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| Freeport-McMoRan Inc. | # Freeport-McMoRan Inc. ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ๋ฒ์ญ *์ฐธ๊ณ : ์ค์ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ๋ด์ฉ์ด ์ ๊ณต๋์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฒ์ญ์ ์ํ์๋ Freeport-McMoRan Inc.์ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ ๋ฌธ(transcript)์ ์ ๊ณตํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด, ๊ธ์ต ์ ๋ฌธ ์ฉ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์กดํ๊ณ ํ์์ ์ด์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๋ฉด์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ์ ํํ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๋ฒ์ญํด ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.* **๋ฒ์ญ ์ ์ ์ง๋ ์ฃผ์ ์์:** - ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ฉ์ด์ ์ ํ์ฑ - ํ์์ ์ด์กฐ ๋ฐ ๋์์ค - ํฌ์์ ๋์ ์ ๋ฌธ์ ํํ - ์์น ๋ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ ์ ํ์ฑ ๋ฒ์ญ์ ์ํ์๋ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ ๋ ฅํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. |
| (FCX) Q4 2025 Earnings Call January 22, 2026 10:00 AM EST Company Participants David Joint - Vice President of Investor Relations Richard Adkerson Kathleen Quirk - CEO, President & Director Maree Robertson - Executive VP & CFO Cory Stevens - President & COO of Freeport Americas Mark Johnson - President & COO of Freeport-McMoRan Indonesia Conference Call Participants Carlos de Alba - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Katja Jancic - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Alexander Hacking - Citigroup Inc., Research Division Bob Brackett - Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division Lawson Winder - BofA Securities, Research Division William Peterson - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Liam Fitzpatrick - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division Timna Tanners - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Brian MacArthur - Raymond James Ltd., Research Division Presentation Operator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Freeport-McMoRan Fourth Quarter Conference Call. | (FCX) 2025๋
4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ 2026๋
1์ 22์ผ ์ค์ 10์ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋๋ถ ํ์ค์) ํ์ฌ ์ฐธ์์ David Joint - ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ Richard Adkerson Kathleen Quirk - CEO, ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์ฌ Maree Robertson - ์ ๋ฌด์ด์ฌ ๊ฒธ CFO Cory Stevens - Freeport Americas ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ COO Mark Johnson - Freeport-McMoRan Indonesia ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ COO ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ ์ฐธ์ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ Carlos de Alba - Morgan Stanley, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Katja Jancic - BMO Capital Markets ์ฃผ์ ๋ฆฌ์์น Alexander Hacking - Citigroup Inc., ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Bob Brackett - Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Lawson Winder - BofA Securities, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ William Peterson - JPMorgan Chase & Co, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Liam Fitzpatrick - Deutsche Bank AG, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Timna Tanners - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Brian MacArthur - Raymond James Ltd., ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ฐํ ์ด์์ ์ ์ฌ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. Freeport-McMoRan 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ค์ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. David Joint, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. David Joint Vice President of Investor Relations Thank you, Regina, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Freeport conference call. Earlier this morning, FCX reported its fourth quarter and full year 2025 operating and financial results. A copy of today's press release with supplemental schedules and slides are available on our website fcx.com. Today's conference call is being broadcast live on the Internet. Anyone may listen to the conference call by accessing the webcast link on our home page. | [๋ฐํ์ ์ง์์ฌํญ] ์ด์ ํ์๋ฅผ David Joint ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ๋๊ป ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค. David Joint ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, Regina. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น. Freeport ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ค์ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์์นจ ์ผ์ฐ FCX๋ 2025๋ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ด์ ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ค์ ์ ๋ฐํํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ ์ฌ๋ณธ๊ณผ ๋ณด์ถฉ ์๋ฃ ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋๋ ์ ํฌ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ fcx.com์์ ํ์ธํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ธํฐ๋ท์ ํตํด ์ค์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐฉ์ก๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์ ํฌ ํํ์ด์ง์ ์น์บ์คํธ ๋งํฌ์ ์ ์ํ์ฌ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ฒญ์ทจํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| In addition to analysts and investors, the financial press has been invited to listen to today's call. A replay of the webcast will be available on our website later today. Before we begin our comments, we'd like to remind everyone that today's press release and certain of our comments on the call include non-GAAP measures and forward-looking statements, and actual results may differ materially. Please refer to the cautionary language included in our press release and slides and to the risk factors described in our SEC filings, all of which are available on our website. | ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ์ ํฌ์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ ์ธ์๋ ๊ธ์ต ์ธ๋ก ์ฌ๋ค์ด ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ ์ด๋๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์น์บ์คํธ ์ฌ์์ ์ค๋ ๋ฆ๊ฒ ๋น์ฌ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์์ ์ด์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋ ผ์๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ ์, ์ค๋ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ์ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์์์ ์ผ๋ถ ๋ฐ์ธ์๋ ๋น-GAAP ์งํ(non-GAAP measures)์ ์ ๋ง ์ง์ (forward-looking statements)์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์์์ ์๊ธฐ์์ผ ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ ๋ฐ ํ๋ ์ ํ ์ด์ ์๋ฃ์ ํฌํจ๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ์ SEC ์ ์ถ ์๋ฅ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ ์ํ ์์ธ๋ค์ ์ฐธ์กฐํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์๋ฃ๋ ๋น์ฌ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์์ ํ์ธํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Also on the call with me today are Richard Adkerson, Chairman of the Board; Kathleen Quirk, President and Chief Executive Officer; Maree Robertson, Executive Vice President and CFO; and other members of our management team. Richard will make some opening remarks, Kathleen will review our slide materials and then we'll open up the call for questions. Richard? Richard Adkerson Thanks, David. I thank each of you for joining our call today. We are pleased to report positive results for our fourth quarter. 2025 was a truly eventful year. Recent copper prices have been strong in the face of uncertainties from global trade, tariffs and geopolitical conflicts. The future for copper remains bright. | ์ ์ ํจ๊ป ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์๋ Richard Adkerson ์ด์ฌํ ์์ฅ, Kathleen Quirk ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ CEO, Maree Robertson ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ CFO, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์์ง์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ค์ด ์ฐธ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. Richard๊ฐ ๊ฐํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ , Kathleen์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ํ ํ, ์ง์์๋ต ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Richard? Richard Adkerson ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, David. ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํด ์ฃผ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค. 2025๋ ์ ์ ๋ง ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ํ ํ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ฌด์ญ, ๊ด์ธ, ์ง์ ํ์ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ ์์์๋ ๊ฐ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฏธ๋๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen will report on the notable progress we have achieved during the fourth quarter following the September mud flow event at PTFI. It is impressive and provides our organization confidence about our future. PTFI has a well-designed plan to recover. Now we must execute and we will. Our long-term strategy commitment for Freeport to be foremost in copper remains intact. With our high-quality assets, our strong financial position and our highly motivated, confident global team, I'm personally enthusiastic and confident about Freeport's ability to create significant value for our shareholders and all of our stakeholders. Kathleen? | ์บ์ฌ๋ฆฐ์ด 9์ PTFI ํ ์๋ฅ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ดํ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ ๋งํ ์ง์ ์ ๋ํด ๋ณด๊ณ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์ธ์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ์ง์ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ํ ํ์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค. PTFI๋ ํ๋ณต์ ์ํ ์ ์ค๊ณ๋ ๊ณํ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์คํํด์ผ ํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆฌํฌํธ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ต์ ์ฝ์์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ ์ง๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ณ ํ์ง ์์ฐ, ํํํ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ถ์ฌ์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ง ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ํ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก, ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฆฌํฌํธ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ฃผ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ดํด๊ด๊ณ์๋ค์ ์ํด ์๋นํ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์บ์ฌ๋ฆฐ? |
| Kathleen Quirk CEO, President & Director Thank you, Richard, and I'm going to be referring to our slide materials. We're very pleased to be here today to report on our fourth quarter results, review our 2025 performance and update you on our initiatives, projects and outlook for the future. Starting with Slide 3 and looking back on our performance in 2025. Our team demonstrated resilience in overcoming challenges and achieved meaningful progress on several initiatives to support a strong foundation and position the company for a positive long-term future, centered on value creation. | ์บ์ฌ๋ฆฐ ํดํฌ CEO, ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์ฌ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, ๋ฆฌ์ฒ๋. ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ์ฌ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ๊ณ , 2025๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ํ๋ฉฐ, ํฅํ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ, ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 3๋ถํฐ ์์ํ์ฌ 2025๋ ์ค์ ์ ๋์๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ํ์ ์ด๋ ค์์ ๊ทน๋ณตํ๋ ํ๋ณต๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ์น ์ฐฝ์ถ์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ํ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ์ํด ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ง์ ๋ํ๊ณ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์ง์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ์์ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| As we look ahead, we're strongly positioned as an experienced global leader with compelling opportunities to enhance values through our ongoing operational initiatives and future prospects for substantial cash flow generation, which support investments in profitable growth and returns to shareholders. We show our annual information on this slide on Slide 3, on copper sales, unit costs and financial metrics for the year 2025. We finished the year strong with copper sales and net unit cash costs slightly better than our adjusted guidance for the year. | ์์ผ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ ๋งํ ๋, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋๊ณผ ํฅํ ์๋นํ ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ ์ฐฝ์ถ ์ ๋ง์ ํตํด ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ ๊ฒฝํ ๋ง์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ๋๋ก์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ ์ง๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์์ต์ฑ ์๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์์ ์ฃผ์ฃผํ์์ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 3์์ 2025๋ ๋ ํ๋งค๋, ๋จ์์๊ฐ ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ฌด์งํ์ ๋ํ ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ ํ๋งค๋๊ณผ ์ ๋จ์ ํ๊ธ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ฐ๊ฐ ์กฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ์ํญ ์ํํ๋ฉฐ ํ ํด๋ฅผ ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Despite the Grasberg incident, which impacted annual copper volumes by approximately 10% compared to our plan going into 2025, our consolidated unit net cash cost for the year of $1.65 per pound were within 3% of our guidance going into the year and adjusted EBITDA of nearly $10 billion for 2025 was similar to 2024 levels. From a big picture standpoint, the results demonstrate the benefits of our diversified portfolio of copper assets. It's clearly evident in our strong fourth quarter financial results the strength of our Americas business in this environment. I'm going to turn to our focus areas for 2026 where we summarize on Slide 4 our priorities. The first is execution. | 2025๋ ๊ณํ ๋๋น ์ฐ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์ฐ๋์ ์ฝ 10%์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น Grasberg ์ฌ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ , ๋น์ฌ์ ์ฐ๊ฐ ํตํฉ ๋จ์ ์ํ๊ธ๋น์ฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น 1.65๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ์ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค ๋๋น 3% ์ด๋ด๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2025๋ ์กฐ์ EBITDA๋ ์ฝ 100์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก 2024๋ ์์ค๊ณผ ์ ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค. ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฌํ ์ค์ ์ ๋น์ฌ์ ๋ค๊ฐํ๋ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์ฐ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ๋น์ฌ ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ค์ ์์ ๋ช ํํ ๋๋ฌ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 4์ ์์ฝ๋ 2026๋ ์ค์ ๋ถ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ์คํ์ ๋๋ค. |
| This is a hallmark of the Freeport culture. We're committed to maintaining Freeport's long track record for successful execution, carefully planning our work and bringing relentless focus and energy on achieving our plans. The Grasberg incident was humbling but our team has risen to the challenge and is dedicated to safely and sustainably restoring our operations as we go through 2026. | ์ด๊ฒ์ ํ๋ฆฌํฌํธ ๋ฌธํ์ ํน์ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์คํ์ ๋ํ ํ๋ฆฌํฌํธ์ ์ค๋ ์ค์ ์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ , ์ ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ ์คํ๊ฒ ๊ณํํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณํ ๋ฌ์ฑ์ ์ํด ๋์์๋ ์ง์ค๊ณผ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ์๋ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒธ์ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ ์ด ๋์ ์ ๋ง์ ์ผ์ด์ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ 2026๋ ๊น์ง ์์ ํ๊ณ ์ง์๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ด์์ ๋ณต๊ตฌํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Across the business, we're sharply focused on delivering our planned volumes, meeting our cost targets, executing capital projects safely and efficiently and are maintaining discipline each day on the underlying metrics which drive our results, managing risk, overcoming unforeseen challenges and staying on top of what matters, both for the short term and the long term. A second key focus area is crystallizing value in our leach opportunity. This is a meaningful value driver for our business, given the opportunity for near-term low-cost growth. | ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณํ๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ๋ฌ์ฑ, ๋น์ฉ ๋ชฉํ ์ถฉ์กฑ, ์๋ณธ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์์ ํ๊ณ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ์คํ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋์ด๋ด๋ ํต์ฌ ์งํ๋ค์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ผ ๊ท์จ์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๊ณ , ์์์น ๋ชปํ ๊ณผ์ ๋ค์ ๊ทน๋ณตํ๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๊ธฐ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๋ชจ๋์์ ์ค์ํ ์ฌํญ๋ค์ ์ฒ ์ ํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ํต์ฌ ์ง์ค ์์ญ์ ์นจ์ถ(leach) ๊ธฐํ์์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ฒดํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋จ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋น์ฉ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฌ์ ์ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๊ฐ์น ์ฐฝ์ถ ๋๋ ฅ์ ๋๋ค. |
| The work we have done in recent years position us to scale production in the coming years and we're targeting a 40% increase in 2026 from this initiative on our path to achieving 800 million pounds per annum. Third, we're adopting innovation, automation and new technologies to drive enhancements to reliability, efficiencies and overall operational performance. These initiatives show promise for significant value as we work to reduce costs, enhance growth and profitability of our U.S. business. We have a robust profile of organic growth options, and we'll continue to advance these initiatives during the year. | ์ต๊ทผ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ํํ ์์ ์ ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ์์ฐ์ ํ๋ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ง๋ จํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ๊ฐ 8์ต ํ์ด๋ ๋ฌ์ฑ์ ํฅํ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์ด๋ฒ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ฅผ ํตํด 2026๋ ์ 40% ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์งธ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ, ํจ์จ์ฑ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ด์ ์ฑ๊ณผ ํฅ์์ ์ํด ํ์ , ์๋ํ ๋ฐ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ค์ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋ฐ ์์ต์ฑ ํฅ์์ ์ํด ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์๋นํ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ์ต์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌํด ๋์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ค์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์งํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| We've got 3 projects, major projects in the Americas that provide optionality for future growth. And as we go forward, our team is focused on opportunities to increase margins and cash flows through greater efficiencies and disciplined investments in long-term growth. Turning to the markets on Slide 5. Prices on the LME during 2025 traded in a broad range, between $3.87 per pound and $5.68 per pound, averaging $4.51 per pound for the year. On the U.S. COMEX exchange, average prices for the year were slightly higher, although the differential is not significant year-to-date in 2026. | ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 5์ ์์ฅ ์ํฉ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. 2025๋
