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Exhibit 99.1

Annual Information Form
for the year ended December 31, 2015

Dated as of March 15, 2016

AGNICO EAGLE MINES LIMITED

ANNUAL INFORMATION FORM

Table of Contents

		Page
INTRODUCTORY NOTES		ii
	Currency and Exchange Rates	ii
	Forward-Looking Statements	ii
	Presentation of Financial Information	iv
	Note to Investors Concerning Estimates of Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources	iv
	Note to Investors Concerning Certain Measures of Performance	iv
SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA		1
GLOSSARY OF SELECTED MINING TERMS		2
CORPORATE STRUCTURE		9
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS		11
GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS		12
OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTION		16
	Business Units and Foreign Operations	16
	Northern Business	16
	Southern Business	59
	Regional Exploration Activities	70
	Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources	70
	Principal Products and Distribution	83
	Employees	83
	Competitive Conditions	83
	Sustainable Development	83
	Employee Health and Safety	84
	Community	84
	Environmental Protection	85
RISK FACTORS		86
DIVIDENDS		98
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE		98
RATINGS		98
MARKET FOR SECURITIES		99
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY		100
	Directors	100
	Committees	101
	Officers	102
	Shareholdings of Directors and Officers	103
	Cease Trade Orders, Bankruptcies, Penalties or Sanctions	103
	Conflicts of Interest	104
AUDIT COMMITTEE		104
	Composition of the Audit Committee	104
	Relevant Education and Experience	104
	Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures	104
	External Auditor Service Fees	105
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS		105
INTEREST OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS		106
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR		106
MATERIAL CONTRACTS		106
INTERESTS OF EXPERTS		109
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION		109
SCHEDULE "A" AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER OF THE COMPANY		A-1

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INTRODUCTORY NOTES

Currency and Exchange Rates

Currencies:    Agnico Eagle Mines Limited ("Agnico Eagle" or the "Company") presents its consolidated financial statements in United States dollars. All dollar amounts in this Annual Information Form ("AIF") are stated in United States dollars ("U.S. dollars", "$" or "US$"), except where otherwise indicated. Certain information in this AIF is presented in Canadian dollars ("C$") or European Union euros ("Euro" or "€").

Exchange Rates:    The following tables set out, in Canadian dollars, the exchange rates for the U.S. dollar, based on the noon buying rate as reported by the Bank of Canada (the "Noon Buying Rate"). On March 15, 2016, the Noon Buying Rate was US$1.00 equals C$1.3359.

	Year Ended December 31,
	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
High	1.3990	1.1643	1.0697	1.0418	1.0604
Low	1.1728	1.0614	0.9839	0.9710	0.9449
End of Period	1.3840	1.1601	1.0636	0.9949	1.0170
Average	1.2787	1.1045	1.0299	0.9996	0.9891

	2016			2015
	March (to March 15)	February	January	December	November	October	September
High	1.3468	1.4040	1.4589	1.3990	1.3360	1.3242	1.3413
Low	1.3215	1.3523	1.3969	1.3360	1.3095	1.2904	1.3147
End of Period	1.3359	1.3523	1.4080	1.3840	1.3333	1.3083	1.3394
Average	1.3344	1.3796	1.4223	1.3705	1.3280	1.3073	1.3267

On December 31, 2015 and March 15, 2016, US$1.00 equaled €0.9185 and €0.9002, respectively, as reported by the European Central Bank.

Forward-Looking Statements

Forward-Looking Statements:    Certain statements in this AIF, referred to herein as "forward-looking statements", constitute "forward-looking information" under the provisions of Canadian provincial securities laws and constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, the Company's plans, objectives, expectations, estimates, beliefs, strategies and intentions and can generally be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate", "believe", "budget", "could", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "likely", "may", "plan", "project", "schedule", "should", "target", "will", "would" or other variations of these terms or similar words. Forward-looking statements in this AIF include, but are not limited to, the following:

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the Company's outlook for 2016 and future periods;



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statements regarding future earnings, and the sensitivity of earnings to gold and other metal prices;



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anticipated levels or trends for prices of gold and by-product metals mined by the Company or for exchange rates between currencies in which capital is raised, revenue is generated or expenses are incurred by the Company;



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estimates of future mineral production and sales;

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estimates of future costs, including mining costs, total cash costs per ounce, all-in sustaining costs per ounce, minesite costs per tonne and other costs;



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estimates of future capital expenditures, exploration expenditures and other cash needs, and expectations as to the funding thereof;



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statements regarding the projected exploration, development and exploitation of certain ore deposits, including estimates of exploration, development and production and other capital costs and estimates of the timing of such exploration, development and production or decisions with respect thereto;



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estimates of mineral reserves and mineral resources and their sensitivities to gold prices and other factors, ore grades and mineral recoveries and statements regarding anticipated future exploration results;



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estimates of cash flow;



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estimates of mine life;



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anticipated timing of events with respect to the Company's minesites, mine development projects and exploration projects;



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estimates of future costs and other liabilities for environmental remediation;



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statements regarding anticipated legislation and regulations, including with respect to climate change, and estimates of the impact on the Company; and



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other anticipated trends with respect to the Company's capital resources and results of operations.

Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of factors and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by Agnico Eagle as of the date of such statements, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. The factors and assumptions of Agnico Eagle upon which the forward-looking statements in this AIF are based, and which may prove to be incorrect, include the assumptions set out elsewhere in this AIF as well as: that there are no significant disruptions affecting Agnico Eagle's operations, whether due to labour disruptions, supply disruptions, damage to equipment, natural or man-made occurrences, mining or milling issues, political changes, title issues or otherwise; that permitting, development and expansion at each of Agnico Eagle's mines and mine development projects proceed on a basis consistent with expectations, and that Agnico Eagle does not change its exploration or development plans relating to such projects; that the exchange rates between the Canadian dollar, Euro, Mexican peso and the U.S. dollar will be approximately consistent with current levels or as set out in this AIF; that prices for gold, silver, zinc and copper will be consistent with Agnico Eagle's expectations; that prices for key mining and construction supplies, including labour costs, remain consistent with Agnico Eagle's expectations; that production meets expectations; that Agnico Eagle's current estimates of mineral reserves, mineral resources, mineral grades and mineral recoveries are accurate; that there are no material delays in the timing for completion of development projects; and that there are no material variations in the current tax and regulatory environment that affect Agnico Eagle.

The forward-looking statements in this AIF reflect the Company's views as at the date of this AIF and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the risk factors set out in "Risk Factors" below. Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as otherwise required by law, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. This AIF contains information regarding estimated total cash costs per ounce, all-in sustaining costs per ounce and minesite costs per tonne in respect of the Company or at certain of the Company's mines and mine development projects. The Company believes that these generally accepted industry measures are realistic indicators of operating performance and are useful in allowing year over year comparisons. Investors are cautioned that this information may not be suitable for other purposes.

Meaning of "including" and "such as":    When used in this AIF, the terms "including" and "such as" mean including and such as, without limitation.

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Presentation of Financial Information

International Financial Reporting Standards:    The Company reports its financial results using International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). The Company adopted IFRS as its basis of accounting, replacing United States generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP") effective July 1, 2014. As a result, Agnico Eagle's consolidated financial statements for 2015 are reported in accordance with IFRS, with comparative information for prior periods restated under IFRS and a transition date of January 1, 2013. The Company's transition to IFRS reporting had no significant impact on the design or effectiveness of the Company's internal controls over financial reporting. The Company adopted IFRS as its basis of accounting to maintain comparability with other gold mining companies. Unless otherwise specified, all references to financial results herein are to those calculated under IFRS.

Note to Investors Concerning Estimates of Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

The mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates contained in this AIF have been prepared in accordance with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities' (the "CSA") National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"). These standards are similar to those used by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission's (the "SEC") Industry Guide No. 7, as interpreted by Staff at the SEC ("Guide 7"). However, the definitions in NI 43-101 differ in certain respects from those under Guide 7. Accordingly, mineral reserve information contained or incorporated by reference herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by U.S. companies. Under the requirements of the SEC, mineralization may not be classified as a "reserve" unless the determination has been made that the mineralization could be economically and legally produced or extracted at the time the reserve determination is made. The SEC does not recognize measures of "mineral resource".

The mineral reserve and mineral resource data presented herein are estimates, and no assurance can be given that the anticipated tonnages and grades will be achieved or that the indicated level of recovery will be realized. The Company does not include equivalent gold ounces for by-product metals contained in mineral reserves in its calculation of contained ounces.

Cautionary Note to Investors Concerning Estimates of Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources

This document uses the terms "measured mineral resources" and "indicated mineral resources". Investors are advised that while those terms are recognized and required by Canadian regulations, the SEC does not recognize them. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted into mineral reserves.

Cautionary Note to Investors Concerning Estimates of Inferred Mineral Resources

This document uses the term "inferred mineral resources". Investors are advised that while this term is recognized and required by Canadian regulations, the SEC does not recognize it. "Inferred mineral resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that any part or all of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian regulations, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of an inferred mineral resource exists, or is economically or legally mineable.

Note to Investors Concerning Certain Measures of Performance

This AIF discloses certain measures, including "total cash costs per ounce", "all-in sustaining costs per ounce" and "minesite costs per tonne" that are not recognized measures under IFRS. These data may not be comparable to data reported by other gold producers. For a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable financial information presented in the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS, and for an explanation of how management uses these measures, please see the Company's management discussion and analysis for the period ended December 31, 2015 (the "Annual MD&A").

The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced is reported on both a by-product basis (deducting by-product metal revenues from production costs) and co-product basis (before by-product metal revenues). The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced on a by-product basis is calculated by adjusting production costs as recorded in the consolidated statements of income (loss) for by-product revenues, unsold concentrate inventory production costs, smelting, refining and marketing charges and other adjustments, and then dividing by the number of ounces of gold produced. The total

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cash costs per ounce of gold produced on a co-product basis is calculated in the same manner as the total cash costs per ounce of gold produced on a by-product basis, except that no adjustment is made for by-product metal revenues. Accordingly, the calculation of total cash costs per ounce of gold produced on a co-product basis does not reflect a reduction in production costs or smelting, refining and marketing charges associated with the production and sale of by-product metals. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced is intended to provide information about the cash-generating capabilities of the Company's mining operations. Management also uses these measures to monitor the performance of the Company's mining operations. As market prices for gold are quoted on a per ounce basis, using the total cash costs per ounce of gold produced on a by-product basis measure allows management to assess a mine's cash-generating capabilities at various gold prices.

All-in sustaining costs per ounce is used to show the full cost of gold production from current operations. The Company calculates all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold produced on a by-product as the aggregate of total cash costs per ounce on a by-product basis, sustaining capital expenditures (including capitalized exploration), general and administrative expenses (including stock options) and reclamation expenses divided by the amount of gold produced. The all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold produced on a co-product basis is calculated in the same manner as the all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold produced on a by-product basis, except that the total cash costs per ounce on a co-product basis is used, meaning no adjustment is made for by-product metal revenues. The Company's methodology for calculating all-in sustaining costs per ounce may differ from to the methodology used by other producers that disclose all-in sustaining costs per ounce. The Company may change the methodology it uses to calculate all-in sustaining costs per ounce in the future, including in response to the adoption of formal industry guidance regarding this measure by the World Gold Council.

Management is aware that these per ounce measures of performance can be affected by fluctuations in exchange rates and, in the case of total cash costs per ounce of gold produced on a by-product basis, by-product metal prices. Management compensates for these inherent limitations by using these measures in conjunction with minesite costs per tonne as well as other data prepared in accordance with IFRS.

Management also performs sensitivity analyses in order to quantify the effects of fluctuating exchange rates and metal prices. This AIF also contains information as to estimated future total cash costs per ounce, all-in sustaining costs per ounce and minesite costs per tonne. The estimates are based upon the total cash costs per ounce, all-in sustaining costs per ounce and minesite costs per tonne that the Company expects to incur to mine gold at its mines and projects and, consistent with the reconciliation of these actual costs referred to above, do not include production costs attributable to accretion expense and other asset retirement costs, which will vary over time as each project is developed and mined. It is therefore not practicable to reconcile these forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable IFRS measure.

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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The following selected financial data for each of the years in the five-year period ended December 31, 2015 are derived from the consolidated financial statements of Agnico Eagle audited by Ernst & Young LLP. The selected financial data should be read in conjunction with the Company's operating and financial review and prospects set out in Agnico Eagle's annual audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the period ended December 31, 2015, including the notes thereto (the "Annual Financial Statements") and the Annual MD&A.

	Year Ended December 31,
	2015(1)		2014(1)(2)		2013(1)		2012(3)		2011(3)
	(in thousands of U.S. dollars, other than share and per share information)
Income Statement Data
Revenues from mining operations	1,985,432		1,896,766		1,638,406		1,917,714		1,821,799
Production	995,295		1,004,559		866,082		897,712		876,078
Exploration and corporate development	110,353		56,002		44,236		109,500		75,721
Amortization of property, plant and mine development	608,609		433,628		313,890		271,861		261,781
General and administrative	96,973		118,771		113,809		119,085		107,926
Impairment loss on available-for-sale securities	12,035		15,763		32,476		12,732		8,569
Loss (gain) on derivative financial instruments	19,608		6,156		268		819		(3,683	)
Provincial capital tax	–		–		–		4,001		9,223
Finance costs	75,228		73,393		62,455		57,887		55,039
Other expenses (income)	12,028		(7,004	)	3,396		2,389		5,188
Environmental remediation	2,003		8,214		3,698		–		–
Loss on Goldex mine	–		–		–		–		302,893
Impairment loss	–		–		1,014,688		–		907,681
Gain on sale of available-for-sale securities	(24,600	)	(5,635	)	(74	)	(9,733	)	(4,907	)
Foreign currency translation (gain) loss	(4,728	)	3,781		1,769		16,320		(1,082	)
Income (loss) before income and mining taxes	82,628		189,138		(818,287	)	435,141		(778,628	)
Income and mining taxes expense (recovery)	58,045		106,168		(131,582	)	124,225		(209,673	)
Net income (loss) for the year	24,583		82,970		(686,705	)	310,916		(568,955	)
Attributed to non-controlling interest	–		–		–		–		(60	)
Attributed to common shareholders	24,583		82,970		(686,705	)	310,916		(568,895	)
Net income (loss) per share – basic	0.11		0.43		(3.97	)	1.82		(3.36	)
Net income (loss) per share – diluted	0.11		0.39		(3.97	)	1.81		(3.36	)
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – basic	216,167,950		195,222,905		172,892,654		171,250,179		169,352,896
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – diluted	217,101,431		196,201,626		172,892,654		171,485,615		169,352,896
Cash dividends declared per common share	0.32		0.32		0.66		1.02		–
Balance Sheet Data (at end of period)
Property, plant and mine development	5,088,967		5,155,865		3,694,461		4,067,456		3,895,355
Total assets	6,683,180		6,809,255		4,580,081		5,256,119		5,034,262
Long-term debt	1,118,187		1,322,461		987,356		830,000		920,095
Reclamation provision	276,299		249,917		184,009		101,753		105,443
Net assets	4,141,020		4,068,490		2,717,406		3,410,212		3,215,163
Common shares	4,707,940		4,599,788		3,294,007		3,241,922		3,181,381
Shareholders' equity	4,140,020		4,068,490		2,717,406		3,410,212		3,215,163
Total common shares outstanding	217,650,795		214,236,234		173,953,975		172,102,870		170,813,736

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Figures reported for 2015, 2014 and 2013 are presented in accordance with IFRS.

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As set out in note 5 of the Annual Financial Statements, certain previously reported December 31, 2014 consolidated balance sheet line items have been updated to reflect adjusted final estimates of fair value related to the June 16, 2014 joint acquisition of Osisko Mining Corporation ("Osisko") by the Company and Yamana Gold Inc. ("Yamana").

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Figures reported for 2012 and 2011 have not been restated to conform to IFRS and are presented in accordance with US GAAP.

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GLOSSARY OF SELECTED MINING TERMS

"alteration"	Any physical or chemical change in the mineral composition of a rock subsequent to its formation, generally produced by weathering or hydrothermal solutions. Milder and more localized than metamorphism.
"anastomosing"	A network of branching and rejoining fault or vein surfaces or surface traces.
"andesite"	A dark-coloured, fine-grained calc-alkaline volcanic rock of intermediate composition.
"assay"	To analyze the proportions of metals in an ore; to test an ore or mineral for composition, purity, weight or other properties of commercial interest.
"banded iron formation"	An iron formation that shows marked banding, generally of iron-rich minerals and chert or fine-grained quartz.
"bedrock"	Solid rock exposed at the surface of the Earth or overlain by unconsolidated material, weathered rock or soil.
"bench"	A ledge in an open pit mine that forms a single level of operation above which minerals or waste rock are excavated. The ore or waste is removed in successive layers (benches), several of which may be in operation simultaneously.
"breccia"	A rock in which angular rock fragments are surrounded by a mass of fine-grained minerals.
"brittle"	Of minerals, proneness to fracture under low stress. A quality affecting behaviour during comminution of ore, whereby one species fractures more readily than others in the material being crushed.
"bulk emulsion"	Water resistant explosive material pumped into a drilled blast hole and ignited remotely in order to fracture rock in the mining cycle. Emulsion products are particularly well suited to wet conditions.
"by-product"	A secondary metal or mineral product recovered from the processing of rock.
"carbon-in-leach (CIL)"	A precious metals recovery step in the mill. Gold and silver are leached from the ground ore and at the same time adsorbed onto granules of activated carbon, which is then separated by screening and processed to remove the precious metals.
"carbon-in-pulp (CIP)"	A precious metals recovery step in the mill. After gold and silver have been leached from ground ore, they are adsorbed onto granules of activated carbon, which is then separated by screening and processed to remove the precious metals. A CIP circuit comprises a series of tanks through which leached slurry flows. Gold is captured onto captive activated carbon that will periodically be moved counter-currently from tank to tank. Head tank carbon is extracted periodically to further recover adsorbed gold before being returned to the circuit tails tank.
"chalcopyrite"	A sulphide mineral of copper and iron.
"concentrate"	The clean product recovered by froth flotation in the plant.
"conglomerate"	A coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments set in a fine-grained cemented matrix.
"contact"	A plane or irregular surface between two types or ages of rock.
"counter-current decantation"	The clarification of washery water and the concentration of tailings by the use of several thickeners in series. The water flows in the opposite direction from the solids. The final products are slurry that is removed and clear water that is reused in the circuit.

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"crosscut"	An underground passage driven from a shaft towards the ore, at (or near) right angles to the strike of a vein or other orebody.
"cut-off grade"	The minimum metal grade in an ore that can be mined economically.
"cyanidation"	A method of extracting exposed gold or silver grains from crushed or ground ore by dissolving (leaching) it in a weak cyanide solution. May be carried out in tanks inside a mill or in heaps of ore out of doors (heap leach).
"deposit"	A natural occurrence of mineral or mineral aggregate, in such quantity and quality to invite exploitation.
"development"	The preparation of a mining property or area so that an orebody can be analyzed and its tonnage and quality estimated. Development is an intermediate stage between exploration and mining.
"diamond drill"	A drilling machine with a rotating, hollow, diamond-studded bit that cuts a circular channel around a core, which can be recovered to provide a more-or-less continuous and complete columnar sample of the rock penetrated.
"dilution"	The contamination of ore with barren wall rock in stoping, increasing tonnage mined and lowering the overall ore grade.
"dip"	The angle at which a vein, structure or rock bed is inclined from the horizontal as measured at right angles to the strike.
"disseminated"	Said of a mineral deposit (especially of metals) in which the desired minerals occur as scattered particles in the rock, but in sufficient quantity to make the deposit an ore. Some disseminated deposits are very large.
"dore"	Unrefined gold and silver bullion bars, which will be further refined to almost pure metal.
"drift"	A horizontal opening in or near an orebody and parallel to the long dimension of the orebody, as opposed to a crosscut that crosses the orebody.
"ductile"	Of rock, able to sustain, under a given set of conditions, 5% to 10% deformation before fracturing or faulting.
"dyke"	An earthen embankment, as around a drill sump or tank, or to impound a body of water or mill tailings. Also, a tabular body of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rocks.
"electrowinning"	An electrochemical process in which a metal dissolved within an electrolyte is plated onto an electrode. Used to recover metals such as copper and gold from solution in the leaching of concentrates.
"envelope"	1. The outer or covering part of a fold, especially of a folded structure that includes some sort of structural break.
	2. A metamorphic rock surrounding an igneous intrusion.
	3. In a mineral, an outer part different in origin from an inner part.
"epigenetic"	Orebodies formed by hydrothermal fluids and gases that were introduced into the host rocks from elsewhere, filling cavities in the host rock.
"epithermal"	Referring to a mineral deposit that formed later than the enclosing rocks consisting of veins and replacement bodies, containing precious metals or, more rarely, base metals.
"extensional-shear vein"	A vein put in place in an extension fracture caused by the deformation of a rock.
"fault"	A fracture or a fracture zone in crustal rocks along which there has been displacement of the two sides relative to one another parallel to the fracture. The displacement may be a few inches or many kilometres long.

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"feasibility study"	A comprehensive technical and economic study of the selected development option for a mineral project that includes appropriately detailed assessments of realistically assumed mining, processing, metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and governmental considerations, together with any other relevant operational factors and a detailed financial analysis, that are necessary to demonstrate at the time of reporting that extraction is reasonably justified (economically mineable). The results of the study may reasonably serve as the basis for a final decision by a proponent or financial institution to proceed with, or finance, the development of the project. The confidence level of the study will be higher than that of a pre-feasibility study.
"felsic"	A term used to describe light-coloured rocks containing feldspar, feldspathoids and silica.
"flotation"	The method of mineral separation in which a froth created by a variety of reagents floats some finely crushed minerals, whereas other minerals sink. The metal-rich flotation concentrate is then skimmed off the surface.
"flowsheet"	A diagram showing the progress of material through a treatment plant.
"foliation"	A general term for a planar arrangement of features in any type of rock, especially the planar structure that results in a metamorphic rock.
"footwall"	The rock beneath an inclined vein or ore deposit (opposite of a hanging wall).
"fracture"	Any break in a rock, whether or not it causes displacement, due to mechanical failure by stress; includes cracks, joints and faults.
"free gold"	Gold not combined with other substances.
"glacial till"	Dominantly unsorted and unstratified, unconsolidated rock debris, deposited directly by and underneath a glacier.
"grade"	The relative quantity or the percentage of metal content of an orebody, e.g., grams of gold per tonne of rock, or percent copper.
"greenstone belt"	An area underlain by metamorphosed volcanic and sedimentary rocks, usually in a continental shield.
"grouting"	The process of sealing off a water flow in rocks by forcing a thin slurry of cement or other chemicals into the crevices; usually done through a diamond drill hole.
"hanging wall"	The rock on the upper side of a vein or ore deposit.
"head grade"	The average grade of ore fed into a mill.
"hectare"	A metric measurement of area. 1 hectare = 10,000 square metres = 2.47 acres.
"horst"	An up-faulted block of rock.
"hydrothermal alteration"	Alteration of rocks or minerals by reaction with hydrothermal (magmatic) fluids.
"igneous rock"	Rock formed by the solidification of molten material that originated within the Earth.
"indicated mineral resource"	That part of a mineral resource for which quantity, grade or quality, densities, shape and physical characteristics can be estimated with a level of confidence sufficient to allow the appropriate application of technical and economic parameters to support mine planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. The estimate is based on detailed and reliable exploration and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes that are spaced closely enough for geological and grade continuity to be reasonably assumed.
	While this term is recognized and required by Canadian regulations, the SEC does not recognize it. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in this category will ever be converted into mineral reserves.

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"inferred mineral resource"	That part of a mineral resource for which quantity and grade or quality can be estimated on the basis of geological evidence and limited sampling and reasonably assumed, but not verified, geological and grade continuity. The estimate is based on limited information and sampling gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes.
	While this term is recognized and required by Canadian regulations, the SEC does not recognize it. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in this category will ever be converted into mineral reserves. Investors are cautioned not to assume that part of or all of an inferred mineral resource exists, or is economically or legally mineable.
"infill drilling"	Drilling within a defined mineralized area to improve the definition of known mineralization.
"intrusive"	A body of igneous rock formed by the consolidation of magma intruded below surface into other rocks, in contrast to lavas, which are extruded upon the Earth's surface.
"iron formation"	A chemical sedimentary rock, typically thin-bedded or finely laminated, containing at least 15% iron of sedimentary origin and commonly containing layers of chert.
"ITH drill"	A type of rock drill in which a hammer is mounted in the hole, applying percussive force directly to the drill bit.
"kilometre"	A metric measurement of distance. 1.0 kilometre = 1,000 metres = 0.62 miles.
"leaching"	A chemical process for the extraction of valuable minerals from ore; also, a natural process by which ground waters dissolve minerals.
"lens"	A geological deposit that is thick in the middle and tapers towards the ends, resembling a convex lens.
"lithologic groups"	Groups of rock formations.
"lode"	A mineral deposit consisting of a zone of veins, veinlets or disseminations.
"longitudinal retreat"	An underground mining method where the ore is excavated in horizontal slices along the orebody and the stoping starts below and advances upwards. The ore is recovered underneath in the stope.
"mafic"	Igneous rocks composed mostly of dark, iron- and magnesium-rich silicate minerals.
"massive"	Said of a mineral deposit, especially of sulphides, characterized by a great concentration of ore in one place, as opposed to a disseminated or vein-like deposit. Said of any rock that has a homogeneous texture or fabric over a large area, with an absence of layering or any similar directional structure.
"matrix"	The fine-grained rock material in which a larger mineral is embedded.
"measured mineral resource"	That part of a mineral resource for which quantity, grade or quality, densities, shape and physical characteristics are so well established that they can be estimated with confidence sufficient to allow the appropriate application of technical and economic parameters to support production planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. The estimate is based on detailed and reliable exploration, sampling and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes that are spaced closely enough to confirm both geological and grade continuity.
	While this term is recognized and required by Canadian regulations, the SEC does not recognize it. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in this category will ever be converted into mineral reserves.

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"Merrill-Crowe process"	A separation technique for removing gold from a cyanide solution. The solution is separated from the ore by methods such as filtration and counter-current decantation, and then the gold is precipitated onto zinc dust. Silver and copper may also precipitate. The precipitate is filtered to capture the gold slimes, which are further refined, e.g., by smelting, to remove the zinc and by treating with nitric acid to dissolve the silver.
"metamorphism"	The process by which the form or structure of sedimentary or igneous rocks is changed by heat and pressure.
"mill"	A mineral treatment plant in which crushing, wet grinding and further treatment of ore is conducted; also a revolving drum used for the grinding of ores in preparation for treatment.
"mineral resource"	A concentration or occurrence of diamonds, natural solid inorganic material or natural solid fossilized organic material including base and precious metals, coal and industrial minerals in or on the Earth's crust in such form and quantity and of such a grade or quality that it has reasonable prospects for economic extraction. The location, quantity, grade, geological characteristics and continuity of a mineral resource are known, estimated or interpreted from specific geological evidence and knowledge. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in any category of resources will ever be converted into mineral reserves.
"mineral reserve"	The economically mineable part of a measured or indicated mineral resource demonstrated by at least a preliminary feasibility study. This study must include adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic and other relevant factors that demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction can be justified. A mineral reserve includes diluting materials and allowances for losses that may occur when the material is mined.
"muck"	Finely blasted rock (ore or waste) underground.
"net smelter return royalty"	A royalty payment made by a producer of metals based on the proceeds from the sale of mineral products after deducting off-site processing and distribution costs including smelting, refining, transportation and insurance costs.
"ounce"	A measurement of weight, especially used for gold, silver and platinum group metals. 1 troy ounce = 31.1035 grams.
"outcrop"	The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the Earth.
"oxidation"	A chemical reaction caused by exposure to oxygen, which results in a change in the chemical composition of a mineral.
"pillar"	A block of ore or other rock entirely surrounded by stoping, left intentionally for purposes of ground control or on account of low value.
"plunge"	The inclination of a fold axis or other linear structure from a horizontal plane, measured in the vertical plane.
"polydeformed"	A rock that has been subjected to more than one instance of folding, faulting, shearing, compression or extension as a result of various tectonic forces.
"porphyritic"	Rock texture in which one or more minerals has a larger grain size than the accompanying minerals.
"porphyry"	Any igneous rock in which relatively large crystals are set in a fine-grained groundmass.

