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The company鈥檚 gold production for the March quarter increased by 2.6% to 637,000 ounces, smashing UBS鈥� estimate of 593,000oz.
Copper production jumped by 30.4% to 23,000 tonnes.
All-in sustaining costs dropped by 4.5% to $US723 per ounce, and the AISC margin increased by 33% to $458/oz.
Cadia in New South Wales helped pick up the slack of Gosowong in Indonesia, which was suspended for much of the quarter due to a geotechnical event.
Newcrest said Lihir achieved a grinding throughput rate of 12.9 million tonnes per annum, with AISC steady at $804/oz.
鈥淚t was a quarter with a number of challenges, although it is pleasing to have increased our production and lowered our all-in sustaining cost per ounce in the quarter,鈥� Newcrest managing director and CEO Sandeep Biswas said.
鈥淲e increased the level of throughput at Cadia as planned, and Lihir continued its improvement journey with another lift in throughput rates.鈥�
The company left its full-year guidance unchanged at 2.4-2.6 million ounces of gold, despite individual asset guidance increases at Lihir and Cadia.
Newcrest鈥檚 AISC guidance was lowered to $1.87-1.97 billion from $1.9-2.05 billion due to a decrease in costs at Telfer and Gosowong.
Full-year capital expenditure guidance was lowered to $440-540 million from $480-575 million.
Newcrest conducted brownfields exploration across all of its sites during the quarter, as well as inking three new greenfields deals in West Africa.
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The company has signed 11 farm-in and joint venture exploration deals over the past year, as part of a 鈥減ortfolio rebuild鈥�.
Newcrest shares opened 2% higher at $A18.27.