๋์ LME ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น 3.87๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ 5.68๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋์ ๋ฒ์์์ ๊ฑฐ๋๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐํ๊ท ํ์ด๋๋น 4.51๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ COMEX ๊ฑฐ๋์์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ฐํ๊ท ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ์ํญ ๋์์ง๋ง, 2026๋
ํ์ฌ๊น์ง์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ฐจ์ด๋ ํฌ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด ์ง์ญ์ 3๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ด ํฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ํ ์ ํ๊ถ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ ํจ์จ์ฑ ์ ๊ณ ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ํ ๊ท์จ ์๋ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ง์ง๊ณผ ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ์ ์ฆ๋์ํฌ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ์ ์ง์คํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Prices have risen significantly in recent months, with current LME prices approximately 30% higher than the 2025 average. During 2025, copper prices largely track macro sentiment, market-weighed U.S. dollar weakness, expected U.S. rate cuts, accelerating AI and technology-driven demand and Chinese stimulus against mixed economic data, uncertainty around tariff and trade policy, economic pressures in China and elevated geopolitical risk. At a micro level, demand benefited from secular demand trends associated with electrification and AI data centers and offset the impact of weakness in private construction and more cyclical sectors. | ์ต๊ทผ ๋ช ๊ฐ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ํฌ๊ฒ ์์นํ์ฌ, ํ์ฌ LME ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ 2025๋ ํ๊ท ๋๋น ์ฝ 30% ๋์ ์์ค์ ๋๋ค. 2025๋ ๋์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์์ฅ ๊ฐ์ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ฝ์ธ, ์์๋๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ธ๋ฆฌ ์ธํ, ๊ฐ์ํ๋๋ AI ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ ์์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ถ์์ฑ ์ ๋ฐ์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ํผ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์งํ, ๊ด์ธ ๋ฐ ๋ฌด์ญ ์ ์ฑ ์ ๋๋ฌ์ผ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ, ์ค๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ ์กฐ๋ ์ง์ ํ์ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ์ ๋๋น๋๋ ์์์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ์์ ์์ค์์๋ ์ ๊ธฐํ ๋ฐ AI ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ผํฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์์ ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ์์์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ ๊ฑด์ค ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ฝ์ธ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ํ์ ์ธ ์นํฐ๋ค์ ์ํฅ์ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Supply disruptions in copper and regional trade distortions, which drove significant material to the U.S. also impacted copper markets during 2025. In the U.S., our customers are reporting that data center demand represents the most significant source of growth for power cable and building wire. This growing sector is offsetting weakness in traditional demand sectors in residential construction and autos. Demand from China continues to be supported by significant investments in the electrical grid and continued growth in China's production of electric vehicles. China's demand for copper continued to grow during 2025. | 2025๋ ๋์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์ฅ์๋ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ฐจ์ง๊ณผ ์ง์ญ ๋ฌด์ญ ์๊ณก ํ์์ด ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ก ์ธํด ์๋น๋์ ๋ฌผ๋์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ค์ด ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ผํฐ ์์๊ฐ ์ ๋ ฅ ์ผ์ด๋ธ๊ณผ ๊ฑด์ถ์ฉ ์ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ด ์ฃผ๊ฑฐ์ฉ ๊ฑด์ค๊ณผ ์๋์ฐจ ๋ฑ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ์์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ฝ์ธ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๊ตญ์ ์์๋ ์ ๋ ฅ๋ง์ ๋ํ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํฌ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ ์์ฐ์ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ํ์ ์ด ๊ณ์ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๊ตญ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์๋ 2025๋ ๋์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| As you'll see in this chart, global inventories of copper on exchanges have risen in recent months, during a period of sharp increases in copper prices. Most analysts are projecting that the market will be tightly balanced during 2026 with some projecting deficits and other small surpluses. Copper superior conductivity make it the metal when it comes to electrification. Massive investment in the power grid, renewable generation, technology infrastructure, and transportation are driving increased demand for copper and forecasts call for above-trend growth in demand for the foreseeable future. | ์ด ์ฐจํธ์์ ๋ณด์๋ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ธ๋ฑํ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ์ต๊ทผ ๋ช ๊ฐ์๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ๋์์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ค์ 2026๋ ์์ฅ์ด ํ์ดํธํ๊ฒ ๊ท ํ์ ์ด๋ฃฐ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ๋ ๊ณต๊ธ ๋ถ์กฑ์, ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ๋ถ๋ ์ํญ์ ๊ณต๊ธ ๊ณผ์์ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฐ์ํ ์ ๋์ฑ์ ์ ๊ธฐํ(electrification)์ ์์ด ์ต์ ์ ๊ธ์์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด์ค๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ฅ๋ง, ์ฌ์์๋์ง ๋ฐ์ , ๊ธฐ์ ์ธํ๋ผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์ก ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํฌ์๊ฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์ธก์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ฏธ๋์ ์ถ์ธ๋ฅผ ์ํํ๋ ์์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ์ง์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. |
| As we review the fundamentals, we continue to expect the market will require additional copper supplies to meet growing demand. And at Freeport, we're well positioned to supply copper reliably and responsibly to a growing market. You've probably seen by now the recent report from S&P Global, which was released earlier this month. On Slide 6 and 7, we published some highlights of the report. It was a new study, which evaluated the role of copper in the age of artificial intelligence, and we've summarized key findings, which indicate that massive growth in demand for electricity will translate into above-trend growth in copper demand pointing to a doubling of copper demand through 2040. | ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ๊ฒํ ํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์์ฅ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ ์์๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ํ์๋ก ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ์ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Freeport๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ ์์ฅ์ ์์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ์ฑ ์๊ฐ ์๊ฒ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธํ ์ ์๋ ์ข์ ์์น์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ฌ ์ด์ ๋ฐํ๋ S&P Global์ ์ต๊ทผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ณด์ จ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 6๊ณผ 7์์ ํด๋น ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๊ฒ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ ์๋์์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ญํ ์ ํ๊ฐํ ์๋ก์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๋ ฅ ์์์ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์์ ์ถ์ธ ์ด์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ 2040๋ ๊น์ง ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์๊ฐ ๋ ๋ฐฐ๋ก ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์์ ์์ฌํ๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ์ฌํญ๋ค์ ์์ฝํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| The study projects a long-term annual growth rate and demand of 2.9% over this period, including significant growth in new secular demand drivers. The report is available from S&P Global, and we encourage everyone to take a look at it. Moving to our fourth quarter results on Slide 8. We've got a summary of the quarter. Our operating performance during the fourth quarter was favorable to our estimates going into the period. Production was in line with expectations and sales were better than expected principally because of timing of shipments in Indonesia. | 8ํ์ด์ง์ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ฝ ๋ด์ฉ์
๋๋ค. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์
์ค์ ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ด ์์์น ๋๋น ์ํธํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฐ๋์ ์์๊ณผ ์ผ์นํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฃผ๋ก ์ธ๋๋ค์์ ์ ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ก ์ธํด ์์๋ณด๋ค ์ฐ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ S&P Global์์ ํ์ธํ์ค ์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ค๊ป์ ๊ฒํ ํด ๋ณด์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ถ์ฅํฉ๋๋ค. ํด๋น ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฐํ๊ท ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ๊ณผ ์์๋ 2.9%๋ก ์ ๋ง๋๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ์๋ก์ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์์ ๋์ธ์ ์๋นํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| As indicated in our November update, we completed investigations on the Grasberg incident and restarted the Deep MLZ and Big Gossan mines during the fourth quarter. Since our November report, we've continued to make steady progress to prepare the Grasberg Block Cave to resume operations and we're on track for a second quarter 2026 start-up. With strength in copper prices during the quarter, the performance of our U.S. business was quite strong with operating income 3.5x the level of the 2024 fourth quarter. This demonstrates the positive leverage of pricing at these operations with strong conversion to the bottom line. | 11์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ๋น์ฌ๋ Grasberg ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ํ ์กฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ฃํ์ผ๋ฉฐ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค Deep MLZ์ Big Gossan ๊ด์ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค. 11์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ดํ, Grasberg Block Cave์ ์ด์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ค๋น ์์ ์ ๊พธ์คํ ์งํํด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ผ์ ์ ์ฐจ์ง ์์ด ์งํ ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ํ์ ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์ ์ค์ ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์ ์ด์ต์ 2024๋ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋น 3.5๋ฐฐ ์์ค์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ํด๋น ์ฌ์ ์ฅ๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์์น์ ๋ํ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ํจ๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์์ต ์ ํ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Moving to the operating statistics on Slide 9, we summarized the highlights by geographic region. Starting in the U.S., production was up 5% versus both the year ago fourth quarter and for the year 2025 versus 2024. This is notable given the declines that we faced in the prior 2 years. And despite the low grades, we've been working to increase volumes in the U.S. through efficiency gains and through our leach recovery initiatives. We're targeting an 8% increase in volumes in the U.S. for 2026 in part related to adding scale in our innovative leach project. We're making excellent progress with our initiatives to improve efficiencies and cost performance. | 9ํ์ด์ง์ ์ด์ ํต๊ณ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ์, ์ง์ญ๋ณ ์ฃผ์ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์์ฝํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ถํฐ ์์ํ๋ฉด, ์์ฐ๋์ ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋น 5% ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ณ , 2025๋ ์ ์ฒด๋ก๋ 2024๋ ๋๋น 5% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ง๋ 2๋ ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฉดํ๋ ๊ฐ์์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ ๋งํ ์ฑ๊ณผ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฎ์ ํ์์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํจ์จ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ ์นจ์ถ ํ์ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ์์ฐ๋์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ ธ๋ ฅํด์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์๋ ํ์ ์ ์ธ ์นจ์ถ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๊ท๋ชจ ํ๋์ ๊ด๋ จํ์ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ์์ฐ๋์ 8% ์ฆ๊ฐ์ํค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํจ์จ์ฑ๊ณผ ์๊ฐ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ์์ ์ฐ์ํ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| We're continuing to integrate new technologies to realize better performance in our basic mining functions, and we're successful in 2025 in converting our haul truck fleet at our Bagdad mine to autonomous. We're continuing to refine the autonomous process but are optimistic that the value proposition of this technology can be applied on a broader scale. In South America, performance was in line with expectations. The Cerro Verde team will highlight finish strong to deliver another solid year. Our copper sales for South America for the year 2025 totaled 1.1 billion pounds and the expectations is that we'll have a similar amount of sales from South America during 2026. | ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ฑ๊ตด ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ ๋ ๋์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์คํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํตํฉํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2025๋ ์๋ Bagdad ๊ด์ฐ์ ์ด๋ฐ ํธ๋ญ ์ฐจ๋์ ์์จ์ฃผํ์ผ๋ก ์ ํํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฑ๊ณตํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์จ์ฃผํ ํ๋ก์ธ์ค๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ์น ์ ์์ด ๋ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ๊ท๋ชจ๋ก ์ ์ฉ๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ดํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋จ๋ฏธ์์์ ์ค์ ์ ์์์ ๋ถํฉํ์ต๋๋ค. Cerro Verde ํ์ ๋ ํ ํด ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. 2025๋ ๋จ๋ฏธ ์ง์ญ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ๋งค๋์ ์ด 11์ต ํ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋ ์๋ ๋จ๋ฏธ์์ ๋น์ทํ ์์ค์ ํ๋งค๋์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Our unit net cash costs in South America for the fourth quarter averaged $2.57 per pound and we expect a similar level in 2026. We're expecting stable production levels at Cerro Verde and some growth at El Abra, our project in Chile in partnership with CODELCO over the next couple of years. There's a lot of activity at El Abra currently with a leach pad extension and plans to conduct testing during 2026 of heated stockpile injections to enhance leach recoveries. We're also finalizing the preparation of an environmental impact statement for a major expansion at El Abra, which we plan to submit in the first half of this year. | ๋จ๋ฏธ ์ง์ญ์ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋จ์ ์ํ๊ธ๋น์ฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น ํ๊ท 2.57๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋ ์๋ ๋น์ทํ ์์ค์ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ Cerro Verde์์๋ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์์ฐ ์์ค์, CODELCO์ ํํธ๋์ญ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ํ๋ ์น ๋ El Abra ํ๋ก์ ํธ์์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ El Abra์์๋ ์นจ์ถ ํจ๋(leach pad) ํ์ฅ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์นจ์ถ ํ์์จ์ ํฅ์์ํค๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฐ์ด ์ ์ฅ๋๋ฏธ ์ฃผ์ (heated stockpile injection) ํ ์คํธ๋ฅผ 2026๋ ์ค ์ค์ํ ๊ณํ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ ํ๋์ด ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ El Abra์ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํ์ฅ์ ์ํ ํ๊ฒฝ์ํฅํ๊ฐ์ ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌํด ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ค ์ ์ถํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| With our progress, you'll see we added reserves for the El Abra expansion of over 17 billion pounds of copper, and we're excited about this project as we progress through the regulatory process. In Indonesia, in line with our plans, we operated on a limited basis from the Deep MLZ and Big Gossan mines during the fourth quarter and continued our preparation for the planned restart of the Grasberg Block Cave. Sales for the fourth quarter exceeded production by about 60 million pounds of copper, which was a timing variance. Operations at 1 of 2 smelters resumed late in the year and the new smelter remains in standby status with an expected restart later this year. | ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง์ ์ํฉ์ ๋ณด์๋ฉด, El Abra ํ์ฅ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํด 170์ต ํ์ด๋ ์ด์์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๋งค์ฅ๋์ ์ถ๊ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ท์ ์น์ธ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์งํํ๋ฉด์ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํด ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ธ๋๋ค์์์์๋ ๊ณํ๋๋ก 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ Deep MLZ์ Big Gossan ๊ด์ฐ์์ ์ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, Grasberg Block Cave์ ๊ณํ๋ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋์ ์ํ ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ํ๋งค๋์ ์์ฐ๋์ ์ฝ 6์ฒ๋ง ํ์ด๋์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋งํผ ์ด๊ณผํ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์๊ธฐ์ ์ฐจ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. 