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"preliminary feasibility study" or "pre-feasibility study"	A comprehensive study of a range of options for the technical and economic viability of a mineral project that has advanced to a stage where a preferred mining method (in the case of underground mining) or the pit configuration (in the case of an open pit) is established, and an effective method of mineral processing is determined. It includes a financial analysis based on reasonable assumptions on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and governmental considerations and the evaluation of any other relevant factors which are sufficient for a qualified person, acting reasonably, to determine if all or part of the mineral resource may be classified as a mineral reserve.
"pressure oxidation"	A process by which sulphide minerals are oxidized in order to expose gold that is encapsulated in the mineral lattice. The main component of a pressure oxidation circuit consists of a pressurized vessel (autoclave) where the oxygen level, process temperature and acidity are the primary control parameters.
"probable mineral reserve"	The economically mineable part of an indicated and, in some circumstances, a measured mineral resource demonstrated by at least a preliminary feasibility study.
"proven mineral reserve"	The economically mineable part of a measured mineral resource demonstrated by at least a preliminary feasibility study.
"pyrite"	A yellow iron sulphide mineral, FeS2, normally of little value. It is sometimes referred to as "fool's gold".
"pyroclastic"	Rocks produced by explosive or aerial ejection of ash, fragments and glassy material from a volcanic vent.
"recovery"	The percentage of valuable metal in the ore that is recovered by metallurgical treatment.
"rock burst"	A sudden and often violent breaking of a mass of rock from the walls of a mine, caused by failure of highly stressed rock and the rapid release of accumulated strain energy.
"run-of-mine ore"	The raw, mined material as it is delivered, prior to sorting, stockpiling or treatment.
"sandstone"	A sedimentary rock consisting of grains of sand cemented together.
"schist"	A strongly foliated crystalline rock that can be readily split into thin flakes or slabs due to the well-developed parallelism of more than 50% of the minerals present in it, such as mica or hornblende.
"sedimentary rocks"	Rocks resulting from the consolidation of loose sediment that has accumulated in layers. Examples are limestone, shale and sandstone.
"semi-autogenous grinding (SAG)"	A method of grinding rock whereby larger chunks of the rock itself and steel balls form the grinding media.
"shear" or "shearing"	The deformation of rocks by lateral movement along innumerable parallel planes, generally resulting from pressure and producing metamorphic structures such as cleavage and schistosity.
"shear zone"	A tabular zone of rock that has been crushed and brecciated by many parallel fractures due to shear stress. Such an area is often mineralized by ore-forming solutions.
"sill"	An intrusive sheet of igneous rock of roughly uniform thickness that has been forced between the bedding planes of existing rock.
"slurry"	Fine rock particles in circulating water in a treatment plant.
"stope"	1. Any excavation in a mine, other than development workings, made for the purpose of extracting ore.
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"strike"	The direction, or bearing from true north, of a horizontal line on a vein or rock formation at right angles to the dip.
"stringers"	Mineral veinlets or filaments occurring in a discontinuous subparallel pattern in a host rock.
"sulphide"	A mineral characterized by the linkage of sulphur with a metal, such as pyrite, FeS2.
"tabular"	Said of a feature having two dimensions that are much larger or longer than the third, such as a dyke.
"tailings"	Material rejected from a mill after the economically and technically recoverable valuable minerals have been extracted.
"tailings dam" or "tailings impoundment" or "tailings pond"	Area closed at the lower end by a constraining wall or dam to which mill effluents are sent, the prime function of which is to allow enough time for metals to settle out or for cyanide to be naturally destroyed before the water is returned to the mill or discharged into the local watershed.
"tenement"	The right to enter, develop and work a mineral deposit. Includes a mining claim or a mining lease. A synonym of mineral title.
"thickener"	A vessel for reducing the proportion of water in a pulp by means of sedimentation.
"thickness"	The distance at right angles between the hanging wall and the footwall of a lode or lens.
"tonne"	A metric measurement of mass. 1 tonne = 1,000 kilograms = 2,204.6 pounds = 1.1 tons.
"transfer fault"	A structure that can accommodate lateral variations of deformation and strain.
"transverse open stoping"	An underground mining method in which the ore is excavated in horizontal slices perpendicular to the orebody length and the stoping starts below and advances upwards. The ore is recovered underneath the stope through a drawpoint system.
"trench"	A narrow excavation dug through overburden, or blasted out of rock, to expose a vein or ore structure for sampling or observation.
"vein"	A mineral filling of a fault or other fracture in a host rock.
"wacke"	A "dirty" sandstone that consists of a mixture of poorly sorted mineral and rock fragments in an abundant matrix of clay and fine silt.
"winze"	An internal mine shaft.
"Zadra elution circuit"	The process in this part of a gold mill strips gold and silver from carbon granules and puts them into solution.
"zone"	An area of distinct mineralization, i.e., a deposit.

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CORPORATE STRUCTURE

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited is a corporation organized under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario). The Company was formed by articles of amalgamation under the laws of the Province of Ontario on June 1, 1972, as a result of the amalgamation of Agnico Mines Limited ("Agnico Mines") and Eagle Gold Mines Limited ("Eagle"). Agnico Mines was incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario on January 21, 1953 under the name "Cobalt Consolidated Mining Corporation Limited". Eagle was incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario on August 14, 1945.

Since 1972, several corporate alterations have taken place. On August 22, 1972, the Company's articles were amended to permit the Company to: (i) borrow money on the credit of the Company, (ii) issue, sell or pledge debt obligations and (iii) charge, mortgage or pledge the Company's property. On June 27, 1980, Articles of Amendment were filed to allow the Company to use the name "Mines Agnico-Eagle Limitée". On July 5, 1984, the Company's articles were amended to delete all of the objects of the Company listed and specify that no restrictions apply to the business or powers that the Company may exercise. On July 3, 1986, Articles of Amendment were filed to set the minimum number of directors of the Company at five and the maximum at nine. On July 29, 1988, the Company's articles were amended to provide that the Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares.

On December 31, 1992, the Company amalgamated with Lucky Eagle Mines Limited. On June 30, 1993, the maximum number of directors of the Company was increased from nine to 12. On January 1, 1996, the Company amalgamated with Goldex Mines Limited and 1159885 Ontario Limited. On October 17, 2001, the Company filed Articles of Arrangement which provided for the amalgamation of the Company and Mentor Exploration and Development Co. On July 12, 2002, the name of the Company was changed to "Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited/Mines Agnico-Eagle Limitee". On August 1, 2007, the Company amalgamated with Cumberland Resources Ltd., Agnico-Eagle Acquisition Corporation and Meadowbank Mining Corporation. On May 4, 2010, the maximum number of directors of the Company was increased from 12 to 15.

On January 1, 2011, the Company amalgamated with 1816276 Ontario Inc. (the ultimate successor entity to Comaplex Minerals Corp.). On January 1, 2013, the Company amalgamated with 1886120 Ontario Inc. (the successor corporation to 9237-4925 Québec Inc.). On April 26, 2013, Articles of Amendment were filed to eliminate the hyphen between "Agnico" and "Eagle" and the official name of the Company became "Agnico Eagle Mines Limited/Mines Agnico Eagle Limitée".

The Company's head and registered office is located at Suite 400, 145 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 2Y7; telephone number (416) 947-1212; website: www.agnicoeagle.com. The information contained on the Company's website is not part of this AIF. The Company's principal place of business in the United States is located at 1675 E. Prater Way, Suite 102, Sparks, Nevada 89434.

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The following chart sets out the corporate structure of the Company, each of its significant subsidiaries and certain other entities, together with the jurisdiction of organization of the Company and each such subsidiary or entity as at March 15, 2016 (all of which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company, unless otherwise indicated).

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DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

The Company is an established Canadian-based international gold producer with mining operations in northwestern Quebec, northern Mexico, northern Finland and Nunavut and exploration activities in Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The Company's operating history includes over three decades of continuous gold production, primarily from underground operations. Since its formation on June 1, 1972, the Company has produced approximately 12.7 million ounces of gold.

The Company's strategy is to deliver high quality growth while maintaining high performance standards in health, safety, environmental matters and social acceptability; build a strong pipeline of projects to drive future production; and employ the best people and motivate them to reach their potential. The Company has spent approximately $3.6 billion on mine development over the last seven years. Through this development program, the Company transformed itself from a regionally focused, single mine producer to a multi-mine international gold producer with seven operating, 100% owned mines, one operating 50% owned mine, and one advanced exploration/development project.

The following table sets out the date of acquisition, the date of commencement of construction, the date of achieving commercial production and the estimated mine life for the Company's mines.

	Date of Acquisition(1)	Date of Commencement of Construction	Date of achieving Commercial Production	Estimated Mine Life(2)
LaRonde mine	1992	1985	1988	2024
Lapa mine	June 2003	June 2006	May 2009	2016
Goldex mine(3)	December 1993	July 2012	October 2013	2024
Canadian Malartic mine	June 2014	n/a	May 2011	2026
Kittila mine	November 2005	June 2006	May 2009	2035
Meadowbank mine	April 2007	Pre-April 2007	March 2010	2018
Pinos Altos mine	March 2006	August 2007	November 2009	2024
La India mine	November 2011	September 2012	February 2014	2020

Notes:

(1)

Date when 100% ownership was acquired, other than the Canadian Malartic mine which is the date when 50% ownership was acquired.

(2)

Estimated end date for gold production based on the Company's current life of mine plans.

(3)

Construction of infrastructure for purposes of mining the Goldex Extension Zone (the "GEZ") commenced in July 2005 and the GEZ achieved commercial production in August 2008. Mining operations on the GEZ have been suspended since October 2011. In late 2013, mining and production began from the M and E Zones of the Goldex mine.

Since 1988, the LaRonde mine, in the Abitibi region of Quebec, has been the Company's flagship operation, producing approximately 5.2 million ounces of gold as well as valuable by-products. The Lapa mine, one of the Company's highest grade metals mines, is 11 kilometres east of the LaRonde mine, and the Goldex mine, which achieved commercial production from the M and E Zones in October 2013, is 60 kilometres east of the LaRonde mine. The synergies between these sites contribute to the Company's efforts to reduce costs. The Company's 50% owned Canadian Malartic mine, also in the Abitibi region of Quebec, was acquired in June, 2014. The Kittila mine in Finland, which achieved commercial production in May 2009, has a long reserve life and has significant production expansion potential. The Company's Meadowbank mine, in Nunavut, achieved commercial production in March 2010 and is expected to produce the most gold (approximately 305,000 ounces) of any of the Company's mines in 2016. The Pinos Altos mine, in Mexico, achieved commercial production in November 2009 and also has significant production expansion potential and the La India mine, also in Mexico, achieved commercial production in February 2014. In addition, the Company plans to pursue opportunities for growth in gold production and gold reserves through the prudent acquisition or development of exploration properties, development properties, producing properties and other mining businesses in the Americas and Europe.

In 2015, the Company produced 1,671,340 ounces of gold at total cash costs per ounce of $567 on a by-product basis and at all-in sustaining costs per ounce of $810 on a by-product basis. For 2016, the Company expects to produce between 1.525 and 1.565 million ounces of gold at total cash costs per ounce of gold on a by-product basis between $590 and $630 and at all-in sustaining costs per ounce between $850 and $890 on a by-product basis. See "Introductory

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Notes – Note to Investors Concerning Certain Measures of Performance" for a discussion of the use of the non-GAAP measures total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce. The Company has traditionally sold all of its production at the spot price of gold due to its general policy not to sell forward its future gold production.

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS

Three-Year History

2013

On May 16, 2013, the Company completed its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Urastar Gold Corp. ("Urastar"), a Canadian-based gold exploration company that was, at the time, listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSX-V"), pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). Urastar held a 100% interest in certain mining properties in Sonora, Mexico. Under the terms of the arrangement, each shareholder of Urastar received C$0.25 per common share and holders of unexercised in-the-money warrants of Urastar received C$0.15 per warrant, for aggregate cash consideration of $10.1 million. Urastar is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Agnico Eagle.

In September 2013, pre-production commissioning activities commenced at the La India mine.

As of October 1, 2013, commercial production was achieved at the Goldex mine's M and E Zones.

Capital expenditures by the Company in 2013 were $620.5 million. This included $84.3 million at the LaRonde mine, $22.7 million at the Lapa mine, $65.1 million at the Goldex mine, $83.8 million at the Kittila mine, $109.3 million at the Meadowbank mine, $70.7 million at the Pinos Altos mine (which included approximately $17.8 million at the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos), $116.8 million at the La India project, $61.4 million at the Meliadine project and $6.5 million at other properties. In addition, the Company incurred $4.9 million of expenditures on mine site exploration and $39.3 million on exploration activities at the Company's exploration properties and on corporate development activities.

2014

As of February 1, 2014, commercial production was achieved at the La India mine.

On June 16, 2014, the Company and Yamana jointly acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Osisko pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the "Osisko Arrangement") for consideration of approximately C$3.9 billion consisting of approximately C$1.0 billion in cash and a combination of common shares of the Company, common shares of Yamana and shares of a new company that was spun-off under the Osisko Arrangement. Osisko was a Canadian based producing gold mining company that was, at the time, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX"). Osisko was 100% owner of the Canadian Malartic mine in the Abitibi region of Quebec. Under the Osisko Arrangement, each Osisko share was exchanged for: (i) C$2.09 in cash (C$1.045 per share from each of the Company and Yamana); (ii) 0.07264 of a common share of the Company; (iii) 0.26471 of a common share of Yamana; and (iv) 0.1 of one common share of Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd ("New Osisko"), the newly formed spun-off company that commenced trading on the TSX immediately following the Osisko Arrangement.

In connection with the Osisko Arrangement, substantially all of the assets and obligations relating to the Canadian Malartic mine in Quebec were transferred to Canadian Malartic GP (the "Partnership"), a newly formed general partnership in which the Company and Yamana each own an indirect 50% interest. The Company and Yamana formed a joint management committee to operate the Canadian Malartic mine. On June 17, 2014, Osisko and the acquisition corporation formed by the Company and Yamana to acquire Osisko amalgamated to form "Canadian Malartic Corporation" in which Agnico and Yamana each hold an indirect 50% interest. Canadian Malartic Corporation continues to hold, among other things, Osisko's Kirkland Lake, Hammond Reef, Pandora and Wood-Pandora (50% interest) assets and properties. The Company and Yamana will jointly explore and potentially develop the Kirkland Lake assets, and continue exploration at the Hammond Reef project and the Pandora and Wood-Pandora properties, through Canadian Malartic Corporation.

Pursuant to the Osisko Arrangement, the following assets of Osisko were transferred to New Osisko: (i) a 5.0% net smelter royalty on the Canadian Malartic mine; (ii) C$157.0 million in cash; (iii) a 2.0% net smelter royalty on the Kirkland Lake assets, the Hammond Reef project, and certain other exploration properties retained by Canadian Malartic Corporation; (iv) all assets and liabilities of Osisko relating to the Guerrero camp in Mexico; and (v) certain other investments and assets.

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The Company's and Yamana's relationship with respect to the Canadian Malartic mine is governed by a unanimous shareholders agreement with respect to Canadian Malartic Corporation and a general partnership agreement with respect to the Partnership.

Direct transaction costs totaling C$16.7 million were included in the cost of the investment in Osisko. The Company's share of Osisko's June 16, 2014 purchase price was comprised of 33,923,212 of the Company's common shares issued to former holders of Osisko shares, C$502,059,784.01 in cash and 871,680 of the Company's common shares issued and held by the depositary in respect of unsecured convertible debentures previously issued by Osisko that remained outstanding following the Osisko Arrangement. On June 30, 2015, the negotiated early settlement of all of the outstanding unsecured convertible debentures was completed. As a result of this settlement, 871,680 common shares of the Company with a fair value of approximately $24.8 million were released by the depositary to the debentureholders, along with a cash payment of approximately $10.1 million. Additional cash consideration of $3.2 million was paid to the holders of the convertible debentures upon settlement.

A business acquisition report in respect of the Osisko Arrangement was filed by the Company on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") on August 22, 2014.

On November 28, 2014, the Company completed its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Cayden Resources Inc. ("Cayden"), a Canadian based gold exploration company listed on the TSX-V, pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). Cayden indirectly holds a 100% interest, or an option to earn a 100% interest, in certain mining properties in Jalisco and Guerrero, Mexico, including the El Barqueno property. Under the terms of the arrangement, each shareholder of Cayden received 0.09 of a common share of the Company and C$0.01 in cash. Cayden, which is now organized under the laws of Mexico, is now an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Agnico Eagle.

Capital expenditures by the Company in 2014 were $475.4 million. This included $76.6 million at the LaRonde mine, $20.2 million at the Lapa mine, $34.3 million at the Goldex mine, $36.1 million at the Canadian Malartic mine, $106.2 million at the Kittila mine, $48.4 million at the Pinos Altos mine, $10.9 million at the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos, $22.7 million at the La India mine, $65.9 million at the Meadowbank mine, $48.3 million at the Meliadine project and $5.9 million at other properties. In addition, the Company incurred $25.9 million of expenditures on mine site exploration and $56.0 million on exploration activities at the Company's exploration properties and on corporate development activities.

2015

On February 23, 2015, Agnico Eagle entered into a binding letter of intent (the "LOI") with Canadian Malartic GP, Yamana and Abitibi Royalties Inc. ("Abitibi Royalties") regarding the Malartic CHL prospect which abuts the Canadian Malartic mine and in which Canadian Malartic Corporation held a 70% interest, with the remaining 30% interest held by Abitibi Royalties. On March 19, 2015, Abitibi Royalties sold its 30% interest in the Malartic CHL prospect to Canadian Malartic GP (the "CHL Transaction") in exchange for 459,197 common shares of the Company and 3,549,685 Yamana common shares, with a value of approximately C$35 million (based on the respective closing prices of such shares on the TSX on February 20, 2015, the date immediately prior to the public announcement by Abitibi Royalties of entering into the LOI), and 3% net smelter return royalties to Abitibi Royalties and New Osisko on the prospect. In addition, as part of the CHL Transaction all prior agreements, claims and proceedings relating to the Malartic CHL prospect, including those previously instituted by Abitibi Royalties against Osisko prior to the Company and Yamana completing the Osisko Arrangement were terminated, settled and released.

Prior to completion of the Osisko Arrangement on June 6, 2014, Clifton Star Resources Inc. ("Clifton") instituted proceedings against Osisko (now Canadian Malartic Corporation) seeking, among other things, an order that Osisko pay Clifton C$22.5 million in damages. In the proceedings, Clifton alleged, among other things, that Osisko was obligated to lend Clifton C$22.5 million on or around December 1, 2012 pursuant to a December 10, 2009 commitment letter and a December 10, 2009 option and joint venture agreement, each between Clifton and Osisko, and that Osisko's failure to advance such loan resulted in damages to Clifton. Clifton further alleged that such loan was intended to be used to make payments under certain option agreements between Clifton and third parties which entitled Clifton to acquire shares of such third parties that owned interests in the concessions comprising the "Duparquet Project". Following the joint acquisition of Osisko by the Company and Yamana on June 16, 2014, the Company and Yamana engaged in discussions with Clifton to advance the settlement of such claims. Effective March 2, 2015, Canadian Malartic Corporation (as the successor to Osisko) entered into a settlement agreement with Clifton, pursuant to which Canadian Malartic Corporation paid Clifton approximately C$5.27 million in consideration for a full and final release of all claims arising from the facts

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described in the Clifton proceedings. Concurrently, under two separate non-brokered private placements, each of the Company and Yamana subscribed for 4,772,786 common shares of Clifton at a price of C$0.60 per share, for total proceeds to Clifton of approximately C$5.73 million.

On June 9, 2015, the Company completed its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Soltoro Ltd. ("Soltoro"), a Canadian based gold exploration company listed on the TSX-V, pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act. Soltoro indirectly holds a 100% interest, or an option to earn a 100% interest, in certain mining properties in Jalisco, Mexico, including the El Rayo property which is contiguous with the Company's El Barqueno property. Under the terms of the arrangement, each shareholder of Soltoro received 0.00793 of a common share of the Company, C$0.01 in cash and one common share of a newly formed Ontario company named Palamina Corp. valued at C$0.02 per share. Soltoro is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Agnico Eagle.

On June 11, 2015, the Company acquired from Orex Minerals Inc. ("Orex") 55.0% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Gunnarn Mining AB ("Gunnarn"), which holds the Barsele project in northern Sweden. Consideration for the acquisition was comprised of $6 million paid to Orex at closing and additional payments of $2 million in cash or Agnico Eagle common shares (at the Company's sole discretion) due to Orex on each of the first and second anniversaries of the closing. The Company has also committed to incurring $7.0 million in exploration expenditures associated with the Barsele project by June 11, 2018, and may earn an additional 15.0% interest in Gunnarn if the Company completes a pre-feasibility study related to the Barsele project. The Company holds a majority of the seats on the board of directors of Gunnarn and is the sole operator of the Barsele project.

On September 30, 2015, the Company entered into a note purchase agreement with Ressources Québec Inc., a subsidiary of Investissement Québec, providing for the issuance of $50 million principal amount of 4.15% senior unsecured notes due 2025 (the "2015 Note Purchase Agreement"). The Company has agreed to apply an amount equal to or greater than the net proceeds from the issuance of the notes towards the expansion, development, upgrade or maintenance of mining projects in the Province of Québec. For additional details see "Material Contracts – Note Purchase Agreements" below.

Capital expenditures by the Company in 2015 were $449.8 million. This included $67.3 million at the LaRonde mine, $6.5 million at the Lapa mine, $48.8 million at the Goldex mine, $43.4 million at the Canadian Malartic mine, $56.4 million at the Kittila mine, $61.8 million at the Pinos Altos mine, $4.2 million at the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos, $23.4 million at the La India mine, $65.2 million at the Meadowbank mine, $66.7 million at the Meliadine project and $6.0 million at other properties. In addition, the Company incurred $10.2 million of expenditures on mine site exploration and $100.2 million on exploration activities at the Company's exploration properties and on corporate development activities.

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The following table sets out the Company's expected capital expenditures for 2016.

	Estimated 2016 Capital Expenditures
(millions of $)	Sustaining	Development Projects	Capitalized Exploration
Northern Business
LaRonde	62	–	2
Lapa	–	–	–
Goldex	10	64	3
Kittila	56	10	3
Meadowbank	41	–	–
Meliadine	–	96	–
Canadian Malartic	59	2	–
	228	172	8
Southern Business
Pinos Altos	54	7	2
La India	8	–	2
Creston Mascota	7	–	1
	69	7	5
Project Eval/Corp Dev
Other Exploration	–	–	2
Total Expenditures	297	179	15

Pre-2013

In the second quarter of 2004, the Company acquired an approximate 14% ownership interest in Riddarhyttan Resources AB ("Riddarhyttan"), a Swedish precious and base metals exploration and development company that was at the time listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. In November 2005, the Company completed a tender offer (the "Riddarhyttan Offer") for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Riddarhyttan that it did not own. The Company issued 10,023,882 of its common shares and paid and committed an aggregate of $5.1 million cash as consideration to Riddarhyttan shareholders in connection with the Riddarhyttan Offer. On March 28, 2011, Riddarhyttan was merged with Agnico Eagle AB and Agnico Eagle Sweden AB, with Agnico Eagle Sweden AB as the continuing entity. The Kittila mine is currently 100% owned by Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, which is wholly-owned by Agnico Eagle Sweden AB, an indirect subsidiary of the Company.

In the first quarter of 2005, the Company entered into an exploration and option agreement with Industrias Penoles S.A. de C.V. ("Penoles") to acquire the Pinos Altos property in northern Mexico. The Pinos Altos property is comprised of approximately 11,000 hectares in the Sierra Madre gold belt, approximately 225 kilometres west of the city of Chihuahua in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. In February 2006, the Company exercised its option and acquired the Pinos Altos property on March 15, 2006. Under the terms of the exploration and option agreement, the purchase price of $66.8 million was comprised of $32.5 million in cash and 2,063,635 common shares of the Company.

In February 2007, the Company made an exchange offer for all of the outstanding shares of Cumberland Resources Ltd. ("Cumberland") not already owned by the Company. At the time, Cumberland was a pre-production development stage company listed on the TSX and American Stock Exchange whose primary asset was the Meadowbank property. In May 2007, the Company acquired approximately 92% of the issued and outstanding shares of Cumberland that it did not previously own and, in July 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of all Cumberland shares by way of a compulsory acquisition. The Company issued 13,768,510 of its common shares and paid $9.6 million in cash as consideration to Cumberland shareholders in connection with its acquisition of Cumberland.

In April 2010, the Company entered into an agreement in principle with Comaplex Minerals Corp. ("Comaplex") to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Comaplex that it did not already own. At the time, Comaplex owned a 100% interest in the

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advanced stage Meliadine gold property, which is located approximately 300 kilometres southeast of the Company's Meadowbank mine. In May 2010, the Company executed the definitive agreements with Comaplex and, in July 2010 by plan of arrangement, the Company acquired 100% of the Meliadine gold property through the acquisition of Comaplex, which was renamed Meliadine Holdings Inc. Pursuant to the arrangement, Comaplex transferred to Geomark Exploration Ltd. all assets and related liabilities other than those relating to the Meliadine project. In connection with the arrangement, the Company issued 10,210,848 of its common shares as consideration to Comaplex shareholders.

In September 2011, the Company entered into an acquisition agreement with Grayd Resource Corporation ("Grayd"), a Canadian-based natural resource company listed on the TSX-V, pursuant to which the Company agreed to make an offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Grayd. At the time, Grayd held a 100% interest in the La India property located in the Mulatos Gold Belt of Sonora, Mexico and had recently discovered the Tarachi gold porphyry prospect located approximately ten kilometres north of the La India property. In October 2011, the Company made the offer by way of a take-over bid circular, as amended and supplemented, and, in November 2011, acquired approximately 95% of the outstanding common shares of Grayd. In January 2012, the Company completed a compulsory acquisition of the remaining outstanding common shares of Grayd and Grayd became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. In aggregate, the Company issued 1,319,418 of its common shares and paid C$179.7 million in cash as consideration to Grayd shareholders in connection with the transaction.

OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTION

Business Units and Foreign Operations

The Company operates through three business units: Northern Business, Southern Business and Exploration.

The Company's Northern Business is comprised of the Company's operations in Canada and Finland. The Company's Canadian properties include the LaRonde mine, the Lapa mine, the Goldex mine, the Meadowbank mine and the Meliadine project, each of which is a 100% interest held directly by the Company, and a 50% interest in the Canadian Malartic Mine, which is held indirectly through a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and Canadian Malartic Corporation. The Company's operations in Finland are conducted through its indirect subsidiary, Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, which owns the Kittila mine. In 2015, the Northern Business accounted for approximately 78.9% of the Company's gold production. In 2016, the Company anticipates that the Northern Business will account for approximately 79.3% of the Company's gold production.

