Fresnillo Regulatory News (FRES)

Fresnillo plc

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15 June 2016

Fresnillo plc

Report on Payments to Governments for the Year 2015

Background

This Report provides an overview of the payments to governments made by Fresnillo plc and its subsidiaries for the year ended 31 December 2015 as required under the UK Reports on Payments to Governments Regulation 2014 and its amendment in December 2015 (the UK Regulations). This Report is also intended to satisfy the requirements of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.

This Report is available for download from http://www.fresnilloplc.com/investors/regulatory-announcements/

The 'Basis of Preparation' section below contains information about the content of the Report, the types of payments included and the principles that have been applied in preparing the Report.

Basis for preparation - Report on Payments to Governments for the year 2015

Reporting entities

In accordance with the UK Regulations, this Report includes payments to government made by Fresnillo plc and its subsidiary undertakings (Fresnillo).

Activities

Payments made by Fresnillo to governments arising from activities involving the exploration, prospection, discovery, development and extraction of minerals (extractive activities) are disclosed in this Report. When payments cover both extractive and processing activities and cannot be split, the payment has been disclosed in full.

Government

Government includes any national, regional or local authority of a country to which Fresnillo has made a payment related to these regulations, and includes any department, agency or entity that is controlled by such authority.

Project

Payments are reported at project level, except for payments that are not attributable to a specific project which are reported at entity level. Within the UK Regulations, a project is defined as being the operational activities which are governed by a single contract, licence, lease, concession or a similar legal agreement, and form the basis for payment liabilities with a government. If agreements of this kind are substantially interconnected (i.e. forming a set of operationally and geographically integrated contracts, licenses, leases or concessions) these are treated for the purposes of these Regulations as a single project. Indicators of integration include geographic proximity and common operational management. For some payments that cannot be attributable to a specific project, they were indicated at an entity level.

Materiality

In line with the UK Regulations, where a payment or a series or related payments have not exceeded £86,000 (US$131,453[1]) they have not been disclosed.

Reporting currency

Payments disclosed in this report have been disclosed in US Dollars. Where actual payments have been recorded in a currency other than US Dollars, they have been translated using the annual average exchange rate.

Type of payments

a) Taxes. There are taxes paid by Fresnillo on its income, including special mining rights. Payments are reported net of refunds. In accordance with the UK Regulations payments made in relation to consumption, sales or employee taxes were excluded.

b) License fees, rental fees, entry fees and other considerations for licenses or concessions. These are fees paid as consideration for acquiring a license for gaining access to an area where extractive activities are performed.

c) Infrastructure improvements. Payments in kind in the form of infrastructure expenditure (a road for example) other than in circumstances where the infrastructure is expected to be primarily dedicated to operational activities throughout its useful life. UK Regulations do not require reporting social or community payments, such as payments to build a hospital or a school.

Payments reported are on a cash flow basis and refunds are included in the year received (i.e. 2015).

Other types of payments that are required to be disclosed in accordance with the UK Regulations are the following; however, for the year ended 31 December 2015, there were no such reportable payments made by Fresnillo to a government:

- Production entitlements

- Royalties

- Dividends

- Signature, discovery and production bonuses

SUMMARY REPORT PER COUNTRY (in USD)

MEXICO

Government Report (in USD)

Project Report (in USD)

PERU

Government Report (in USD)

Project Report (in USD)

Notes:

1: Tax payments made in 2015 to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (the Mexican Tax authorities) net of refunds received in 2015. It is integrated as follows: Ciénega USD $1,592,850; Comercializadora de Metales Fresnillo USD$ 1,322,321; Compañía Minera Las Torres USD$ (456,480); Exploraciones Mineras Parreña USD$ (7,880,944); Minera Fresnillo USD$ (987,399); Fresnillo plc USD$ 2,270,438; Minera Penmont USD$ 6,770,023; Operaciones Fresnillo USD$ 1,073,672; Saucito USD$ (16,125,965); Servicios Administrativos Fresnillo USD$ 313,429 and Servicios de Exploración Fresnillo USD$ 267,462.

2: Tax payments made in 2015 of USD$ 32,569,187 to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit net of USD$ 48,695,152 refund received in 2015; plus USD$ 996,080 corresponding to the special mining right (7.5% on taxable profit) and USD$ 740,496 corresponding to extraordinary mining right (0.5% on income result from sales of gold, silver and platinum), these last two paid to the Ministry of Economics.

3: Tax payments made in 2015 of USD$ 305,435 to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit net of USD$ 761,915 refund received in 2015.

4: Tax payments made in 2015 of USD$ 5,193,601 to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit net of USD$ 13,074,545 refund received in 2015.

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About Fresnillo plc

Fresnillo plc is the world's largest primary silver producer and Mexico's second largest gold producer, listed on the London and Mexican Stock Exchanges under the symbol FRES.

Fresnillo plc has six operating mines, all of them in Mexico - Fresnillo, Saucito, Ciénega (including the San Ramón satellite mine), Herradura, Soledad-Dipolos1 and Noche Buena, two development projects - San Julián and the Pyrites plant, and four advanced exploration prospects - Orisyvo, Juanicipio, Las Casas Rosario & Cluster Cebollitas and Centauro Deep, as well as a number of other long term exploration prospects. In total, Fresnillo plc has mining concessions covering approximately 2 million hectares in Mexico.

Fresnillo plc has a strong and long tradition of mining, a proven track record of mine development, reserve replacement, and production costs in the lowest quartile of the cost curve for silver.

Fresnillo plc's goal is to maintain the Group's position as the world's largest primary silver company, producing 65 million ounces of silver and 750,000 ounces of gold by 2018.

1 Operations at Soledad-Dipolos are currently suspended.