2๊ฐ ์ ๋ จ์ ์ค 1๊ฐ์ ์ด์์ด ์ฐ๋ง์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๊ท ์ ๋ จ์๋ ๋๊ธฐ ์ํ๋ก ์ ์ง๋๊ณ ์๊ณ ์ฌํด ํ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋๋ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| We've made great progress to restore operations at the Grasberg Block Cave, which we'll cover in more detail on the next 2 slides. On Slide 10, we provide a refresher from our November call, the various work streams required to safely restart operations at the Grasberg Block Cave. As a reminder, the Grasberg Block Cave represents the most significant contributor in the district. We provided a schematic on the right showing the various production blocks within the Grasberg Block Cave. And as a reminder, the incident occurred in Production Block 1C. | ๋ค์ 2๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋์์ ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ธ(Grasberg Block Cave)์ ์ด์ ๋ณต๊ตฌ์ ์์ด ํฐ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 10์์๋ ์ง๋ 11์ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ์ ๋ฆฌํด๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ธ์ ์์ ํ ์ด์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ํด ํ์ํ ๋ค์ํ ์์ ๊ณผ์ ๋ค์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ธ๋ ์ด ๊ด๊ตฌ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ์์ฐ ๊ธฐ์ฌ ๊ด์ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ธ ๋ด ๋ค์ํ ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก๋ค์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฐ๋ต๋๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํด๋๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋ก, ์ด๋ฒ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 1C์์ ๋ฐ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Our plan incorporates a phased restart and ramp-up of the Grasberg Block Cave beginning in the second quarter, initially in Production Blocks 2 and 3, followed by Production Block 1S in middle of 2027 and finally, Production 1C at the end of 2027. With the successful ramp-up of Production Blocks 2 and 3 beginning in the second quarter, we expect to have 85% of production restored in the district in the second half of this year. | ์ ํฌ ๊ณํ์ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ถํฐ Grasberg Block Cave์ ๋จ๊ณ์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฆ์ฐ์ ํฌํจํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ธฐ์๋ ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 2์ 3์์ ์์ํ์ฌ, 2027๋ ์ค๋ฐ์ ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 1S, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ต์ข ์ ์ผ๋ก 2027๋ ๋ง์ ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 1C๋ฅผ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. 2๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ถํฐ ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 2์ 3์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ฆ์ฐ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป, ์ฌํด ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์๋ ํด๋น ๊ด๊ตฌ์ ์์ฐ๋์ 85% ์์ค๊น์ง ํ๋ณตํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| The milestones for restarting Production Blocks 2 and 3 include cleanup of the mud in the tunnels, principally in the service area, the installation of cement plugs to isolate the panels in Production Block IC and to ensure there's no connection to the surface and replacement of the electrical and communication systems damaged in the incident. For production Block 1S the repairs are expected to extend beyond the restart of PB 2 and PB 3, principally to install additional protective barriers and replace the number of damaged chutes used to transport ore to the haulage level. We continue to target a restart of PB 1, both PB 1S and PB 1C during 2027. | ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 2์ 3์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋์ ์ํ ์ฃผ์ ์ด์ ํ๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์๋น์ค ๊ตฌ์ญ์ ํฐ๋ ๋ด ํ ์ฌ ์ ๊ฑฐ ์์ , ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 1C์ ํจ๋์ ๊ฒฉ๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ์งํ๋ฉด๊ณผ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ์๋๋ก ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์๋ฉํธ ํ๋ฌ๊ทธ ์ค์น, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ก ์์๋ ์ ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ํต์ ์์คํ ๊ต์ฒด ์์ ์ ํฌํจํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 1S์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ๋ณต๊ตฌ ์์ ์ด PB 2์ PB 3์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ ์์ ์ ๋์ด ์ฐ์ฅ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์ถ๊ฐ ๋ณดํธ ์ฅ๋ฒฝ ์ค์น์ ๊ด์์ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ ๋ฒจ๋ก ์ด์กํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ ๋ค์์ ์์๋ ์ํธ ๊ต์ฒด ์์ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ๋ 2027๋ ์ค PB 1S์ PB 1C๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ PB 1 ์ ์ฒด์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| And we're going to continue to progress the reopening plan as we monitor progress with various mitigation initiatives for the Production Block 1. We're incorporating recommendations from the investigation to enhance our risk management mitigation and the incident highlighted the need for more dynamic case management plans tailored for various conditions and for more robust controls and operational procedures to address areas subject to risks from an external mud rush. In addition, we're continuing to adopt new innovative approaches to mud drainage solutions for the pit bottom. | ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 1(Production Block 1)์ ๋ํ ๋ค์ํ ์ํ ์กฐ์น๋ค์ ์งํ ์ํฉ์ ๋ชจ๋ํฐ๋งํ๋ฉด์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ ๊ณํ์ ๊ณ์ ์ถ์งํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์กฐ์ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ๊ถ๊ณ ์ฌํญ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ค์ํ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ ๋ง์ถ ๋ณด๋ค ์ญ๋์ ์ธ ์ผ์ด์ค ๊ด๋ฆฌ ๊ณํ์ ํ์์ฑ๊ณผ ์ธ๋ถ ํ ์ฌ ์ ์ (mud rush) ์ํ์ ๋ ธ์ถ๋ ๊ตฌ์ญ๋ค์ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํต์ ๋ฐ ์ด์ ์ ์ฐจ์ ํ์์ฑ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ์์ผฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐฑ์ (pit bottom)์ ํ ์ฌ ๋ฐฐ์ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ ์ํ ์๋กญ๊ณ ํ์ ์ ์ธ ์ ๊ทผ๋ฒ๋ค์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| We've got those described on Slide 31 and to adopt emerging technology for imaging to improve cave shape monitoring and those are all being advanced. We've got a scorecard on Slide 11. We're very pleased with the progress that we've made to date. We're tracking the plan. Mud removals in the areas required to commence the start-up of PB 2 and PB 3 is substantially complete and the barriers being installed to isolate Production Block 1 are advanced and expected to be completed in the first quarter. With the installation of the protective plugs, infrastructure repairs are expected to move to completion by quarter end, positioning the restart to commence in the second quarter. | ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 31์ ์ค๋ช ๋ ๋ด์ฉ๋ค๊ณผ ๋๊ตด ํํ ๋ชจ๋ํฐ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋์ ๋ฑ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์งํ ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 11์ ์ฑ๊ณผํ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๊น์ง ์ด๋ฃฌ ์ง์ ์ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณํ๋๋ก ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. PB 2์ PB 3์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฐ์์ ํ์ํ ๊ตฌ์ญ์ ์งํ ์ ๊ฑฐ ์์ ์ด ์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฃ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์ฐ ๋ธ๋ก 1์ ๊ฒฉ๋ฆฌํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ฐจ๋จ๋ฒฝ ์ค์น๊ฐ ์งํ ์ค์ด๊ณ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ด ์๋ฃ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ณดํธ ํ๋ฌ๊ทธ ์ค์น์ ํจ๊ป ์ธํ๋ผ ๋ณด์ ์์ ์ด ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง๊น์ง ์๋ฃ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋์ ์์ํ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ด ๋ง๋ จ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| We remain confident in reestablishing large-scale production and in our ability to safely operate this great ore body over the long term. The progress to date continues to derisk the plan and in executing the restart, our team will be vigilant in prioritizing safety above all else. We're pleased to report on our reserve at year-end 2025. Those are reported on Slide 12. As you know, at Freeport, we benefit from a significant reserve and resource position, where we have established operations and successful track records. | ์ ํฌ๋ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์์ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด ์ฐ์ํ ๊ด์ฒด๋ฅผ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ด์ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํด ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๊น์ง์ ์ง์ ์ ๊ณํ์ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ํํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ๊ฐ๋์ ์คํํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์ ํฌ ํ์ ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ ์ต์ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฒ ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. 2025๋ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ฅ๋์ ๋ํด ๋ณด๊ณ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 12์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์๋ค์ํผ, Freeport์์ ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ด์์์ค๊ณผ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด์ ํ ๊ณณ์์ ์๋นํ ๋งค์ฅ๋๊ณผ ์์ ํฌ์ง์ ์ ํํ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| A summary of the reserves are indicated here where we continue to maintain long reserve lives and substantial resources to support long-term production and our growth opportunities. The reserve additions that we're reporting in 2025 are substantially in excess of our production, and those principally relate to the addition of over 17 billion pounds of copper for the El Abra project, which was previously considered a mineral resource. The reserves in Indonesia are included and they're reported through 2041. And we note that an extension is in progress, and that would enable the portion of the reported resource to be included in our longer-term reserve plans. | ์ฌ๊ธฐ ํ์๋ ๋งค์ฅ๋ ์์ฝ์์ ๋ณด์๋ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ๋น์ฌ๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์์ฐ๊ณผ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธด ๋งค์ฅ๋ ์๋ช ๊ณผ ์๋นํ ์์์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2025๋ ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ๋ ๋งค์ฅ๋ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ถ์ ๋น์ฌ์ ์์ฐ๋์ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ด๊ณผํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์ด์ ์ ๊ด๋ฌผ์์(mineral resource)์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฃผ๋์๋ ์ ์๋ธ๋ผ(El Abra) ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ 170์ต ํ์ด๋ ์ด์์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ธ๋๋ค์์์ ๋งค์ฅ๋์ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ 2041๋ ๊น์ง ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ฌ ์ฐ์ฅ์ด ์งํ ์ค์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ์์์ ์ผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋น์ฌ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ฅ๋ ๊ณํ์ ํฌํจ์ํฌ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| In addition to the reserves, we have significant incremental mineral resources with over half located in the United States. We'll point out the large resource in the Safford/Lone Star district as we continue to advance studies to evaluate a major opportunity there. Slide 13, we wanted to update you on our growth plans. It's clear additional copper supplies will be required to support energy infrastructure, new technologies and more advanced societies. Our projects at Freeport would provide significant copper, which can be developed from our known resources in jurisdictions where we have an established history and experience. | ๋งค์ฅ๋ ์ธ์๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ ๋ฐ ์ด์์ด ์์นํ ์๋นํ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ์ถ๊ฐ ๊ด๋ฌผ ์์์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Safford/Lone Star ๊ด๊ตฌ์ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์์์ ํน๋ณํ ์ธ๊ธํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ณณ์ ์ฃผ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 13์์๋ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋์ง ์ธํ๋ผ, ์ ๊ธฐ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋์ฑ ๋ฐ์ ๋ ์ฌํ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ธ์ด ํ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. Freeport์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ฆฝ๋ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ณด์ ํ ์ง์ญ์์ ํ์ธ๋ ์์์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋ ์ ์๋ ์๋นํ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Our projects in Indonesia also benefit from the high gold content that goes along with the copper. Because these projects are brownfield in nature, we benefit from leveraging existing infrastructure and experienced workforce and relationships with key stakeholders to move more quickly with less risk than greenfield projects. We're now entering a period of growth in our Americas business with near- and medium-term opportunities to scale our leach initiatives and double our production at our Bagdad mine. We have longer-term growth in the Safford/Lone Star district and an exciting project, as we mentioned at El Abra in Chile. | ์ธ๋๋ค์์์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ค์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ์ ํจ๊ป ๋์ค๋ ๋์ ๊ธ ํจ๋์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ๋ ์ด์ต์ ์ป๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ด์ฐ ํ์ฅ(brownfield) ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ ๊ณ ์์ด, ๊ธฐ์กด ์ธํ๋ผ์ ์๋ จ๋ ์ธ๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฃผ์ ์ดํด๊ด๊ณ์๋ค๊ณผ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์ ๊ท ๊ด์ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฐ(greenfield) ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ ์ํ์ ์ค์ด๋ฉด์ ์งํํ ์ ์๋ ์ด์ ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ง์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์ค๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์นจ์ถ(leach) ์ฌ์ ์ ํ๋ํ๊ณ Bagdad ๊ด์ฐ์ ์์ฐ๋์ ๋ ๋ฐฐ๋ก ๋๋ฆด ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Safford/Lone Star ์ง์ญ์์๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ ์น ๋ ์ El Abra์์ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| In approaching these projects, we're using innovative approaches to improve efficiencies, reduce costs and capital intensity and work to shorten lead times for our projects. Our high potential, low-cost innovative leach initiative is a great example of doing this. We've talked about what we've done to date. We've produced over 200 million pounds from this initiative in 2025. We're targeting 300 million pounds in 2026. Some of the progress and milestones that we reached in 2025 was the initiation of deployment in the field of our first internally generated additive at Morenci. We've got encouraging results there, and we're planning to adopt it on a broader scale during 2026. | ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ค์ ์ถ์งํจ์ ์์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ๋น์ฉ๊ณผ ์๋ณธ์ง์ฝ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ถ๋ฉฐ ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๋ฆฌ๋ํ์์ ๋จ์ถํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ํ์ ์ ์ธ ์ ๊ทผ๋ฐฉ์์ ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ณ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ, ์ ๋น์ฉ ํ์ ์ ์นจ์ถ(innovative leach) ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ์คํํ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฌ๋ก์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ฑ๊ณผ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2025๋ ์ ์ด ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ฅผ ํตํด 2์ต ํ์ด๋ ์ด์์ ์์ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋ ์๋ 3์ต ํ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2025๋ ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ง์ ์ฌํญ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ค ํ๋๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์(Morenci)์์ ์์ฒด ๊ฐ๋ฐํ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ์ฅ ๋ฐฐ์น๋ฅผ ์์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ป์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋ ์ค์ ๋ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ๊ท๋ชจ๋ก ์ด๋ฅผ ๋์ ํ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. |
| We're continuing to be very encouraged by lab testing of additional additives, and those show even greater promise. We have projects in 2026 in our pipeline for the leach project to test injection of heated solutions in our stockpiles, which together with the additives have potential for significant recovery gains. 2026, we're looking at as a pivotal year for us in this initiative as we work to scale to 400 million pounds in 2027 and to 800 million pounds by 2030. Our expansion opportunity at Bagdad is advancing toward an investment decision. | ์ ํฌ๋ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ํ ์คํ์ค ํ ์คํธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ๊ณ์ํด์ ํฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ํ ์คํธ๋ค์ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ํฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ํ์ดํ๋ผ์ธ์๋ ์นจ์ถ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ณผ์ ๋ค์ด ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์ ํฌ ์ ์น์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ด๋ ์ฉ์ก์ ์ฃผ์ ํ๋ ํ ์คํธ๋ฅผ ์งํํ ์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ์ ํจ๊ป ์ฌ์ฉํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์๋นํ ํ์์จ ํฅ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์ 2027๋ 4์ต ํ์ด๋, 2030๋ ๊น์ง 8์ต ํ์ด๋๋ก ๊ท๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ๋ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๋ ์ด ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ ์ค์ถ์ ์ธ ํด๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Bagdad์์์ ํ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๋ ํฌ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ํฅํด ์ง์ ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| During the first half of the year, we're planning to advance engineering, retest the economics and work with our vendors to secure fixed pricing on major components. We're also continuing to advance our work on tailings infrastructure to further enhance the optionality on timing. We're continuing our studies on Safford/Lone Star district, as we mentioned, to evaluate optimal development options. And then at El Abra, we have a great opportunity with our partner CODELCO to develop a large-scale expansion. Our total reserves at El Abra are getting close to the large position we have at Cerro Verde. | ์ฌํด ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง์ ์งํํ๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ์ ์ฌ๊ฒํ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์ ๋ถํ์ ๋ํ ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ํ์ด๋ฐ ์ต์ ์ ๋์ฑ ๊ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ด๋ฏธ ์ธํ๋ผ ๊ด๋ จ ์์ ๋ ๊ณ์ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด Safford/Lone Star ๊ด๊ตฌ์์๋ ์ต์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ์ต์ ์ ํ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ El Abra์์๋ ํํธ๋์ฌ์ธ CODELCO์ ํจ๊ป ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํ์ฅ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ ์ ์๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. El Abra์ ์ด ๋งค์ฅ๋์ Cerro Verde์์ ๋ณด์ ํ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํฌ์ง์ ์ ๊ทผ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| This is a terrific opportunity for us, and we're looking forward to working with regulators as we commence the permitting process this year. Progress at Kucing Liar is also continuing in Indonesia, and this will allow us to sustain a low-cost, long-term production profile in the Grasberg district. Before we get into our forecast for sales guidance and cost and cash flow, we want to highlight Freeport on Slide 14 as America's Copper Champion. Freeport is an important American copper producer and is by far the largest contributor to the U.S. copper market with an established and successful franchise dating back to the late 1800s. Our operations in the U.S. | ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ํ๋ฅญํ ๊ธฐํ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฌํด ์ธํ๊ฐ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ฉด์ ๊ท์ ๋น๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ธ๋๋ค์์์ Kucing Liar ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ ๊ณ์ ์งํ ์ค์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด Grasberg ์ง์ญ์์ ์ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์์ฐ ํ๋กํ์ ์ ์งํ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ๋งค ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ๋น์ฉ ๋ฐ ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ ผ์ํ๊ธฐ ์ ์, ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 14์์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์ฑํผ์ธ์ผ๋ก์์ Freeport๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. Freeport๋ ์ค์ํ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์ฐ์ ์ฒด์ด๋ฉฐ, 1800๋ ๋ ํ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ฑฐ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ ํ๋ฆฝ๋๊ณ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ํ๋์ฐจ์ด์ฆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์ฅ์ ๋จ์ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฌ์ ์ |