The Company's Southern Business is comprised of the Company's operations in Mexico. The Company's Pinos Altos mine, including the Creston Mascota deposit, is held through its subsidiary, Agnico Eagle Mexico S.A. de C.V. The La India mine is owned by the Company's indirect subsidiary, Agnico Sonora, S.A. de C.V. In 2015, the Southern Business accounted for approximately 21.1% of the Company's gold production. In 2016, the Company anticipates that the Southern Business will account for approximately 20.7% of the Company's gold production.

The Company's Exploration group focuses primarily on the identification of new mineral reserves and mineral resources and new development opportunities in politically stable and proven gold producing regions. Current exploration activities are concentrated in Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Several projects were evaluated during 2015 in these regions where the Company believes the potential for gold occurrences is excellent and which the Company believes to be politically stable and supportive of the mining industry. The Company currently manages 70 properties in Canada, 5 properties in the United States, 3 groups of properties in Finland, 2 properties in Sweden and 18 properties in Mexico. Exploration activities are managed from offices in Val d'Or, Quebec; Reno, Nevada; Chihuahua, Hermosillo and Guadalajara, Mexico; Kittila, Finland; Storuman, Sweden; and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Northern Business

LaRonde Mine

The LaRonde mine is situated approximately halfway between Rouyn-Noranda and Val d'Or in northwestern Quebec (approximately 470 kilometres northwest of Montreal, Quebec) in the municipalities of Preissac and Cadillac. At December 31, 2015, the LaRonde mine was estimated to have proven and probable mineral reserves containing approximately 3.1 million ounces of gold comprised of 18.2 million tonnes of ore grading 5.31 grams per tonne. The LaRonde mine consists of the LaRonde property and the adjacent El Coco and Terrex properties, each of which is 100% owned and operated by the Company. The LaRonde mine can be accessed either from Val d'Or in the east or from Rouyn-Noranda in the west, each of which are located approximately 60 kilometres from the LaRonde mine via Quebec provincial

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highway No. 117. The LaRonde mine is situated approximately two kilometres north of highway No. 117 on Quebec regional highway No. 395. The Company has access to the Canadian National Railway at Cadillac, Quebec, approximately six kilometres from the LaRonde mine.

The Company first acquired an interest in the LaRonde property in 1974 through an indirect investment in Dumagami Mines Limited ("Dumagami"). The Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Dumagami on December 19, 1989, and on December 29, 1992, Dumagami transferred all of its property and assets, including the LaRonde mine, to the Company and subsequently dissolved.

The LaRonde mine operates under mining leases obtained from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Quebec) and under certificates of approval granted by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec). The LaRonde property consists of 36 contiguous mining claims and one provincial mining lease. The El Coco property consists of 22 contiguous mining claims and one provincial mining lease. The Terrex property consists of 21 mining claims and one provincial mining lease that was acquired in July 2014. The mining leases on the LaRonde, El Coco and Terrex properties expire in 2018, 2021 and 2034, respectively, and are automatically renewable for three further ten-year terms upon payment of a small fee. The Company also has three surface rights leases that relate to the water pipeline right of way from Lake Preissac and the eastern extension of the LaRonde tailings pond #7 on the El Coco property. The surface rights leases are renewable annually.

Location Map of the LaRonde Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The LaRonde mine includes underground operations at the LaRonde and El Coco properties that can both be accessed from the Penna Shaft, a mill, a treatment plant, a secondary crusher building and related facilities. In 2003, exploration work started to extend outside of the LaRonde property onto the Terrex property where a down-plunge extension of Zone 20 North was discovered. The Terrex property is subject to a 5% net profits royalty in favour of Delfer Gold Mines Inc. The Company does not expect to pay royalties in respect of this part of the property in 2016. In addition, the Company owns 100% of the Sphinx property immediately to the east of the El Coco property. In 2015, 85% of the ore processed from the LaRonde mine was extracted from the deeper portion of the LaRonde mine (that is, below Level 245) or the "LaRonde mine extension". In 2016, the Company anticipates that approximately 89% of the ore processed will be from this deeper part of the mine.

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The Company expects future by-product metal production at the LaRonde mine to decline as operations continue to shift towards deeper sections of the mine where gold grades are higher and by-product metals are less prevalent. The associated decrease in by-product revenues is expected to result in higher total cash costs per ounce on a by-product basis attributable to ore extracted from these parts of the mine.

Map of the Abitibi region showing the location of the LaRonde, Lapa, Goldex and Canadian Malartic Mines

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Mining and Milling Facilities

Surface Plan of the LaRonde Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The LaRonde mine was originally developed with a 1,207-metre shaft (Shaft #1) and an underground ramp access system. The ramp access system is available down to Level 25 of Shaft #1 and continues down to Level 299 at the Penna Shaft. The mineral reserve accessible from Shaft #1 was depleted in September 2000 and Shaft #1 is no longer in use. A second production shaft (Shaft #2), located approximately 1.2 kilometres to the east of Shaft #1, was completed in 1994 to a depth of 525 metres and was used to mine Zones 6 and 7. Both ore zones were depleted in March 2000 and the workings were allowed to flood up to Level 6 (approximately 280 metres). A third shaft (the Penna Shaft), located approximately 800 metres to the east of Shaft #1, was completed down to a depth of 2,250 metres in March 2000. The Penna Shaft is used to mine Zones 20 North, 20 South, 6 and 7.

In 2006, the Company initiated construction of the LaRonde mine extension. Hoisting from this deeper part of the LaRonde mine began in the fourth quarter of 2011 and commercial production was achieved in November 2011. Access to the deeper part of the LaRonde mine is provided through a 823-metre internal shaft (Shaft #4) starting from Level 203, for a total depth of 2,858 metres below the surface which was completed in November 2009. A ramp is used to access the lower part of the orebody down to 3,110 metres below the surface. An internal winze system is used to hoist ore from depth to facilities on Level 215, approximately 2,150 metres below the surface, where it is transferred to the Penna Shaft hoist.

Production from the LaRonde mine extension continues to move towards anticipated steady-state levels. As a result, logistical problems, such as congestion in the underground workings, occur from time to time. The Company anticipates that these issues, and any other issues that may prevent or delay extraction and transportation of ore from a particular

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stope, will be less prevalent when the stope development work at depth is more advanced. Most of the delays encountered during 2015 were related to seismicity.

The cooling plant on Level 262 began operating in December 2013. This cooling system reduces the frequency of heat related delays experienced in previous years in the deepest part of the mine. The ventilation network is expected to continue to expand over the next few years to increase the air flow in the deeper areas of the mine.

In 2015, the Company completed the installation of a coarse ore conveyor system that extends from Level 292 to the crusher on Level 280. The new conveyor system was commissioned in the second half of 2015. A new ore pass and silo designed to feed the conveyor system are expected to be commissioned in the second quarter of 2016. The new conveyor is expected to improve mining flexibility and increase the robustness of the system. This system is expected to reduce congestion in the deeper portions of the mine and increase the capacity to move material.

Mining Methods

The primary source of ore at the LaRonde mine continues to be from underground mining methods. During 2015, two mining methods were used: longitudinal retreat with cemented rock backfill or paste backfill and transverse open stoping with cemented rock backfill, paste or unconsolidated backfill. In addition, to address concerns regarding the frequency and intensity of seismic events encountered at the lower levels of the LaRonde mine, a hybrid of these two methods has been developed and used. In the underground mine, sublevels are driven at between 30-metre and 40-metre vertical intervals, depending on the depth. Stopes are undercut in 15-metre wide panels. In the longitudinal method, panels are mined in 15-metre sections and backfilled with 100% cemented rock backfill or paste backfill. The paste backfill plant was completed in 2000 and is located on the surface at the processing facility. In the transverse open stoping method, approximately 50% of the ore is mined in the first pass and filled with cemented rock backfill or paste backfill. On the second pass, the remainder of the ore is mined and filled with unconsolidated waste rock backfill or cemented paste backfill.

The throughput at LaRonde in 2015 averaged 6,141 tonnes per day compared with 6,244 tonnes per day in 2014 (based on 334 working days). The reduced throughput in 2015 was due to the lower specific gravity of the material and the continuing transition to the lower mine, where factors such as heat, congestion, seismicity and lack of operational flexibility underground had a negative impact on the mine's ability to provide the planned tonnage to the mill. In 2015, approximately 85% of the ore was extracted (mucked) from the LaRonde mine extension. In 2016, this proportion is expected to be approximately 89%.

The Company's operations at the LaRonde mine reach more than three kilometres below the surface. There are very few resources available to model the geomechanical conditions at this depth, where operations are subject to high stress levels. The Company conducts periodic technical reviews of its operations at these levels using consultants with experience in deep mining. The Company uses the results of these technical reviews to adapt best mining practices and adjust the mining sequence for its operations at these levels.

Surface Facilities

Surface facilities at the LaRonde mine include a processing plant with a daily capacity of 7,200 tonnes of ore, which has been expanded four times since 1987 from the original rate of 1,630 tonnes per day. Beginning in 1999, transition to the LaRonde mine's polymetallic massive sulphide orebody required several modifications to the processing plant. In 2008, the installation of a limited copper/lead separation flotation circuit, following the copper flotation circuit, was completed. Also in 2008, a cyanidation plant began operation for the treatment of sulphide concentrate from the Goldex mine. A CIL circuit was completed and began operation in April 2013 to replace the existing LaRonde precious metal Merrill-Crowe circuit. The LaRonde mine is also the site for the Lapa mine ore processing plant (1,500 tonnes per day), which was commissioned in the second quarter of 2009.

The ore requires a series of grinding, copper/lead flotation and separation, zinc flotation and zinc tails precious metals leaching circuits, now followed by CIL recovery. Paste backfill and cyanide destruction plants operate intermittently. The tailings area has a dedicated cyanide destruction and metals precipitation plant that water passes through prior to recirculating to the mill. During the summer of 2014, the installation of a new series of processing tanks began in order to increase the processing time. This installation was completed in March 2015 with the replacement of the old series of tanks that have been in operation since 1993. A biological water treatment plant was commissioned in 2005 to address the build-up of thiocyanate in the tailings ponds at the LaRonde mine. This build-up was the result of the high sulphide content of the LaRonde mine ore and high rate of recirculation of the process water. The plant uses bacteria to oxidize and destroy thiocyanate in the water and removes phosphate prior to its release to the environment.

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The Goldex concentrate circuit consists of pulp received from the Goldex mill via truck and subsequent leaching of the pulp with cyanide. The leached material is sent to the Lapa CIL circuit for gold recovery along with Lapa residual pulp. The Goldex concentrate circuit ceased to operate in November 2011 following the suspension of mining operations at Goldex. In the fourth quarter of 2013, mining operation resumed in the M and E Zones of the Goldex mine and the Goldex concentrate circuit resumed operation. From May 2014 to April 2015, the Goldex concentrate was processed in the Lapa CIL circuit. Since April 2015, the Goldex concentrate has been processed in the LaRonde CIP circuit.

The Lapa mine ore processing plant consists of a two-stage grinding circuit to reduce the granularity of the ore. A gravity recovery circuit that is incorporated into the grinding circuit recovers up to 45% of the available gold, depending on feed grades. The residual pulp is leached in a conventional CIL circuit to dissolve the balance of the precious metal. A carbon strip circuit recovers the gold from the carbon which is recycled to the leach circuit.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

During 2015, the LaRonde mine had payable production of 267,921 ounces of gold, 915,720 ounces of silver, 3,501 tonnes of zinc and 4,941 tonnes of copper from 2,241,424 tonnes of ore grading 3.91 grams of gold per tonne and 16.47 grams of silver per tonne, 0.31% zinc and 0.27% copper. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced on a by-product basis at LaRonde in 2015 was $590 and on a co-product basis was $760. The LaRonde processing facility averaged 6,141 tonnes of ore per day and operated 93.15% of available time. The minesite costs per tonne at LaRonde was C$99.71. Gold and silver recovery averaged 95.02% and 77.17%, respectively. Zinc recovery averaged 50.22% with a concentrate quality of 51.93% zinc. Copper recovery averaged 81.35% with a concentrate quality of 20.65% copper.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries and concentrate grades at the LaRonde mine in 2015.

		Copper Concentrate (25,282 tonnes produced)		Zinc Concentrate (7,947 tonnes produced)
	Head Grades	Grade	Recovery	Grade	Recovery	Overall Metal Recoveries	Payable Production
Gold	3.91 g/t	235.7 g/t	68.02%	19.2 g/t	1.73%	95.09%	267,921 oz
Silver	16.47 g/t	644.7 g/t	44.16%	194.6 g/t	4.23%	84.25%	915,720 oz
Copper	0.27%	20.65%	86.03%	0%	0%	86.03%	4,942 t
Zinc	0.31%	1.66%	6.04%	51.93%	59.26%	59.26%	3,501 t

Annual production at the LaRonde mine in 2016 is expected to be approximately 275,000 ounces of gold, 1,030,000 ounces of silver, 4,575 tonnes of copper and 4,117 tonnes of zinc from 2.1 million tonnes of ore grading 4.28 grams per tonne of gold, 20.0 grams per tonne of silver, 0.30% copper and 0.35% zinc. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced in 2016 on a by-product basis are expected to be $592, with gold recovery estimated at 94.9%, silver recovery of 76.0%, copper recovery of 80.8% and zinc recovery of 56.1%. Gold recovery at the LaRonde mine is distributed approximately as follows: 68.0% in the copper concentrate, 1.8% in the zinc concentrate and 25.3% via leaching. Minesite costs per tonne of C$114 are expected in 2016.

Environmental, Permitting and Social Matters

Currently, water is treated at various facilities at the LaRonde mine. Water contained in the tailings that is to be used as underground backfill is treated to degrade cyanide using a sulphur dioxide and air process. The tailings entering the tailings pond are first decanted and the clear water subjected to natural cyanide degradation. This water is then transferred to polishing pond #1 to undergo a secondary treatment at a plant located between polishing ponds #1 and #2 that uses a peroxy silicate process to destroy cyanide, and lime and coagulant (ferric sulfate) are used to precipitate metals. The tailings pond occupies an area of about 175 hectares. Waste rock that is not used underground for backfill is brought up to the surface and stored in close proximity to the tailings pond to be used to build cofferdams and berms

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inside the pond to increase storage capacity. A waste rock pile containing less than 100,000 tonnes of waste and occupying about nine hectares is located north of the mill.

Due to the high sulphur content of the LaRonde mine ore, the Company has had to address toxicity issues in the tailings ponds since the 1990s. The treatment process has been stable since introducing and optimizing a biological treatment plant in 2004, and the effluent has remained non-toxic since 2006. In 2006, the Company commenced an ammonia stripping operation involving an effluent partially treated by the biological treatment plant which allowed an increase in treatment flow rate, while keeping the final effluent toxicity-free. In addition, water from acid rock drainage around the mills and the waste stockpile are treated to remove metals prior to discharge at a high density sludge lime treatment plant located at the LaRonde mill. In 2015, the final phase of the construction of a major cofferdam was completed to an elevation of 356 metres. Berms will be completed in 2016 to finalize the 356 cofferdam concept.

Capital Expenditures

Capital expenditures at the LaRonde mine during 2015 were approximately $67.3 million, which included sustaining capital expenditures, deferred expense and included capitalized drilling. Budgeted 2016 capital expenditures at the LaRonde mine are $62 million, excluding capitalized drilling.

Development

In 2015, a total of 12,795 metres of lateral development was completed. Development was focused on the preparation of the lower mine production horizon. A total of 7,318 metres of development work was completed for the LaRonde mine extension infrastructure and the ramp to access the LaRonde mine extension.

The Company is also evaluating the potential to develop and mine the Bousquet Zone 5 on the adjoining Bousquet property using underground ramp access. The mining method is likely to be similar to that currently employed at the Goldex mine (long-hole stoping, with cemented paste backfill), and processing could use excess capacity from the Lapa circuit at LaRonde. Dewatering of the old pit is underway and permit applications to collect a bulk sample are expected to be submitted shortly. An internal technical study is currently expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

A total of 12,700 metres of lateral development is planned for 2016. The main focus of development remains the lower mine (LaRonde extension area), the development toward the lowest levels and the West mine portion.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology

The LaRonde property is located near the southern boundary of the Archean-age (2.7 billion years old) Abitibi Subprovince and the Pontiac Subprovince within the Superior Geological Province of the Canadian Shield. The most important regional structure is the Cadillac-Larder Lake ("CLL") fault zone, marking the contact between the Abitibi and Pontiac Subprovinces, located approximately two kilometres to the south of the LaRonde property.

The geology that underlies the LaRonde mine consists of three east-west-trending, steeply south-dipping and generally south-facing regional groups of rock formations. From north to south, they are: (i) 400 metres (approximate true thickness) of the Kewagama Group, which is made up of a thick band of interbedded wacke; (ii) 1,500 metres of the Blake River Group, a volcanic assemblage that hosts all the known economic mineralization on the property; and (iii) 500 metres of the Cadillac Group, made up of a thick band of wacke interbedded with pelitic schist and minor iron formation.

Zones of strong sericite and chlorite alteration that enclose massive to disseminated sulphide mineralization (including the ore that is mined for gold, silver, zinc and copper at the LaRonde mine) follow steeply dipping, east-west-trending, anastomosing shear zone structures within the Blake River Group volcanic units across the property. These shear zones are part of the larger Doyon-Dumagami Structural Zone that hosts several important gold occurrences (including the Doyon gold mine, the Westwood project and the former Bousquet mines) and has been traced for over ten kilometres within the Blake River Group, from the LaRonde mine westward to the Mouska gold mine.

Mineralization

The LaRonde deposit is a world-class gold-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit. LaRonde lenses were formed mainly by sulphide precipitation from hydrothermal fluids on the seafloor and by replacement below lenses. The stacking of the LaRonde lenses is the result of successive volcanic events, intercalated by cycles of hydrothermat activity associated with reactivation of synvolcanic faults.

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The gold-bearing zones at the LaRonde mine are lenses of disseminated stringers through to massive aggregates of coarse pyrite with zinc, copper and silver content. Ten zones that vary in size from 50,000 to 40,000,000 tonnes have been identified, of which four are (or are believed to be) economic. Gold content is not proportional to the total sulphide content but does increase with copper content. Gold values are also higher in areas where the pyrite lenses are crosscut by tightly spaced north-south fractures.

These historical relationships, which were noted at LaRonde Shaft #1's Main Zone, are maintained at the Penna Shaft zones. The zinc-silver (i.e. Zone 20 North) mineralization with lower gold values, common in the upper mine, grades into gold-copper mineralization within the lower mine. The predominant base metal sulphides within the LaRonde mine are chalcopyrite (copper) and sphalerite (zinc).

The Company believes that Zone 20 North is one of the largest gold-bearing massive sulphide mineralized zones in the world and one of the largest known mineralized zones in the Abitibi region of Ontario and Quebec. Zone 20 North contains the majority of the mineral reserves and mineral resources at the LaRonde mine, including 17.9 million tonnes of proven and probable mineral reserves grading 5.36 grams of gold per tonne, representing 98% of the total proven and probable mineral reserves at the LaRonde mine, 6.3 million tonnes of indicated mineral resources grading 3.54 grams of gold per tonne, representing 92% of the total measured and indicated mineral resources at the LaRonde mine, and 7.8 million tonnes of inferred mineral resources grading 4.44 grams of gold per tonne, representing 85% of the total inferred mineral resources at the LaRonde mine.

Zone 20 North extends between 700 metres below the surface and at least 3,700 metres below the surface, and remains open at depth. With increased access on the lower levels of the mine (i.e., below Level 215 and from the internal shaft on levels 257 and 278), the transformation from a zinc/silver orebody to a gold/copper deposit is expected to continue during 2016.

Zone 20 North can be divided into an upper zinc/silver enriched gold poor zone and a lower gold/copper enriched zone. The zinc/silver zone has been traced over a vertical distance of 1,700 metres and a horizontal distance of 570 metres, with thicknesses approaching 40 metres. The gold/copper zone has been traced over a vertical distance of over 2,200 metres and a horizontal distance of 900 metres, with thicknesses varying from three to 40 metres. The zinc/silver zone consists of massive zinc/silver mineralization containing 50% to 90% massive pyrite and 10% to 50% massive light brown sphalerite. The gold/copper zone mineralization consists of 30% to 70% finely disseminated to massive pyrite containing 1% to 10% chalcopyrite veinlets, minor disseminated sphalerite and rare specks of visible gold. Gold grades are generally related to the chalcopyrite or copper content. At depth, the massive sulphide lens becomes richer in gold and copper. During 2015, 2.0 million tonnes of ore grading 4.02 grams of gold per tonne, 15.91 grams of silver per tonne, 0.22% zinc and 0.28% copper were mined from Zone 20 North.

Exploration and Drilling

The combined amount of gold in proven and probable mineral reserves at the LaRonde mine at the end of 2015 was 3.11 million ounces (18.2 million tonnes of ore grading 5.31 grams of gold per tonne, 19.73 grams of silver per tonne, 0.24% copper and 0.81% zinc), which represents a decrease of 323,000 contained ounces of gold from the end of 2014, after producing 267,921 ounces of gold (282,000 ounces in-situ gold mined in 2015). The reduction in mineral reserves is principally associated with ore mined during 2015 and delineation and definition drilling done at the edges and in the deepest part of the orebody, respectively. Underground indicated mineral resources at the LaRonde mine increased by 51,000 tonnes of ore to a total of 6.8 million tonnes of ore grading 3.49 grams of gold per tonne, 18.25 grams of silver per tonne, 0.24% copper and 0.82% zinc, primarily due to positive diamond drilling results in the conversion drilling on the western margin above level 284 and below the deeper level of mineral reserves (level 311). Underground inferred mineral resources at the LaRonde mine increased by 348,000 tonnes of ore to a total of 9.1 million tonnes of ore grading 4.26 grams of gold per tonne, 15.07 grams of silver per tonne, 0.23% copper and 0.90% zinc. The conversion of inferred mineral resources to indicated mineral resources in Zone 20 North at depth was offset by positive exploration drilling below 3.4 kilometres depth.

Diamond drilling is used for exploration on the LaRonde property. In 2015, 26 holes (8,994 metres) were drilled for definition (conversion) drilling and 23 holes (10,511 metres) were for exploration. Expenditures on diamond drilling at the LaRonde mine during 2015 were approximately $2.9 million, including $1.4 million in drilling expenses charged to capital costs at the LaRonde mine, and $1.5 million expensed as exploration drilling.

The main focus of the 2015 exploration program was continuing the investigation and conversion of Zone 20 North at depth and exploration of the Zone 6 and 7 horizons at depth from the new accesses developed in 2012 and 2013 on Levels 290, 292 and 293. The 2015 conversion program on Zone 20 North was focused on conversion from inferred to

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indicated mineral resources above level 281 on the western margin and at depth, in the eastern and center portions of the deposit (below the actual limit of mineral reserves). The positive results obtained in this program allowed the addition of indicated mineral resources between level 269 and 281 on the west margin and continued to confirm the extension of the orebody to 3.3 kilometres below the surface, or 200 metres below the current maximum depth of mineral reserves. The conversion program will continue in 2016 through 2018, and will investigate the orebody to 3.7 kilometres below the surface and to the west. As part of the 2015 exploration program, drilling was conducted on the east and center portion of the Zone 20 North between 3.4 and 3.7 kilometers below the surface. Positive results allowed the addition of inferred mineral resources at depth, mostly to the east of the orebody. This campaign will continue to the west in 2016. The 2015 exploration program also included a follow up campaign on the Zone 6 and 7 horizons from the newly developed accesses on Level 293. In 2012, a deep hole from Level 215 intersected the Zone 6 horizon at a depth of 3,551 metres below the surface. The 22.8 metre thick massive sulphide zone had the same characteristics as other deposits on the property. In 2013, a first follow up campaign was planned from Level 278 to determine the extent of the deposit but the campaign was stopped due to excessive deviation during the drilling of the first hole. The Company decided to delay the program until new accesses were developed from the lower levels of the mine (Level 293) and the access on Level 293 was developed in 2014. The drilling campaign started in October 2014 and will continue into 2016 to test the continuity of Zone 6 from 2.9 to 3.2 kilometres below the surface. Another drilling access is planned to be developed from 2016 through 2019 to provide better positioning for an extensive diamond drilling program on Zone 6 to a depth of 3.7 kilometres.

In 2016, the Company expects to spend $1.9 million on 14,115 metres of definition (conversion) drilling and $2.0 million on 11,850 metres of exploration drilling, for a total of $3.9 million at the LaRonde mine.

Lapa Mine

The Lapa mine, which achieved commercial production in May 2009, is located approximately 11 kilometres east of the LaRonde mine near Cadillac, Quebec and is accessible by Quebec provincial highway No. 117. At December 31, 2015, the Lapa mine was estimated to contain proven and probable mineral reserves of 0.78 million ounces of gold comprised of 0.44 million tonnes of ore grading 5.49 grams per tonne. The Lapa property is made up of the Tonawanda property, which consists of 44 contiguous mining claims and one provincial mining lease, and the Zulapa property, which consists of one mining concession. The mining lease at Lapa expires in 2029.

Location Map of the Lapa Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

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The Company's initial interest in the Lapa property was acquired in 2002 through an option agreement with Breakwater Resources Ltd. ("Breakwater"). The Company undertook an aggressive exploration program and discovered a new gold deposit almost 300 metres below the surface. In 2003, the Company purchased the Lapa property from Breakwater for a payment of $8.9 million, a 1% net smelter return royalty on the Tonawanda property and a 0.5% net smelter return royalty on the Zulapa property. In 2008, the Company purchased all royalties from Breakwater for C$6.35 million. In addition, both the Zulapa and Tonawanda properties are subject to a 5% net profit royalty payable to Delfer Gold Mines Inc. In 2004, an additional mining claim was added to the Company's holdings at the Lapa mine and in January 2009, a mining lease was entered into with the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Quebec).

Mining and Milling Facilities

Surface Plan of the Lapa Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The Lapa property hosts an underground mining operation and the ore is trucked to a processing facility at the LaRonde mine, which has been modified to treat the ore, recover the gold and store the residues. Tailings from the Lapa mine are deposited in the tailings pond at the LaRonde mine.

In July 2004, the Company initiated the sinking of an 825-metre deep shaft at the Lapa property. In April 2006, 2,800 tonnes of development ore was extracted at Lapa and was estimated to contain, on average, 10.65 grams of gold per tonne. These results and results from other sampling methods were incorporated into a feasibility study and, in June 2006, the Company accelerated construction of the Lapa mine. This construction included extending the shaft to a depth of 1,369 metres, which was completed in October 2007. Significant additional construction was required in order for the Lapa mine to achieve commercial production in May 2009, including the construction of the Lapa mine ore processing facility at the LaRonde mine.

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Mining Methods

Two underground mining methods are used at the Lapa mine: longitudinal retreat with cemented backfill and locally transverse open stoping with cemented backfill. Sublevels are driven at 30-metre vertical intervals. Stopes are mined in 12-metre sections and backfilled with 100% cemented rock backfill. The underground infrastructure at the Lapa mine is predominantly located in areas with stable rock conditions. However, in certain areas, the underground infrastructure is located in a talc chlorite schist (mainly ore zones), which may have a higher potential of instability. This risk of instability is managed at the Lapa mine through a ground control program. Excavated ore from the Lapa mine is trucked via provincial highway to the processing facility at the LaRonde mine.

Surface Facilities

The infrastructure on the Lapa property includes the refurbished former LaRonde Shaft #1 headframe and shafthouse, service buildings, offices, a settling pond for waste water, dry facilities, an ore bin, a diesel reservoir and a water treatment plant. A backfill plant was commissioned in December 2008 and the sedimentation pond was extended in 2007 to control suspended solids from underground dewatering discharge.

