Hycroft Announces Third Quarter 2024 Results

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WINNEMUCCA, Nev., Nov. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: HYMC) ("Hycroft" or the "Company") announces quarterly results for the three months ended September 30, 2024.

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Diane R. Garrett, Hycroft's President & CEO, commented: "We have completed more than two years with a zero total recordable injury frequency rate ("TRIFR") as we continued exploration of the two high-grade silver dominant trends and advanced the technical work needed for a sulfide milling operation. Our exploration and technical activities are being executed in a targeted, methodical, and cost-effective manner as we move Hycroft up the value chain."

2024 THIRD QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS

Corporate Highlights

  • Safety: Hycroft has maintained a 0.00 TRIFR for over two years, operating over 1.2 million man hours without a Lost Time Incident. During the third quarter, Hycroft was awarded the 2024 Operator Safety Award for small surface mines by the Nevada Mining Association.

  • Balance Sheet: The Company ended the quarter with unrestricted cash of $55.8 million and total debt of $122.1 million.

Operational Highlights

  • Exploration: During the third quarter of 2024, the Company continued to report very high-grade results from both Vortex and Brimstone and as a result, expanded the 2024 Drill program to build on the high-grade silver dominant trends identified and announced in November 2023. The program has again been expanded to approximately 8,500 meters of core drilling, of which approximately 6,600 meters of drilling were completed as of September 30, 2024. The current program continues to define the structural framework of the two new high-grade silver trends, targeting down-dip extensions, and further establishing continuity of the two trends. Additionally, the Company has extended the drilling program east of the current resource as a result of the Induced Polarity geophysical surveys completed in the second quarter of 2024 coupled with a robust mapping and sampling program to extend Hycroft mineralization to the east in a previously unexplored area within the current plan of operation.

  • Technical Update: Hycroft advanced with metallurgical test and engineering work necessary for designing a sulfide milling operation during the third quarter of 2024. Crushing, grinding, and flotation work has identified significant improvements in gold and silver flotation recoveries compared to the current technical report that increase the economic benefits to the project. The Company completed the future Tailing Storage Facility designs that will extend material storage capacity and will meet new and emerging safety and environmental regulations for these types of facilities. Hycroft is continuing test work for identifying the optimal inputs and operating parameters for processing sulfide ore, and it continues to conduct trade-off studies to assess whether roasting technology could offer superior economics compared to pressure oxidation ("POX") technology for the Hycroft Mine.