 Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Steven Roman of Hart Gold. How are you? I'm very well. Thanks Tracy. How are you doing? Fantastic and could let me start by saying congratulations on your news you both you put out your Q1 results And you also announced that you hit high-grade south of sugar zone. Tell us all about it Let's start with your your high-grade announcement, please Okay, just for our shareholders and investors of course, we do a lot of exploration at Hart Gold around the shooter zone mine and We've been extending the deposit from an initial Small resource for about a hundred thousand ounces. We're now getting close I would say to two million ounces and that's been done along a five kilometer strike length So this latest discovery is now south of the shooter zone It is called the the upper zone of the of the actual sugar zone deposit and It's an area that hadn't been previously drilled. So this this extends the ore body 200 meters further south which again is going to have the potential to add a significant significant amount of new ounces To our resource Okay, so let's talk about the resource. Of course, you're one of Ontario's newest gold producers and for all of you out there in the Cannabis market seeking to get into gold. Can you give us kind of an overview on how you're producing right now? Just kind of hit the highlights that you had in your Q1 results Okay, so we declared commercial production in January this year and Of course, we started the operation in the in the depth of the winter at 45 below 0 we had a few little startup issues Not the least of which was just getting our labor On board and and having enough people to do the work But we've been ramping up now over the over the last quarter And march was our best month because we had the equipment and the people to do the work and now We're meeting our targets. We put a feasibility study latter part of 2018 and we're now You know, basically tracking that feasibility study and we announced that Last night in our quarterly report Okay, well that's super exciting and normally I don't talk to people about their financings We usually just let get people excited and then they start doing the due diligence And then obviously you can read about it But the way your debt financing was beautifully done Would you mind giving us a bit of an update and explain how that provides an advantage for shareholders of Hartgold, please Our previous financing Was two components one was a facility with Sprott resource lending and the other was a bridge financing with capital So what we've done with this new financing arrangement is we've made a deal with a tier one bank Uh being bnp parry by french banks. They're heavily involved in the mining sector And it significantly reduces our interest cost and it stretches our amortization payments So it makes it much more flexible from our point of view as a gold mining company to be able to service the debt and Still provide shareholders with of course free cash flow that can be used to continue to expand our body And of course steven you're very well known in the resource industry. Can I Get some feedback from you and what's happening with gold with all the The rising tensions between the united states and china Do you see us, uh, finally getting the gold bull market, uh, hopping the the pond from europe and north america Well, the gold sector is of course, uh, you know been consolidating here. I would say it's been trading between 12 50 and $1,300 an ounce us for some time now I think generally most gold bugs feel that price is going to be going much higher Right now as far as we're concerned, uh, $1,300 is a pretty good gold price, particularly in canadian dollars That gives us about $1,700 canadian Per ounce our costs are in canadian dollars and we receive revenue in us dollars So I mean from our point of view it'd be great if the gold price went higher I think it would get a lot of people back into the gold market Maybe taking some profits off the table from cannabis Putting it back in the mining sector. We are still depressed. I would say as a sector mining mining Uh companies not just gold but across the whole gambit So what should we in addition to being very optimistic? At least we are at investor intel about what's happening in the gold market this fall Can you tell us what we should expect to shareholders of heart gold? And say the next quarter or two. Forgive me Tracy, uh, you know right now our focus is to continue ramping up operations There's a lot of underground development needs to be done at the sugar zone mine That'll move us up to that 800 ton for per day level of mining That's going to really get us into a profit situation. So next year we're expecting to produce a very nice free cash flow This year is a is a development year for the company And of course, we would like to continue working on exploration We feel the property's got a lot of potential for additional discoveries We've found 2 million ounces there. There's no reason why we can't find another 2 million ounces there. So I think Uh, right now the sector's depressed the share price is depressed. We've just refinanced We've come out with a new, uh, you know, mine production plan that Gives shareholders a good view on the growth of the company going forward Well, as always steven, thank you so much for joining us today and congratulations Congratulations on your news release today. Thank you very much. Tracy