Ore from the Lapa mine is processed in dedicated milling facilities integrated into the mill at the LaRonde mine. With an average production of 1,651 tonnes per day in 2015, the mine operated consistently above its design rate of 1,500 tonnes per day. Dilution, mainly associated with talc chlorite schist from the south wall, averaged 71% in 2015, consistent with prior years.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

During 2015, the Lapa mine had payable production of 90,967 ounces of gold from 559,926 tonnes of ore grading 5.83 grams of gold per tonne. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced at Lapa in 2015 was $590 on a by-product basis and was $591 on a co-product basis and the Lapa processing facility averaged 1,534 tonnes per day and operated approximately 93.7% of available time. Gold recovery averaged 86.47% and the minesite costs per tonne at Lapa were C$117 in 2015.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries at the Lapa mine in 2015.

	Head Grade	Overall Metal Recovery	Payable Production
Gold	5.83 g/t	86.47%	90,967 oz

Gold production during 2016 at the Lapa mine is expected to be approximately 60,000 ounces from 0.41 million tonnes of ore grading 5.3 grams of gold per tonne at estimated total cash costs per ounce of approximately $640 on a by-product basis, and estimated gold recovery of 86.8%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately C$123 are expected in 2016. Based on the life of mine plan, 2016 is expected to be the final year of full production at the Lapa mine.

Environmental, Permitting and Social Matters

100% of the water used underground at the Lapa mine was initially re-circulated from mine dewatering after settling in the sedimentation pond. To reduce ammonia level build-up and reduce the ammonia content in the water, the Company built a 3.5-kilometre surface pipeline to obtain fresh water from the Heva River. The pipeline was commissioned in November 2009. The Company also commissioned a water treatment plant on site in the fourth quarter of 2010 to remove the ammonia in the mine dewatering water. Output is currently within the target range at approximately ten parts per million of ammonia and average efficiency is at approximately 70%.

In the second quarter of 2012, an Oberlin filtration unit was installed inside the treatment plant to improve the removal of suspended solids from water coming from underground operations. Despite the additional filtration, the process remains sensitive to variations in the concentrations of suspended solids and managing it requires particular attention. The waste rock pile naturally drains towards the sedimentation pond. A waste rock sampling program implemented during the shaft sinking phase verified the non-acid generating nature of the waste rock. Water effluent from the sedimentation pond is sampled as required under the Quebec and Canadian mining effluent guidelines. The ore from the Lapa mine is

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transported and processed at the Lapa mill, which is located adjacent to the LaRonde mill. The Lapa tailings are sent to the LaRonde mine tailings area.

The Certificates of Authorization to proceed with mine production and with mill construction were issued by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec) in October and December 2007, respectively. The Certificate of Authorization for mill and tailings production was received in 2008.

A revision to the closure plan for the Lapa mine was submitted to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Quebec) in 2009 and was approved in 2012. Financial assurance has been provided based on the closure plan.

Capital Expenditures

In 2015, the Company incurred approximately $5.3 million in capital expenditures at the Lapa mine, which included deferred development and sustaining capital expenditures (including underground construction and mining equipment), but excluded capitalized drilling. No capital expenditures at the Lapa mine are expected in 2016.

Development

In 2015, a total of 3,919 metres of lateral development was completed. Development focused on permanent drifts (ramps and haulage way), stope preparation and access to satellite zones and the lower portions of the Contact Zone.

A total of 482 metres of lateral development is planned for 2016. The main focus of development work will be stope preparation and access to the orebody.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology

The Lapa property is located near the southern boundary of the Archean-age (2.7 billion years old) Abitibi Subprovince and the Pontiac Subprovince within the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. The most important regional structure is the CLL fault zone marking the contact between the Abitibi and Pontiac Subprovinces. The fault zone passes through the property from west to east, and is marked by schists and mafic to ultramafic volcanic flows that comprise the Piché group (up to approximately 300 metres thick in the mine area). On the Lapa property, the fault zone displays a "Z" shaped fold to which all of the lithologic groups in the region conform. Feldspathic dykes cut the Piché group, especially near the fold. North of the Piché group lies the Cadillac sedimentary group, which consists of 500 metres or more of well-banded wacke, conglomerate and siltstone with intercalations of iron formation. The Pontiac group sedimentary rocks (up to approximately 300 metres thick) that occur to the south of the Piché group are similar to the Cadillac group but do not contain conglomerate nor iron formation.

Mineralization

Gold occurrences in the Cadillac-Rivière Héva sector are all vein type epigenetic deposits spatially associated with the Cadillac-Larder Lake deformation zone. As such, all the deposits occur within or proximal to the Piché Group. These deposits are relatively arsenic-enriched and occur as quartz veins and veinlets or as sulphide disseminations. It is generally agreed that the gold mineralization in the Cadillac region was emplaced after regional deformation and metamorphism.

The Lapa deposit is comprised of the Contact Zone and five satellite zones. The Contact Zone accounts for approximately 60% of the mineral reserves.

The ore zones are made up of multiple quartz veins and veinlets, often smoky and anastomosing, within a sheared and altered envelope containing minor sulphides and visible gold. The Contact Zone is generally located at the contact between the Piché group and the Cadillac group. The satellite zones are located within the Piché group at a distance varying from ten to 50 metres from the contact with the Cadillac group, except for the satellite zones 7 and 8 at 150 metres from this same contact, and the Contact North Zone, which is located approximately ten metres north of the Contact Zone within the Cadillac group. The sheared envelope consists of millimetre-thick foliation bands of biotite or sericite with silica and, in places, cuts across rock units. Quartz veins and millimetre-sized veinlets parallel to the foliation account for 5% to 25% of the mineralization. Visible gold is common in the veins and veinlets but can also be found in the altered host rock. Sulphides account for 1% to 3% of the mineralization; the most common sulphides, in order of decreasing importance, are arsenopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and stibnite. Graphite is also rarely observed as inclusions in smoky quartz veins.

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The Contact and satellite zones are tabular mineralized envelopes oriented east-west and dipping very steeply to the north, turning south at depth. The economic portion of the zone has been traced from depths of approximately 450 metres to more than 1,500 metres below the surface. The Contact Zone has an average strike length of 300 metres, varies in thickness from 2.8 to 5.0 metres and is open at depth. Locally, some thicker intervals have been intersected but their continuity has not been demonstrated. The satellite zones have thicknesses similar to the Contact Zone.

Exploration and Drilling

The Lapa project had a long history of work by previous owners before being acquired by the Company in 2003. This included production of 345,844 tonnes of ore grading 4.3 grams per tonne of gold by Lapa-Cadillac Gold Mines from 1938 to 1943, and the completion of 15,100 metres of drilling from underground operations during this period. Gold mineralization was intersected within the Piché volcanic group by Canadian Malartic Gold Mines, which drilled eight holes (1,200 metres) in 1955. From 1981 until 1989, Breakwater completed line-cutting, ground geophysics, geological surveys, drilled 164 holes (26,616 metres) and excavated a 759-metre-long exploration ramp, recognizing five gold-bearing horizons in the Piché volcanic group. In 1988, the Company prepared a mineral resource estimate for the "Highway" zone of 676,177 tonnes of ore grading 5.3 grams per tonne of gold (such historic estimate is not compliant with NI 43-101 standards). In 1999, Cambior Exploration Canada drilled four holes (2,926 metres) testing the depth continuity of Zone A and the Contact Zone.

Overall, there was a decrease of approximately 92,000 ounces of gold in mineral reserves at the Lapa mine in 2015, to 78,000 ounces of gold (0.4 million tonnes of ore grading 5.49 grams of gold per tonne), after producing 90,967 ounces of gold (105,000 ounces in-situ gold mined). The net decrease was a result of the conversion of indicated mineral resources into mineral reserves, offset by production. Underground measured and indicated mineral resources at the Lapa mine increased by 67,000 tonnes of ore in 2015 to a total of 1.1 million tonnes of ore grading 4.26 grams of gold per tonne, mainly due to conversion drilling in the Lapa Deep sector. Approximately 326,000 tonnes of inferred mineral resources grading 6.52 grams of gold per tonne were added in 2015 for a total of 1.4 million tonnes of ore grading 6.52 grams of gold per tonne, as a result of surface and underground exploration drilling in 2015. Drilling and evaluation will continue in 2016.

In 2015, a total of 138 holes were drilled on the Lapa property for a total length of 29,960 metres. Of the drilling in 2015, 89 holes (13,692 metres) were for definition (conversion) and 49 holes (16,268 metres) were for exploration. Expenditures on diamond drilling at the Lapa mine during 2015 were approximately $2.3 million, including $1.2 million in definition drilling expenses charged to capital costs and $1.1 million expensed on exploration drilling.

Four exploration diamond drilling programs were completed at the Lapa mine during 2015. The first program was executed from surface targeting the Zulapa Z8 corridor in order to add mineral resources. The second program concentrated on expanding the Zulapa Zone 7 at depth. There were positive results in the Zulapa Z8 zone surface drilling and the underground Zulapa Z7 zone deep exploration program. Additional drilling in both of these areas is planned in 2016.

The goal of the third program was to add and convert mineral resources into mineral reserves in Zulapa Zone 7 and 73. However, drilling demonstrated a non-exploitable narrow lens in the Zulapa Z73 zone. The fourth program was executed from the exploration track drift on Level 101 (one kilometre below surface) testing the eastern extension of the Contact East Zone and the western portion of the Piché group volcanic rock on the Pandora property (in which the Company holds an indirect 50% interest through Canadian Malartic Corporation). Technical difficulties were encountered in the holes drilled from the exploration track drift, because the drilling angle was too close to the foliation angle. Further test drilling will be done at depth in 2016, as wide areas are still unexplored.

In 2016, the Company expects to spend approximately $0.8 million on 10,400 metres of exploration drilling at the Lapa mine and $1.3 million on 15,000 metres of underground exploration drilling on the Pandora property. A total of 1,080 metres of lateral development is planned for 2016 on the tracked exploration drift on the Pandora property.

Goldex Mine

The Goldex mine is located in the City of Val d'Or, Quebec, approximately 60 kilometres east of the LaRonde mine, and is accessible by Quebec provincial highway No. 117. The proven and probable mineral reserves at Goldex as at December 31, 2015 were estimated at approximately 0.67 million ounces of gold comprised of 12.9 million tonnes of ore grading 1.61 grams per tonne, all in the M, E and D Zones.

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The Goldex mine operates under a mining lease obtained from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Quebec) and under certificates of approval granted by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec). The Goldex property consists of 22 contiguous mining claims and, since April 2008, one provincial mining lease. The property is made up of three blocks: the Probe block; the Dalton block; and the Goldex Extension block. The claims are renewable every second year upon payment of a small fee. The mining lease expires in 2028 and is automatically renewable for three further ten-year terms upon payment of a small fee. The Company also has one surface lease that is used for the auxiliary tailings pond. This lease is renewable annually upon payment of a fee.

The GEZ, which was the gold deposit on which the Company was focusing its production efforts before production was suspended indefinitely on October 19, 2011, was discovered in 1989 on the Goldex Extension block (although the Company believes a small portion of the GEZ occurs on the Probe block). On November 29, 2012, the Company purchased the 5% net smelter return royalty interest on the Probe block from Probe Mines Limited ("Probe") for cash consideration of C$14 million. An additional C$4 million was paid by the Company to Probe in 2015 as certain production thresholds were achieved on the Probe block in 2014.

Location Map of the Goldex Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

Agnico Eagle has held a 100% interest in the Goldex property since December 1993, when the Company acquired the remaining 46.3% interest in Goldex Mines Limited that it did not already own. In late 1997, the Company completed a mining study that indicated that the GEZ deposit was not economically viable to mine at the then-prevailing gold price (approximately $323 per ounce of gold) using the mining approach chosen and the drill-hole-indicated grade. The property was placed on care and maintenance and the workings were allowed to flood. In February 2005, a new mineral reserve and mineral resource estimate was completed for the GEZ which, coupled with a feasibility study, led to a probable mineral reserve estimate of 1.6 million ounces of gold contained in 20.1 million tonnes of ore grading 2.54 grams of gold per tonne. The GEZ resource model was revised and, in March 2005, the Company approved a feasibility study and the construction of the Goldex mine. The mine achieved commercial production on August 1, 2008.

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Based on the results of a scoping study completed in July 2009, the Company decided to expand the mine and mill operations at Goldex to 8,000 tonnes per day. This project was completed in 2010. Capital costs in connection with the expansion totaled $10 million. The crusher for the expansion was commissioned at the end of the first quarter of 2010 at a rate of 7,811 tonnes per day.

On October 19, 2011, the Company suspended mining operations and gold production from the GEZ, following the receipt of recommendations from independent consultants to halt underground mining operations during the investigation into geotechnical concerns with the rock above the mining horizon. As a result, the Company wrote off substantially all of its investment in the Goldex mine (approximately $254 million), recorded a closure provision of approximately $44 million and reclassified all of the remaining 1.6 million ounces of proven and probable mineral reserves, other than the ore stockpiled on the surface, as mineral resources in the third quarter of 2011. The surface stockpile was processed in the Goldex mill by October 30, 2011. Surface remediation, in the form of cement injection and other corrective work to the mine's surface infrastructure (including to Shaft #2) was carried out in 2012 and 2013.

The Company does not expect to produce more gold from the GEZ until the geotechnical concerns with the rock above the mining horizon are resolved, which may never occur.

In July 2012, the Company approved the development of the M and E Zones of the Goldex mine. Production from these zones began in the fourth quarter of 2013 and commercial production was achieved in October 2013. Development work is continuing underground on the M and E Zones.

In 2013, a feasibility study was carried out on the M2, M3, M4 and M5 Zones, now part of the M Zone, and the east part of the E Zone. This feasibility study indicated that mining these zones concurrently with the M and E Zones appeared economical. The Company anticipates that the commencement of operations on these new satellite zones will result in increased daily throughput of the mine and mine life being extended further into 2017.

In 2015, following the completion of a positive internal technical study, the Goldex Deep 1 project was approved for production by Agnico Eagle's board of directors (the "Board" or "Board of Directors"). The study focused on mining the lower part of the Dx Zone and the top part of the D Zone from a depth of 850 metres to 1,200 metres. The Company plans to undertake development from the current Goldex infrastructure, with existing equipment and personnel. The planned mining method is long-hole stoping with cemented paste backfill, which is the same method as currently used at the M and E Zones.

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Mining and Milling Facilities

Surface Plan of the Goldex Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The surface facilities at Goldex include a head frame, a hoist room, an ore storage facility, a processing plant, a paste backfill plant and a surface building containing a mechanical shop, a warehouse and an office. In addition, the Goldex property has a 790-metre deep shaft (Shaft #1), which historically was used to provide access to underground workings. Shaft #1 is now predominantly used for getting material into the mine and serves as an emergency exit from the mine.

The sinking of a new production shaft was completed in 2007. This shaft (Shaft #2) is a 5.5-metre diameter shaft with a 50-centimetre thick concrete lining and is used for ventilation as well as hoisting purposes. Shaft #2 is 865 metres deep and includes five stations. A refurbished friction hoist was installed for production and service duties, and an auxiliary hoist was installed for emergency and personnel service.

Rehabilitation of the old ramp near Shaft #1 was completed in 2015 to access the upper portion of the M Zone. The ramp will be used for getting material into the mine and as an emergency exit. In addition, a new heating system at surface was installed in early 2015.

Mining Method

The Company mines the M and E Zones using primary and secondary stope methods. Drilling is carried out with ITH drills. Production holes are either 4.5 or 6.5 inches in diameter. Bulk emulsion is used as the primary explosive for stope blasting. For both zones, stopes are approximately 55 metres high. The width and length of individual stopes vary based on local rock mass quality, but an average stope is expected to range between 60,000 and 120,000 tonnes. Ore handling in the M Zone is done with 15 yard load-haul-dump machines. This equipment unloads into an ore pass accessible from

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each level. In the E Zone, located below the bottom of Shaft #2, ore handling is done with 15 yard load-haul-dump machines and 45 tonne trucks.

All stopes are supported with 10-15 metre cable bolts. In addition, the stability of certain stopes is remotely monitored in real time. The Company also uses paste backfill to allow for a high extraction ratio and to increase long term stability.

The same mining method will be used in the Deep 1 Zone as is used in the M and E Zones, except that a Rail-Veyor system will be used for ore handling between the lowermost level of Deep 1 (Level 120) and the current ore handling facilities (Level 76). The Rail-Veyor loading system on Level 120 will be fed via a rock breaker room at Level 115. For Levels 85 to 115, 15 yard load haul dump machines will unload into an ore pass reporting to the rock breaker room on Level 115. For the stopes on Level 120, 45 tonne trucks will be used for ore handling to Level 115.

Surface Facilities

Plant construction at Goldex commenced in the second quarter of 2006 and was completed in the first quarter of 2008. The plant reached design capacity in the second quarter of 2009. Grinding at the Goldex mill was initially done through a two-stage circuit comprised of a SAG mill and a ball mill. In 2009, a surface crusher was added to reduce the size of ore transferred to the surface from 150 millimetres to 50 millimetres. A lamellar decanter was also added to recover small particles present in the water overflow of the concentrate thickener. The underflow pump for this thickener was upgraded following flotation circuit modification to increase the pull rate of the small particles. Approximately two-thirds of the gold is recovered through a gravity circuit, passed over shaking tables and smelted on site. The remainder of the gold and pyrite is recovered through a flotation process. The concentrate is then thickened and trucked to the mill at the LaRonde mine where it is further treated by cyanidation. Gold recovered is consolidated with precious metals from the LaRonde and Lapa mines.

In 2013, a new backfill plant was built on the site. The plant provides fill for the M and E Zone stopes. The tailing thickener underflow feeds the backfill plant and two disk filters increase the density before the continuous mixer where binder is added at a ratio of approximately 3.6% before being sent to the underground mine with a positive displacement pump. Currently, the capacity of the backfill plant is approximately 6,200 tonnes per day.

In 2013, metallurgical testing on ore from the M and E Zones showed that the cement in the backfill would have a negative impact on the efficiency of the flotation circuit. As a result, a pH control (using carbon dioxide), a reservoir and control valves were added to the mill.

The ore production rate at Goldex in 2015 averaged 6,549 tonnes per day, compared with 5,799 tonnes per day in 2014. The increased throughput in 2015 was largely due to accelerated mining levels compared to the 2014 period.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

In 2015, metallurgical tests were completed on the Deep 1 ore to verify its compatibility with the current operational parameters employed at the Goldex mill, including hardness tests, grindability sizing, gravimetric recovery and flotational recovery of gold.

During 2015, the Goldex mine had payable production of 115,426 ounces of gold from 2.3 million tonnes of ore grading 1.66 grams of gold per tonne. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced at Goldex in 2015 was $538 on a by-product basis and on a co-product basis. The Goldex processing facility averaged 6,336 tonnes of ore per day. Gold recovery averaged 93.43%. The minesite costs per tonne at Goldex in 2015 were C$33.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries at the Goldex mine in 2015.

	Head Grade	Overall Metal Recovery	Payable Production
Gold	1.66 g/t	93.43%	115,426 oz

Gold production during 2016 at the Goldex mine is expected to be approximately 105,000 ounces from 2.3 million tonnes of ore grading 1.52 grams of gold per tonne at estimated total cash costs per ounce of approximately $601 on a by-product basis, with estimated gold recovery of 92.6%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately C$35 are expected in 2016.

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Environmental, Permitting and Social Matters

Environmental permits for the construction and operation of an ore extracting infrastructure at the Goldex mine were received from the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec) in October 2005. The permits also covered the construction and operation of a sedimentation pond for mine water treatment and sewage facilities. In June 2011, the permits were revised to allow for the expansion of the mine and mill operations to 9,500 tonnes per day. In June 2012, environmental permits were received for the construction and operation of a paste backfill plant in connection with the development of the M and E Zones.

In November 2006, the Company and the Quebec government signed an agreement permitting the Company to dispose Goldex tailings at the Manitou site, a tailings site formerly used by an unrelated third party and abandoned to the Quebec government. The Manitou tailings site has issues relating to acid drainage, and the construction of tailings facilities by the Company and the deposition of tailings from Goldex on the Manitou tailings site was accepted by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec) as a valid rehabilitation method to address the acid generation problem at Manitou. Under the agreement, the Company manages the construction and operation of the tailings facilities and the Quebec government pays all additional costs above the Company's budget for tailings facilities set out in the Goldex feasibility study. The Quebec government retains responsibility for all environmental contamination at the Manitou tailings site and for final closure of the facilities. The Company has also built a separate tailings deposit area (auxiliary tailings pond) near the Goldex mine. Environmental permits for the construction and operation of the auxiliary tailings pond were received in March 2007. The rehabilitation of the Manitou tailings site is expected to continue during the mining of the M and E Zones.

Internal dykes were built in 2013 at the Manitou tailings site to make better use of the reduced quantity of available tailings for rehabilitation of the Manitou site.

As at December 31, 2015, the estimated remaining reclamation costs relating to the Goldex mine are approximately $11.8 million.

Capital Expenditures

Capital expenditures at the Goldex mine during 2015 were approximately $44.7 million, which included sustaining capital expenditures, expansion construction and deferred expenses, but excluded capitalized drilling. Total estimated capital expenditures for 2016 are $76 million, excluding capitalized drilling.

Development

During 2015, approximately 10,853 metres of lateral development were completed at the Goldex mine. A total of 817 metres of vertical development was also completed in order to establish both the ore pass system servicing the M Zone and the ventilation network servicing the M and Deep 1 Zones. In 2015, rehabilitation of the surface ramp was completed, which provides increased operational flexibility and access to the M2 and M5 satellite zones.

A total of 12,929 metres of lateral development is planned for all zones in 2016, while 604 metres of vertical development will be necessary to extend the ore pass system and to ensure proper ventilation of the upper part of the M and Deep 1 Zones. In 2016, 40,000 metres of additional drilling is planned for the Deep 1 Zone. However, the majority of the budget will be for the construction of the underground garage and ore-handling facilities, including the Rail-Veyor system, the rock-breaker room and the electrical distribution network.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology

The Goldex property is located near the southern boundary of the Archean-age (2.7 billion years old) Abitibi Subprovince, a typical granite-greenstone terrane located within the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. The southern contact of the Abitibi Subprovince with the Pontiac Subprovince is marked by the east-southeast trending CLL fault zone, the most important regional structural feature. The Goldex deposit is hosted within a quartz diorite sill, the "Goldex Granodiorite", located in a succession of mafic to ultramafic volcanic rocks that are all generally oriented west-northwest.

In 2015, exploration efforts at Goldex were focused on the M, E and Deep Zones. These zones are defined by the intensity of the quartz tourmaline vein stockwork and gold assays. In 2015, with the increased density of drilling, the M, M2 and Mx zones were consolidated into the M Zone and the Dx and D zones were consolidated into the Deep 1 Zone. No exploration was conducted on the P Zone in 2015.

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The M Zone has an approximate length of 440 metres, a height of 350 metres and a thickness of 130 metres. The E Zone, adjacent to the eastern end of the GEZ, has an approximate length of 250 metres, a height of 290 metres and a thickness of 130 metres. The Deep 1 Zone is approximately 90 metres below the GEZ and extends to 1,500 metres below the surface. It appears to have an approximate strike length of 350 metres, a height of 600 metres and thickness of 120 metres.

Mineralization

Gold mineralization at Goldex corresponds to the classical quartz-tourmaline vein lode-gold deposit type. The gold-bearing quartz-tourmaline pyrite veins and vein stockwork, hosted within a quartz-diorite dyke, are the result of a strong structural control, related to ductile shearing and brittle faulting. The most significant structure directly related to mineralization is a discrete shear zone, the Goldex Mylonite, which is up to five metres wide and occurs within the Goldex Granodiorite, just south of the Deep 1 Zone and north of the M Zone.

A couple of vein sets exist within the M, E, Deep 1 and P Zones, of which the main set consists of extensional-shear veins dipping approximately 30 degrees south. The vein sets and associated alteration halos combine to form stacked envelopes up to 30 metres thick.

Moderate to strong albite-carbonate alteration of the host-rock quartz diorite surrounds the quartz-tourmaline-pyrite veins and covers almost 80% of the mineralized zone; outside of the envelopes, prior chlorite alteration affects the quartz diorite and gives it a darker grey-green colour. Occasionally, enclaves of relatively unaltered medium grey-green-coloured quartz diorite (with no veining or gold) are found within the M, E and Deep 1 Zones; they are removed with the rest of the stope's ore to allow for a smooth stope shape, required for mining purposes.

Most of the gold occurs as microscopic particles that are almost always associated with pyrite, generally adjacent to grains and crystals but also 20% included within the pyrite. The gold-bearing pyrite occurs in the quartz-tourmaline veins and in narrow fractures in the albite-carbonate-altered quartz diorite (generally immediately adjacent to the veins).

Exploration and Drilling

Exploration on the Goldex property was concentrated in three periods from 1963 to 1996. During the period from 1985 to 1996, Shaft #1 was sunk to 457 metres, followed by 3,810 metres of lateral development and 520 metres of slashing, a bulk sample of roughly 55,886 tonnes and approximately 32,000 metres of diamond drilling in the Main Zone. Concurrently, widely spaced drilling, comprised of approximately 50 diamond drill holes, led to the discovery and beginning of the development of the GEZ. In 1996, Shaft #1 was deepened to 790 metres, followed by 853 metres of lateral development, cross-cuts and slashing, two bulk samples for 136,200 tonnes and 23,000 metres of underground drilling in GEZ.

The combined amount of gold in proven and probable mineral reserves at the Goldex mine at the end of 2015 was 0.67 million ounces (12.9 million tonnes of ore grading 1.61 grams of gold per tonne), which represents an increase of approximately 328,000 ounces of gold in reserves from the end of 2014, after producing 115,426 ounces of gold (123,000 ounces in-situ gold mined). The increase is largely due to the successful conversion of mineral resources to mineral reserves, mainly in the D Zone as well as in the M and E Zones. These are the initial D Zone probable mineral reserves (354,000 ounces of gold in 6.3 million tonnes of ore grading 1.75 grams of gold per tonne) related to the approval of mining the Deep 1 project, announced in July 2015. The mineral reserve grade increased 8% from 1.49 grams of gold per tonne at the end of 2014 to 1.61 grams of gold per tonne at the end of 2015. Underground measured and indicated mineral resources at the Goldex mine increased by 0.7 million tonnes of ore to 34.4 million tonnes of ore grading 1.87 grams of gold per tonne, primarily due to conversion of inferred to indicated mineral resources, reduction of the cut-off grade and positive drilling results in the E, Dx and Deep Zones. In 2015, there was a decrease in inferred mineral resources of approximately 4.6 million tonnes of ore to 24.6 million tonnes of ore grading 1.53 grams of gold per tonne. This decrease in the inferred mineral resources was primarily due to a conversion of inferred to indicated mineral resources, reduction of the cut-off grade and positive drilling results in the E, Mx, M, Dx and Deep Zones.

Diamond drilling at Goldex in 2015 totaled 449 holes for a total length of 73,085 metres. Of this total, 69 holes (12,187 metres) were for exploration of the M, Deep 1 and South Zones at a cost of $0.6 million, 210 holes (47,567 metres) were for conversion drilling principally in the Deep 1 and Mx Zones at a cost of $2.7 million, 138 holes (10,477 metres) were delineation drilling in the M and E Zones at a cost of $0.5 million and 32 holes (2,854.8 metres) were holes drilled for the engineering and mining departments at a cost of $0.3 million. Other exploration-related expenses in 2015 included ramp development and a metallurgical study of the Deep Zone ore.

