Day: March 31, 2017

Primero Mining Corp. announced today that, further to its news release dated March 24, 2017, it has closed the extension of the maturity of its $75 million revolving credit facility with its syndicate of lenders. The RCF will now mature on November 23, 2017 and will exclude financial covenants until the extended maturity date. The RCF continues to be secured by a charge over substantially all of the Company’s assets and is now guaranteed by Silver Wheaton for a fee of $2.6 million payable at maturity. Today, Primero drew down $10 million from the RCF, which now has $60 million drawn. An additional $15 million remains available for drawdown, subject to Silver Wheaton’s consent, unless the proceeds are used solely in connection with the restart of the San Dimas operations.

The gross proceeds of the Private Placement will be used to advance exploration activities and some minor working capital and general corporate expenses. The exploration activities to include mechanical trenching and construction of access to facilitate drilling plus some in-fill mapping and sampling on the recently announced PIMA geochemical sampling program.