| are fully integrated with smelting and refining facilities and leach processing that efficiently produce refined cathode. Freeport supplies 70% of the refined copper produced in the U.S. And as we pointed out, a large portion of our reserves, resources and future growth are in the U.S. We're driving a series of initiatives to enhance our U.S. business through innovation, automation and investment in expanded facilities. These initiatives are designed to add production at a low incremental cost and improve profitability and resiliency of our U.S. business. In an industry where development lead times can span more than a decade, our business in the U.S. | ์ ๋ จ ๋ฐ ์ ์ ์์ค๊ณผ ์นจ์ถ ๊ณต์ ์ด ์์ ํ ํตํฉ๋์ด ์์ด ์ ์ ์๊ทน๋์ ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Freeport๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์์ฐ๋๋ ์ ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ์ 70%๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ๋น์ฌ ๋งค์ฅ๋, ์์ ๋ฐ ํฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์๋น ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์ , ์๋ํ ๋ฐ ํ์ฅ ์์ค์ ๋ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ผ๋ จ์ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ฅผ ์ถ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ ๋ฎ์ ์ฆ๋ถ ๋น์ฉ์ผ๋ก ์์ฐ๋์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ์ ์์ต์ฑ๊ณผ ํ๋ณตํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋๋ก ์ค๊ณ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌ๋ํ์์ด 10๋ ์ด์ ์์๋ ์ ์๋ ์ฐ์ ์์, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ๋น์ฌ ์ฌ์ ์ |
| is strongly positioned with a potential for an over 50% increase in copper production as we go through the next 4 to 5 years. We're very excited about these opportunities, and they -- most of all, they represent a significant value driver for Freeport. Maree is going to cover our outlook and then we'll circle back and open up the call for questions. Maree? Maree Robertson Executive VP & CFO Thanks, Kathleen. If you turn to Slide 15, we show our 3-year outlook for sales volumes of copper, gold and molybdenum. The plans are very similar to our last update in November. Our 2026 copper sales have been adjusted slightly to address the timing of sales between 2025 and 2026. | ํฅํ 4~5๋
๋์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ์์ฐ๋์ด 50% ์ด์ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ด ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์
์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ด๋ Freeport์ ์ค์ํ ๊ฐ์น ์ฐฝ์ถ ๋๋ ฅ์ ๋ํ๋
๋๋ค. Maree๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ค๋ฃฐ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ํ ๋ค์ ๋์์์ ์ง์์๋ต ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Maree? Maree Robertson ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ ์ต๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ฑ ์์(CFO) ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, Kathleen. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 15ํ์ด์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๋ฉด, ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ธ, ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๋ธ๋ด์ ํ๋งค๋์ ๋ํ 3๊ฐ๋ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณํ์ ์ง๋ 11์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. 2026๋ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ๋งค๋์ 2025๋ ๊ณผ 2026๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ํ๋งค ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ํ์ฌ ์ํญ ์กฐ์ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| As indicated, we expect growing volumes in 2027 and 2028 as we reach full recovery at Grasberg. We provide quarterly estimates on Page 27 of the reference materials. We expect to be at a quarterly run rate of approximately 1 billion pounds per quarter in the second half of 2026. The unit net cash costs are expected to average $1.75 per pound for 2026 assuming byproduct credits priced at $4,000 per ounce of gold and $20 per pound for molybdenum. With growing volumes, our first half costs are expected to be above the average for the year, with second half costs approximating $1.25 per pound, which is more reflective of a normalized run rate. | ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, 2027๋ ๊ณผ 2028๋ ์๋ Grasberg์ ์์ ํ๋ณต์ ๋๋ฌํ๋ฉด์ ์์ฐ๋์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ์๋ฃ 27ํ์ด์ง์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ ์ถ์ ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋น ์ฝ 10์ต ํ์ด๋์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ฐ๋ ์์ค์ ๋๋ฌํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋จ์๋น ์ํ๊ธ๋น์ฉ์ ๊ธ ์จ์ค๋น 4,000๋ฌ๋ฌ, ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๋ธ๋ด ํ์ด๋๋น 20๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ๋ถ์ฐ๋ฌผ ํฌ๋ ๋ง ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ 2026๋ ํ๊ท ํ์ด๋๋น 1.75๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์์ฐ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ฐ๊ฐ ํ๊ท ์ ์ํํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋น์ฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น ์ฝ 1.25๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ์ ์ํ๋ ์์ค์ ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Flipping to Slide 16, putting together our projected volumes and cost estimates, we show modeled results on Slide 16 for EBITDA and cash flow at various copper prices ranging from $4 to $6 per pound of copper. These are modeled results using the average of 2027 and 2028 with current volume and cost estimates and holding gold flat at $4,000 per ounce and moly flat at $20 per pound. Annual EBITDA would range from approximately $11 billion per annum at $4 per pound copper to over $19 billion per annum at $6 copper with operating cash flows ranging from approximately $8 billion per year at $4 to over $14 billion per year at $6 copper. | ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 16์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ์, ์์ ์์ฐ๋๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ์ถ์ ์น๋ฅผ ์ข ํฉํ์ฌ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 16์์๋ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด๋๋น 4๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ 6๋ฌ๋ฌ๊น์ง ๋ค์ํ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์์์ EBITDA์ ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ์ ๋ํ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ 2027๋ ๊ณผ 2028๋ ์ ํ๊ท ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ณ ํ์ฌ์ ์์ฐ๋ ๋ฐ ๋น์ฉ ์ถ์ ์น๋ฅผ ์ ์ฉํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์จ์ค๋น 4,000๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก, ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๋ธ๋ด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น 20๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ๊ณ ์ ํ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ฐ EBITDA๋ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด๋๋น 4๋ฌ๋ฌ์ผ ๋ ์ฝ 110์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด๋๋น 6๋ฌ๋ฌ์ผ ๋ 190์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์์ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์์ ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด๋๋น 4๋ฌ๋ฌ์ผ ๋ ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ฝ 80์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด๋๋น 6๋ฌ๋ฌ์ผ ๋ ์ฐ๊ฐ 140์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์์ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ผ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| The dotted line shows the 2026 estimates, which reflects the phased ramp-up at Grasberg. These amounts exclude potential recovery under our property and business interruption insurance coverage. The policy provides coverage for up to $700 million for underground losses. We show sensitivities to various commodities on the rise. You will note, we are highly leveraged to copper prices with each $0.10 per pound change equating to approximately $415 million in annual EBITDA in the 2027-2028 periods. We'll also benefit from improving gold prices with each $100 per ounce change in price approximating $120 million in annual EBITDA. | ์ ์ ์ 2026๋ ์ถ์ ์น๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ Grasberg์ ๋จ๊ณ์ ์ฆ์ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ธ์ก๋ค์ ์ฌ์ฐ ๋ฐ ์์ ์ค๋จ ๋ณดํ ๋ณด์์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์ ์ฌ์ ํ์์ก์ ์ ์ธํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ณดํ ์ ์ฑ ์ ์งํ ๊ด์ฐ ์์ค์ ๋ํด ์ต๋ 7์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ๋ณด์์ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ธก์๋ ๋ค์ํ ์์์ฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ํ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณด์๋ค์ํผ, ๋น์ฌ๋ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋์ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ์ด๋๋น 0.10๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋ณ๋์ด 2027-2028๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ์ฐ๊ฐ EBITDA ์ฝ 4์ต 1,500๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ํด๋นํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์์น์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ๋ ํํ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์จ์ค๋น 100๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋ณ๋์ด ์ฐ๊ฐ EBITDA ์ฝ 1์ต 2,000๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ํด๋นํฉ๋๋ค. |
| With our long-lived reserves and large-scale production, we are well positioned to generate substantial cash flow to fund future organic growth and cash returns under our performance-based payout framework. Slide 17 shows our current forecast for capital expenditures in 2026 and 2027. Capital expenditures for 2025 totaled $3.9 billion, $0.5 billion below our plan going into 2025 and are expected to approximate $4.3 billion to $4.5 billion in 2026 and 2027. We have added $150 million in capital in 2026 to advance engineering and early works at Bagdad to enhance optionality as we work towards an investment decision targeted in the second half of the year. | ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ฅ๋๊ณผ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์์ฐ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐฐ๋น ํ๋ ์์ํฌ ํ์์ ํฅํ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ํ๊ธ ํ์์ ํ์ํ ์๋นํ ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ์ ์ฐฝ์ถํ ์ ์๋ ์ ๋ฆฌํ ์์น์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 17์ 2026๋ ๊ณผ 2027๋ ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ์ ๋ํ ํ์ฌ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค. 2025๋ ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ์ ์ด 39์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก 2025๋ ์ด ๊ณํ ๋๋น 5์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฎ์ ์์ค์ด๋ฉฐ, 2026๋ ๊ณผ 2027๋ ์๋ ์ฝ 43์ต~45์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ 2026๋ ์ Bagdad ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง๊ณผ ์ด๊ธฐ ์์ ์ ์งํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด 1์ต 5์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ์๋ณธ์ ์ถ๊ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ ํฌ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์๋๊ณ ์ ํ๊ถ์ ๊ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| The discretionary projects approximated $1.4 billion in 2025 and are expected to approximate $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion per year in 2026 and 2027. With roughly 50% related to the Kucing Liar development and the LNG project at Grasberg. The balance includes acceleration of tailings and other infrastructure to support the Bagdad expansion; the Atlantic Copper CirCular project, which is expected to be completed during 2026 and capitalized interest. The discretionary category reflects the capital investments we are making in new projects that under our financial policy are funded with the 50% of available cash that is not distributed. | ์ฌ๋์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ 2025๋ ์ ์ฝ 14์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ด๋ฉฐ, 2026๋ ๊ณผ 2027๋ ์๋ ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ฝ 16์ต~17์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ์ค ์ฝ 50%๋ Kucing Liar ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐ Grasberg์ LNG ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๊ด๋ จ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋จธ์ง๋ Bagdad ํ์ฅ์ ์ง์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ ์ธํ๋ผ ๊ฐ์ํ, 2026๋ ์ค ์๋ฃ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋๋ Atlantic Copper CirCular ํ๋ก์ ํธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ณธํ๋ ์ด์๋ฅผ ํฌํจํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฒ์ฃผ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ ์ฑ ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฐฐ๋น๋์ง ์๋ ๊ฐ์ฉ ํ๊ธ์ 50%๋ก ์๊ธ์ ์กฐ๋ฌํ๋ ์ ๊ท ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํ ์๋ณธ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| These projects are value-enhancing initiatives detailed on Slide 37 in our reference material. We continue to carefully manage capital expenditure and we'll continue to deploy capital strategically to projects with the best return and risk-reward profiles. And finally, on Slide 18, we reiterate the financial policy priorities centered on a strong balance sheet, cash returns to shareholders and investments in value-enhancing growth projects. Our balance sheet is solid with investment-grade ratings, solid credit metrics and flexibility within our debt targets to execute on our projects. | ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ค์ ์ฐธ๊ณ ์๋ฃ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 37์ ์์ธํ ๋์ ์๋ ๊ฐ์น ์ฆ๋ ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ ๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ๋ ์๋ณธ์ง์ถ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์คํ๊ฒ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ต๊ณ ์ ์์ต๋ฅ ๊ณผ ์ํ-๋ณด์ ํ๋กํ์ผ์ ๊ฐ์ง ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์ ๋ต์ ์ผ๋ก ์๋ณธ์ ๋ฐฐ๋ถํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 18์์๋ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ์ฌ๋ฌด๊ตฌ์กฐ, ์ฃผ์ฃผํ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์น ์ฆ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ํ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ ์ฑ ์ฐ์ ์์๋ฅผ ์ฌํ์ธํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ ํฌ์๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฉ๋ฑ๊ธ, ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ์ ์ฉ์งํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์คํ์ ์ํ ๋ถ์ฑ ๋ชฉํ ๋ฒ์ ๋ด ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ด ํํํฉ๋๋ค. |
| We have no significant debt maturities during 2026 and have substantial flexibility for funding the 2027 maturities. We have distributed $5.7 billion to shareholders through dividends and share purchases and have an attractive future long-term portfolio that will enable us to continue to build long-term value for shareholders. Our global team is focused on driving value in our business, committed to strong execution of our plans, providing cash to invest in profitable growth and return cash to shareholders. Thank you for your attention. We'll now take your questions. | 2026๋ ์๋ ์ค์ํ ๋ถ์ฑ ๋ง๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 2027๋ ๋ง๊ธฐ ๋ถ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ์๊ธ ์กฐ๋ฌ์ ์์ด ์๋นํ ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฐฐ๋น๊ธ๊ณผ ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ ์ ํตํด ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋ค์๊ฒ 57์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋ค์ ์ํ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐฝ์ถํ ์ ์๋ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ํ์ ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์น ์ ๊ณ ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณํ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์คํ, ์์ต์ฑ ์๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ณต, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ์์ ์ ๋ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฒญํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
# Freeport-McMoRan Q4 2025 ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ฃผ์ ์์ฝ
## ํต์ฌ ๋ด์ฉ
โข **2025๋
์ค์ ๋ฐ Grasberg ์ฌ๊ณ ์ํฅ**: ์ฐ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ๋งค๋์ด 9์ ์ธ๋๋ค์์ PTFI ์งํ ์ ์
์ฌ๊ณ ๋ก ๊ณํ ๋๋น ์ฝ 10% ๊ฐ์ํ์ผ๋, ๋ค๊ฐํ๋ ์์ฐ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๋๋ถ์ ์กฐ์ EBITDA๋ ์ฝ 100์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก 2024๋
์์ค ์ ์ง. ๋จ์ ์ํ๊ธ๋น์ฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น $1.65๋ก ๋น์ด ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค ๋๋น 3% ์ด๋ด ๋ฌ์ฑ. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์
๋ถ ์์
์ด์ต์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๊ฐ์ธ๋ก ์ ๋
๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 3.5๋ฐฐ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ์
์ฆ.