In 2016, the Company expects to spend $1.0 million on 14,300 metres of exploration drilling, $3.3 million on 32,300 metres of conversion drilling and $0.8 million on 10,000 metres of delineation drilling.

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Canadian Malartic Mine

The Canadian Malartic mine is located approximately 25 kilometres west of the City of Val-d'Or and 80 kilometres east of City of Rouyn-Noranda. The mine lies within the town of Malartic. It straddles the townships of Fournière, Malartic and Surimau. At December 31, 2015, the Canadian Malartic mine was estimated to have proven and probable mineral reserves containing approximately 7.73 million ounces of gold comprised of 221.53 million tonnes of ore grading 1.08 grams per tonne.

The Company acquired its 50% interest in the Canadian Malartic mine on June 16, 2014 through its joint acquisition of Osisko with Yamana. See "General Development of the Business – Three-Year History – 2014" for further details of the Company's acquisition of its 50% interest in the Canadian Malartic mine.

The Canadian Malartic mine operates under mining leases obtained from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Quebec) and under certificates of approval granted by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec). The Canadian Malartic mine is comprised of the East Amphi property, the CHL Malartic prospect and the Canadian Malartic property. The Canadian Malartic mine consists of a contiguous block comprising one mining concession, five mining leases and 208 mining claims.

Expiration dates for the mining leases on the Canadian Malartic property vary between March 23, 2019 and February 17, 2034, and are automatically renewable for three further ten-year terms upon payment of a small fee.

The Canadian Malartic mine can be accessed either from Val d'Or in the east or from Rouyn-Noranda in the west via Quebec provincial highway No. 117. A paved road running north-south from the town of Malartic towards Mourier Lake cuts through the central area of the Canadian Malartic property. The Canadian Malartic property is further accessible by a series of logging roads and trails. The Canadian Malartic mine is also serviced by a rail-line which cuts through the middle of the town of Malartic. The nearest airport is located in Val-d'Or, about 25 km east of the Canadian Malartic mine.

A buffer zone 135 metres wide has been developed along the northern limit of the open pit to mitigate the impacts of mining activities on the citizens of Malartic. Inside this buffer zone, a landscaped ridge was built mainly using rock and topsoil produced during pre-stripping work. The height of this landscaped ridge is 15 metres where the concentration of residents is higher and five to six metres near less populated areas.

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Location Map of the Canadian Malartic Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The Canadian Malartic mine includes open pit operations, an administration/warehouse building, a mine office/truck shop building, a process plant and the crushing plant.

Following the joint acquisition of the Canadian Malartic mine by the Company and Yamana, most of the mining claims are subject to a 5% net smelter return royalty payable to New Osisko. The mining claims comprising the CHL Malartic prospect are subject to 3% net smelter return royalties payable to each of New Osisko and Abitibi Royalties Inc. In addition, of the 208 mining claims constituting the Canadian Malartic property, 101 are also subject to other net smelter return royalties that vary between 1% and 2%, payable under varying circumstances. In 2015 the Partnership, which is the operator of the Canadian Malartic mine, paid C$53.0 million in the aggregate with respect to these net smelter return royalties, and expects to pay approximately C$50.8 million in 2016.

Gold was first discovered in the Malartic area in 1923. Gold production on the Canadian Malartic property began in 1935 and continued uninterrupted until 1965. Following various ownership changes over the ensuing years, Osisko acquired ownership of the Canadian Malartic property in 2004. Based on a feasibility study completed in December 2008, Osisko completed construction of a 55,000 tonne per day mill complex, tailings impoundment area, 5 million cubic metre polishing pond and road network by February 2011 and the mill was commissioned in March 2011. The Canadian Malartic mine achieved commercial production on May 19, 2011. From 2011 until December 31, 2015, the Canadian Malartic mine produced 2.17 million ounces of gold and 1.90 million ounces of silver from 78.4 million tonnes of ore grading 0.97 grams of gold per tonne and 1.04 grams of silver per tonne.

As of December 31, 2010, the Canadian Malartic mine had received all formal government permits required for its construction and related activities, with the exception of the authorization for the mill and mine operations. The official certificate of authorization for the mill and operations was granted on March 31, 2011, at which point the Canadian Malartic mine was fully permitted.

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Mining and Milling Facilities

Surface Plan of the Canadian Malartic Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The Canadian Malartic mine is a large open pit operation comprising the Canadian Malartic and Barnat pits. The Partnership continues to work with the Quebec Ministry of Transport and the town of Malartic on the deviation of Quebec provincial highway No. 117 to gain access to the higher grade Barnat deposit. The final layout and the environmental impact assessment were completed by the end of January 2015. The environmental impact assessment is under review by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec). Answers to the first set of questions posed by the Ministry were submitted in September 2015 and answers to the second set of questions posed by the Ministry were submitted in January 2016.

Mining Methods

Mining at the Canadian Malartic mine is done by open pit method using excavators and trucks. In order to maximize productivity and limit the number of units operating in the pit, large scale equipment was selected for the mine operation. The primary loading tools are hydraulic excavators, with wheel loaders used as a secondary loading tool. The mine production schedule was developed to feed the mill at a nominal rate of 55,000 tonnes per day. The continuity and consistency of the mineralization, coupled with tight definition drilling, and confirmed by six years of mining operations, demonstrate the amenability of the mineral reserves and mineral resources to the selected mining method.

The throughput at the Canadian Malartic mine in 2015 averaged 52,300 tonnes per day compared with 51,248 tonnes per day in 2014. The increased throughput in 2015 was largely due to mill optimization, additional crushed ore from the portable crusher and mill stability.

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Surface Facilities

Surface facilities at the Canadian Malartic mine include the administration/warehouse building, the mine office/truck shop building, the process plant and the crushing plant. The processing plant has a daily capacity of 55,000 tonnes of ore.

Ore is processed through conventional cyanidation. Ore blasted from the pit is first crushed by a gyratory crusher followed by secondary crushing prior to grinding. Ground ore feeds successively into leach and CIP circuits.

A Zadra elution circuit is used to extract the gold from the loaded carbon. Pregnant solution is processed via electrowinning and the resulting precipitate is smelted into gold/silver dore bars.

Mill tails are thickened and detoxified, reducing cyanide levels below 20 parts per million. Following a study supporting the change-over of the existing Combinox (sulfur dioxide – hydrogen peroxide) cyanide detoxifying process into a Caro's (sulfuric acide – hydrogen peroxide) acid process, construction was initiated in the second half of 2015 and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2016. Detoxified slurry is subsequently pumped to a conventional tailings facility.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

Since the June 16, 2014 acquisition of Osisko, Agnico Eagle and Yamana have each held a 50% interest in the Canadian Malartic mine. During 2015, Agnico Eagle's share of the Canadian Malartic mine's payable production was 285,809 ounces of gold and 300,454 ounces of silver from 9,544,764 tonnes of ore grading 1.05 grams of gold per tonne and 1.27 grams of silver per tonne. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced at Canadian Malartic in 2015 was $596 on a by-product basis and was $613 on a co-product basis and the Canadian Malartic processing facility averaged 52,300 tonnes of ore per day and operated 93.6% of available time. Gold and silver recovery averaged 88.8% and 77.0%, respectively. The minesite costs per tonne at Canadian Malartic in 2015 were C$20.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries at the Canadian Malartic mine on a 100% basis in 2015.

	Head Grade	Overall Metal Recovery	Payable Production
Gold	1.05 g/t	88.8%	571,617 oz
Silver	1.27 g/t	77.0%	600,908 oz

The Company's 50% share of annual production at the Canadian Malartic mine in 2016 is expected to consist of approximately 280,000 ounces of gold and 288,000 ounces of silver from 9.5 million tonnes of ore grading 1.03 grams of gold per tonne and 1.20 grams of silver per tonne. The total cash costs per ounce in 2016 are expected to be approximately $593 per ounce on a by-product basis, with estimated gold recovery of 89.3% and silver recovery of 77.0%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately C$23 are expected in 2016.

Environmental, Permitting and Social Matters

Since 2010, there have been 67 non-conformance blast notices, 65 non-conformance noise notices, 19 non-conformance notices for air quality, 6 non-conformance notices for water quality (surface and final effluent) and 18 other non-conformance notices. In 2015, an action plan was developed and implemented by the Partnership to mitigate noise, vibrations, atmospheric emissions and ancillary issues. Mitigation measures were put in place to improve the process and avoid any non-conformance. The mine's team of on-site environmental experts continuously monitor regulatory compliance in terms of approvals, permits and observance of directives and requirements.

The original design of the waste rock pile was developed to accommodate approximately 326 million tonnes of mechanically placed waste rock requiring a total storage volume of approximately 161 million cubic metres.

The existing polishing pond is contained within the current authorized footprint of the tailings management facility. This pond will be used as a cell to store tailings beginning in mid-2016. In August 2015, the Partnership started the construction of a new polishing pond east of dyke A. This new polishing pond is expected to be operational in April, 2016. The existing polishing pond, converted into a tailings cell, will be the eighth cell of the tailings management facility with an estimated capacity of 48 million tonnes, adding 2.5 years of operation to the tailings management facility capacity for a total of 148 million tonnes and 7.5 years of operation. The total capacity of the current tailings management facility is estimated at 198 million tonnes. The expansion of the open pit, with the production from the Barnat pit, will increase the

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total amount of tailings to 342 million tonnes, requiring an additional 144 million tonnes in tailings storage capacity. The Partnership plans to store tailings in an extended tailings facility and in the Canadian Malartic pit at the end of its operations. According to the mining plan, at the end of mine life, 50 to 100 million tonnes of tailings will be deposited in the pit. The rest of the tailings, a minimum of 59 and a maximum of 109 million tonnes, will be deposited in the extended tailings facility.

Regulatory approval for the proposed tailings deposition in the Canadian Malartic pit and the expansion of the currently authorized tailings area are part of the approval process for the Canadian Malartic pit extension (Barnat deposit) subject to the environmental impact assessment process of the Quebec Environment Quality Act. The environmental impact assessment has been completed and is under review by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (Quebec). Golder Associates Ltd. is designing the tailings extension component and is preparing a hydrogeological study to demonstrate that the Canadian Malartic pit would provide a hydraulic trap and contain the tailings with minimum environmental risk. Delay in the expected timing of the permits required for the Canadian Malartic pit extension could have a negative impact on the mining sequence at Canadian Malartic.

An annual hydrological site balance is maintained to provide a yearly estimate of water volumes that must be managed in the different structures of the water management system of the Canadian Malartic mine during an average climatic year (in terms of precipitation). Results of this hydrological balance indicate that excess water from the Southeast Pond will eventually need to be released into the environment. A water treatment plant was commissioned in 2015 to ensure that the water to be released to the environment meets water quality requirements. This water treatment plant reduces the risks associated with surface water management and adds flexibility to the system.

Reclamation and closure costs have been estimated for rehabilitating the tailings facility and waste dump, vegetating the surrounding area, dismantling the plant and associated infrastructure, and performing environmental inspection and monitoring for a period of ten years. The reclamation and closure cost is estimated to be C$65.5 million. Financial assurance has been provided based on the closure plan.

Capital Expenditures

Capital expenditures at the Canadian Malartic mine during 2015 were approximately $43.4 million, which included sustaining capital expenditures and deferred expense, but excluded capitalized drilling. Budgeted 2016 capital expenditures at the Canadian Malartic mine are $61 million, excluding capitalized drilling.

Development

Development activities at the Canadian Malartic mine in 2015 primarily consisted of stripping activities. Development activities in 2016 are expected to include additional stripping activities.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology

The Canadian Malartic property straddles the southern margin of the eastern portion of the Abitibi Subprovince, an Archean greenstone belt situated in the southeastern part of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. The Abitibi Subprovince is limited to the north by gneisses and plutons of the Opatica Subprovince, and to the south by metasediments and intrusive rocks of the Pontiac Subprovince. The contact between the Pontiac Subprovince and the rocks of the Abitibi greenstone belt is characterized by a major fault corridor, the east-west trending Larder Lake–Cadillac Fault Zone ("LLCFZ"). This structure runs from Larder Lake, Ontario through Rouyn-Noranda, Cadillac, Malartic, Val-d'Or and Louvicourt, Québec, at which point it is truncated by the Grenville Front.

The regional stratigraphy of the southeastern Abitibi area is divided into groups of alternating volcanic and sedimentary rocks, generally oriented at N280° – N330° and separated by fault zones. The main lithostratigraphic divisions in this region are, from south to north, the Pontiac Group of the Pontiac Subprovince and the Piché, Cadillac, Blake River, Kewagama and Malartic groups of the Abitibi Subprovince. The various lithological groups within the Abitibi Subprovince are metamorphosed to greenschist facies. Metamorphic grade increases toward the southern limit of the Abitibi belt, where rocks of the Piché Group and the northern part of the Pontiac Group have been metamorphosed to upper greenschist facies.

The majority of the Canadian Malartic property is underlain by metasedimentary units of the Pontiac Group, lying immediately south of the LLCFZ. The north-central portion of the property covers an approximately 9.5 kilometre section of the LLCFZ corridor and is underlain by mafic-ultramafic metavolcanic rocks of the Piché Group cut by porphyritic and

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dioritic intrusions. The Cadillac Group covers the northern part of the property (north of the LLCFZ). It consists of greywacke containing lenses of conglomerate.

Mineralization

Surface drilling by Lac Minerals Ltd. in the 1980s defined several near-surface mineralized zones now included in the Canadian Malartic deposit (the F, P, A, Wolfe and Gilbert zones), all expressions of a larger, continuous mineralized system located at depth around the historical underground workings of the Canadian Malartic and Sladen mines. In addition to these, the Western Porphyry Zone occurs 1 km northeast of the main Canadian Malartic deposit and the Gouldie mineralized zone occurs approximately 1.2 km southeast of the main Canadian Malartic deposit, although the relationship between these zones and the main deposit is presently unknown.

Mineralization in the Canadian Malartic deposit occurs as a continuous shell of 1 to 5% disseminated pyrite associated with fine native gold and traces of chalcopyrite, sphalerite and tellurides. The gold resource is mostly hosted by altered clastic sediments of the Pontiac Group (70%) overlying an epizonal dioritic porphyry intrusion. A portion of the deposit also occurs in the upper portions of the porphyry body (30%).

The South Barnat deposit is located to the north and south of the old South Barnat and East Malartic mine workings, largely along the southern edge of the LLCFZ. The disseminated/stockwork gold mineralization at South Barnat is hosted both in potassic-altered, silicified greywackes of the Pontiac Group (south of the fault contact) and in potassic-altered porphyry dykes and schistose, carbonatized and biotitic ultramafic rocks (north of the fault contact).

Several mineralized zones have been documented within the LLCFZ (South Barnat, Buckshot, East Malartic, Jeffrey, Odyssey, East Amphi, Fourax), all of which are generally spatially associated with stockworks and disseminations within dioritic or felsic porphyritic intrusions.

Exploration and Drilling

Gold was first discovered in the Malartic area in 1923 by the Gouldie Brothers at what is now designated the Gouldie Zone. During the period from 1935 to 1983, the Canadian Malartic, Barnat/Sladen and East Malartic mines produced approximately 5.5 million ounces of gold and 1.9 million ounces of silver, mostly from underground operations.

The combined amount of gold in proven and probable mineral reserves at the Canadian Malartic mine at the end of 2015 was 3.86 million ounces (110.8 million tonnes of ore grading 1.08 grams per tonne gold), which represents a decrease of approximately 466,000 ounces of gold as compared to the end of 2014, after producing 285,809 ounces of gold (340,000 ounces in-situ gold mined). The reduction in mineral reserves was principally associated with ore mined during 2015. The remainder of the decline was due to a slight reduction in the pit shells related to the incorporation of the 5% net smelter return royalty payable to Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd., and the termination of the Gouldie open pit. Open pit measured and indicated mineral resources at the Canadian Malartic mine decreased by 22.7 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 12.8 million tonnes of ore grading 1.51 grams of gold per tonne, due to adjusting the approach to the out-pit resources by increasing the cut-off grade. The same approach resulted in removing 18.2 million tonnes of ore from the open pit inferred mineral resources at Canadian Malartic, leaving 4.5 million tonnes of ore grading 1.47 grams of gold per tonne. All numbers shown for Canadian Malartic reflect Agnico Eagle's 50% ownership in the mine.

Diamond drilling is used for exploration on the Canadian Malartic property. In 2015, no holes were drilled for definition (conversion) drilling, but 44 holes (35,870 metres) were for exploration. Expenditures on diamond drilling at the Canadian Malartic mine during 2015 were approximately $1.2 million (50% basis).

The main focus of the 2015 exploration program was the Porphyry #12 intrusion, host to the Odyssey North and South targets identified in 2014. Several holes extended mineralization on the footwall/north contact (North zone) and the hanging wall/south contact (South zone) of Porphyry #12.

In 2016, the Partnership expects to spend $7.7 million on 60 kilometres of exploration drilling at the Canadian Malartic mine. Exploration programs are planned in 2016 to evaluate open pit and underground targets and to further define the extent of mineralization at the Odyssey zone.

Kittila Mine

The Kittila mine, which commenced commercial production in May 2009, is located in northern Finland approximately 900 kilometres north of Helsinki and 50 kilometres northeast of the town of Kittila. At December 31, 2015, the Kittila mine was estimated to contain proven and probable mineral reserves of 4.35 million ounces of gold comprised of 28.2 million

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tonnes of ore grading 4.80 grams of gold per tonne. The Kittila mine is accessible by paved road from the village of Kiistala, which is located on the southern portion of the main claim block. The gold deposit is located near the small village of Rouravaara, approximately ten kilometres north of the village of Kiistala.

The total landholdings surrounding and including the Kittila mine comprise two mining licences and 187 tenements. The tenements form a continuous block around the Kittila and Kuotko mining licences. The block has been divided into the Suurikuusikko area (which includes the Rouravaara area), the Suurikuusikko West area, the Suurikuusikko East area, and the Kittila and Kuotko mining licences. The Kuotko mining licence is located approximately 15 kilometers north of the Kittilä mine. The Kuotko mining licence is currently in the environmental review process.

The boundary of the mining licence is determined by ground-surveyed points, whereas the boundaries of the tenements are not required to be surveyed. All of the tenements at the Kittila mine are registered in the name of Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. The expiry dates of the tenements vary, with the earliest expiry date being May 2016. Tenements are initially valid for four years, provided exploration work in the area is reported annually and a small annual fee is paid to maintain title; extensions of titles can be granted for 11 additional years upon payment of a slightly higher fee and active exploration in the area. Agnico Eagle Finland Oy also holds the mining licence in respect of the Kittila mine. The mine is subject to a 2.0% net smelter return royalty payable to the Republic of Finland.

The mine is located within the Arctic Circle, but the climate is moderated by the Gulf Stream off the coast of Norway, such that northern Finland's climate is comparable to that of eastern Canada. Winter temperatures range from minus ten to minus 30 degrees Celsius, whereas summer temperatures range from ten degrees Celsius to the mid-20s. Exploration and mining work can be carried out year-round. Because of its northern latitude, winter days are extremely short with a brief period of 24-hour darkness around the winter solstice. Conversely, summer days are very long with a brief period of 24-hour daylight in early summer around the summer solstice.

Location Map of the Kittila Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The Company acquired its 100%, indirect interest in the Kittila mine through the acquisition of the Swedish company Riddarhyttan Resources AB in November 2005. In June 2006, on the basis of an independently reviewed feasibility study, the Company approved construction of the Kittila mine. Mining at Kittila started initially as open pit mining. Open pit mining was completed in November 2012 and all mining is currently carried out from the underground via ramp access. The initial underground stope was mined in early 2010. Ore is processed in a 3,000-tonne per day surface processing plant that was commissioned in late 2008. Limited gold concentrate production started in September 2008 and gold dore

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bar production commenced in January 2009. A decision to increase the mine production was made in February 2013 and the processing capacity was expanded from 3,000 tonnes per day to 3,750 tonnes per day. The expansion project was completed ahead of schedule in 2014, and final expansion tie-ins were completed during a scheduled maintenance shut-down in September. The ramping-up of processing capacity continued to year-end, occasionally reaching over 4,000 tonnes per day.

Mining and Milling Facilities

Surface Plan of the Kittila Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The orebodies at Kittila were initially mined from two open pits, followed by underground operations to mine the deposits further beneath the surface. Smaller additional open pits will be used to mine any remaining mineral reserves close to the surface in the future. Open pit mining started in May 2008 and the extracted ore was stockpiled. As of December 31, 2015, a total of 7.7 million tonnes of ore have been processed, including ore from the open pits and underground, 0.51 million tonnes of ore are currently stockpiled and 38.6 million tonnes of waste rock have been excavated, including both open pit and underground excavation. Work has continued throughout 2015 to develop the exploration and Rimpi ramps, as well as other work to access the underground mineral reserves. Total underground (lateral and vertical) development at the end of 2015 was approximately 65,700 metres. Underground mining commenced in the fourth quarter of 2010 and, at the end of 2015, a total of 4.83 million tonnes of ore has been mined from the underground portion of the mine.

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Mining Methods

At the Kittila mine, the Suurikuusikko and the Rouravaara orebodies are currently mined by underground mining methods and access to the underground mine is via ramp. Approximately 4,500 tonnes of ore per day are fed to the concentrator, exceeding the nominal capacity of 3,750 tonnes per day. The underground mining method is open stoping with delayed backfill. Stopes are between 25 and 40 metres high and yield between 10,000 and 40,000 tonnes of ore per stope. To ensure sufficient ore production is available in the future to supply the mill, over 11,000 metres of tunnels will be developed each year. After extraction, stopes are filled with paste backfill or cemented backfill to enable the safe extraction of ore in adjacent stopes. Ore is trucked to the surface crusher via the ramp access system.

Surface Facilities

Construction of the processing plant and associated equipment was completed in 2008. Facilities at the Kittila mine include office buildings, a maintenance facility for mining equipment, a warehouse, a second maintenance shop, an oxygen plant, a processing plant, a paste backfill plant, a tank farm, a crusher, conveyor housings and an ore bin. In addition, there are some temporary structures for contractor offices and work areas.

The ore at the Kittila mine is treated by grinding, flotation, pressure oxidation and CIL circuits. After grinding, ore processing consists of two stages. In the first stage, ore is enriched by flotation and, in the second stage, the gold is extracted by pressure oxidation and CIL processes. At the end of the second stage, gold is recovered from the carbon in a Zadra elution circuit and recovered from the solution using electrowinning and finally poured into dore bars using an electric induction furnace.

During 2015, flotation recoveries averaged 93.0%. Recoveries in the second stage of the process in 2015 averaged 83.2% and global recoveries were 84.8%.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

In 2015, the Kittila mine had payable production of 177,374 ounces of gold from 1,464,038 tonnes of ore grading 4.44 grams of gold per tonne. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced at Kittila in 2015 was $709 on a by-product basis and $710 on a co-product basis. In 2015, the Kittila processing facility averaged 5,156 tonnes of ore per day and operated approximately 78% of available time. Gold recovery averaged 84.8%. The minesite costs per tonne at Kittila were €76 in 2015.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries at the Kittila mine in 2015.

	Head Grade	Overall Metal Recovery	Payable Production
Gold	4.44 g/t	84.8%	177,374 oz

In 2016, the Kittila mine is expected to produce approximately 200,000 ounces of gold from 1.57 million tonnes of ore grading 4.7 grams of gold per tonne at estimated total cash costs per ounce of approximately $646 on a by-product basis, with estimated gold recovery of 84.5%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately €75 are expected in 2016.

Environmental, Permitting and Social Matters

Agnico Eagle Finland Oy currently holds a mining licence, an environmental permit and operational permits in respect of the Kittila mine. All permits necessary to begin production were received during 2008.

The construction of the first phase of the tailings dam was completed in the fall of 2008. Work on the second phase was completed in 2010 and included the expansion of the tailings area. Work on the third phase began in 2013 and includes work to heighten the dam. Work on the third phase is expected to continue for several years.

On September 14, 2015, during routine inspections of the dam, water seepage was discovered from a holding pond (NP3). The seepage was observed at the toe of the NP3 dam and has since been identified to be occurring through the liner at the bottom of the holding pond. The original flow rate of the seepage was estimated to be approximately 350 cubic meters per hour (m3/hr), however, the flow rate has been reduced to approximately 250 m3/hr by the deposition of moraine on the affected pond bottom. Within 36 hours of first detecting the seepage, discharge of seepage water to the

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environment had stopped as all water from the uncontrolled discharge was collected and pumped back in the holding pond or the water management system. The seepage water was clear and water quality was within the parameters of the permit. Mitigation measures, including water transfer to a recently constructed water reservoir and moraine deposition in the pond in the area of the seepage, followed by tailings deposition to further seal the area, were applied throughout the fall and were successful in reducing the seepage to near normal seepage levels for such infrastructure. Seepage is being monitored and pumped back to the pond on a continuous basis. A detailed action plan for a permanent solution was developed by a team of internal and external experts and this plan is currently being implemented.

Water from dewatering the mine and water used in the mine and mill is collected and treated by sedimentation. Emissions and environmental impact are monitored in accordance with the comprehensive monitoring program that has been approved by the Finnish environmental authorities. Work on enhancing the scrubbing of mill gases has resulted in a design to recover heat loss and use it to heat buildings, and this work is continuing. Financial assurance is provided to the environmental authorities on an annual basis in the amount prescribed by the environmental permit.

The environmental permit renewal was received in July 2013. This renewal contains additional effluent criteria and the Company has appealed the timing of compliance with such criteria to allow for studies and design to take place for new water treatment as required. A decision by the Administrative Court reviewing the appeal was received in the first quarter of 2015 granting the Company's appeal in part. The Company has also responded to another appeal lodged by a third party. Following water treatment tests and piloting, the Company is currently designing a water treatment system to ensure compliance with the requirements of the new permit. This water treatment system should be constructed and commissioned in 2016. The final decision of the Administrative Court on the new permit is expected in mid-2016.

Capital Expenditures

Capital expenditures at the Kittila mine during 2015 totaled approximately $56.4 million, which included mill expansion construction, mill modification, underground development and sustaining capital costs, but excludes capitalized drilling.

The Company expects capital expenditures during 2016 at the Kittila mine to be approximately $66 million, excluding capitalized drilling.

Development

In 2015, underground development continued in both the Suurikuusikko and Rouravaara mining areas. The driving of a ramp from surface towards the new Rimpi zone was also initiated in 2014. A total of 13,641 metres of ramp and sublevel access development were completed during the year. A total of 171,337 tonnes of ore from development and 1,313,319 tonnes of stope ore were mined in 2015. The Company expects to complete approximately 13,875 metres of lateral development and 1,620 metres of vertical development during 2016.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology

The Kittila mine is situated within the Kittila Greenstone belt, part of the Lapland Greenstone belt in the Proterozoic-age Svecofennian geologic province. The appearance and geology of the area is similar to that of the Abitibi region of the Canadian Shield. In northern Finland, the bedrock is typically covered by a thin but uniform blanket of unconsolidated glacial till. Bedrock exposures are scarce and irregularly distributed.

The mine area is underlain by mafic volcanic and sedimentary rocks metamorphosed to greenschist assemblages and assigned to the Kittila group. The major rock units trend north to north-northeast and are near-vertical. The volcanics are further sub-divided into iron-rich tholeiitic basalts located to the west and magnesium-rich tholeiitic basalt, coarse volcaniclastic units, graphitic schist and minor chemical sedimentary rocks located to the east. The contact between these two rock units consists of a transitional zone (the "Porkonen Formation") varying between 50 and 200 metres in thickness. This zone is strongly sheared, brecciated and characterized by intense hydrothermal alteration and gold mineralization, features consistent with major brittle-ductile deformation zones. The zone is part of a major north-northeast-oriented shear zone (the "Suurikuusikko Trend").

