• Harmony Gold kept its full-year FY26 guidance, projecting gold output of 1,400,000-1,500,000 oz with overall AISC of between R 1,150,000/kg and R 1,220,000/kg.
• It also guided for underground recovered grade above 5.80 g/t; nine-month underground recovered grade was 5.85 g/t.
• Copper guidance was maintained at 17,500-18,500 tonnes with C1 cash costs of between US$ 2.65/lb and US$ 2.80/lb; recovered grade was expected to stay above 3.50%.
• For the nine months ended March 31, gold production totaled 1,073,610 oz; AISC rose 14% year-on-year to R 1,167,679/kg.
• The outlook followed a stronger third quarter, with quarterly gold production up 5% from the prior quarter; the group returned to net cash of R 1.33 billion from net debt of R 5.55 billion at Dec. 31.

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