โข **2026๋
๊ฐ์ด๋์ค ๋ฐ Grasberg ๋ณต๊ตฌ ๊ณํ**: 2026๋
๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ๋งค๋์ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋ณต๊ตฌ๋ก ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋น ์ฝ 10์ต ํ์ด๋ ๋ฌ์ฑ ์ ๋ง. ๋จ์ ์ํ๊ธ๋น์ฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น $1.75 ์์(์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋๊ณ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ $1.25๋ก ์ ์ํ). Grasberg Block Cave๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ ์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ฐ๋ฅ๋ ฅ 85% ํ๋ณต ๋ชฉํ. ์์ฐ๋ธ๋ก 1S๋ 2027๋
์ค๋ฐ, 1C๋ 2027๋
๋ง ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ณํ.
โข **์ฑ์ฅ ์ ๋ต ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ ๋ง**: ํ์ ์ ์นจ์ถ(leach) ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ก 2026๋
3์ต ํ์ด๋, 2030๋
๊น์ง
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| Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question will come from the line of Carlos De Alba with Morgan Stanley. | **Operator:** [์ด์์ ์๋ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ชจ๊ฑด์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ Carlos De Alba ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Carlos de Alba: Morgan Stanley, Research Division Great to see progress in Indonesia. Just wanted to understand maybe a little bit the guidance for the outer years, considering the opportunity in leaching that you have in North America, does the numbers -- your guidance include the leaching reaching around 800 million pounds in 2028 or it is not included in that official guidance? | **Carlos de Alba:** ์ธ๋๋ค์์์์์ ์ง์ ์ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ํฅํ ์ฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ๋ํด ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๋ฏธ ์ง์ญ์์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฆฌ์นญ(leaching) ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ ์ํ์ ์์น๋ค, ์ฆ ๊ณต์ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ 2028๋ ๋ฆฌ์นญ ์์ฐ๋์ด ์ฝ 8์ต ํ์ด๋์ ๋๋ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์๋์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ํฌํจ๋์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Carlos, we've included in our outlook between 250 million and 300 million in 2026 and have not included anything beyond that for expansion. So it's around the long term, we've got around 250 million pounds in these numbers, and have the opportunity we expect to be at 300 million this year with an opportunity to scale to 400 million in '27, so there's some upside in our numbers, obviously. The slide where we're showing what the potential is getting to 2 billion pounds in the U.S. is -- includes the Bagdad expansion and getting the incremental volumes out of the leach program. So we have the potential to get to roughly 2 billion pounds in the U.S. but those aren't included in the '27-'28 guidance at this point. | **Kathleen Quirk:** 2026๋
์ ๋ง์๋ 2์ต 5์ฒ๋ง ํ์ด๋์์ 3์ต ํ์ด๋๋ฅผ ํฌํจ์์ผฐ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ดํ ํ์ฅ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๋ฐ์ํ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฝ 2์ต 5์ฒ๋ง ํ์ด๋ ์ ๋๊ฐ ์ด ์์น์ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์๊ณ , ์ฌํด๋ 3์ต ํ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๋ฉฐ, 2027๋
์๋ 4์ต ํ์ด๋๊น์ง ํ๋ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์น์๋ ๋ถ๋ช
ํ ์์น ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ 20์ต ํ์ด๋ ๋ฌ์ฑ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋์๋ Bagdad ํ์ฅ๊ณผ ์นจ์ถ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ(leach program)์ ํตํ ์ฆ๋ถ ๋ฌผ๋์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ฝ 20์ต ํ์ด๋์ ๋๋ฌํ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ์์ง๋ง, ํ ์์ ์์ 2027~2028๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Katja Jancic with BMO Capital Markets. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ BMO ์บํผํ ๋ง์ผ์ Katja Jancic์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Katja Jancic: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research The unit cash cost in South America are moving higher. Can you maybe elaborate what's going on there? And how we should think about costs there over the next few years? | **Katja Jancic:** ๋จ๋ฏธ ์ง์ญ์ ๋จ์ ํ๊ธ ๋น์ฉ(unit cash cost)์ด ์์นํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ํด๋น ์ง์ญ์ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ๋งํด์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Yes. Katja, in South America, we're forecasting net cash cost in the $2.58 range on average for 2026. Those are very similar to what we experienced during the fourth quarter of $2.57 per pound. When you look at the comparison to 2025, the increase relates mostly to labor and energy, power costs as well as labor. You've got also a weaker dollar as well. So that's reflective, but it's very similar to what we experienced in the fourth quarter, and we'll carry that run rate forward. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ๋ค, Katja. ๋จ๋ฏธ ์ง์ญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ 2026๋ ํ๊ท ์ํ๊ธ๋น์ฉ(net cash cost)์ ํ์ด๋๋น 2.58๋ฌ๋ฌ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฒฝํํ ํ์ด๋๋น 2.57๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์ฌํ ์์ค์ ๋๋ค. 2025๋ ๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํ์ ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ถ์ ์ฃผ๋ก ์ธ๊ฑด๋น์ ์๋์ง, ์ ๋ ฅ ๋น์ฉ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น์ ๊ด๋ จ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ฝ์ธ ์์ธ๋ ์๊ณ ์. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ๋ฐ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ง๋ง, 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฒฝํํ ์์ค๊ณผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ค์ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ์งํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Alex Hacking with Citi. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์จํฐ์ ์๋ ์ค ํดํน์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Alexander Hacking: Citigroup Inc., Research Division Yes. Thanks, Kathleen, and team. The 2027 target to get cost in the U.S. down to $2.50 a pound. Could you maybe elaborate on how you plan to get there? Because cost last year was around $3.10, you're guiding for around $3 next year -- sorry, $3 this year, even with a nice increase in U.S. production. Like how is -- how are you getting another $0.50 out by 2027? | **Alexander Hacking:** ๋ค, ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์บ์ฌ๋ฆฐ๊ณผ ํ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. 2027๋ ๊น์ง ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ๋น์ฉ์ ํ์ด๋๋น 2.50๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ๋ฎ์ถ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๋ชฉํ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ์๋ ๋น์ฉ์ด ํ์ด๋๋น ์ฝ 3.10๋ฌ๋ฌ์๊ณ , ์ฌํด๋ ์ฝ 3๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฐ๋์ด ์๋นํ ์ฆ๊ฐํจ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . 2027๋ ๊น์ง ์ด๋ป๊ฒ 0.50๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ์ ๊ฐํ์ค ๊ณํ์ด์ ๊ฐ์? |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director It's really a target, and it assumes that we are successful with scaling our leach opportunity as well as continuing to drive efficiencies within the U.S. business. So it's really coming from adding volumes at a low incremental cost. We have a number of initiatives, not only in the leach initiative, but we have a number of initiatives really as we look at our U.S. operations focused on minimizing downtime, improving -- and just improving all of the efficiencies. And so we have really an opportunity to increase our volumes basically with the same operating rates that we have today. So that's the target that we have and bringing in lower cost volumes will bring down the average. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ์ด๊ฒ์ ์ค์ ๋ก ๋ชฉํ์น์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ฆฌ์น(leach) ์ฌ์ ๊ธฐํ์ ๊ท๋ชจ ํ๋์ ์ฑ๊ณตํ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ๋ด ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ํ์ ์ค์ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋ฎ์ ์ฆ๋ถ ๋น์ฉ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌผ๋์ ์ถ๊ฐํ๋ ๋ฐ์ ๋์ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌ์น ์ฌ์ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ์ฅ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋ ์ค๋จ ์๊ฐ์ ์ต์ํํ๊ณ ๋ชจ๋ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ด์ ์ ๋ง์ถ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ฅผ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฌ์ ๋์ผํ ๊ฐ๋๋ฅ ๋ก ๋ฌผ๋์ ๋๋ฆด ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชฉํ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ ๋น์ฉ ๋ฌผ๋์ ํฌ์ ํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ํ๊ท ๋น์ฉ์ ๋ฎ์ถ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Bob Brackett with Bernstein Research. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฒ์คํ์ธ ๋ฆฌ์์น์ ๋ฐฅ ๋ธ๋ํท ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Bob Brackett: Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division I'd like to talk about Slide 14 where you highlight America's Copper Champion. We think rough numbers, the U.S. consumes 4 billion pounds of copper, 2 billion of which is imported. In that context, if you look at your targets, you'd be adding rounding up 0.8 billion of that 2 billion of imports, which is a significant amount of those imports. And I'll highlight that leach initiatives deliver refined copper, not concentrate. So I guess the question would be, can you do more, but also the question is, how do you focus on this target in light of what copper tariffs could be going forward? Is that driving this production or just the unit economics in any world driving this production target? | **Bob Brackett:** ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ์ฝ 40์ต ํ์ด๋์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์๋นํ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ค 20์ต ํ์ด๋๋ฅผ ์์
ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ง์ํ์
จ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์์ ์ ํฌ ๋ชฉํ์น๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๋ฉด, ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ฆผํด์ ์ฝ 8์ต ํ์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์์
๋ 20์ต ํ์ด๋ ์ค ์๋นํ ๋น์ค์ ์ฐจ์งํฉ๋๋ค. ํนํ ์นจ์ถ ๊ณต๋ฒ(leach)์ ์ ๊ด์ด ์๋ ์ ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์์ฐํ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง์ ๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ง์ด ํ ์ ์๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํฅํ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋ ์ด ๋ชฉํ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ง์คํ์ค ๊ฑด์ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ์์ฐ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ถ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ด์ธ ๋๋ฌธ์ธ์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์ด๋ค ์ํฉ์์๋ ๋จ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ๋ ๊ฑด์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Thanks for those comments. And to highlight the leach initiatives, the exciting thing about these opportunities for us is that we're able to -- with success, and we've got to have success on our additive work and with the heat injections that we're trialing this year. With success, the incremental cost of these pounds of copper that we're bringing on are very low cost relative to the cost of what you'd have to do to actually mine the material and take it all the way through a smelter. So these are very low incremental cost pounds. They do not require significant capital. We already have the material that's been mined and it's really the processing piece and sending some incremental dollars to improve recoveries is what we're targeting. So that is really a very exciting value creation opportunity for us when you're talking about adding these kinds of volumes in a relatively short period of time. When you think about copper projects taking 10 years or more, if we're successful here, we can be adding a new mine with very, very low operating cost and very insignificant capital expenditures. So that's a real opportunity for us. The Bagdad project is more of a conventional opportunity. As we've talked about, we've got a very significant reserve there. And what we have been talking about for a number of years now is the opportunity to build new processing facilities and bring that value forward, and we've been doing work on enhancing the optionality of that project. And as we look at that project today, it requires roughly a $4 average copper price to justify the investment. And of course, copper prices are higher, much higher than that today and support the project. We look at a broad range of projects -- of copper prices when we qualify a project. But this is one we want to put our infrastructure where we have big reserve positions, and this is one where we believe should be developed and can be developed within a short time frame. And so we're working to make sure that we have our arms around the capital and that we can execute the project efficiently. But that will be a nice addition also to domestic production in the U.S. Tariffs... | **Kathleen Quirk:** ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์นจ์ถ(leach) ์ด๋์
ํฐ๋ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์กฐํ์๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ด์ ๋ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์งํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์
๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฌํด ์ํ ์ค์ธ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ์์
๊ณผ ์ด ์ฃผ์
์์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ๊ฑฐ๋์ด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ค๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ณดํ๊ฒ ๋ ์ด ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋์ ์ฆ๋ถ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ด์์ ์ฑ๊ตดํด์ ์ ๋ จ์๊น์ง ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์น๋ ๋ฐ ๋๋ ๋น์ฉ์ ๋นํด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ฎ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ฆ๋ถ ๋น์ฉ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ฎ์ ๋ฌผ๋์ ๋๋ค. ์๋นํ ์๋ณธ๋ ํ์ํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฑ๊ตด๋ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ค์ ๋ก๋ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ํ์์จ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ผ๋ถ ์ฆ๋ถ ๋น์ฉ์ ํฌ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ ๋ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์งง์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ด์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ์์ฐ๋์ ์ถ๊ฐํ๋ค๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ๊ฐ์น ์ฐฝ์ถ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๊ฐ ๋ณดํต 10๋ ์ด์ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด, ๋ง์ฝ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ค๋ฉด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ฎ์ ์ด์ ๋น์ฉ๊ณผ ์์ฃผ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ ์๋ณธ ์ง์ถ๋ก ์๋ก์ด ๊ด์ฐ์ ์ถ๊ฐํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง์ ํ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋๋ค. Bagdad ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ ์ข ๋ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํ๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ์๋นํ ํฐ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๋งค์ฅ๋์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ผ์ํด ์จ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ก์ด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ์์ค์ ๊ฑด์คํ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์๋น๊ฒจ ์คํํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํด๋น ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์ ํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฐํํ๋ ์์ ์ ์งํํด ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ ๋นํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ๋๋ต ํ๊ท ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ํ์ด๋๋น 4๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ ๋๊ฐ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ํ์ฌ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ทธ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋๊ณ , ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์ฆํ ๋ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ๋งค์ฅ๋์ ๋ณด์ ํ ๊ณณ์ ์ธํ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ด์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋์ด์ผ ํ๊ณ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ๋ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ณธ์ ํ์คํ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ์คํํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ๊ตญ๋ด ์์ฐ์๋ ์ข์ ์ถ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ด์ธ๋... |
| Bob Brackett: Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division A quick follow-up -- please. | **Bob Brackett:** ๋น ๋ฅธ ํ์ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director We're not really looking at tariffs to support this investment. We're -- it's hard to predict what those are. We're just really looking at a broad range of absolute prices and how we can deliver a low operating cost mine and improve resiliency in the U.S. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ๊ด์ธ์ ์์กดํด์ ์ด๋ฒ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋๋๋ค. ๊ด์ธ๋ ์์ธกํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ต์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๋ฉด ๋ฎ์ ์ด์ ๋น์ฉ์ ๊ด์ฐ์ ์คํํ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ํ๋ณตํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ ์์์ง์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Bob Brackett: Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division Great. A quick follow-up would be, in the past, you've talked about the next phase of leaching as being a Phase 3. In today's presentation, you're starting to take that Phase 3 and tell us specifically how you're going to achieve it. Should I interpret that to mean that your level of conviction in the 600 million-pound target has increased over the last year or so? | **Bob Brackett:** ๋ค, ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ ์ด ๋์์ก๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ๋ฐํ์์ ๋ณด์