Mineralization

The Porkonen Formation hosts the Kittila gold deposit, which contains multiple mineralized zones stretching over a strike length of more than 25 kilometres. Most of the work at the Kittila mine has been focused on the 4.5-kilometre stretch that hosts the known gold in mineral reserves and mineral resources. From north to south, the zones are Rimminvuoma

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("Rimpi-S"), the deep extension of Rimminvuoma ("Rimpi Deep"), North Rouravaara ("Roura-N"), Central Rouravaara ("Roura-C"), depth extension of Rouravaara and Suurikuusikko ("Suuri/Roura Deep"), Suurikuusikko ("Suuri"), Etela and Ketola. The Suuri and Suuri/Roura Deep zones include several parallel sub-zones that have previously been referred to as Main East, Main Central and Main West. The Suuri zone hosts approximately 17% of the current probable gold reserve estimate on a contained-gold basis, while Suuri Deep has approximately 21%, Roura-C approximately 5%, Roura Deep approximately 27%, Roura-N approximately 0.1%, Rimpi Deep approximately 23%, Rimpi-S approximately 6%, Ketola approximately 1% and Etela approximately 0.1%.

Gold mineralization in these zones is associated with intense hydrothermal alteration (carbonate-albite-sulphide), and is almost exclusively refractory, locked inside fine-grained sulphide minerals: arsenopyrite (approximately 73%) or pyrite (approximately 23%). The rest is free gold, which is manifested as extremely small grains of gold in pyrite.

Exploration and Drilling

In 2015, proven and probable gold reserves decreased by approximately 171,000 ounces to 4.35 million ounces of gold (28.2 million tonnes of ore grading 4.80 grams per tonne), after producing 177,374 ounces of gold (209,000 ounces in-situ gold mined). This decrease was primarily due to ore milled in 2015, partially offset by successful conversion of mineral resources to mineral reserves. Measured and indicated mineral resources at December 31, 2015 increased by 1.8 million tonnes from 2014 to 15.9 million tonnes of ore grading 3.02 grams of gold per tonne. Inferred mineral resources increased by 2.9 million tonnes from 2014 to 11.8 million tonnes of ore grading 4.64 grams of gold per tonne due to successful exploration drilling in the Roura and Rimpi Deep zones. This includes initial inferred mineral resources in the Sisar Zone, which was discovered in 2015.

Diamond drilling is used for exploration on the Kittila property. In 2015, most of the work on the mining licence area focused on the Roura and Rimpi areas. From 1987 through the end of 2015, a total of 4,034 drill holes, totaling 835,029 metres, have been completed on the property. A total of 604 drill holes were completed in 2015 for a length of 59,179 metres. Of these drill holes, 499 holes (33,577 metres) were for delineation drilling, 29 holes (4,517 metres) were for conversion drilling and 34 holes (19,039 metres) were related to mine exploration. Total expenditures for diamond drilling in 2015 were $6.9 million, including $0.4 million for definition (conversion) drilling and $4.3 million for exploration.

In 2015, a total of 56 drill holes, totaling 7,304 metres were drilled on the Kuotko mining licence area. Of these drill holes, 16 holes (1,354 metres) were for conversion drilling and 40 holes (5,950 metres) were for exploration drilling. Total expenditures for the drilling carried out in the Kuotko area in 2015 were $0.7 million, including $0.2 million for definition (conversion) drilling and $0.5 million for exploration. At the end of 2015, the Kuotko deposit contained inferred mineral resources of 1.8 million tonnes of ore grading 2.9 grams of gold per tonne.

Outside of the Kittila and Kuotko mining licence areas, systematic diamond drilling and target-focused ground geophysics continued along the Suurikuusikko Trend, and a number of new targets were tested by diamond drilling in 2015. A total of 24 diamond drill holes totaling 6,031 metres were drilled on exploration targets outside of the mining licence area in 2015, at a cost of $2.5 million.

The 2016 exploration budget for the Kittila mine is approximately $8.1 million ($7.1 million for 36,000 metres of minesite exploration drilling and $0.9 million for 7,900 metres of resource conversion drilling). This drilling is planned to further explore the Kittila gold reserve and resource potential and to evaluate the potential to develop the recently discovered Sisar Zone as a new mining horizon at Kittila. In addition, $1.0 million of exploration expenditures, including 6,600 metres of diamond drilling, is planned in 2016 for further exploration on the Kuotko area. Outside of the mining licence areas, $2.5 million of exploration expenditures, including 4,700 metres of diamond drilling, is planned in 2016 for exploration along the Suurikuusikko, Kapsa and Hanhimaa Trends.

Meadowbank Mine

The Meadowbank mine, which achieved commercial production in March 2010, is located in the Third Portage Lake area in the Kivalliq District of Nunavut in northern Canada, approximately 70 kilometres north of Baker Lake. At December 31, 2015, the Meadowbank mine was estimated to contain proven and probable mineral reserves of 0.94 million ounces of gold comprised of 10.8 million tonnes of ore grading an average of 2.72 grams of gold per tonne. The Company acquired its 100% interest in the Meadowbank mine in 2007 as the result of the acquisition of Cumberland Resources Ltd.

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Location Map of the Meadowbank Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

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The Meadowbank mine is held under ten Crown mining leases, four exploration concessions and 40 Crown mineral claims. The Crown mining leases, which cover the Portage, Goose and Goose South deposits, are administered under federal legislation. The Crown mining leases, which have renewable ten-year terms, have no annual work commitments but are subject to annual rent fees that vary according to their renewal date. The Crown mining leases expire in either 2016 or 2019. The production lease with the Kivalliq Inuit Association ("KIA") is a surface lease and requires the payment of C$158,865 annually. Production from subsurface lease areas is subject to a royalty of up to 14% of the adjusted net profits, as defined in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Mining Regulations. In order to conduct exploration on the Inuit-owned lands at Meadowbank, the Company must receive approval for an annual work proposal from the KIA, the body that holds the surface rights in the Kivalliq District and administers land use in the region through various boards. The Nunavut Water Board (the "NWB"), one such board, provided the recommendation to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada to grant the Meadowbank mine's construction and operating licences in July 2008. The Company has obtained all of the approvals and licences required to build and operate the Meadowbank mine.

The four Meadowbank exploration concessions are granted by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. ("NTI"), the corporation responsible for administering subsurface mineral rights on Inuit-owned lands in Nunavut. In 2016, exploration concessions covering the Vault deposit at Meadowbank will require annual rental fees of approximately C$57,000. During the exploration phase, the concessions can be held for up to 20 years and the concessions can be converted into production leases with annual fees of C$1 per hectare, with no annual work commitments.

In 2012, the Company signed a production lease with NTI covering the extraction and processing of gold from the Vault deposit. This lease authorizes the Company to mine and process gold from the Vault deposit and sets in place royalty payments that are equivalent to those being paid by the Company at the Portage and Goose pits. Production from the concessions is subject to a 12% net profits interest royalty from which annual deductions are limited to 85% of the gross revenue.

The 40 Crown mineral claims are subject to land fees and work commitments. Land fees are payable only when work is filed. The most recent filing was in 2012, when approximately $7,254 in land fees were paid and $4,426,941 in assessment work was submitted.

The Meadowbank area is considered to have an arid arctic climate with temperatures ranging from 5 to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the winter (from October to May) and from minus 5 to 25 degrees Celsius throughout the summer (from June to September). Surface geological work can be carried out from mid-May to mid-October, while mining, milling and exploration drilling can take place throughout the year, though outdoor work can be hampered in December and January by the cold and darkness.

The Meadowbank mine is accessible from Baker Lake, located 70 kilometres to the south, over a 110-kilometre all-weather road completed in March 2008. Baker Lake provides 2.5 months of summer shipping access via Hudson Bay and year-round airport facilities. The Meadowbank mine also has a 1,752-metre long gravel airstrip, permitting access by air. Fuel, equipment, bulk materials and supplies are shipped by barge and ship from Montreal, Quebec (or Hudson Bay port facilities) into Baker Lake during the summer port access period that starts at the end of July in each year. Fuel and supplies are transported year-round to the site from Baker Lake by conventional tractor trailer units. Scheduled and chartered flights provide transportation for personnel and air cargo.

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Mining and Milling Facilities

Surface Plan of the Meadowbank Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

Surface Plan of the Vault Deposit (as at December 31, 2015)

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Meadowbank has three major deposits that have sufficient drilling definition to sustain mineral reserves: Portage, Goose and Vault. The Goose pit was depleted in April 2015. The area surrounding the Vault pit has two smaller areas that are being developed as future pits: the Phaser and BB Phaser pits. These pits are expected to begin operation at the end of 2017. All required aggregates used in the mining process are produced from waste material taken from the Portage and Vault pits. In 2008, a dewatering dyke was constructed in order to access the north half of the Portage pit in preparation for production in 2010. Construction of the Bay-Goose dyke, a major dewatering dyke required to access the southern portion of the Portage and the Goose pits, commenced in 2009 and was completed in 2011. Three tailings impoundment dykes: Saddle Dam 1, Saddle Dam 2 and Stormwater Dyke, were built in 2009 and 2010. The final elevation of Stormwater dyke was completed in 2014. Construction of the main tailings impoundment dyke, Central Dyke, began in 2012. Additional phases of construction on the Central Dyke are expected to continue throughout the mine life. Construction of the eight-kilometre long access road to the Vault pit began in 2012 and was completed in 2013.

Mining Methods

Mining at the Meadowbank mine is done by open pit method using excavators and trucks. The ore is extracted conventionally using drilling and blasting, then hauled by trucks to a primary gyratory crusher adjacent to the mill. The marginal-grade material (material grading under the cut-off grade at a gold price of $1,100 per ounce, but which has the potential to increase the mineral reserves at the end of the mine life if the then current metal prices makes its processing economical) is stockpiled separately. Also, stockpiles of low-grade material currently lower than the mill feed grade have been created. The majority of this low-grade material was processed in 2014. The remainder will be processed at the end of the mine life. Waste rock is hauled to one of three waste storages areas on the property, used for dyke construction material or backfilled into the mined out area.

Mining first commenced in the Portage pit in 2010 and in the Goose pit in March 2012, and commercial production at the Vault pit was achieved in April 2014. Mining operations at the Goose pit ceased in 2015. Mining operations at the Vault pit and Portage pit are expected to cease in 2018.

Surface Facilities

Site facilities include a mill building, a mechanical shop, a powerhouse building, an assay lab and a heavy vehicle maintenance shop. A structure comprised of two separate crushers flank the main process complex. Power is supplied by a 26.4-megawatt diesel electric power generation plant with heat recovery and an onsite fuel storage (5.6 million litres) and distribution system. The mill-service-power complex is connected to the accommodations complex by enclosed corridors. In January 2012, the Company identified naturally occurring asbestos fibres in dust samples taken from the secondary crusher building at the Meadowbank mine and subsequently found small concentrations of fibres in the ore coming from certain areas of the open pit mines. The Company has instituted additional monitoring and an asbestos management program at the site.

The accommodations complex at the Meadowbank mine consists of a permanent camp and a temporary camp to accommodate additional workers. The camp is supported by a sewage treatment, solid waste disposal and potable water plant. In 2008, the exploration group was relocated eight kilometres south of the minesite location to a separate camp with an 80-person capacity.

Facilities constructed at Baker Lake include a barge landing site located three kilometres east of the community and a storage compound. A fuel storage and distribution complex with capacity for 60-million litres of diesel fuel and 2-million litres of jet fuel is located next to the barge landing facility.

In 2013, new facilities were built near the Vault deposit, which is located approximately eight kilometres from the mine complex. These facilities include a heated shelter for employees, a storage area, a fuel farm, an electrical power generation plant and a water treatment plant.

The process design is based on a conventional gold plant flowsheet consisting of two-stage crushing, grinding, gravity concentration, cyanide leaching and gold recovery in a CIP circuit. The mill was designed to operate year-round, with an annual design capacity of 3.1 million tonnes (8,500 tonnes per day). The addition of a secondary crusher in early summer 2011 increased the overall processed tonnes capacity in the mill to 3.6 million tonnes per year (9,840 tonnes per day). Since the installation of the permanent secondary crusher in June 2011, the plant has consistently exceeded 8,500 tonnes per day. Based on projections from metallurgical tests work, the overall gold recovery is projected to be approximately 91.2% for the life-of-mine, with approximately 18% gold recovered from the gravity circuit.

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The run-of-mine ore is transported to the crusher using off-road trucks. The ore is dumped into the gyratory crusher or into stockpiles designated by ore-type. The feed from the primary crusher is conveyed to the cone crusher in closed circuit with a vibrating screen. The crushed ore is delivered to the coarse ore stockpile and ore from the stockpile is conveyed to the mill. The grinding circuit is comprised of a primary SAG mill operated in open circuit and a secondary ball mill operated in closed circuit with cyclones. A portion of the cyclone underflow stream is sent to the concentrator, which separates the heavy minerals from the ore. The grinding circuit incorporates a gravity process to recover free gold and the free gold concentrate is leached in an intensive cyanide leach-direct electrowinning recovery process.

The cyclone overflow is sent to the grinding thickener. The clarified overflow is recycled to the grinding circuit and thickened underflow is pumped to a pre-aeration and leach circuit. The cyanide circuit consists of seven tanks, providing approximately 42 hours of retention time. The leached slurry flows to a train of six CIP tanks. Gold in the solution flowing from the leaching circuit is adsorbed into the activated carbon. Gold is recovered from the carbon in a Zadra elution circuit and is recovered from the solution using an electrowinning recovery process. The gold sludge is then poured into dore bars using an electric induction furnace.

The CIP tailings are treated for the destruction of cyanide using the standard sulphur-dioxide-air process. The detoxified tailings are then pumped to the permanent tailings facility. The tailings storage is designed for zero discharge, with all process water being reclaimed for re-use in the mill to minimize water requirements.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

During 2015, the Meadowbank mine had payable production of 381,804 ounces of gold from 4,032,851 tonnes of ore grading 3.16 grams of gold per tonne. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced at Meadowbank in 2015 was $613 on a by-product basis and $623 on a co-product basis. In 2015, the Meadowbank processing facility averaged 11,049 tonnes of ore per day and operated 94.96% of available time and gold recovery averaged 93.10%. The minesite costs per tonne at Meadowbank were C$70 in 2015.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries at the Meadowbank mine in 2015. Mill processing exceeded extraction from the mine in 2015; 10,944 tonnes came from the marginal stockpile and 13,607 tonnes from the low-grade stockpile.

	Head Grade	Overall Metal Recovery	Payable Production
Gold	3.16 g/t	93.10%	381,804 oz

Gold production during 2016 at Meadowbank is expected to be approximately 305,000 ounces from 3.9 million tonnes of ore grading 2.73 grams of gold per tonne at estimated total cash costs per ounce of approximately $750 on a by-product basis, with estimated gold recovery of 90.0%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately C$77 are expected in 2016.

Environmental Matters (including Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement), Permitting and Social Matters

The development of the Meadowbank mine was subject to an extensive environmental review process under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (the "NLCA") administered by the Nunavut Impact Review Board (the "NIRB"). On December 30, 2006, a predecessor to the Company received the Project Certificate from the NIRB, which included the terms and conditions to ensure the environmental integrity of the development process. In July 2008, the Company received a water licence from the NWB for construction and operation of the mine subject to additional terms and conditions. Both authorizations were approved by the then Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. This water licence was renewed in 2015 for a period of ten years.

In February 2007, a predecessor to the Company and the Nunavut government signed a Development Partnership Agreement (the "DPA") with respect to the Meadowbank mine. The DPA provides a framework for stakeholders, including the federal and municipal governments and the KIA, to maximize the long-term socio-economic benefits of the Meadowbank mine to Nunavut.

An Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement for the Meadowbank mine (the "Meadowbank IIBA") was signed with the KIA in March 2006. This agreement was renegotiated and an amended Meadowbank IIBA was signed on October 18, 2011. The Meadowbank IIBA ensures that local employment, training and business opportunities arising from all phases of the

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project are accessible to the Kivalliq Inuit. The Meadowbank IIBA also outlines the special considerations and compensation that must be provided to the Inuit regarding traditional, social and cultural matters.

In July 2008, the Company signed a production lease for the construction and the operation of the mine, the mill and all related activities. This production lease was amended on May 2, 2013 to expand the surface area granted under the lease. In April 2008, the Company and the KIA signed a water compensation agreement for the Meadowbank mine addressing Inuit rights under the Land Claims Agreement respecting compensation for water use and water impacts associated with the mine.

A series of four dykes have been built to isolate the mining activities at the Portage and Goose deposits from neighbouring lakes. An additional dyke was built in 2013 to isolate the mining activities at the Vault deposit. Waste rock from the Portage, Goose and Vault pits is primarily stored in the Portage and Vault rock storage facilities, and a portion of the waste is placed in the Portage Pit. The control strategy for waste rock storage includes freeze control of the waste rock through permafrost encapsulation and capping with an insulating convective layer of neutralizing rock (ultramafic and non-acid generating volcanic rocks). The Vault rock storage facility does not require an insulating convective layer due to the non-acid generating nature of the rock in that area. Waste rock deposited in the Portage pit will be covered with water during the closure phase of the pit which will prevent any acid generation. Because the site is underlain by greater than 400 metres of permafrost, the waste rock below the capping layer is expected to freeze, resulting in low (if any) rates of acid rock drainage generation in the long term.

Tailings are stored in the dewatered portion of the Second Portage Lake. The tailings are deposited on tailings beaches within a two-cell tailings storage facility isolated by the central dyke and a series of five saddle dams. A reclamation pond is located within the tailings storage facility. Deposition of tailings began in the south cell in the fourth quarter of 2014. Tailings deposition was completed in the North Cell in 2015 and reclamation capping has commenced. The control strategy to minimize water infiltration into the tailings storage facility and the migration of constituents out of the facility includes freeze control of the tailings through permafrost encapsulation and through comprehensive, engineered dyke liners. A minimum two-metre thick dry cover of acid neutralizing ultramafic rock backfill will be placed over the tailings as an insulating convective layer to confine the permafrost active layer within relatively inert tailings materials.

The water management objective for the project is to minimize the potential impact on the quality of surface water and groundwater resources at the site. Diversion ditches were constructed in 2012 to divert clean runoff water away from areas affected by the mine or mining activities. Following a field investigation in 2014, a contact water interception trench was constructed to collect seepage water downgradient from the mill prior to entering into the nearby lake. All contact water originating from the mine site or mill is intercepted, collected, conveyed to the tailings storage facility for reuse in process. There is no discharge of contact water from the mine site or the Portage pit area to offsite receiving water bodies. All contact water generated at the Vault pit area, including the Vault Waste Rock Storage Facility, is conveyed to the Vault Attenuation Pond and discharged to nearby Wally Lake. There is treatment for removal of solids (if needed) prior to release to Wally Lake.

An interim closure and reclamation plan was submitted in 2014 as a requirement of part of the NWB Type A water licence and financial assurance was provided and updated in July 2015 as part of the Water Licence renewal process. In 2013, the Company applied to the NWB for an increase in freshwater consumption and received the amendment to the Type A Licence on July 23, 2014. In 2015, total freshwater use by the Meadowbank mine totaled 811,807 cubic metres, well below the approved limit of 2,350,000 cubic metres and the lowest total amount of freshwater used since the beginning of the mining operations in 2010.

In 2015, an amendment to the project certificate was requested for the mining of the Phaser pit, a satellite pit in the Vault pit area. The amendment and approval process will continue in 2016. An amendment to the permit from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada is also underway for this satellite pit.

In November 2013, Meadowbank received a compliance direction and is currently under investigation by Environment Canada and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada in relation to a seepage incident that was identified during their July 2013 on-site inspection. Monitoring data in 2014 indicated that the 2013 seepage event did not affect the water quality of the downstream ponds and Second Portage Lake. Environment Canada charged the Company with two infractions under the Fisheries Act. The hearing in relation to these charges is expected in 2016.

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Capital Expenditures/Development

In 2015, the Company incurred approximately $65.2 million in capital expenditures at the Meadowbank mine, including $36.7 million on Vault and Portage pit deferred stripping and $28.5 million on capital and equipment, but excluding capitalized drilling.

In 2016, a total of $53 million has been budgeted to be spent at the Meadowbank mine, excluding capitalized drilling.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology

The Meadowbank mine comprises a number of Archean-age gold deposits hosted within polydeformed volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Woodburn Lake Group, part of the Western Churchill supergroup in northern Canada.

Three mineable gold deposits, Goose, Portage and Vault, have been discovered along the 25-kilometre long Meadowbank gold trend, and the PDF deposit (a fourth deposit) has been outlined on the northeast gold trend. These known gold resources are within 225 metres of the surface, making the deposits attractive for open pit mining. In addition, the Amaruq property, located 50 kilometres northwest of the Meadowbank mine, is being considered as a possible satellite operation to the Meadowbank mine.

Mineralization

The predominant gold mineralization found in the Portage and Goose deposits is associated with iron sulphides, mainly pyrite and pyrrhotite, which occur as a replacement of magnetite in the oxide facies iron formation host rock. To a lesser extent, pyrite and chalcopyrite may be found and, on rare occasions, arsenopyrite may be associated with the other sulphides. Gold is mainly observed in native form (electrum), occurring in isolated specks or as plating around sulphide grains. The ore zones are typically six to seven metres wide, following the contacts between the iron formation units and the surrounding host rock. Zones extend up to several hundred metres along strike and at depth. The sulphides primarily occur as replacement of the primary magnetite layers, as well as narrow stringers or bands of disseminated sulphides that almost always crosscut the main foliation and/or bedding which would imply an epigenetic mode of emplacement. The percentage of sulphides is quite variable and may range from trace to semi-massive amounts over several centimetres to several metres in length. The higher gold grades and the occasional occurrence of visible gold are almost always associated with greater than 20% sulphide content.

The main mineralized banded iron formation unit is bounded by an ultramafic unit to the west which locally occurs interlayered with the banded iron formation and to the east by an intermediate to felsic metavolcaniclastic unit.

In the Vault deposit, pyrite is the principal ore-bearing sulphide. The disseminated sulphides occur along sheared horizons that have been sericitized and silicified. These zones are several metres wide and may continue for hundreds of metres along strike and down dip.

Three of the four known gold deposits have been or are being mined. The Goose and Portage deposits are hosted within highly deformed, magnetite-rich iron formation rocks, while intermediate volcanic rock assemblages host the majority of the mineralization at the more northerly Vault deposit. The fourth deposit, PDF, shows the same characteristics as Vault, though it is not currently anticipated to be a mineable deposit.

Defined over a 1.85-kilometre strike length and across lateral extents ranging from 100 to 230 metres, the geometry of the Portage deposit consists of general north-northwest striking ore zones that are highly folded. The mineralization in the lower limb of the fold is typically six to eight metres in true thickness, reaching up to 20 metres in the hinge area.

The Goose deposit is located just south of the Portage deposit and is also associated with iron formation but exhibits different geometry, with a north-south trend and a steep westerly dip. Mineralized zones typically occur as a single unit near surface, splaying into several limbs at depth. The deposit is currently defined over a 750-metre strike length and down to 500 metres at depth (mainly in the southern end), with true thicknesses of three to 12 metres (reaching up to 20 metres locally). The Goose underground resource (100 to 500 metres at depth) extends 700 metres to the south of the Goose pit. The ore zones show the same characteristics as the Goose pit, which is two to five main zones sub-parallel and undulating. The average thickness rarely exceeds three to five metres.

The Vault deposit is located seven kilometres northeast of the Portage and Goose deposits. It is planar and shallow-dipping with a defined strike of 1,100 metres. The deposit has been disturbed by two sets of normal faults striking east-west and north-south and dipping moderately to the southeast and steeply to the east, respectively. The main lens has an average

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true thickness of eight to 12 metres, reaching as high as 18 metres locally. The hanging wall lenses are typically three to five metres, and up to seven metres, in true thickness.

Exploration and Drilling

Exploration efforts on the Meadowbank property have been extensive since 1985, including geophysics, prospecting, till sampling and drilling, mainly by diamond drill but also reverse circulation. From 1985 until Agnico Eagle acquired the property in 2007, 126,796 metres were drilled in 916 diamond and reverse circulation drill holes on the property. In 2005, Cumberland Resources (the previous owner) estimated mineral resources in the Portage, Goose and Vault deposits combined as follows: measured and indicated mineral resources of 23.3 million tonnes of ore grading 4.40 grams per tonne of gold (containing 3.3 million ounces of gold) and inferred mineral resources of 3.5 million tonnes of ore grading 4.20 grams per tonne of gold (containing 0.5 million ounces of gold).

In 2015, the amount of gold in proven and probable mineral reserves decreased by approximately 225,000 ounces to 943,000 ounces of gold (10.8 million tonnes of ore grading 2.72 grams per tonne) after producing 381,804 ounces of gold (410,000 ounces of in-situ gold mined). The net decrease was primarily due to the mine depletion, partially offset by the conversion of mineral resources to mineral reserves for the Vault pit extension. Measured and indicated mineral resources at the Meadowbank mine decreased by 0.55 million tonnes in 2015 to 7.0 million tonnes of ore grading 3.21 grams of gold per tonne. This decrease was primarily due to the decrease in cut-off grade used to estimate the mineral reserves and mineral resources. Inferred mineral resources increased by 0.12 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 3.4 million tonnes of ore grading 3.99 grams of gold per tonne, mainly due to an increase in the resource pit shell gold price.

In 2015, diamond drilling at Meadowbank was conducted in both the Vault and the Portage pits. In the Vault pit, 80 holes were drilled for a total length of 9,075 metres in order to complete 25x25-metre drill spacing in the Vault Extension area as well as in the Phaser and BB Phaser pits. This drilling confirmed the previous mineral resource estimate. At Portage, 32 holes were drilled in Pit E3 for a total length of 1,653 metres to complete 25x25-metre drill spacing in a previously inaccessible area as well as to confirm high grade gold intersections at the bottom of the pit. The total cost of drilling in 2015 amounted to $1.2 million. In 2016, 1,500 metres of conversion drilling is planned at the Vault pit to complete the delineation drilling between the Vault main pit and Phaser pit to the south.

Meliadine Project

The Meliadine project is an advanced exploration/development property located near the western shore of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, about 25 kilometres north of the hamlet of Rankin Inlet and 290 kilometres southeast of the Meadowbank mine. The closest major city is Winnipeg, Manitoba, about 1,500 kilometres to the south.

The Company acquired its 100% interest in the Meliadine project through its acquisition of Comaplex in July 2010.

The mineral reserves and mineral resources of the Meliadine project are estimated at December 31, 2015 to contain proven and probable mineral reserves of 3.42 million ounces of gold in 14.5 million tonnes of ore grading 7.32 grams of gold per tonne. In addition, the project has 20.8 million tonnes of indicated mineral resources grading 4.95 grams of gold per tonne and 14.7 million tonnes of inferred mineral resources grading 7.51 grams of gold per tonne.

The Meliadine property is a large land package that is nearly 80 kilometres long. It consists of mineral rights, a portion of which are held under the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Mining Regulations and administered by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and referred to as Crown Land. The Crown Land is made up of mining claims and mineral leases. There are also subsurface NTI concessions administered by a division of the Nunavut territorial government. In 2015, C$126,758 was paid to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada for the mining lease. NTI requires annual rental fees of C$63,482 and exploration expenditures of at least C$268,636.

