Thompson Creek adj earnings rise
By: Liezel Hill
6th May 2010
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Molybdenum producer Thompson Creek reported first-quarter adjusted net earnings on Wednesday of $25,6-million, up 184% from the $9-million posted a year earlier.
Profit received a boost from higher realised molybdenum prices, as well as increased production volumes and lower operating costs.
The adjusted net income figure excluded a $24,5-million non-cash charge related to the company's accounting of its stock-purchase warrants as a derivative liability.
Including this charge, net income for the first quarter fell to $1,1-million, compared with $8,7-million in the first quarter of 2009.
The company produced a best-ever 8,3-million pounds in the quarter, from 6,1-million in the same period a year earlier.
Production costs also improved year-on-year, to $5,36/lb, compared with $5,93/lb.
Thompson Creek said it still expects to meet its earlier production forecasts for this year, of between 29-million and 32-million pounds of molybdenum.
"Reflecting the recovery in the world economy and the steel industry in particular, the company's average realised price on molybdenum sales for the first quarter of 2010 has risen by 43% from the same quarter a year earlier,” CEO Kevin Loughrey said in a statement.
“A continuation of the economic recovery can be expected to yield a positive trend for molybdenum prices and an improving financial performance for the company over the medium term.”
The company mines molybdenum - used to strengthen steel - from its 75%-owned Endako mine in British Columbia and the Thompson Creek mine, in Idaho, and also operates a metallurgical facility in Pennsylvania.
Edited by: Liezel Hill
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By: Liezel Hill
6th May 2010
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Molybdenum producer Thompson Creek reported first-quarter adjusted net earnings on Wednesday of $25,6-million, up 184% from the $9-million posted a year earlier.
Profit received a boost from higher realised molybdenum prices, as well as increased production volumes and lower operating costs.
The adjusted net income figure excluded a $24,5-million non-cash charge related to the company's accounting of its stock-purchase warrants as a derivative liability.
Including this charge, net income for the first quarter fell to $1,1-million, compared with $8,7-million in the first quarter of 2009.
The company produced a best-ever 8,3-million pounds in the quarter, from 6,1-million in the same period a year earlier.
Production costs also improved year-on-year, to $5,36/lb, compared with $5,93/lb.
Thompson Creek said it still expects to meet its earlier production forecasts for this year, of between 29-million and 32-million pounds of molybdenum.
"Reflecting the recovery in the world economy and the steel industry in particular, the company's average realised price on molybdenum sales for the first quarter of 2010 has risen by 43% from the same quarter a year earlier,” CEO Kevin Loughrey said in a statement.
“A continuation of the economic recovery can be expected to yield a positive trend for molybdenum prices and an improving financial performance for the company over the medium term.”
The company mines molybdenum - used to strengthen steel - from its 75%-owned Endako mine in British Columbia and the Thompson Creek mine, in Idaho, and also operates a metallurgical facility in Pennsylvania.
Edited by: Liezel Hill
www.miningweekly.com/article/...adj-earnings-up-184-2010-05-06