จ๋ฏ์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด์ 3๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ 1๋
์ฌ ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์์
์ ๊ณ์ ์งํํด์๊ณ , ์นจ์ถ(leaching) ๊ณต์ ์ ๋ํ ์ดํด๋๊ฐ ํฌ๊ฒ ํฅ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. 6์ต ํ์ด๋ ๋ชฉํ์ ๋ํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํ์ ์ ํ์คํ ๊ฐํ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์คํ ๊ณํ์ ์ ์ํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํ๋น์ฑ ๊ฒํ ๋ฅผ ์๋ฃํ๊ณ , ์ด์ ๋ ์คํ ๋จ๊ณ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฌ์ ํ ํด์ผ ํ ์์ ๋ค์ด ๋จ์์์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ ์๋ ๋ช ํํ ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ค๊ณ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Certainly, with the additive work that we've done, prior to this past year, we were doing mostly lab testing. Now we're doing more work in the field where we're actually deploying additives on stockpiles in the field. We're going to be doing that on a broader basis during 2026, and we've advanced these heat projects where essentially, we're taking the solutions that we apply on the stockpiles and heating those solutions as injecting heat into the stockpiles. And so the -- what I say is 2026 is a pivotal year for us because we should have results on how heat and additives combine, and that really will set us up for scaling the opportunity. But you're right, we've made really good progress, particularly on the additives. We're excited to test this heat opportunity both at Morenci and El Abra this year, and that's going to be very informative to us on our path. But we've made a lot of progress in converting some of the R&D work to early positive results. So the additive we end up with will likely be a little different than the additive we're using today. Additive we're using today is performing well. It is giving us incremental production. But we do believe, based on what we've been seeing in the lab that we'll use a variety of additives depending on the stockpiles to drive the best recoveries that we can get. And we really think we're on to something. We've got more work to do, but this is a huge value creator for Freeport, particularly in our U.S. business. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ ์์ ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์๋ ์ด์ ๊น์ง๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ์คํ์ค ํ ์คํธ๋ฅผ ์งํํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๋ ํ์ฅ์์ ์ค์ ๋ก ๋น์ถ ๋๋ฏธ์ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ ํ๋ ํ์ฅ ์์ ์ ๋ ๋ง์ด ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ๊ฒ ์งํํ ์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ ์ง์ ์์ผฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋น์ถ ๋๋ฏธ์ ์ ์ฉํ๋ ์ฉ์ก์ ๊ฐ์ดํ์ฌ ์ด์ ์ฃผ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๊ฐ 2026๋ ์ ์ค์ํ ํด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด์ ๋, ์ด๊ณผ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฒฐํฉ ํจ๊ณผ์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ํ๋ํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ํนํ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด Morenci์ El Abra์์ ์ด ํํธ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ํ ์คํธํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ํฌ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ๋ํ ๋ง์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ป์ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ R&D ์์ ์ ์ด๊ธฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ก ์ ํํ๋ ๋ฐ ์๋นํ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๋ค์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ต์ข ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ฒ ๋ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ๋ ํ์ฌ ์ฌ์ฉ ์ค์ธ ๊ฒ๊ณผ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฌ์ฉ ์ค์ธ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ์ฆ๋ถ ์์ฐ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์คํ์ค์์ ํ์ธํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก, ์ต์์ ํ์์จ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ด์ ๋๋ฏธ(stockpile)์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ค์ํ ์ฒจ๊ฐ์ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๋ง ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํด์ผ ํ ์ผ์ด ๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ Freeport, ํนํ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์ ์์ด ์์ฒญ๋ ๊ฐ์น ์ฐฝ์ถ ์์ธ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Lawson Winder with BofA Securities. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ BofA Securities์ Lawson Winder๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Lawson Winder: BofA Securities, Research Division And Kathleen, thank you for today's update. If I could just pick up on some of the comments you made on Bagdad 2X, can you maybe give us a sense of a more precise timing this year for the update? That would be one. And then thinking about the CapEx, I mean, the slides highlight that the CapEx is still under review. What we've been seeing in the industry over the past several years is typical CapEx inflates at about 5% per year versus the 2023 $3.5 billion, is that like a reasonable way to think about what's the level of CapEx inflation? And then are there any changes to the plan being contemplated with this latest updated study that could potentially change the approach or the overall mine plan for the CapEx? And then just finally, I mean, you highlight the attractiveness of this project at the current copper price given that it works at $4. I mean outside of the copper price, I mean, what other factors will you consider when thinking about approving this project potentially later this year? So I know that's sort of 4 questions, but really just about Bagdad 2X and a few more details on that project. | **Lawson Winder:** BofA Securities, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. Kathleen, ์ค๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. Bagdad 2X ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ง์ํ์ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์๋ฐ์, ์ฌํด ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ ์์ ์ ์ข ๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด๊ณ ์. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ(CapEx)์ ๋ํด์์, ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ ์์ง ๊ฒํ ์ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋์ด ์๋๋ฐ, ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ์ ๊ณ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ํต์์ ์ผ๋ก ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ์ด ๋งค๋ ์ฝ 5%์ฉ ์ฆ๊ฐํด์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. 2023๋ 35์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋๋นํด์ ์ด ์ ๋ ์์ค์ ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ผ๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฒ ์ต์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ ๊ฒํ ์ค์ธ ๊ณํ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ ์ฌํญ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ด๋ ์ ์ฒด ๊ด์ฐ ๊ณํ์ ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ์ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์ค ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์๋์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ํ์ฌ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์์ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์กฐํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, 4๋ฌ๋ฌ์์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์, ์ฌํด ๋ง ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์น์ธ์ ๊ฒํ ํ์ค ๋ ์ด๋ค ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ์ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? 4๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ Bagdad 2X์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํ ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ฌ์ญ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Okay. So as you pointed out, we -- the $3.5 billion for the project was based on work that we had done at the end of 2023. And what we're doing in the first half of this year is continuing our engineering work and actually getting to a point where we can have enough of the engineering done to go out to our vendors to actually get fixed pricing. So that's really where we want to put ourselves as we go through the next 6 months so that we have more concrete bids on what the project will cost. And so we're looking to make a decision on the project in -- when we have this information at midyear and so we don't know the answer to your question yet about this 5% per annum. We know there is cost inflation. We've been trying to assess whether the tariffs will have any impact on some of the components that are involved here. And we'll continue to do value engineering to try to keep the capital intensity of the project as low as possible. But we want to do enough front-end work so that when we qualify the project for investment, we can deliver and execute on that plan. And that's what we're working on in the first part of this year. We're also doing some work on the power infrastructure and making some deposits there. So we've added $150 million in capital associated with this project that will put us in a position to make a decision. In terms of the factors that we are looking at in addition to the copper price, and we want to look at the long term and the range of prices and how this project would perform. We also want to make sure that we have the right workforce set up, and we've been investing in infrastructure. Labor has been a challenge in the U.S., and that's what partially what drove us to going to autonomous during 2025 to set up better optionality for Bagdad for expansion in the future. We want to optimize the performance of the autonomous fleet. We're not getting exactly what we expected to get from the performance of the autonomous fleet, but we've got progress ongoing to get us to a point where we're comfortable that the autonomous fleet is capable of running at these higher rates. So we've got some other things going on to derisk the plan as we go through the first half. But those are the major factors, is confidence in our ability to execute the capital plan, confidence in our ability to operate efficiently. Part of the goal here in addition to bringing on additional volumes is to bring on those volumes at a lower incremental cost than our current cost and take advantage of efficiencies. So that work we're going to be doing as well over the next several months as we get to an investment decision. But this is a project that is pretty straightforward. It's a relatively short lead time, and we just want to make sure that we can deliver on the economics that we set up at the start. Cory Stevens is on the call. And Cory, anything that you want to add there, either on the Bagdad expansion, the leach initiative or our focus on bringing down our unit cost in the U.S., we'd be happy to see if you have any insights that you want to add to that. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก, ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๋น์ฉ 35์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ 2023๋
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์ฐฐ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ ์ฐ์ค ์์ ์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆด ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฐ๊ฐ 5% ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ์ง๋ฌธ์๋ ์์ง ๋ต๋ณ์ ๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฉ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ์กด์ฌํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ํฌํจ๋ ์ผ๋ถ ๋ถํ๋ค์ ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น ์ง ํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์๋ณธ ์ง์ฝ๋๋ฅผ ์ต๋ํ ๋ฎ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ณ์ํด์ ๊ฐ์น ์์ง๋์ด๋ง(value engineering)์ ์งํํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ํฌ์ ์น์ธ์ ์ํ ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๊ฒ์ฆ ์ ํด๋น ๊ณํ์ ์คํํ๊ณ ์ดํํ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ ํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฌํด ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์งํํ๊ณ ์๋ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ ๋ ฅ ์ธํ๋ผ ๊ด๋ จ ์์ ๋ ์งํ ์ค์ด๋ฉฐ ์ผ๋ถ ๊ณ์ฝ๊ธ๋ ๋ฉ๋ถํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๊ด๋ จํ์ฌ 1์ต 5์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ์๋ณธ์ ์ถ๊ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์์ฌ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆด ์ ์๋ ์์น์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๊ฒํ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด์ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋ฒ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ผ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ ์ ํ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ค์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ์ํด ์ธํ๋ผ์ ํฌ์ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ธ๋ ฅ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ํฉ์ด์๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ผ๋ก 2025๋ ์ ์์จ์ดํ ์์คํ ์ ๋์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ํฅํ Bagdad ํ์ฅ์ ์ํ ๋ ๋์ ์ ํ๊ถ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์์์ต๋๋ค. ์์จ์ดํ ์ฐจ๋์ ์ฑ๋ฅ์ ์ต์ ํํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์์จ์ดํ ์ฐจ๋์์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ ํํ ์ป๊ณ ์์ง๋ ๋ชปํ์ง๋ง, ์์จ์ดํ ์ฐจ๋์ด ์ด๋ฌํ ๋์ ์์ฐ์จ๋ก ์ด์๋ ์ ์๋ค๋ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ ์๋ ์์ค๊น์ง ๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๊ณํ์ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ๋ฅผ ์ค์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ์งํ ์ค์ธ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌํญ๋ค๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ฃผ์ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์๋ณธ ๊ณํ์ ์คํํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ํ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ํ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ถ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ๋์ ํ๋ณดํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ธ์๋ ์ค์ํ ๋ชฉํ๋ ํ์ฌ ๋น์ฉ๋ณด๋ค ๋ฎ์ ์ฆ๋ถ ๋น์ฉ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌผ๋์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ์ด์ ์ ํ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํฌ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์์ผ๋ก ๋ช ๋ฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ ๋ ์งํํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ ์๋นํ ๋ช ํํ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌ๋ํ์๋ ๋น๊ต์ ์งง๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋จ์ง ์ด๊ธฐ์ ์ค์ ํ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ์ ํ์คํ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ ์๋๋ก ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋ฆฌ ์คํฐ๋ธ์ค๊ฐ ํตํ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฝ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฐฑ๋ค๋ ํ์ฅ, ์นจ์ถ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ, ๋๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ๋จ์ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ๋ง์ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๊ฐ ์์ผ์๋ฉด ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. |