The Kivalliq region has an arid arctic climate. Surface geological work can be carried out from mid-May to mid-October, while exploration drilling can take place throughout the year, though is reduced in December and January due to cold and darkness.

Equipment, fuel and dry goods are transported on the annual warm-weather sealift by barge to Rankin Inlet via Hudson Bay. Ocean-going barges from Churchill, Manitoba or eastern Canadian ports can access the community from late June to early October. Churchill, which is approximately 470 kilometres south of Rankin Inlet, has a deep-water port facility and a year-round rail link to locations to the south.

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In October 2013, the Company completed construction of a 23.8-kilometre-long all-weather gravel road linking Rankin Inlet with the project site. This road was constructed to support ongoing exploration activities at the Meliadine property and significantly reduces the transportation and logistical costs for exploration and development work.

Location Map of the Meliadine Project (as at December 31, 2015)

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Facilities

Surface Plan of the Meliadine Project (as at December 31, 2015)

The latest planned surface infrastructure is indicated on the surface plan map above and consist of modular structures for the dormitories, kitchen, administration office and tailing dry stacks, as well as conventional structures for the warehouse, process plant, power plant, metallurgical test lab and mobile maintenance shop. The surface plan also indicates the planned mine portals, ventilation raises, open pits, waste dumps, ore pads, water management structures, attenuation pond and tailings dry stacks. The Meliadine project has not been approved for construction; the planned infrastructure described herein could change during the project approval process.

Mining Methods

The Company currently anticipates that any mining at Meliadine would be carried out through two open pits and an underground mine. It is estimated that approximately 3.4 million tonnes of ore could be extracted from surface mining and 9.1 million tonnes of ore could be extracted by underground mining over a nine-year mine life. It is expected that an additional 1.4 million tonnes of lower grade material from underground development and open pit mining (marginal ore) would be stockpiled for processing at the end of the mine life.

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The Company is currently evaluating a plan the contemplates an underground operation that would deliver 3,000 tonnes of ore per day to the process plant over approximately nine years. Underground access would be by decline, with long-hole mining expected. Each stope will be backfilled, with cemented pastefill used in primary stopes and dry rockfill for the secondary stopes. Beginning at the end of the second year of production, the two open pits would be developed, adding 2,000 tonnes of ore per day to the mill feed starting in the fourth year. A conventional truck/shovel operation is anticipated for the open pits.

Surface Facilities

Current facilities at the Meliadine project include the exploration camp located on the shore of Meliadine Lake, approximately 2.3 kilometres east of the Tiriganiaq deposit. The self-contained camp consists of five wings of trailers that can accommodate up to 400 personnel and includes kitchen facilities, complete with diesel generators.

Power for the exploration camp is currently provided by diesel generators. Potable water for the exploration camp is pumped from Meliadine Lake and water for the underground operations and surface drill programs is pumped from Pump Lake. The current water licences allow for a maximum daily water use of 299 cubic metres.

The exploration camp has an incinerator on site to burn all flammable materials, such as camp and food wastes. Incinerator ashes, plastics and metal objects, along with all hazardous solid and liquid wastes are collected at the Meliadine project site and then transported to a waste management company in southern Canada.

Sewage has been treated through a Biodisk treatment system since the summer of 2010. Routine water sampling is conducted and reported on a monthly basis to the authorities.

The decommissioning of the Meliadine East camp on Atulik Lake began during the summer of 2010, and was completed by spring 2011. The core shack and storage building remain at the former camp site.

An underground portal allowing access to an exploration ramp was built at the Tiriganiaq deposit in 2007 and 2008 in order to extract a bulk sample for study purposes. A waste rock and ore storage pad was built during excavation of the ramp and a sampling tower was installed for processing the bulk sample. There is a two-kilometre-long road between the Meliadine project exploration camp and the portal site. Another underground bulk sample of 4,600 tonnes of ore was taken from the Tiriganiaq deposit via this portal in 2011.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

More than 39 metallurgical test programs have been conducted at the Meliadine project. Based on the results of these test programs, a conventional gold circuit has been recommended, comprising crushing, grinding, gravity separation and cyanide leaching, with a carbon-in-leach circuit (CIL), followed by cyanide destruction and filtration of the tailings for dry stacking.

Global gold recovery at the Meliadine project, should a mine be constructed, is estimated to be 94.7%, based on the mineral resources and mineral reserves estimates as of December 31, 2014. The current plan envisions a processing rate of 3,000 tonnes of ore per day for the first three years of production, and 5,000 tonnes of ore per day for the remainder of the life of mine, with an estimated plant availability rate of 92%.

Environmental Matters (including Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement), Permitting and Social Matters

Land and environmental management in the region of the Meliadine project is governed by the provisions of the NLCA. The Meliadine project is located on Inuit-owned land, where Inuit own both the sub-surface mineral rights (managed by NTI) and the surface land rights (managed by the KIA on behalf of Inuit beneficiaries under the provisions of the NLCA). Consequently, to explore and develop the project, the Company must obtain land use leases from the KIA. The Company has been granted a commercial lease by the KIA for exploration and underground development activity, a prospecting and land use lease for exploration and development activities, an exploration land use lease for exploration and drilling on the Inuit-owned lands of Meliadine East and a parcel drilling permit for drilling activity on Inuit-owned lands. A number of right-of-way leases covering road access to the Meliadine project property and esker quarrying on the Inuit-owned lands were also granted by the KIA.

Pursuant to the NLCA and the Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act requirements, the Company obtained several water use licences from the NWB, covering ongoing water use for its Meliadine project exploration camp, the underground bulk sampling program and for ongoing exploration drilling activities.

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In 2011, the Company initiated the environmental assessment process for the Meliadine project with the objective of obtaining a project certificate from the Government of Canada for the construction, operation and ultimate decommissioning of the full project. The project certificate is required before obtaining the permits required to construct, operate and decommission a gold mine at Meliadine. In May 2011, the KIA referred the Meliadine project to the NIRB for screening under the NLCA. On May 4, 2011, the NIRB received the Meliadine project proposal from the Company. On June 8, 2011, the NIRB received a positive conformity determination from the Nunavut Planning Commission for the Meliadine project in relation to the Keewatin Regional Land Use Plan.

In 2011, the NIRB issued a screening decision report to then-Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (now Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada or the "Minister"), recommending a review and, on September 14, 2011, the Minister referred the Meliadine project proposal to the NIRB for a review of the ecosystemic and socio-economic impacts of the project. The NIRB finalized terms of reference for this review and the required Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") in early 2012.

In April 2013, the Company submitted the draft EIS for the Meliadine project to the NIRB. The NIRB approved the project on October 15, 2014 and recommended to the Minister to approve the project. On January 27, 2015, the Minister approved the environmental assessment findings and recommendations made by the NIRB. The Minister directed the NIRB to issue Agnico Eagle a Project Certificate for the Meliadine project setting out the terms and conditions under which the Meliadine project can proceed (as per conditions set out in the NIRB report of October 10, 2014). The Project Certificate was received on February 26, 2015. An application for a Type A water licence from the NWB was submitted in 2015 and it is expected to be delivered in 2016. A commercial production land use lease from the KIA is also expected in 2016. A Licence B for pre-development work at Meliadine was received in October 2015.

An Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement for the Meliadine project (the "Meliadine IIBA") was signed with the KIA in July 2015. The Meliadine IIBA addresses protection of Inuit values, culture and language, protection of the land, water and wildlife, provides financial compensation to Inuit over the mine life and contains provision for training, employment and contracting. An Inuit water compensation agreement in accordance with the NLCA is being finalized.

Capital Expenditures

Total capital expenditures at the Meliadine project in 2015 were $66.7 million, including capitalized surface and underground drilling, ramp development, permitting, camp operation and technical studies.

Capital expenditures of $96.0 million have been budgeted for the Meliadine project in 2016, focused on detailed engineering and procurement, construction of essential surface infrastructure and acquisition of a used camp.

An updated technical report completed in March 2015 has confirmed the economic viability of the Meliadine project with an approximate nine-year mine life at an operating rate of 3,000 tonnes per day in years one to three, and 5,000 tonnes per day in years four to nine. The following table sets out a summary of the approximate forecasts for initial capital costs, sustaining capital costs, mine life, annual cash flow, net present value, internal rate of return and payback period.

Initial capital costs	$	911 million
Sustaining capital costs	$	357 million
Mine life		9 years
Annual cash flow	$	269.7 million (1)
After-tax net present value (at a 5% discount rate)	$	267 million
After tax internal rate of return		10.3%
Payback period		5.0 years

Note:

(1)

The "Annual Cash Flow" is based on the simple average of the estimated (pre-tax) annual cash flow for each of the nine years of mining operations.

The economic analysis in the above table is based on the updated technical report completed in March 2015 and uses following assumptions: price of gold of $1,300 per ounce; US$/C$ exchange rate of C$1.15 per $1.00; C$0.95 per litre diesel cost; and statutory tax rate of approximately 26%. Various potential scenarios are being evaluated before the Company can determine whether to build a mine at Meliadine.

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Development

In 2015, 2,605 metres of horizontal development and 84 metres of vertical development were completed at the Meliadine project. For 2016, the Company expects 3,723 metres of horizontal development (including 1,393 metres of total ramp development) and 503 metres of vertical development to be completed.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology and Mineralization

Archean volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Meliadine greenstone belt underlie the property, which is mainly covered by glacial overburden with deep-seated permafrost and is part of the Western Churchill supergroup in northern Canada. The rock layers have been folded, sheared and metamorphosed, and have been truncated by the Pyke Fault, a regional structure that extends the entire 80-kilometre length of the large property.

The Pyke Fault appears to control gold mineralization on the Meliadine property. At the southern edge of the fault is a series of oxide iron formations that host the seven Meliadine project deposits currently known. The deposits consist of multiple lodes of mesothermal quartz-vein stockworks, laminated veins and sulphidized iron formation mineralization with strike lengths of up to three kilometres. The Upper Oxide iron formation hosts the Tiriganiaq and Wolf North zones. The two Lower Lean iron formations contain the F Zone, Pump, Wolf Main and Wesmeg deposits. The Normeg zone was discovered in 2011 on the eastern end of the Wesmeg zone, near Tiriganiaq. The Wolf (North and Main), F Zone, Pump and Wesmeg/Normeg deposits are all within five kilometres of Tiriganiaq. The Discovery deposit is 17 kilometres east southeast of Tiriganiaq and is hosted by the Upper Oxide iron formation. Each of these deposits has mineralization within 120 metres of surface, making them potentially mineable by open pit methods. They also have deeper ore that could potentially be mined with underground methods, which are currently being considered in various studies.

Two bulk samples have been extracted from the exploration ramp. The results confirmed the resource estimation model that has been developed for the two principal zones (Zones 1000 and 1100) at Tiriganiaq, and indicated approximately 6% more gold than had been predicted by the block model for these areas. The 2011 bulk sample program also confirmed the previous assessment of the Company's block model in terms of grade continuity, consistency and distribution, and the evaluation of related mining properties through geological mapping, underground chip, channel and muck sampling, and geotechnical observations.

Exploration and Drilling

The first mineral resources estimate at Meliadine was made by Strathcona Mineral Services in 2005 for then-owner Comaplex, and comprised indicated mineral resources of 2.5 million tonnes grading 10.8 grams of gold per tonne (containing 853,000 ounces of gold) and inferred mineral resources of 1.1 million tonnes grading 13.2 grams per tonne of gold (containing 486,000 ounces of gold), with all resources in the Tiriganiaq deposit. Following this, there were annual estimates gradually including new deposits, such as Discovery, F Zone, Pump and Wolf. The final mineral resources estimate made before the Company acquired the property was made by Snowden Mining Industry Consultants for Comaplex in January 2010 and it comprised measured and indicated mineral resources of 12.9 million tonnes grading 7.9 grams of gold per tonne (containing 3.3 million ounces of gold) and inferred mineral resources of 8.4 million tonnes grading 6.4 grams of gold per tonne (containing 1.7 million ounces of gold).

Proven and probable gold reserves at Meliadine increased in 2015 by approximately 82,000 ounces to 3.4 million ounces of gold (14.5 million tonnes of ore grading 7.32 grams per tonne). Indicated mineral resources at Meliadine increased by 0.5 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 20.8 million tonnes of ore grading 4.95 grams of gold per tonne. Inferred mineral resources increased by 0.6 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 14.7 million tonnes of ore grading 7.51 grams of gold per tonne. The increases in mineral reserves, indicated mineral resources and inferred mineral resources were primarily due to changes in modeling parameters implemented to better reconcile with the two previous bulk samples, as well as the use of lower costs established in recent studies.

In 2015, the Company spent $2.0 million on 36 diamond drill holes (5,700 metres) at Meliadine. There was no exploration at Meliadine in 2015 other than drilling. The 2016 plan includes spending $1.7 million on 53 diamond drill holes (9,300 metres) at Meliadine.

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Southern Business

Pinos Altos Mine

The Pinos Altos mine achieved commercial production in November 2009. It is located in the Sierra Madre gold belt, 285 kilometres west of the City of Chihuahua in the State of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. At December 31, 2015, the Pinos Altos mine was estimated to contain proven and probable mineral reserves of 1.46 million ounces of gold and 37.53 million ounces of silver comprised of 15.7 million tonnes of ore grading 2.88 grams of gold per tonne and 74.18 grams of silver per tonne. The Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos achieved commercial production in the first quarter of 2011. At December 31, 2015, the Creston Mascota deposit was estimated to contain additional proven and probable mineral reserves of 0.18 million ounces of gold and 1.63 million ounces of silver comprised of 4.2 million tonnes of ore grading 1.30 grams of gold per tonne and 12.02 grams of silver per tonne. The Pinos Altos property is made up of two blocks: the Agnico Eagle Mexico Concessions (25 concessions) and the Pinos Altos Concessions (18 concessions).

Location Map of the Pinos Altos Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

Approximately 74% of the current Pinos Altos mineral reserves and mineral resources, including 9% for the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos, are subject to a net smelter return royalty of 3.5% payable to Pinos Altos Explotación y Exploración S.A. de C.V. ("PAEyE") and the remaining 26% of the current mineral reserves and resources at Pinos Altos are subject to a 2.5% net smelter return royalty payable to the Servicio Geológico Mexicano, a Mexican Federal Government agency. After 2029, this portion of the property will also be subject to a 3.5% net smelter return royalty payable to PAEyE.

The assets acquired by the Company from PAEyE and the Asociación de Pequeños Propietarios Forestales de Pinos Altos S de R.L. in 2008 included the right to use up to 400 hectares of land for mining installations for a period of 20 years after formal mining operations have been initiated. The Company also obtained sole ownership of the Agnico Eagle Mexico Concessions previously owned by Compania Minera La Parreña S.A. de C.V. During 2008, the Company and PAEyE entered into an agreement under which the Company acquired further surface rights for open pit mining operations and additional facilities. Infrastructure payments, surface rights payments and advance royalty payments totaling $35.5 million were made to PAEyE and the Asociación de Pequeños Propietarios Forestales de Pinos Altos S de R.L. in 2008 as a result of this agreement.

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Between 2006 and 2008, the Company concluded negotiations with communal land owners (ejidos) and others for the acquisition of 6,238 hectares of land contained within the Agnico Eagle Mexico and Pinos Altos Concessions. In addition, a temporary occupation agreement with a 30-year term expiring in 2036 was negotiated with ejido Jesus del Monte for 1,470 hectares of land covered by these same concession blocks. The acquisition of these surface rights for the geologically prospective lands within the district surrounding the Pinos Altos property will facilitate future exploration and mining development in these areas. The Pinos Altos mine is directly accessible by a paved interstate highway that links the cities of Chihuahua and Hermosillo.

In August 2007, on the basis of an independently reviewed feasibility study, the Company approved construction of a mine at Pinos Altos. The mine achieved commercial production in November 2009.

Based on a feasibility study prepared in 2009, the Company decided to build a stand-alone heap leach operation at the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos. The first gold pour from the Creston Mascota deposit occurred on December 28, 2010 and commercial production from the Creston Mascota deposit was achieved in the first quarter of 2011.

The Company continues to evaluate opportunities to develop other mineral resources that have been identified in the Pinos Altos area as satellite operations.

The Company has engaged the local communities in the area with hiring, local contracts, education support and medical support programs to ensure that the mine provides long-term benefits to the residents living and working in the region. Approximately 70% of the operating workforce at Pinos Altos are locally hired and 100% of the permanent workforce at the Company operations in Mexico are Mexican nationals.

Mining and Milling Facilities

Surface Plan of the Pinos Altos Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

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Surface Plan of the Creston Mascota Deposit at Pinos Altos (as at December 31, 2015)

Milling operations during 2015 at Pinos Altos processed an average of 5,462 tonnes of ore per day as compared to the original design rate of 4,000 tonnes per day. The underground mine at Pinos Altos produced an average of 2,834 tonnes of ore per day as compared to its designed rate of 3,000 tonnes per day. The open pit mines at Pinos Altos and the Creston Mascota deposit produced 19.0 million tonnes of ore, overburden and waste in 2015, compared to 21.7 million tonnes in 2014.

Mining Methods

The surface operations at the Pinos Altos mine use traditional open pit mining techniques with bench heights of seven metres and double benches on the footwall and single benching on the hanging wall. Mining is accomplished with front end loaders, trucks, track drills and various support equipment. Based upon geotechnical evaluations, the final pit slopes vary between 45 degrees and 50 degrees. Performance at the open pit mining operation at Pinos Altos during 2015 continues to indicate that the equipment, mining methods and personnel selected for the project are satisfactory for future production phases. 9.6 million tonnes of ore, overburden and waste were mined during 2015.

The underground mine, which commenced operations in the second quarter of 2010, uses the long hole sublevel stoping method to extract ore. The stope height is 30 metres and the stope width is 15 metres. Ore is hauled to the surface utilizing underground trucks via a ramp system. The paste backfill system and ventilation system were commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2010. During 2015, approximately 1.0 million tonnes of ore were produced from the underground portion of the mine, averaging 2,834 tonnes per day. Currently, the planned capacity of the underground mine is 3,000 tonnes of ore per day. Construction of a shaft hoisting facility to increase the mining capacity to 4,500 tonnes of ore per day was initiated in 2012, with commissioning expected to be completed in 2016. The shaft hoisting capacity should reduce the need for additional underground trucks required as the mine depth increases and is expected to continue to maintain mill feed rates at 4,500 tonnes of ore per day in future years as the open pit mines at Pinos Altos become depleted. Approximately 50.8 kilometres of total lateral development have been completed as of December 31, 2015.

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Surface Facilities

The principal mineral processing facilities at the Pinos Altos mine were designed to process 4,000 tonnes of ore per day in a conventional process plant circuit which includes single stage crushing, grinding in a SAG and ball mill in closed loop, gravity separation followed by agitated leaching, counter-current decantation and metals recovery in the Merrill-Crowe process. Tailings are detoxified and filtered and then used for paste backfill in the underground mine or deposited as dry tailings in an engineered tailings impoundment area. The Pinos Altos mill processed an average of 5,462 tonnes of ore per day during 2015. Low grade ore at Pinos Altos is processed in a heap leach system designed to accommodate approximately five million tonnes of mineralized material over the life of the mine. The production from heap leach operations is expected to be relatively minor, contributing about 1% of total metal production planned for the remaining life of the mine (not including production from the Creston Mascota heap leach operation).

Other surface facilities at the Pinos Altos mine include: a headframe and hoist room, a heap leach pad, pond, liner and pumping system; administrative support offices; camp facilities; a laboratory; a process plant shop; a maintenance shop; a power generating station; surface power transmission lines and substations; an engineered tailings management system; and a warehouse.

A separate heap leach operation and ancillary support facilities were built at the Creston Mascota deposit, which is designed to process approximately 4,000 tonnes of ore per day in a three stage crushing, agglomeration and heap leach circuit with carbon adsorption. This project was commissioned in the latter part of 2010, with commercial production achieved in the first quarter of 2011. During 2015, a total of 2.0 million tonnes of ore was mined from the Creston Mascota deposit, averaging 5,554 tonnes per day. Based on performance of the mine and process facilities at the Creston Mascota deposit to date, the equipment, mining methods and personnel are satisfactory for completion of the planned production phases. The Creston Mascota deposit is expected to produce approximately 45,000 ounces of gold in 2016.

Over the remaining life of the mine, recoveries of gold and silver in the milling circuit at Pinos Altos (other than from the Creston Mascota deposit) are expected to average approximately 93% and 43%, respectively. The Company anticipates precious metals recovery from low grade ore processed in the Pinos Altos heap leach facility will average 68% for gold and 12% for silver. Heap leach recoveries for ore from the Creston Mascota deposit are expected to average 63% for gold and 8% for silver.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

During 2015, the Pinos Altos mine, including the Creston Mascota deposit, had total payable production of 247,677 ounces of gold and approximately 2.5 million ounces of silver from the Pinos Altos mill and the heap leach pads at the Pinos Altos mine and the Creston Mascota deposit. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced at Pinos Altos in 2015 was $387 on a by-product basis. The average minesite costs per tonne for all ore at Pinos Altos were $45.

Of the total in 2015, the Pinos Altos mill had payable production of 185,269 ounces of gold and 2,329,993 ounces of silver from 1.99 million tonnes of ore grading 3.05 grams of gold per tonne and 79.9 grams of silver per tonne. In 2015, the total cash costs per ounce of gold produced from ore treated at Pinos Altos was $387 on a by-product basis and $578 on a co-product basis and the processing facility averaged 5,462 tonnes of ore per day and operated 93.1% of available time. In the mill, gold recovery averaged 94% and silver recovery averaged 43% and the minesite costs per tonne for ore treated at Pinos Altos were $45 in 2015.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries at the Pinos Altos mill in 2015.

	Head Grade	Overall Metal Recovery	Payable Production
Gold	3.05 g/t	94%	185,269 oz
Silver	79.9 g/t	43%	2,329,993 oz

Of the 2015 total, the Pinos Altos heap leach had payable production of 7,705 ounces of gold and 55,000 ounces of silver from 0.39 million tonnes of ore grading 0.75 grams of gold per tonne and 21.0 grams of silver per tonne.

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The cumulative recovery for gold and silver on the heap leach pad at Pinos Altos are approximately 72% and 15%, respectively. Heap leach recovery is following the expected cumulative recovery curve and it is anticipated that the ultimate recovery of 68% for gold and 12% for silver will be achieved when leaching is completed.

Of the 2015 total, the heap leach at the Creston Mascota deposit had payable production of 54,702 ounces of gold and 159,000 ounces of silver from 2.1 million tonnes of ore grading 1.34 grams of gold per tonne and 16.9 grams of silver per tonne. In 2015, the total cash costs per ounce of gold produced from this ore was $430 on a by-product basis and $474 on a co-product basis. The minesite costs per tonne for this ore were $12 in 2015.

The cumulative metals recovery for gold and silver on the heap leach pad at the Creston Mascota deposit are approximately 58% and 11%, respectively. Heap leach recovery is following the expected cumulative recovery curve and it is anticipated that the ultimate recovery of 63% for gold and 11% for silver will be achieved when leaching is completed.

Production during 2016 at the Pinos Altos mine, including the Creston Mascota deposit, is expected to be approximately 220,000 ounces of gold and 2,331,000 ounces of silver from 4.21 million tonnes of ore grading 2.06 grams of gold per tonne and 44.7 grams of silver per tonne, at estimated total cash costs per ounce of gold of approximately $480 on a by-product basis, with estimated gold recovery of 78.6% and silver recovery of 28.1%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately $34 for all ore are expected in 2016.

Of this total, in 2016 Pinos Altos (excluding Creston Mascota) is expected to produce approximately 175,000 ounces of gold and 2,218,000 ounces of silver from 2.1 million tonnes of ore grading 2.77 grams of gold per tonne and 74.1 grams of silver per tonne, at estimated total cash costs per ounce of gold of approximately $443 on a by-product basis, with estimated gold recovery of 95.5% and silver recovery of 74.1%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately $54 for milled ore are expected in 2016. The heap leach at the Creston Mascota deposit is expected to produce approximately 45,000 ounces of gold and 113,000 ounces of silver from 2.0 million tonnes of ore grading 1.17 grams of gold per tonne and 12.5 grams of silver per tonne, at estimated total cash costs per ounce of gold of approximately $604 on a by-product basis, with estimated gold recovery of 60.0% and silver recovery of 13.4%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately $15 for Creston Mascota heap leach ore are expected in 2016.

Environmental, Permitting and Social Matters

The Pinos Altos mine has received the necessary permit authorizations for construction and operation of a mine, including a Change of Land Use permit and an Environmental Impact Study approval from the applicable Mexican environmental agency. As of December 31, 2015, all permits necessary for the operation of the Pinos Altos mine, including the operations at the Creston Mascota deposit, had been received. Pinos Altos uses the dry stack tailings technology to minimize the geotechnical and environmental risk that can be associated with the rainfall intensities and topographic relief in the Sierra Madre region of Mexico.

Following an audit process by an independent third party, the operations at both the Pinos Altos mine and the Creston Mascota deposit have received the "Industria Limpia" certification from the Mexican environmental authorities. This certification is based on compliance with environmental requirements.

As the dry tailings stack approached full capacity, a plan was prepared to deposit tailings in the depleted Oberon Weber pit. Geotechnical studies were performed, an artificial crown pillar was constructed at the bottom of the pit and water drainage infrastructure was constructed to evacuate water out of the pit as required. Tailings were deposited in the pit beginning in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Capital Expenditures

Combined capital expenditures at the Pinos Altos and Creston Mascota deposit during 2015 were approximately $71.6 million, excluding capitalized drilling. Combined capital expenditures included sustaining capital for shaft construction and commissioning, underground equipment major components, silver flotation plant, Creston Mascota phase 4 leach pad and pond and Oberon de Weber tailings dam.

In 2016, the Company expects capital expenditures at Pinos Altos, including the Creston Mascota deposit, to be approximately $61 million, excluding capitalized drilling. Capital expenditures in 2016 are primarily being used for underground mine development, shaft construction, tailings management and general sustaining activities.

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Development

As of December 31, 2015, for the mine life to date, more than 127 million tonnes of ore, overburden and waste had been removed from the open pit mine at Pinos Altos and approximately 51 kilometres of lateral development had been completed in the underground mine. At the Creston Mascota deposit, approximately 44 million tonnes of ore, overburden, and waste had been removed from the open pit mine as of December 31, 2015.

A $106.0 million shaft sinking project remains on schedule for completion in 2016 at Pinos Altos. Upon completion, it is expected that this new shaft will facilitate improved matching of mining and mill capacity as the open pit mining operation winds down.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology

The Pinos Altos mine is in the northern part of the Sierra Madre geologic province, on the northeast margin of the Ocampo Caldera, which hosts many epithermal gold and silver occurrences, including the nearby Ocampo and Moris mines.

The property is underlain by Tertiary-age (less than 45 million years old) volcanic and intrusive rocks that have been disturbed by faulting. The volcanic rocks belong to the lower volcanic complex and the discordant overlying upper volcanic supergroup. The lower volcanic complex is represented on the property by the Navosaigame conglomerates (including thinly-bedded sandstone and siltstone) and the El Madrono volcanics (felsic tuffs and lavas intercalated with rhyolitic tuffs, sandy volcanoclastics and sediments). The upper volcanic group is made up of the Victoria ignimbrites (explosive felsic volcanics), the Frijolar andesites (massive to flow-banded, porphyritic flows) and the Buenavista ignimbrites (dacitic to rhyolitic pyroclastics).

Intermediate and felsic dykes as well as rhyolitic domes intrude all of these units. The Santo Nino andesite is a dyke that intrudes along the Santo Nino fault zone.

