Aug 8 (Reuters) - Silver Wheaton Corp reported a nearly ten-times jump in second-quarter profit due mainly to higher silver and gold prices, and said its 2015 attributable production forecast remains unchanged.
For the April-June quarter, net profit rose to $148.1 million, or 42 cents a share, from $15.3 million, or 4 cents a share, a year ago.
Sales for the company, which provides up-front financing to miners in exchange for the right to buy their silver by-product, more than doubled to $194.8 million.
Operating cash flows jumped 151 percent to $168.3 million, or 48 cents a share.
Average realized selling price of silver and gold jumped 108 percent and 24 percent, respectively.
Attributable silver equivalent production was up 5 percent to 6.2 million ounces.
In July, the company lowered its full-year attributable production outlook, blaming a slow ramp-up at Goldcorp's Penasquito mine in Mexico.
Silver Wheaton has the right to 25 percent of silver production at Penasquito, which is Mexico's largest open-pit mine.
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