Hudbay Minerals has cut its June 2021 qtr (Q2 21) loss to $US3.39M from Q1 21’s $60.1M loss, benefitting from higher realized copper-zinc-gold prices and copper/precious metals sales, albeit offset by lower zinc sales and higher taxes.
The Canada-Peru-US miner lifted pre-tax earnings to $14.81M from a $69.59M loss on revenue jumping to $404.24M from $313.62M, with operating cash flow before changes in non-cash working capital also well up to $132.8M from $90.7M and adjusted EBITDA to $143.2M from $104.2M.
The bottom line was despite contained copper-in-concentrate output easing 23,474t from 24,553t, but with gold hitting a record 39,848oz from 35,500oz due to high grade mining from the Pampacancha deposit, which began during Q2 21. Silver eased to 685,916oz from 696,673oz, zinc to 25,361t from 28,343t and molybdenum to 265t from 284t. Cash costs of copper produced were down to $0.84/lb from $1.04/lb, but AISC up to $2.48/lb from $2.37/lb. Hudbay finished Q2 21 with cash/equivalents down to $294.3M.