P: San Dimas' Potential

STEVEN BUTLER, Canaccord Genuity (10/27/2010)
"Site visit confirms San Dimas' potential—We are reiterating our BUY rating on Primero Mining following a favorable tour of its San Dimas mine in Mexico. Primero is one of our preferred junior producers based on relative valuation and excellent rerating opportunity, as the market better understands San Dimas' expansion/exploration potential and the benefit of the revised silver stream deal.

Development is continuing to advance north into the new Sinaloa Graben area. We believe the exploration potential in the district is excellent, underscored by management's view of the resource potential of +3 Moz. in various sectors beyond the official inferred resource of 1.6 Moz. We remain comfortable with our assumed resource-to-reserve conversion of 90% (i.e., 1.45 Moz. Au grading 4.1 g/t and 120.2 Moz. Ag grading 340 g/t). A scoping study is due in early 2011 evaluating a potential mill expansion to 2,500 tpd. As such, we believe our assumed 20% mill expansion to 2,300 tpd could ultimately prove to be conservative."

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