| Cory Stevens: President & COO of Freeport Americas No, I appreciate that, Kathleen. And yes, just to comment on the Bagdad work. The team is super energized. We're working through a lot of the incoming infrastructure requirements and designs and long lead items from like power upgrades and so forth. So -- and then in parallel, like we talked about, the autonomous work, very inspiring. It's still early days there. We really only went full autonomous late in the summer. So there's a bit of a learning curve there, but we're on a good track, and the team is going to figure that out as we go forward. On the leach side, the ramp-up is really based on a lot of the initiatives that are coming to pass this year. So heat, we talked about at Morenci, at El Abra, those are big demonstration activities going on there. And then yesterday, as a matter of fact, we started another leach stockpile at our New Mexico operation at Chino. And there, we're using chemical heat. So we term that one as the perfect pile, it's an engineered heat that we've built confidence around our lab work there that's really giving us a lot of excitement there that really can facilitate not only a benefit to Chino but could change the way that we design future stockpiles going forward to enhance the ultimate activity that's coming out of those. So lots of moving parts, lots of activities, more to come this year. | **Cory Stevens:** ์๋์, ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, ์บ์ฌ๋ฆฐ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค, ๋ฐฐ๊ทธ๋ค๋ ์์ ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ํ์ด ์ ๋ง ํ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒ ์์ง์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๋ง์ ์ธ์ ์ธํ๋ผ ์๊ตฌ์ฌํญ๊ณผ ์ค๊ณ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ ฅ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์กฐ๋ฌ ํญ๋ชฉ๋ค์ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ณํํด์, ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด ์์จ์ฃผํ ์์ ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ง์ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฆ ๋ง์์ผ ์์ ์์จ์ฃผํ์ผ๋ก ์ ํํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ํ์ต ๊ณก์ ์ด ์ข ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ์ข์ ๊ถค๋์ ์ฌ๋ผ ์๊ณ , ํ์ด ์์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ํด๊ฒฐํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์นจ์ถ(leach) ์ชฝ์, ์ฆ์ฐ์ด ์ค์ ๋ก ์ฌํด ์คํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๋ง์ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ด๋ จํด์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์์ ์ ์๋ธ๋ผ์์ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์ค์ฆ ํ๋๋ค์ด ์งํ ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์ ๋ด๋ฉ์์ฝ ์น๋ ธ ์ฌ์ ์ฅ์์ ์๋ก์ด ์นจ์ถ ์ ์น์ฅ(leach stockpile) ์์ ์ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ํํ์ ์ด์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด๊ฒ์ '์๋ฒฝํ ํ์ผ(perfect pile)'์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์คํ์ค ์์ ์ ํตํด ํ์ ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ด ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ๋ฐ, ์น๋ ธ์ ํํ์ ์ค ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ํฅํ ์ ์น์ฅ ์ค๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์ ์์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฟ์ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์์ฐ ํ๋์ ํฅ์์ํฌ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ์ ๋ง ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ํฝ๋๋ค. ์งํ ์ค์ธ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ด ๋ง๊ณ ํ๋๋ ๋ง์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌํด ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋์ฌ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question will come from the line of Bill Peterson with JPMorgan. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ JP๋ชจ๊ฑด์ ๋น ํผํฐ์จ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| William Peterson: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division It sounds like Indonesia is on track with the timing guidance from last year. I was wondering if you can add any incremental lessons learned at Grasberg since the November update. You called PB 2 and 3 on schedule for 2Q '26. Any further granularity you could provide on timing where it could land in the quarter? What would make it come in faster versus extended? | **William Peterson:** ์ธ๋๋ค์์๋ ์๋ ํ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋๋ก ์์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. 11์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ ์ดํ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ์์ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ์ป์ ๊ตํ์ด ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. PB 2์ 3๊ฐ 2026๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์์ ๋๋ก ์งํ ์ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์์ ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์ธ๋ถ์ ์ธ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์๋์? ์ด๋ค ์์ธ์ด ์ผ์ ์ ์๋น๊ธฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ง์ฐ์ํฌ ์ ์์๊น์? |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Thank you. And Mark Johnson's on the line, and he can add to these comments, but we did an update in mid-November on the investigation and we have learned a lot. And as I mentioned, we are adopting the recommendations from the investigation. The plan in terms of what we laid out in that time frame in November is very much the same. We've been executing on that plan. We've been achieving the results. As we mentioned, the mud removal in the -- within the mine workings has gone well, and we're 97% of what we need to be to start up Production Blocks 2 and 3. We've just completed a cement pour at one of these protective barriers that we talked about that's needed to restart Production Block 2 and 3. And so the work that we're doing between now and start-up really is related mostly to infrastructure. Now that we have these plugs in, we'll be able to advance that pour. But we haven't given a specific date within the first -- within the second quarter, but we would expect it would be in the first half of the second quarter at this point, and we're on track to do that. And Mark, I don't know if you want to add anything about that and also add maybe any comments about the overall risk management we're doing on mud removal from the surface. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. Mark Johnson์ด ์ ํ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐธ์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ค๋ช
์ ํด์ค ์ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ์, ์ ํฌ๋ 11์ ์ค์์ ์กฐ์ฌ ๊ด๋ จ ์
๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์งํํ๊ณ ๋ง์ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์กฐ์ฌ์์ ๋์จ ๊ถ๊ณ ์ฌํญ๋ค์ ์ฑํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ 11์์ ์ ์ํ๋ ๊ณํ์ ํ์ฌ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋์ผํ๊ฒ ์ ์ง๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ทธ ๊ณํ์ ์คํํด์๊ณ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋๋ก ๊ด์ฐ ์์
์ฅ ๋ด ํ ์ฌ ์ ๊ฑฐ ์์
์ด ์์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ์งํ๋์ด ์์ฐ๋ธ๋ก 2์ 3์ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ ๋ฐ ํ์ํ ์์
์ 97%๋ฅผ ์๋ฃํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฐ๋ธ๋ก 2์ 3 ์ฌ๊ฐ๋์ ํ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ ๋ณดํธ ์ฅ๋ฒฝ ์ค ํ๋์ ๋ํ ์๋ฉํธ ํ์ค๋ ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ์๋ฃํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ๋ถํฐ ๊ฐ๋ ์์๊น์ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ์์
์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ์ธํ๋ผ์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ด ํ๋ฌ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์ค์น๋์์ผ๋ ์ฝํฌ๋ฆฌํธ ํ์ค์ ์งํํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ ์ง๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ํ ์์ ์์๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ฐ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์ผ์ ๋๋ก ์งํ ์ค์
๋๋ค. Mark, ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ถ๊ฐํ ๋ด์ฉ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์๊ณ , ์งํ๋ฉด ํ ์ฌ ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์งํํ๊ณ ์๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ธ๊ธํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Mark Johnson: President & COO of Freeport-McMoRan Indonesia Yes. The plan, as you stated, that we came up in November, the team's done a great job of executing that. It's primarily driven at first with the cleanup of the mud. That is essentially complete for the PB 2, PB 3 start-up. Obviously, there were some challenges there that a lot of -- it's not -- it's kind of a unique work environment. We dealt with some localized drainage issues, required pumping and the team was quick to respond. Very happy also with the response from some of our key suppliers. A lot of this infrastructure that we're building is the communication systems that allow us to do the remote mining. So our suppliers on that end have risen to the challenge, so we don't see any problem with the supply chain side of things. We continue to work with our consultants and verify our plan, make it more robust. We're looking at some new tools for our cave management, that will also play into how we look and mitigate risk, and all of that's progressing quite well. Really, I don't see any real hurdles at this point to be able to start up as we planned. Any variation, I think, will be relatively minor plus and minuses. I think it's a very solid plan to start up. The ramp-up is something that we've spent time looking at as well. We have good history on that as to how we'll reopen some of these draw points, do it in a very cautious and safe manner step-by-step and observe and adjust as we go. So anyway, I'm very happy with the overall progress and where we are today. So PB 2 and PB 3 is the lion's share of our production. And then obviously, we're also working towards the PB 1 area restart. | **Mark Johnson:** ๋ค, ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก 11์์ ์๋ฆฝํ ๊ณํ์ ํ์ด ํ๋ฅญํ๊ฒ ์คํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ธฐ ๋จ๊ณ๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์งํ ์ ๊ฑฐ ์์
์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ , PB 2์ PB 3 ๊ฐ๋์ ์ํ ์์
์ ์ฌ์ค์ ์๋ฃ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ด๋ ค์์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋นํ ๋
ํนํ ์์
ํ๊ฒฝ์ด์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ผ๋ถ ์ง์ญ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ํด์ ํํ์ด ํ์ํ๋๋ฐ, ํ์ด ์ ์ํ๊ฒ ๋์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด๋ค์ ๋์์๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๊ตฌ์ถ ์ค์ธ ์ธํ๋ผ์ ์๋น ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์๊ฒฉ ์ฑ๊ตด์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ํ๋ ํต์ ์์คํ ์ธ๋ฐ, ํด๋น ๋ถ์ผ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด๋ค์ด ๊ณผ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ํด๊ฒฐํด์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ด์ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ์ธก๋ฉด์์๋ ์ ํ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ปจ์คํดํธ๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ๋ฉฐ ๊ณํ์ ๊ฒ์ฆํ๊ณ ๋์ฑ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑ๊ตด ๊ณต๋(cave) ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์๋ก์ด ๋๊ตฌ๋ค๋ ๊ฒํ ์ค์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ ํ๊ณ ์ํํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์๋ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ์๋นํ ์์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ค ํ์ฌ ์์ ์์ ๊ณํ๋๋ก ๊ฐ๋์ ์์ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์์ด ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ์ฅ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ ํ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค ๋ณ๋์ด ์๋ค ํ๋๋ผ๋ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ํ ํ๋ฌ์ค ๋ง์ด๋์ค ์ ๋์ผ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ ์์์ ์ํ ๋งค์ฐ ํํํ ๊ณํ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ๋จํ์ (ramp-up) ๊ณผ์ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ฌ ๋ฉด๋ฐํ ๊ฒํ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฑ๊ด ์ง์ ๋ค์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง์ ๋ํ ์ข์ ์ด๋ ฅ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์คํ๊ณ ์์ ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๋จ๊ณ๋ณ๋ก ์งํํ๋ฉด์ ๊ด์ฐฐํ๊ณ ์กฐ์ ํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์จ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์งํ ์ํฉ๊ณผ ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ์์น์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ์ต๋๋ค. PB 2์ PB 3๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ฐ๋์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ฐจ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋น์ฐํ PB 1 ์ง์ญ ์ฌ๊ฐ๋๋ ์ถ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question will come from the line of Liam Fitzpatrick with Deutsche Bank. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋์ด์ฒด๋ฐฉํฌ์ ๋ฆฌ์ ํผ์ธ ํจํธ๋ฆญ์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Liam Fitzpatrick: Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division Just a couple of follow-up questions on the GBC profile. It sounds like the initial start-ups for 2026 are going to plan. But in terms of 2027, is it possible that PB 1S could be brought forward ahead of the mid-2027 start-up that you have? And then for PB 1C, if you conclude that you can't restart production from that block, do you have the flexibility to open up other areas and bring those into production also by late 2027? | **Liam Fitzpatrick:** 2026๋ ์ด๊ธฐ ๊ฐ๋์ ๊ณํ๋๋ก ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ 2027๋ ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์, PB 1S์ ๊ฐ๋ ์์ ์ ํ์ฌ ๊ณํ๋ 2027๋ ์ค๋ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์๋น๊ธธ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ PB 1C์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ํด๋น ๋ธ๋ก์์ ์์ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ด ๋๋ฉด, ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง์ญ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐํด์ 2027๋ ๋ง๊น์ง ์์ฐ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์? |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director We haven't -- with respect to our plans for PB 1, the work that we've done to lay out this plan, we're continuing to expect that Production Block 1 South will be a mid-'27 start-up. And then we're going to continue to evaluate the PB 1C. Our focus really is getting the 85% up and running that we're talking about during 2026. And as we go through and in parallel, we're working on PB 1. But our focus for the current period is to get the substantial amount of production restored and then we'll look to see how to optimize and enhance it. But we're not -- at this point, not looking at advancing PB 1 South. But we'll be in a position to continue to evaluate that as we go. With the question about the PB 1C, do you want to comment on that, if we decide not to go back into PB 1C? | **Kathleen Quirk:** PB 1 ๊ด๋ จ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์๋ฆฝํ ๊ณํ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ Production Block 1 South๋ 2027๋ ์ค๋ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ PB 1C๋ ๊ณ์ ํ๊ฐํด ๋๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ ํฌ์ ํต์ฌ ๊ณผ์ ๋ 2026๋ ์ค ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ 85%์ ์์ฐ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ณํํด์ PB 1 ์์ ๋ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ํ ์์ ์์์ ์ง์ค ๊ณผ์ ๋ ์๋น ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์์ฐ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณต๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ์ดํ ์ต์ ํ ๋ฐ ์ฆ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ฒํ ํ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๋ก์๋ PB 1 South๋ฅผ ์๋น๊ธธ ๊ณํ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์งํ ์ํฉ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํด ๋๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ฅ์ ๋๋ค. PB 1C๋ก ๋ค์ ๋์๊ฐ์ง ์๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋์ง์ ๋ํ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํด ๋ต๋ณํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Mark Johnson: President & COO of Freeport-McMoRan Indonesia Yes. We have some other -- we haven't had to face this yet, but some of the other opportunities there would be to change our sequence and go to PB 1 North. We also have some options to incrementally add production from Deep MLZ. It would be at a lower grade if we did that. And the potential would be to continue to develop and ramp up PB 2, PB 3 beyond what we have in our plans. But all of those are forward looking. We don't have any -- our plan is still to proceed as we've shown. On Slide 31, a lot of those initiatives there on the mud removal are focused on PB 1. So the execution of those and the results of those will very much drive how we look at what our options or what our future plans may look like. | **Mark Johnson:** ๋ค, ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ๋ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ต์
๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ง ์ด ์ํฉ์ ์ง๋ฉดํ์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐํ๋ค๋ก๋ ์ฑ๊ตด ์์๋ฅผ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํด์ PB 1 North๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ Deep MLZ์์ ์ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฐ๋์ ์ถ๊ฐํ ์ ์๋ ์ต์
๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ํ์(grade)๋ ๋ฎ์์ง๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ฌ ๊ณํ ์ด์์ผ๋ก PB 2, PB 3๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ฐํ๊ณ ์ฆ์ฐํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋ฏธ๋ ์งํฅ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ํ์ฌ ์ด๋ค ํ์ ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ ์ํ ๋๋ก ์งํํ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 31๋ฒ์ ๋ณด์๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ๋ง์ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ค, ํนํ ํ ์ฌ ์ ๊ฑฐ ์์ ๋ค์ด PB 1์ ์ง์ค๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ ๋ค์ ์คํ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ํฅํ ์ ํฌ์ ์ต์ ์ด๋ ๋ฏธ๋ ๊ณํ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ ์ญํ ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Liam Fitzpatrick: Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division Just a quick follow-up. If you wanted to do PB 1N, you could bring that in around a similar time, late '27 early 2028. | **Liam Fitzpatrick:** ๋ง์ฝ PB 1N์ ์งํํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค๋ฉด, ๋น์ทํ ์๊ธฐ์ธ 2027๋ ๋ง์ด๋ 2028๋ ์ด์ ๋์ ํ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ญ๋๊น? |
