu Stage 2 is a growth possibility. Kili Teke prospect is a growth prospect. And then also the PNG grass roots exploration is a possibility in that area. On the nurture and grow, the operations that are really doing well and actually are creating a lot of momentum is Tshepong and Phakisa. Bambanani, we had not a very good quarter in the last quarter but in general we are doing very well and we are back on track as far as that’s concerned. Target 1 is a standalone mechanized operation with a large resource base. Joel, profitable, a low cost operation. Doornkop we are at the moment doing a lot of work to understand the ore body a little bit better in terms of where it is and also the grades that we have in place. And certainly it’s smaller margins but it is a, can be quite a decent operation. Phoenix, our tailings operations are doing very well. We obviously own only 70% of that tailings operation. And on tailings retreatment we approved a central plant capital to transform, or the potential to a tailings facility, retreatment facility of 300,000 tons per month. That process it will be done between the course of this year and probably will take us about a year to implement the changes and then we’ll be, have some more of the tailings retreatment. But we are also looking at a feasibility study of a standalone pretreatment plant in the Free State that can, that is a mega. We’ve done the studies as far as water is concerned because that’s obviously the biggest issue that we have is we have enough water. So we believe there is good potential to build a tailings retreatment facility, standalone retreatment facility in the Welkom area. That feasibility study should be finished by the end of this calendar year. And then Kalgold, also a low grade, open pit mine with a long life. Operations obviously that we want to harvest with the life cost shorter life is Masimong and Unisel, I think we’ve talked about that. I think the one that is now also on the cards there is Kusasalethu. We changed the life of mine from 20 on years to five years. We are really in a high grade area now, and we are mining the high grade area, we’ll mine it at a profit for the next five years. When we, in five years from now we’ll move back into fairly lower grades in Kusasalethu. And we are not sure if it’s feasible and we don’t think it’s feasible and our current plans doesn’t show it, to go back into the, to try and get the volumes up to be able to sustain a big operation like that. And for that reason, there is also a 13% reduction in our reserves year on year. Tshepong and Phakisa optimization is a very, very important operation for us. The integration studies actually aims at finding synergies between the two operations. Tshepong infrastructure is underutilized and Phakisa is fully utilized. We already hold two of the haulages with one, there is three to hold and we’ve got two of them already done. And we are also looking at really having extra volumes out of that, the combined unit. We could potentially mine one tonne of gold per month there. So that’s actually a very, very nice project going forward. Golpu, we are now at this point in time we are sitting in a situation where we have basically with our permitting phase. In a month from now, we will submit our applications. We were not successful in doing a pre-mine development agreement with the government. But I think we will obviously, the Special Mining Lease will flare up now to get that done. So we’ve put, major capital expenditure is postponed for another two years before we will actually start to spend some big money at Golpu. We are obviously getting to the 1.5 million ounces aspiration. We will not be able to do it just through organic growth. We’ll have to do some M&A. And what we are really looking for, our criteria for doing that is focusing on gold, looking at reserves between 1 million and 2 million ounces with more than 100,000 ounces per annum production. We are looking for operating mines, a life of mine longer than 10 years and then the all-in sustainable costs of less than $950 an ounce. And our focus area is really in South Africa, the rest of Africa and Papua New Guinea where we currently have a footprint, obviously not the rest of Africa but the other two areas. Driving down costs to below $950 per ounce is an important component of our long-term ambition. If you want to look at this year, our total cost and capital came from $1,203 per ounce to $978, which is a 19% improvement. Our capital expenditure is very much in line. We are not foreseeing a huge amount of uptick in the capital expenditure, although we do have that plant that we are going to convert in the course of this year. We are focusing a lot on our productivity, something that we get all the basic metrics back in place to improve our productivity. In this Slide number 31, we also talked about our management team that we put together in South Africa. I think we’ve cast the net there very wide. We’ve looked at many people in South Africa. And I’m glad to say that the appointments we made was really from in Harmony. It just goes to show the type of talent that we have in our midst. On cash flows, we can see that our EBITDA in rand terms have increased dramatically. Unfortunately, I don’t have the slide in front of me in dollar terms. And we also look at the -- when we look at our firing power where we had cash and facilities available of about ZAR1 billion in the beginning of the year, we are now sitting at ZAR4.7 million available for probable -- for use in the Company. ZAR1.3 billion of that is in rand and ZAR3.4 billion is in facilities. This morning we spent a lot of time on our lasting impact. The first thing is our approach to health, our approach to health has been very, very successful built on three pillars: being proactive, the proximity of having our health hubs at the operations and our doctors being part of the management team, and also a curative pillar. The long and the short we are on this track now for probably three/four years. We now have about 1,000 more people at work per day than we used to have in the past through this approach. And I’m very proud of that. Our mining rehabilitation is also one of the areas that we distinct ourselves from our peers. We are really doing well. We rehabilitated 32 disused or closed shafts and a number of processing plants. And we’ve created a lot of jobs through that. But we are also working on commercial agriculture projects that’s coming from the implementation of some of the areas that we don’t use anymore. And then we are also commissioning a bio-energy plant, which is -- we will start at the end of this month we’ll start with the first gas. We will be able to generate 1 megawatt of power that we are going to use in our processing plants. I’m going to ask Frank just to maybe give some points on the balance sheet under heading of the strong balance sheet, so Frank can maybe give us some -- just a short summary of what we see.