Price Production of 9,550 ounces of gold equivalent[1] (7,994 ounces of gold, 0.7 million pounds of copper and 20,393 ounces of silver) was 39% lower than the 15,567 ounces of gold equivalent 1 ("GEO") in the previous quarter. The main cause of the drop in metal production was lower throughput. Once again, dreadful results. We are increasing employee salaries and reducing last quarter's production by 39%. No surprise there. The company is moving backwards instead of forwards, and has been for several years.