| Mark Johnson: President & COO of Freeport-McMoRan Indonesia Yes. We'd have to do some different development. It's a change in the sequence. It would be something that we'd have to work through. We've talked about it at a high level, but we don't have anything firm. And I'd hate to -- until I have that, I'd hate to respond on the timing, but we've got a lot of development capability. It's not -- it's adjacent to what we're already doing. We are in the process of developing all of the infrastructure around that. So that would be an option, but we don't have any firm plans. | **Mark Johnson:** ๋ค, ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ํ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์์์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ์ด์ฃ . ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ฒํ ํด์ผ ํ ์ฌ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋์ ์์ค์์ ๋ ผ์๋ ํด๋ดค์ง๋ง, ํ์ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ํ์ ๋ ๊ณํ์ด ์๋ ์ํ์์ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด๋ ต์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ์ญ๋์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ์งํ ์ค์ธ ์์ ๊ณผ ์ธ์ ํ ์์ญ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ์. ํ์ฌ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ธํ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ต์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง๋ง, ํ์ ๋ ๊ณํ์ ์๋ ์ํ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Timna Tanners with Wells Fargo. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Wells Fargo์ Timna Tanners๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Timna Tanners: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division I wanted to ask in light of the sharp move in copper lately, if you have any fresh thoughts about the recycling opportunity. I know that you have that plan and program at Atlantic Copper. Are there other potential initiatives that could leverage secondary material? And then along those same lines, any thoughts on substitution, copper for silver in solar, but also aluminum for copper in other applications, it would be great to get your thoughts. | **Timna Tanners:** ์ต๊ทผ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ ์์น์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ฌํ์ฉ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ํ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒฌํด๊ฐ ์์ผ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. Atlantic Copper์์ ๊ด๋ จ ๊ณํ๊ณผ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์ด์ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑธ๋ก ์๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์. 2์ฐจ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ ์ ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๊ฐ ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์์, ๋์ฒด์ฌ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ์ญ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์๊ด์์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์์ผ๋ก ๋์ฒดํ๊ฑฐ๋, ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ฉ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋์ผ๋ก ๋์ฒดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด์๋์ง ์๊ฒฌ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director You pointed out the CirCular project that we're doing in Spain at our facility at Atlantic Copper, where we're completing a project to process scrap from electronics. So it's got a lot of precious metals associated with it. And so that project, we're completing the middle of this year. We do some scrap processing in the U.S. at our existing facilities. It's not -- we follow that business, but it's not the core of what we do. Our core really is around producing, mining and processing what we mine. But we'll look on the margin if there's an opportunity, but it's not our -- obviously not our business. In terms of substitution, that is a topic that people have talked -- long talked about. We believe that the properties of copper because of its superior conductivity are compelling. When you talk about data centers and that sort of thing, copper still is very, very important component of data centers. There will be substitution and thrifting as prices rise. But when you look at the big picture, you still need a lot more copper to be able to support the demand, the secular demand trends that are ongoing. So we're very confident that copper will still be viewed as a superior metal really from its conductivity, recognizing that there will be thrifting, there will be substitution that takes place as that relative value changes. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ๊ทํ๊ป์ ์คํ์ธ Atlantic Copper ์์ค์์ ์งํ ์ค์ธ CirCular ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ์
จ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์ ์์ ํ ์คํฌ๋ฉ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๋ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์
๋๋ค. ๊ท๊ธ์์ด ์๋น๋ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ฃ . ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ ์ฌํด ์ค๋ฐ์ ์๋ฃ๋ ์์ ์
๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์กด ์์ค์์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ์คํฌ๋ฉ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด ์ฌ์
์ ์ถ์ ํ๊ณ ๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํต์ฌ ์ฌ์
์ ์๋๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํต์ฌ์ ์ฑ๊ตด๊ณผ ์ฑ๊ตดํ ์์์ ๊ฐ๊ณต์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ถ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒํ ํ ์๋ ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๋ช
๋ฐฑํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฃผ๋ ฅ ์ฌ์
์ ์๋๋๋ค. ๋์ฒด์ฌ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ค๋ซ๋์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํด์จ ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฐ์ํ ์ ๋์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ํน์ฑ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ค๋๋ ฅ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ผํฐ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ ๊ตฌ์ฑ ์์์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ์์นํ๋ฉด ์ ๊ฐ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ด๋ ๋์ฒด์ฌ ์ฌ์ฉ์ด ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ์ฌ ์งํ ์ค์ธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์์ ํธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ๋์ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ฐ์ํ ๊ธ์์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์๋์ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ๋ณํํจ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋์ฒด์ฌ ์ฌ์ฉ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์ ์ธ์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Richard Adkerson: This is Richard. That's inevitable, but it will be in the context of a higher copper price. | **Richard Adkerson:** ์ด๋ ๋ถ๊ฐํผํ ์ผ์ด์ง๋ง, ๋ ๋์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question will come from the line of Brian MacArthur with Raymond James. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Raymond James์ Brian MacArthur ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Brian MacArthur: Raymond James Ltd., Research Division Two questions on Indonesia. First, in the fourth quarter, I see there's no export duties, but when I look at your guidance going forward, TCs are up to $0.43 versus historical levels. Can you just tell me how you're accounting for that, whether there are export duties in that guidance going forward or what's going on or whether that's just inter-transfer of costs as you go to the new smelter as things ramp up? And my second question has to do with KL. Obviously, it's getting bigger. Is that all additive post 2030, i.e., the higher production at KL, you still have the mill capacity, you don't have to do anything, and I see capital has gone up. Is that just inflation? Or is that given the KL ore is a little more complicated and you have to do something else? | **Brian MacArthur:** ์ธ๋๋ค์์ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์์ถ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ, ํฅํ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ TC๊ฐ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ค ๋๋น 0.43๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์๋ ๊ฑด์ง ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? ํฅํ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ์์ถ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์๋ ๊ฑด์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์ ๊ท ์ ๋ จ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋๋๋ฉด์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ๋ด๋ถ ๋น์ฉ ์ด์ ์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ KL ๊ด๋ จ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ท๋ชจ๊ฐ ํ๋๋๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฒ 2030๋ ์ดํ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ถ๊ฐ๋๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? ์ฆ, KL์ ์์ฐ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ถ ์ค๋น ์ฉ๋์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ์ง, ์ถ๊ฐ ํฌ์๊ฐ ํ์ ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ณธ ์ง์ถ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฑด ๋จ์ํ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๋๋ฌธ์ธ๊ฐ์? KL ๊ด์์ด ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๋ณต์กํด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ํ์ํ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director In terms of the question around export duties, we're no longer exporting concentrates. And so we don't have any export duties in our numbers. The TC number is really just the internal smelter costs, the operation of the existing smelter as well as the tolling fees that we pay -- the operating cost of the new smelter and the tolling fees we pay at PT Smelting. So they're really kind of internal costs. Of course, it doesn't include when you're comparing selling concentrate to a third party, that rate reflects all of the byproducts in the free metal. So going forward at PTFI, you're going to have the cost of the smelter in that processing line, that TC/RC line, but all the benefits that you get from the free metal, the byproducts, et cetera, will be in the revenue line. So it's a little different than historically when we've been just selling most of our concentrates. That -- and Brian, we can follow up more with you on that if I didn't fully answer it. But on the Kucing Liar, this is actually a positive here. We've been looking for some time at what's optimal between Grasberg Block Cave and Kucing Liar operating rates to look at what is optimal from an NPV standpoint and as you know, the footprint of KL is very big and a lot of it was just carrying forward after 2041. But in looking at the Grasberg Block Cave and Kucing Liar and the need potentially to invest in pyrite handling and processing facilities for certain types of ore, we developed a plan that allowed us to defer a significant amount of pyrite processing that would have been associated with Grasberg Block Cave and actually defer that out. And so you see KL rates going from where we were projecting 90,000 tons a day to 130,000. So we've added production from KL. Grasberg Block Cave is slightly smaller. All of this is just timing because with an extension, we'll get those reserves over time. But this plan allows us to defer processing for pyrite. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ์์ถ ๊ด์ธ ๊ด๋ จ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๊ด์ ์์ถํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ ํฌ ์์น์๋ ์์ถ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ์ ํ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. TC ์์น๋ ์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ด๋ถ ์ ๋ จ์ ๋น์ฉ์
๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ์ ๋ จ์ ์ด์ ๋น์ฉ๊ณผ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ง๋ถํ๋ ์ํ ๊ฐ๊ณต๋น, ์ฆ ์ ๊ท ์ ๋ จ์์ ์ด์ ๋น์ฉ๊ณผ PT Smelting์ ์ง๋ถํ๋ ์ํ ๊ฐ๊ณต๋น๋ฅผ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๋ค์ ์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ด๋ถ ๋น์ฉ์
๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ 3์์๊ฒ ์ ๊ด์ ํ๋งคํ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํ ๋, ๊ทธ ์์จ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ์ฐ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฆฌ ๊ธ์์ด ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ํฌํจ๋์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก PTFI์์๋ ์ ๋ จ์ ๋น์ฉ์ด ๊ฐ๊ณต ๋ผ์ธ, ์ฆ TC/RC ๋ผ์ธ์ ํฌํจ๋์ง๋ง, ์ ๋ฆฌ ๊ธ์(free metal), ๋ถ์ฐ๋ฌผ ๋ฑ์์ ์ป๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ด์ต์ ๋งค์ถ ๋ผ์ธ์ ๋ฐ์๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ ๊ด์ ํ๋งคํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์๊ณผ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฆ
๋๋ค. Brian, ์ ๋ต๋ณ์ด ์ถฉ๋ถํ์ง ์์๋ค๋ฉด ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ๋
ผ์ํ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Kucing Liar ๊ด๋ จํด์๋ ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋์ Grasberg Block Cave์ Kucing Liar์ ์ต์ ๊ฐ๋๋ฅ ์ด ๋ฌด์์ธ์ง, NPV ๊ด์ ์์ ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ์ด ์ต์ ์ธ์ง ๊ฒํ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์์๋ค์ํผ KL์ ๊ด๊ตฌ ๊ท๋ชจ๊ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ํฌ๊ณ , ์๋น ๋ถ๋ถ์ด 2041๋ ์ดํ๋ก ์ด์๋๋ ์ํฉ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ธ(Grasberg Block Cave)์ ์ฟ ์นญ ๋ฆฌ์๋ฅด(Kucing Liar), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํน์ ๊ด์ ์ ํ์ ๋ํ ํฉ์ฒ ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ๊ณต ์์ค์ ๋ํ ํฌ์ ํ์์ฑ์ ๊ฒํ ํ๋ฉด์, ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ธ์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ์๋น๋์ ํฉ์ฒ ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ฐ๊ธฐํ ์ ์๋ ๊ณํ์ ์๋ฆฝํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฟ ์นญ ๋ฆฌ์๋ฅด์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์กด ์์์น์ธ ์ผ์ผ 9๋ง ํค์์ 13๋ง ํค์ผ๋ก ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฟ ์นญ ๋ฆฌ์๋ฅด์์ ์์ฐ๋์ ๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ผ์ค๋ฒ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ด๋ธ๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ ์ถ์๋์๊ณ ์. ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋จ์ง ์๊ธฐ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ฅ์ ํตํด ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉด์ ํด๋น ๋งค์ฅ๋์ ํ๋ณดํ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ๊ณํ์ ํตํด ํฉ์ฒ ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ธฐํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Brian MacArthur: Raymond James Ltd., Research Division Got it. So you wouldn't have to make -- I mean, the mill will be what, 240 or whatever at it's max like it used to be before. You're just substituting A for B in this process. | **Brian MacArthur:** ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ๋ณ๋๋ก ์ถ๊ฐ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํ ํ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์์ด์์ฃ . ๊ณต์ฅ์ ์์ ์ฒ๋ผ ์ต๋ 240 ์ ๋ ์์ค์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ๋จ์ง ์ด ๊ณผ์ ์์ A๋ฅผ B๋ก ๋์ฒดํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ฟ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Right. Exactly. And what it allows us to do is defer the time frame when we need to spend capital on the pyrite handling. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํํ ๊ทธ๋ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํฉ์ฒ ๊ด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋ณธ์ ํฌ์ ํด์ผ ํ๋ ์์ ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. |
| Brian MacArthur: Raymond James Ltd., Research Division Great. And just back -- we can take the rest of this offline. But just that $0.43 for Indonesia this year for treatment charges, is that what -- is that inflated this year because we have a lower production rate and it's a ramp-up, i.e., on an ongoing basis, would it be better than that? | **Brian MacArthur:** ๋ค, ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด ์ธ๋๋ค์์์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋น์ฉ(treatment charges) 43์ผํธ๋ ์์ฐ๋์ด ๋ฎ๊ณ ๋จํ์ (ramp-up) ๋จ๊ณ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๊ฒ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฆ, ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ์ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋๋จธ์ง ์ธ๋ถ์ฌํญ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ ผ์ํ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director | **Kathleen Quirk:** I notice you've provided speaker titles but no actual content to translate. Could you please provide the management response or spoken content from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean? Once you share the actual dialogue or response, I'll translate it following the rules you've outlined - converting it into natural, fluent Korean without including the speaker titles, while maintaining the appropriate financial terminology and executive tone. |
| Operator: And I will now turn the call back over to management for any closing comments. | **Operator:** ์ด์ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์์ ์ํด ๊ฒฝ์์ง์๊ฒ ๋ค์ ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kathleen Quirk: CEO, President & Director Thanks, everyone, for participating, for your questions. And if you have any follow-ups, David Joint is available and our management team is available and we look forward to reporting on our progress as we go through the year. | **Kathleen Quirk:** ์ฐธ์ฌํด ์ฃผ์๊ณ ์ง๋ฌธํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ถ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์์ผ์๋ฉด David Joint์ ์ ํฌ ๊ฒฝ์์ง์ด ์ธ์ ๋ ์ง ๋์์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด ์งํ ์ํฉ์ ๋ํด ๊ณ์ํด์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋ฆด ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our call for today. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect. | **Operator:** ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ๋ง์น๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐธ์ฌํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์ข ๋ฃํ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. |
# Freeport-McMoRan Earnings Call Summary
## Key Financial & Operational Highlights
โข **U.S. Cost Reduction Target**: Management aims to reduce U.S. net cash costs from ~$3.10/lb (2024) to $2.50/lb by 2027, primarily through scaling low-cost leaching operations (currently 250-300M lbs, targeting 400M lbs by 2027) and operational efficiencies
โข **Indonesia Recovery on Track**: Grasberg Production Blocks 2&3 restart scheduled for early Q2 2026 (97% mud removal complete); PB 1 South targeted for mid-2027; company maintaining 2026 production guidance despite Q4 2025 incident
โข **South America Cost Pressures**: Net cash costs rising to $2.58/lb in 2026 (vs. $2.57 Q4 2025), driven by labor, energy inflation, and weaker dollarโcosts expected to stabilize at this elevated level
## Strategic Developments
โข **Bagdad 2X Expansion Decision Pending**: $3.5B project (2023 estimate, subject to inflation review) economically viable at $4 copper; management conducting vendor pricing and engineering work for mid-2026 investment decision; project would add significant domestic production with relatively short lead time
โข **Leaching Technology Breakthrough Potential**: 2026 described as "pivotal year" for heat injection and additive trials at Morenci, El Abra, and Chino; successful deployment could enable 600M+ lbs additional low-capex production, representing transformational value creation
## Management Tone & Risks
**Tone**: Confident and growth-oriented, emphasizing U.S. production expansion (targeting 2B lbs domestic capacity) and technology-driven cost reduction; management expressed high conviction in leaching scalability based on field trial progress
**Key Risks**: (1) Autonomous fleet at Bagdad underperforming expectations, requiring optimization before expansion; (2) Indonesia PB 1C restart uncertaintyโcontingency plans include PB 1 North or Deep MLZ sequencing changes; (3) Capital cost inflation risk for Bag