Annual Financial Report and AGM Notice

RNS Number : 0397D

Fresnillo PLC

21 April 2017

 

                                                                                                         Fresnillo Plc

21 Upper Brook Street

London W1K 7PY

United Kingdom

www.fresnilloplc.com

21 April 2017

Fresnillo plc - Annual Financial Report and AGM Notice

In compliance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, Fresnillo plc (the "Company") has submitted a copy of each of the following documents to the National Storage Mechanism, which will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm :

* Annual Report & Accounts, 2016.

* Notice of the 2017 Annual General Meeting.

* Form of Proxy for the 2017 Annual General Meeting.

As required by DTR 6.3.5 (3), the Company confirms that copies of the Annual Report and Circular including the Notice of Annual General Meeting are available on the Company's website www.fresnilloplc.com.

The Annual General Meeting will be held at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 23 May 2017 at Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8HQ.

For further information, please visit our website www.fresnilloplc.com or contact:

Fresnillo plc            London Office                                   Gabriela Mayor, Head of Investor Relations Patrick Chambers	Tel: [phone]
Mexico City Office Ana Belem Zárate	Tel: [phone]
Bell Pottinger Liz Morley Marianna Bowes Aarti Iyer	Tel: [phone]

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 seven operating mines, all of them in Mexico - Fresnillo, Saucito, Ciénega (including the San Ramón satellite mine), Herradura, Soledad-Dipolos^1, Noche Buena and San Julián (phase 1), three development projects - San Julián (phase 2), the Pyrites plant, and second line of DLP at Herradura, and four advanced exploration projects - 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 1.8 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 per year by 2018, having already surpassed the gold target of 750,000 ounces.

¹ Operations at Soledad and Dipolos are currently suspended.

 

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