Equinox Gold Corp.

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Hello and welcome to Kitco Mining with me, Paul Harris, here at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs.

Joining me now is Jason Sinson, President of Equinox Gold.

Jason, welcome back to Kitco.

Thank you.

Very nice to speak with you again, Paul.

It's very nice to speak with you, Jason.

It's the first time we're speaking with you as the president of Equinox Gold.

Previously, we've spoken with you as the president and CEO of Orla Mining.

No, not the gyms, but the gold.

This is Equinox gold ticker symbol EQX trading 1108 off about seven cents today on the year.

You pretty much know what it's been like for gold topped out in Q1, obviously at a mad level of about 19 bucks sold off to about eight and a half bucks in July trading right around 11 right now.

So kind of at the low end of its 52-week range.

The next announcement is on November 9th.

So...

Mr. Rocklops, are you down for a little bit of April upside in Equinox gold,

sir? You know, you would think that the gold bug was back, but it really, I'll tell you what, nothing like interest rates going up a half a percent just to crush the life out of gold.

There's an array

of other AAA players in the region, including Equinox Gold, Agnico Eagle, First Majestic, Heliostar, and Pan American Silver, who's actually our neighbor.

The Port of Guaymas is a deep sea water port where all the copper concentrate makes its way to Asia, the largest buyers of China and Japan.

and uh you can fly into our project either through novahoa or mosillo and from novahoa it's a two-hour drive to our project and again yeah we're we're right next door to the pan-american silver alamo dorado mine this is in reclamation stage but it produced about a million ounces of silver uh low to medium epithermal system And Pan American Silver's licenses are adjacent to our license.

SSR mining trades on the NASDAQ stock market and the Toronto Stock Exchange, both under the symbol SSRM.

Equinox Gold has reported third quarter gold production of 237,000 ounces, its first quarter incorporating the Orla mining combination, which closed on July 31st.

The headline mine level result was Musselwhite in Ontario, which delivered just 45,500 ounces, just over that, at 6.15 grams per ton in just two months of contribution.

Greenstone added 60 and a half thousand ounces and Valentine continued improving on grade at 1.82 grams per ton.

is at 611,483 ounces, which keeps the company on track for its 870,000 to 920,000 ounce guidance.

Equinox ended the quarter with $527 million in cash, has repaid $1.2 billion in debt year to date, and commenced early works construction at South Railroad in Nevada, with the first goal targeted for 2028.

Equinox Gold trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE American, both with the symbol EQX.

Integra Resources has issued an update on the Delamar Gold-Silver project in Idaho, confirming that detailed engineering, permitting, procurement, and state of good repairs work are all advancing in line with the plan.

It's Hump Day, Wednesday, October 7th.

Gold and silver are both softer this morning, with gold off about 1% to $4,119 an ounce, still consolidating in this range.

Silver's down just under 2% to $60.18. Copper, it's holding firm at $6.60 a pound, up about a tenth of a percent.

The big story in the copper market this morning is coming out of Chile, where Codelco says it is investigating new evidence that its copper production was overreported in both 2004 and 2005.

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And here's what you need to know today.

Altius Minerals, they've made an unsolicited non-binding acquisition proposal to buy all of the common shares of TNR Gold that it does not already own.

Continuing to, this story continues to unfold each week it seems like.