EURO Ressources : EURO RESSOURCES HAS RECORD EARNINGS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2008
Market Wire, March, 2009
EURO RESSOURCES HAS RECORD EARNINGS FOR THE
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2008
EURO Ressources S.A. (TSX: EUR) (Paris: EUR) today announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the year ended 31 December 2008 prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union. EURO reported record earnings of EUR 4.68 million for 2008, and earnings of EUR 0.46 million for the fourth quarter of 2008; this compares to a loss of EUR 0.76 million for 2007 and EUR 0.58 million for the fourth quarter of 2007. All financial amounts are expressed in EUR uros.
The following comments on the results for the quarter and twelve months ended December 31, 2008, are taken from our Management's Discussion and Analysis:
Three months ended December 31, 2008 compared to three months ended December 31, 2007
EURO recorded revenue of EUR 3.217 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2008, compared to EUR 2.80 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, an increase of 15%. Substantially all of this revenue is derived from the Rosebel royalty. The Rosebel gold mine achieved record production of 89,651 ounces of gold in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 7% increase from the 83,438 ounces of gold achieved in the fourth quarter of 2007.
The average gold price for the quarter was $794.76 per ounce of gold which compares to $786.25/ounce for the same period last year, an increase of less than 1%.
EURO had no scheduled gold hedging maturities during the fourth quarter of this year, compared to hedging costs from scheduled maturities of EUR 1.32 million during the same quarter last year. In the fourth quarter of 2008, EURO liquidated the gold hedges scheduled to mature in the second quarter of 2009 and half of the gold hedge scheduled to mature in the third quarter of 2009. The liquidated loss of EUR 2.74 million associated with the early liquidation of this gold hedge is offset by the decrease in the negative mark-to-market value for the outstanding hedges of EUR 2.70 million, resulting in a net financial loss in the fourth quarter of 2008 of EUR 0.04 million.
General and administrative expenses in the fourth quarter were EUR 2.55 million, including EUR 0.07 million associated with the IAMGOLD arbitration and EUR 1.79 million of costs associated with the takeover bid by IaMGOLD. Excluding these costs, there was a 114% increase in G & A costs compared to the EUR 0.32 million of similar expenses in the fourth quarter of 2007, mainly due to the fact that legal and professional expenses related to the rights issue of 2007 were capitalized and treated as a reduction in paid-in- capital.
Twelve months ended December 31, 2008 compared to twelve months ended December 31, 2007
EURO had revenue of EUR 12.43 million in 2008 compared to EUR 8.09 million in 2007, an increase of 54%. Substantially all of this revenue is income from the Rosebel royalty. The Rosebel gold mine produced 331,131 ounces of gold during 2008 (2007: 276,085 ounces of gold), an increase of 20%. This increase relates in part to improvements in throughput, cut-off grade optimization and recovery and also due to the fact that there was no strike at the Rosebel mine in 2008 as there had been during 2007. Liquidated hedging costs associated with our scheduled loan repayments in 2008 were EUR 0.96 million (2007: EUR 6.59 million) providing net revenue after hedging of EUR 11.476 million (2007: EUR 1.49 million). This increase in net revenue reflects the higher gold production at the Rosebel mine and the increase in the average price of gold for the year of $871.96 per ounce of gold as compared to $695.36 per ounce of gold in 2007.
General and administrative expenses were EUR 4.02 million, including EUR 0.13 million associated with the IAMGOLD arbitration and EUR 1.97 million of costs associated with the takeover bid by IAMGOLD. Excluding these costs, there was a marginal reduction in G&A costs compared to the EUR 1.92 million of similar expenses in 2007. These expenses are still high due to the dual listing on the Euronext, Bourse de Paris in France and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Interest expense decreased in 2008 to EUR 0.07 million (2007: EUR 0.43 million), an 84% decrease reflecting the full repayment of the loan to Macquarie Bank Limited in the beginning of December and no repayments in 2008 to Golden Star Resources Ltd., since the debt was repaid in full at the end of 2007.
The decrease in amortization expenses to EUR 0.47 million (2007: EUR 0.59 million), a 20% decrease, reflects the change in accounting estimate of the resources at Rosebel to include the full amount of the remaining ounces under the Rosebel Participation Right royalty, which resulted in a higher resource base for computing the amortization per ounce of production. EURO recognized a future tax credit in the 2008 balance sheet of EUR 5.55 million being EUR 0.81 million against the unrealized mark-to-market position at year-end and EUR 4.65million in respect to cumulative net operating losses.
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