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RNS Number : 1083IFresnillo PLC14 June 2017Fresnillo plc
21 Upper Brook Street
London W1K 7PY
United Kingdom
14 June 2017
Fresnillo plc
Report on Payments to Governments for the Year 2016
Background
This Report provides an overview of the payments to governments made by Fresnillo plc and its subsidiaries for the year ended 31 December 2016 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/investor-relations/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 2016
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$116,5531) they have not been disclosed.
Reporting currency
Payments disclosed in this report have been disclosed in US Dollars. Where actual payments have been made in a currency other than US Dollars, i.e. Mexican pesos (MXN), they have been translated using the annual average exchange rate MXN / USD issued by The Central Bank of Mexico2.
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.
Payments reported are on a cash flow basis and refunds are included in the year received (i.e. 2016).
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 2016, there were no such reportable payments made by Fresnillo to a government:
- Production entitlements
- Royalties
- Dividends
- Signature, discovery and production bonuses
- Infrastructure improvements
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1Bloomberg 2016 average exchange rate 1.3554 USD / GBP2Banco de Mexico 2016 average exchange rate 18.6567 MXN / USDSUMMARY REPORT PER COUNTRY (in USD)
Production entitlements
Taxes (1)
Royalties
Dividends
Bonuses
Licenses & concessions fees
Infrastructure improvements
Total
MEXICO
0
68,009,406
0
0
0
22,613,314
0
90,622,720
PERU
0
0
0
0
0
2,471,926
0
2,471,926
Total
0
68,009,406
0
0
0
25,085,240
0
93,094,646
MEXICO
Government Report (in USD)
Production entitlements
Taxes
Royalties
Dividends
Bonuses
Licenses & concessions fees
Infrastructure improvements
Total
Ministry of Economics
0
10,863,123
0
0
0
15,398,194
0
26,261,317
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources
0
0
0
0
0
637,830
0
637,830
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
0
57,146,283
0
0
0
0
0
57,146,283
National Water Commission
0
0
0
0
0
6,577,290
0
6,577,290
Total
0
68,009,406
0
0
0
22,613,314
0
90,622,720
Project Report (in USD)
Production entitlements
Taxes
Royalties
Dividends
Bonuses
Licenses & concessions fees
Infrastructure improvements
Total
PROJECT
Cinega
0
332,244
0
0
0
1,852,043
0
2,184,287
Fresnillo
0
4,209,242
0
0
0
6,065,305
0
10,274,547
Herradura / Nochebuena
0
4,214,150
0
0
0
8,607,302
0
12,821,452
Juanicipio (3)
0
0
0
0
0
118,003
0
118,003
San Julin
0
0
0
0
0
799,358
0
799,358
Saucito
0
53,096,049
0
0
0
5,171,303
0
58,267,352
ENTITY LEVEL
Comercializadora de Metales Fresnillo, S.A. de C.V.
0
-1,725,312
(2)
0
0
0
0
0
(1,725,312)
Compaa Minera Las Torres, S.A. de C.V.
0
523,837
0
0
0
0
0
523,837
Exploraciones Mineras Parrea S.A. De C.V.
0
6,443,833
0
0
0
0
0
6,443,833
Operaciones Fresnillo, S.A. de C.V.
0
510,406
0
0
0
0
0
510,406
Servicios Administrativos Fresnillo, S.A. de C.V.
0
276,610
0
0
0
0
0
276,610
Servicios de Exploracin Fresnillo S.A. de C.V.
0
128,347
0
0
0
0
0
128,347
Total
0
68,009,406
0
0
0
22,613,314
0
90,622,720
PERU
Government Report (in USD)
Production entitlements
Taxes
Royalties
Dividends
Bonuses
Licenses & concessions fees
Infrastructure improvements
Total
Ministry of Energy and Mining
0
0
0
0
0
2,471,926
0
2,471,926
Total
0
0
0
0
0
2,471,926
0
2,471,926
Project Report (in USD)
Production entitlements
Taxes
Royalties
Dividends
Bonuses
Licenses & concessions fees
Infrastructure improvements
Total
ENTITY LEVEL
Fresnillo Per, S.A.C.
0
0
0
0
0
2,471,926
0
2,471,926
Total
0
0
0
0
0
2,471,926
0
2,471,926
Notes
1: All tax payments made in 2016 to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (the Mexican Tax authorities) are presented net of refunds received in 2016.
2: Tax payments made in 2016 of USD$ 1,141,114 to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit net of USD$ 2,866,426 refund received in 2016.
3: Represents 100% of the payments related to Juanicipio (56% Fresnillo plc, 44% MAG Silver)
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: +44 (0)20 7399 2470
Mexico City Office
Ana Belem Zrate
Tel: +52 55 52 79 3206
Bell Pottinger
Liz Morley
Aarti Iyer
Marianna Bowes
Tel: +44 (0)20 3772 2500
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, Cinega (including the San Ramn satellite mine), Herradura, Soledad-Dipolos1, Noche Buena and San Julin (phase 1), three development projects - San Julin (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-Dipolos are currently suspended.
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