Structure on the property is dominated by a ten-kilometre by three-kilometre horst, a fault-uplifted block structure oriented west-northwest, that is bounded on the south by the south-dipping Santo Nino fault and on the north by the north-dipping Reyna de Plata fault. Quartz-gold vein deposits are emplaced along these faults and along transfer faults that splay outwards from the Santo Nino fault.

Mineralization

Gold and silver mineralization at the Pinos Altos mine consists of low sulphidation type epithermal-type hydrothermal veins, breccias and bodies. The Santo Nino structure outcrops over a distance of roughly six kilometres. It strikes at 60 degrees azimuth on its eastern portion and turns to strike roughly 90 degrees azimuth on its western fringe. The structure dips at 70 degrees towards the south. The four mineralized sectors hosted by the Santo Nino structure consist of discontinuous quartz rich lenses named from east to west: El Apache, Oberon de Weber, Santo Nino and Cerro Colorado.

The El Apache lens is the most weakly mineralized. The area hosts a weakly developed white quartz dominated breccia. Gold values are low and erratic over its roughly 750 metre strike length. Past drilling suggests that this zone is of limited extent at depth.

The Oberon de Weber lens has been followed on surface and by diamond drilling over an extent of roughly 500 metres. Shallow holes drilled by the Company show good continuity both in terms of grade and thickness over roughly 550 metres. From the previous drilling done by Penoles, continuity at depth appears to be erratic with a weakly defined western rake.

The Santo Nino lens is the most vertically extensive of these lenses. It has been traced to a depth of approximately 750 metres below the surface. The vein is followed continuously on surface over a distance of 550 metres and discontinuously up to 650 metres. Beyond its western and eastern extents, the Santo Nino andesite is massive and only weakly altered. Gold grades found are systematically associated with green quartz brecciated andesite.

The Cerro Colorado lens is structurally more complex than the three described above. Near the surface, it is marked by a complex superposition of brittle faults with mineralized zones which are difficult to correlate from hole to hole. Its relation to the Santo Nino fault zone is not clearly defined. Two deeper holes drilled by the Company suggest better grade continuity is possible at depth.

The San Eligio zone is located approximately 250 metres north of Santo Nino. The host rock is brecciated Victoria Ignimbrite, occasionally with a stockwork style of mineralization. There is no andesite in this sector. Unlike the other lenses, the San Eligio lens dips towards the north. The lateral extent of the zone seems to be continuous for 950 metres. Its

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average width is five metres and never exceeds 15 metres. Surface mapping and prospecting has suggested that there is good potential for additional mineralization on strike and at depths below 150 metres. Visible gold has been seen in the drill core.

The Creston Mascota deposit is seven kilometres northwest of the Santo Nino deposit, and is similar, but dips shallowly to the west. The Creston Mascota deposit is about 1,000 metres long and 4 to 40 metres wide, and extends from surface to more than 200 metres depth.

Several other promising zones are associated with the horst feature in the northwest part of the property. The Cubiro deposit is a near-surface deposit located two kilometres west of the Creston Mascota deposit. Cubiro strikes northwest, has a steep dip and has been followed along strike for approximately 850 metres. Drilling has intersected significant gold and silver mineralization up to 30 metres in width. The Cubiro deposit is split by a fault that resulted in 200 metres of displacement to the west, as defined by drilling to date. The zone is still open to the southeast and possibly at depth.

The Sinter zone is 1,500 metres north-northeast of the Santo Nino zone and is part of the Reyna de Plata gold structure. The steeply dipping mineralization ranges from four to 35 metres in width and almost 900 metres long, with over 350 metres of vertical depth. Sinter is being evaluated for its open pit and underground mining potential.

Other identified mineral resources in the Pinos Altos region include the Bravo and Carola zones adjacent to the Creston Mascota deposit and the Reyna de la Plata prospect further to the east. Exploration efforts will be allocated to these zones as development continues at Pinos Altos and the Creston Mascota deposit.

Exploration and Drilling

In 2015, proven and probable mineral reserves at Pinos Altos (excluding Creston Mascota) decreased by approximately 304,000 ounces of gold and 9.15 million ounces of silver to 1.46 million ounces of gold and 37.53 million ounces of silver (15.7 million tonnes of ore grading 2.88 grams of gold per tonne and 74.18 grams of silver per tonne) after producing 192,974 ounces of gold (205,000 ounces of in-situ gold mined) and 2.38 million ounces of silver. The net decrease was a result of mine depletion as well as a change to the Cerro Colorado block model based on information gained from geological mapping and mining development. Indicated mineral resources at Pinos Altos decreased by 0.8 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 11.1 million tonnes of ore grading 1.83 grams of gold per tonne and 42.43 grams of silver per tonne due to a more conservative approach at the Cerro Colorado, Oberon de Weber and Sinter deposits. Inferred mineral resources decreased by 0.1 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 12.6 million tonnes of ore grading 1.25 grams of gold per tonne and 29.33 grams of silver per tonne.

In 2015, proven and probable mineral reserves at the Creston Mascota deposit decreased by approximately 59,000 ounces of gold and 0.90 million ounces of silver to 0.18 million ounces of gold and 1.63 million ounces of silver (4.2 million tonnes of ore grading 1.30 grams of gold per tonne and 12.02 grams of silver per tonne) after producing 54,703 ounces of gold (90,000 ounces of in-situ gold mined) and 0.16 million ounces of silver. The net decrease was a result of mine depletion. Indicated mineral resources at the Creston Mascota deposit increased by 2.0 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 4.3 million tonnes of ore grading 0.51 grams of gold per tonne and 5.14 grams of silver per tonne due to wireframe modifications and reclassification of some indicated mineral resources to probable mineral reserves. The inferred mineral resources at the Creston Mascota deposit decreased by 0.2 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 4.3 million tonnes of ore grading 1.06 grams of gold per tonne and 14.16 grams of silver per tonne. Drilling and evaluation will continue in 2016.

In 2015, minesite exploration activities were primarily focused on conversion, infill and exploration of the mineral resources at the Creston Mascota, Sinter, Bravo and Reyna de Plata deposits. A total of 8,960 metres of minesite exploration drilling and 3,540 metres of definition (conversion) drilling were completed during the year.

In 2016, the Company expects to spend approximately $3.1 million on exploration at the Pinos Altos mine and the Creston Mascota deposit, including $0.9 million on 3,500 metres of conversion drilling and $2.2 million on 7,500 metres of exploration drilling.

La India Mine

Construction began at La India in September 2012 and commercial production was achieved on February 1, 2014. At December 31, 2015, the La India mine was estimated to contain proven and probable mineral reserves of 0.87 million ounces of gold and 4.08 million ounces of silver comprised of 30.0 million tonnes of ore grading 0.90 grams of gold per tonne and 4.23 grams of silver per tonne.

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The La India property consists of 39 wholly-owned and 18 optioned mining concessions in the Mulatos Gold Belt in Sonora, Mexico. The La India property includes the Tarachi deposit and several other prospective targets in the Mulatos Gold Belt. At the Tarachi deposit, indicated mineral resources are 47.2 million tonnes of ore grading 0.39 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources are 81.7 million tonnes of ore grading 0.36 grams of gold per tonne. A preliminary metallurgical testing program on Tarachi composite samples has been completed and negotiations for land access are ongoing.

Location Map of the La India Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

The Mulatos Gold Belt is part of the Sierra Madre gold and silver belt that also hosts the operating Mulatos gold mine immediately southeast of the La India property and the Pinos Altos mine and the Creston Mascota deposit 70 kilometres to the southeast.

The La India mine is located in the municipality of Sahuaripa, southeastern Sonora State, between the small rural towns of Tarachi and Matarachi. The closest major city with an international airport is Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, located 210 kilometres west-northwest of the La India mine. Road travel from Hermosillo to the site takes approximately seven hours. Alternatively, the mine can be accessed by small aircraft. The power supply at the La India mine is provided by diesel generators.

The Company acquired the La India property in November 2011 as part of its acquisition of Grayd. Grayd had explored the property since 2004 and had prepared a preliminary economic assessment of the project in December 2010 based on a June 2010 NI 43-101-compliant resource estimate.

Infill drilling at La India from November 2011 to May 2012 allowed the Company to confirm and expand the mineral resources reported in the December 2010 preliminary economic assessment. In September 2012, following the completion of a feasibility study, the Company approved the construction of a mine at La India. The mine achieved

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commercial production in February 2014. The Company continues to evaluate opportunities to develop other mineral resources that have been identified in the La India area.

The Company has engaged the local communities in the area with local hiring, contracts with local businesses, education support and medical support programs to ensure that the La India mine provides long term benefits to the residents living and working in the region. Approximately 50% of the operating workforce at La India is locally hired and 100% of the permanent workforce are Mexican nationals.

At the Tarachi deposit, the surface rights in the project area are owned by the Tarachi Ejido (agrarian community) and private parties. All measured, indicated and inferred mineral resources lie within privately owned or ejido possessed land. Surface access lease agreements have been executed with the property owners or possessors for approximately 50% of the identified target areas. The existing agreements permit exploration and drilling activities; if mining activity is contemplated in this exploration area the Company will be required to negotiate further to acquire the surface rights needed for project development.

Mining and Milling Facilities

Mining Methods

Operations at the La India mine use traditional open pit mining techniques with bench heights of six metres and utilize front end loaders, trucks, track drills and various support equipment. Based upon geotechnical evaluations, the final pit slopes vary between 45 degrees and 50 degrees.

Surface Facilities

The following surface plan details the planned mine layout showing projected pits and waste rock dump locations, roads, the leach pad and other infrastructure.

Surface Plan of the La India Mine (as at December 31, 2015)

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Surface facilities at the La India mine include a three-stage ore crushing facility, a 35 million tonne capacity lined heap leach pad with process ponds and pumping system, a carbon adsorption plant, a laboratory, a process plant shop, a mining equipment maintenance shop, a generated power station, surface power transmission lines and substations, a warehouse, administrative support offices and camp facilities. The power for the facilities is supplied by diesel generators and water is supplied by a system of wells and catchment facilities. Septic discharges are managed in their respective leach fields.

Production and Mineral Recoveries

During 2015, the La India mine had payable production of 104,362 ounces of gold from approximately 5,310,000 tonnes of ore stacked on the heap leach pad grading 0.95 grams of gold per tonne. The total cash costs per ounce of gold produced at La India in 2015 was $436 on a by-product basis and $475 on a co-product basis. Stacking rates averaged 14,715 tonnes of ore per day. The minesite costs per tonne at La India were $9 in 2015.

The cumulative recovery for gold on the heap leach pad at La India is approximately 55%. Heap leach recovery is following the expected cumulative recovery curve and it is anticipated that the ultimate gold recovery of 77% will be achieved when leaching is completed.

The following table sets out the metal recoveries at La India in 2015.

	Head Grade	Cumulative Metal Recovery	Payable Production
Gold (including prior to commercial production)	0.95 g/t	55%	104,362 oz

Gold production during 2016 at the La India mine is expected to be approximately 100,000 ounces from 5.3 million tonnes of ore grading 0.92 grams of gold per tonne, at estimated total cash costs per ounce of approximately $470 on a by-product basis, with estimated cumulative gold recovery of 63.4%. Minesite costs per tonne of approximately $9 are expected in 2016.

Environmental, Permitting and Social Matters

The La India mine is not located in an area with a special federal environmental protection designation. As of December 31, 2015, all permits necessary for the operation of the La India mine had been received.

Capital Expenditures

Capital expenditures at the La India mine during 2015 were approximately $19.8 million, excluding capitalized drilling, which was spent on heap leach expansion and general sustaining activities. The Company expects capital expenditures to be approximately $8.0 million in 2016, excluding capitalized drilling. The capital expenditures in 2016 are to be used for general sustaining activities.

Development

As of December 31, 2015, for the mine life to date, more than 23.0 million tonnes of ore, overburden and waste had been removed from the open pit mine at La India.

Agreements & Licences

The mining concessions for the La India mine and Tarachi deposit are controlled by an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company by means of direct ownership and by five separate agreements whereby the Company can earn a 100% interest in certain concessions by making cash and share payments. Payment has been made in full for the claims that host all of the measured, indicated and inferred mineral resources. Some concessions are subject to underlying net smelter return royalties varying between 1% and 3%, certain of which may be purchased by the Company which would result in net smelter return royalties of up to 2% remaining.

For the Tarachi deposit, payments totaling $0.75 million over a five year period are required for the Company to earn a 100% interest in the relevant concessions. To date, $0.42 million has been paid toward these concessions. Some

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concessions are subject to an underlying net smelter return royalty of 2%, some of which may be purchased by the Company, which would result in net smelter return royalties of up to 1% remaining.

In the first quarter of 2015, the El Realito concession, which lies to the west of the Main zone and contains an inlier that extended between the Main and La India zones, was acquired from Alamos Gold Inc. The defined mineral reserve and mineral resource and all lands required for infrastructure for the La India mine are wholly-contained within three privately-held properties which the Company has acquired in order to permit exploration, construction and mine development activities.

Geology, Mineralization and Exploration

Geology and Mineralization

The La India mine lies within the Sierra Madre Occidental ("SMO") province, an extensive Eocene to Miocene volcanic field extending from the United States-Mexico border to central Mexico. The La India mine lies within the western limits of the SMO in an area dominated by outcrops of andesite and dacitic tuffs, overlain by rhyolites and rhyolitic tuffs that were affected by large-scale north-northwest-striking normal faults and intruded by granodiorite and diorite stocks. Incised fluvial canyons cut the uppermost strata and expose the Lower Series volcanic strata.

The mine area is predominantly underlain by a volcanic sequence comprised of andesitic and felsic extrusive volcanic strata with interbedded epiclastic strata of similar composition. The mineral occurrences present in the mine area, and the deposit type being sought, are volcanic-hosted high-sulphidation epithermalhydrothermal gold, silver and porphyry-related gold deposits. Such deposits may be present as veins and/or disseminated deposits and/or breccias. The La India mine deposit area is one of several high-sulphidation epithermal mineralization centres recognized in the region.

Epithermal high-sulphidation mineralization at the La India mine developed as a cluster of gold zones (Main and North) aligned north-south within a spatially related zone of hydrothermal alteration in excess of 20 square kilometres in area. Gold mineralization is confined to the Late Eocene rocks within zones of intermediate and advanced argillitic alteration originally containing sulphides, and subsequently oxidized by supergene processes. The North and Main zones are within two kilometres of each other.

Surface outcrop mapping and drill-hole data so far indicate that the gold system at the Tarachi deposit is likely best classified as a gold porphyry deposit.

Exploration and Drilling

In 2015, proven and probable mineral reserves at La India increased by approximately 188,000 ounces of gold to 0.87 million ounces of gold (30.0 million tonnes of ore grading 0.90 grams of gold per tonne) after producing 104,362 ounces of gold (164,000 ounces of in-situ gold mined). The net increase was a result of the addition of new oxide reserves and the recognition of a new style of low-grade mineralization in the Main pit that is amenable to heap leaching, which more than offset the mine depletion. The reserve gold grade increased 6% from 0.85 grams of gold per tonne to 0.90 grams of gold per tonne. Measured and indicated mineral resources at the La India mine increased by 15.8 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 70.3 million tonnes of ore grading 0.37 grams of gold per tonne, largely due to relogging, reinterpretation and new estimation domains. Inferred mineral resources increased by 8.3 million tonnes of ore in 2015 to 90.9 million tonnes of ore grading 0.37 grams of gold per tonne due to new estimation domains.

In 2015, the Company completed 26,512 metres of drilling through 237 diamond drill holes at the La India mine. This included 15,279 metres of minesite exploration drilling at a cost of $2.47 million at the Main Zone and 11,233 metres of definition (conversion) drilling at a cost of $2.9 million at the North, Main and La India Zones. In 2015, there was also regional exploration, mapping and sampling at the Arroyo Hondo-KM15 corridor and the San Javier and Las Chivitas areas at a cost of $0.8 million. Near-mine and regional exploration completed in 2015 expanded the current mineral resource estimate, allowed resource areas that had previously been classified as inferred or indicated mineral resources to be upgraded to higher confidence classifications and provided several follow-up targets for 2016 exploration.

The Company expects to spend approximately $1.97 million on 7,000 metres of conversion drilling and $1.52 million on 5,600 metres of exploration drilling at the La India mine in 2016. An additional $1.3 million is planned for 3,000 metres of exploration drilling in the KM15 area.

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Regional Exploration Activities

During 2015, the Company continued to actively explore in Quebec, Nunavut, Nevada, Finland, Sweden and Mexico. The Canadian regional exploration activities were focused on the Amaruq and Meliadine properties in Nunavut. In the United States, exploration activities during 2015 were concentrated on the West Pequop and Summit projects located in northeast Nevada. In Mexico, regional exploration was focused on the El Barqueño property. In Finland, regional exploration was focused to the north of the Kittila mine along the Kiistala fault including the Kuotko deposit. In Sweden, the Company explored the Solvik project and the newly acquired Barsele project. Canadian Malartic Corporation focused exploration on the Amalgamated Kirkland and Upper Beaver projects near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, as well as the Pandora property adjacent to the Lapa mine, and the Odyssey project next to the Canadian Malartic mine in Quebec. At the LaRonde, Goldex, Lapa, Meadowbank, Kittila, Pinos Altos (including the Creston Mascota deposit) and La India mines, and the Canadian Malartic mine, the Company continued exploration programs around the mines. Most of the exploration budget was spent on drilling programs near mine infrastructure along previously recognized gold trends.

At the end of 2015, the Company's land holdings in Canada consisted of 70 projects comprised of 3,839 mineral titles covering an aggregate of 531,137 hectares (of this total in Canada, 7 projects comprised of 1,782 mineral titles covering an aggregate of 69,067 hectares are held as a 50% interest with Yamana, including the Canadian Malartic mine). Land holdings in the United States consisted of 5 properties comprised of 2,494 mineral titles covering an aggregate of 35,859 hectares. Land holdings in Finland consisted of 3 groups of properties comprised of 216 mineral titles covering an aggregate of 27,903 hectares. Land holdings in Sweden consisted of 2 projects comprised of 29 mineral titles covering an aggregate of 37,361 hectares. Land holdings in Mexico consisted of 18 projects comprised of 160 mining concession titles covering an aggregate of 237,586 hectares.

The total amount of expenditures incurred on regional exploration activities at the Company's exploration properties plus head office overhead and corporate development activities in 2015 was $100.2 million. This included drilling 775 holes for an aggregate of approximately 212 kilometres on 100%-owned properties. It also included the Company's 50% portion of the cost of drilling 156 holes for an aggregate of approximately 82 kilometres on Canadian Malartic Corporation exploration properties.

The budget for expenditures on regional exploration activities at the Company's exploration properties plus head office overhead, project evaluation and corporate development activities in 2016 is approximately $153 million, including approximately 345 kilometres of drilling on 100%-owned properties, and 50% of the cost of drilling 80 kilometres on Canadian Malartic Corporation exploration properties. For further details of the components of the 2016 exploration budget, see the Company's news release dated February 10, 2016.

Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

Information on Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources of the Company

The scientific and technical information set out in this AIF has been approved by the following "qualified persons" as defined by NI 43-101: mineral reserves and mineral resources (other than for the Canadian Malartic mine) – Daniel Doucet, Eng., Senior Corporate Director, Reserve Development; mineral reserves and mineral resources (for the Canadian Malartic mine) – Donald Gervais, P.Geo., Director of Technical Services at Canadian Malartic Corporation; environmental – Louise Grondin P.Eng., Senior Vice-President, Environment, Sustainable Development and People; mining operations, Southern Business – Tim Haldane P.Eng., Senior Vice-President, Operations – USA & Latin America; metallurgy – Paul Cousin, Eng., Vice-President, Metallurgy; mining operations, Kittila mine – Francis Brunet, Eng., Corporate Director Mining; mining operations, Nunavut – Dominique Girard, Eng., Vice-President Technical Services and Nunavut Operations; and mining operations, Quebec mines – Christian Provencher, Eng., Vice-President, Canada. The Company's mineral reserves estimate was derived from internally generated data or geology reports. Five of the Company's mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates (Akasaba, Goldex, LaRonde, Pinos Altos and La India) have been audited by independent consultants.

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Historically, mineral reserves and mineral resources for all properties were typically estimated using historic three-year average metals prices and foreign exchange rates in accordance with SEC guidelines. These guidelines require the use of prices that reflect current economic conditions at the time of reserve determination, which the Staff of the SEC has interpreted to mean historic three-year average prices. Given the current commodity price environment, the Company decided to use price assumptions that are below the three-year averages for its 2013, 2014 and 2015 mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates. The assumptions used for the 2015 mineral reserves and mineral resources estimate at all mines and advanced projects reported by the Company (other than the Canadian Malartic mine) were $1,100 per ounce gold, $16.00 per ounce silver, $0.90 per pound zinc, $2.50 per pound copper, and exchange rates of C$1.16 per $1.00, $1.20 per €1.00 and 14.00 Mexican pesos per $1.00 for all mines and projects (other than the Lapa and Meadowbank mines and the Creston Mascota deposit and Santo Niño open pit at Pinos Altos). Due to shorter mine life, the assumptions used for the mineral reserve estimates at the short-life mines (the Lapa and Meadowbank mines and the Creston Mascota deposit and Santo Niño open pit) as of December 31, 2015, include the same metal price assumptions, and exchange rates of C$1.30 per $1.00 and 16.00 Mexican pesos per $1.00, respectively. The assumptions used for the 2015 mineral reserves and mineral resources estimate at the Canadian Malartic mine were $1,150 per ounce gold, a cut-off grade between 0.34 grams per tonne and 0.40 grams per tonne of gold (depending on the deposit) and an exchange rate of C$1.24 per $1.00. The assumptions used for the 2014 mineral reserves and mineral resources estimate at all mines and advanced projects reported by the Company in this AIF (other than the Canadian Malartic mine) were $1,150 per ounce gold, $18 per ounce silver, $1.00 per pound zinc, $3.00 per pound copper and exchange rates of C$1.08 per $1.00, 13.00 Mexican pesos per $1.00 and $1.30 per €1.00. The assumptions used at the Canadian Malartic mine were $1,300 per ounce gold, a cut-off grade between 0.28 grams per tonne and 0.35 grams per tonne of gold (depending on the deposit) and an exchange rate of C$1.10 per $1.00. The assumptions used for the 2013 mineral reserves and resources estimate at all mines and advanced projects reported by the Company were $1,200 per ounce gold, $18.00 per ounce silver, $0.82 per pound zinc, $3.00 per pound copper and exchange rates of C$1.03 per $1.00, 12.75 Mexican pesos per $1.00 and $1.32 per €1.00. Other assumptions used for estimating 2014 and 2013 mineral reserve and mineral resource information may be found in the Company's annual filings in respect of the years ended December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.

Set out below are the mineral reserve estimates as of December 31, 2015, as calculated in accordance with NI 43-101 (tonnages and contained gold quantities are rounded to the nearest thousand):

Property	Tonnes	Gold Grade (g/t)	Contained Gold (oz)
Proven Reserves
Northern Business
LaRonde mine (underground)	3,455,000	4.09	454,000
Canadian Malartic mine (open pit) (50%)	27,446,000	0.97	860,000
Lapa mine (underground)	444,000	5.49	78,000
Goldex mine (underground)	300,000	1.54	15,000
Kittila mine (open pit)	176,000	3.52	20,000
Kittila mine (underground)	883,000	4.43	126,000
Kittila mine total proven	1,059,000	4.28	146,000
Meadowbank mine (open pit)	1,203,000	1.51	58,000
Meliadine project (open pit)	34,000	7.31	8,000
Southern Business
Pinos Altos mine (open pit)	164,000	2.07	11,000
Pinos Altos mine (underground)	2,605,000	3.14	263,000
Pinos Altos mine total proven	2,769,000	3.08	274,000
Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos (open pit)	187,000	0.68	4,000
La India mine (open pit)	244,000	0.68	5,000
Total Proven Reserves	37,141,000	1.59	1,903,000

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Probable Reserves
Northern Business
LaRonde mine (underground)	14,765,000	5.59	2,654,000
Canadian Malartic mine (open pit) (50%)	83,320,000	1.12	3,002,000
Lapa mine (underground)	–		–
Goldex mine (underground)	12,644,000	1.61	653,000
Akasaba project (open pit)	4,759,000	0.92	141,000
Kittila mine (open pit)	157,000	3.64	18,000
Kittila mine (underground)	26,979,000	4.83	4,189,000
Kittila mine total probable	27,136,000	4.82	4,208,000
Meadowbank mine (open pit)	9,586,000	2.87	885,000
Meliadine project (open pit)	4,001,000	5.00	644,000
Meliadine project (underground)	10,494,000	8.20	2,766,000
Meliadine project total probable	14,495,000	7.32	3,410,000
Southern Business
Pinos Altos mine (open pit)	3,440,000	2.54	281,000
Pinos Altos mine (underground)	9,527,000	2.95	904,000
Pinos Altos mine total probable	12,967,000	2.84	1,185,000
Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos (open pit)	4,026,000	1.33	172,000
La India mine (open pit)	29,743,000	0.90	862,000
Total Probable Reserves	213,442,000	2.50	17,172,000
North total proven and probable reserves	200,646,000	2.57	16,572,000
South total proven and probable reserves	49,937,000	1.56	2,502,000
Total Proven and Probable Reserves	250,583,000	2.37	19,075,000

In the tables above and below setting out mineral reserve information about the Company's mineral projects, and elsewhere in this AIF, the total contained gold ounces stated do not include equivalent gold ounces for by-product metals contained in the mineral reserve. Mineral reserves are not a subset of mineral resources. Tonnage amounts and contained metal amounts presented in these tables have been rounded to the nearest thousand, so aggregate amounts may differ from column totals. The Canadian Malartic mineral reserve and mineral resource amounts represent Agnico Eagle's 50% interest in the property. For all mineral reserves and mineral resources other than inferred mineral resources and mineral reserves and mineral resources held by Canadian Malartic Corporation and the Partnership, the reported metal grades in the estimates reflect dilution after mining recovery. For the mineral reserves and mineral resources at the Canadian Malartic mine, the reported metal grades in the estimates of the measured and indicated mineral resources do not reflect dilution after mining recovery. The mineral reserve and mineral resource figures presented in this AIF are estimates, and no assurance can be given that the anticipated tonnages and grades will be achieved or that the indicated level of recovery will be realized.

The integrity and validity of the scientific and technical information in this AIF has been verified by Qualified Persons as defined by NI 43-101. This includes the sampling methods, quality control measures, security measures taken to ensure

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the validity and integrity of samples taken, assaying and analytical procedures and quality control measures and data verification procedures. The methods used by the Company follow the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum ("CIM") Best Practice Guidelines for Exploration and for Estimation of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves and industry practices. Sample preparation and analyses are conducted by external laboratories that are independent of the Company.

The Company carries out mineral processing and metallurgical testing at each of its mines and exploration projects. The testing is done in accordance with internal Company protocols and good mineral processing practices. There are no known processing factors or deleterious elements that are expected to have a significant effect on the economic extraction, or potential economic extraction, of gold at the Company's mines or advanced exploration projects.

Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

Northern Business

LaRonde Mine Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
LaRonde Extension Orebody (below Level 245)
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	2,845,000	3,600,000	4,600,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	4.43	4.03	3.79
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	14,706,000	16,000,000	17,800,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	5.61	5.61	5.56
LaRonde Orebody (above Level 245)
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	610,000	900,000	1,400,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	2.50	2.65	2.43
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	59,000	100,000	300,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	1.77	1.84	2.75
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		18,220,000	20,532,000	24,100,000
Average grade – gold grams per tonne		5.31	5.20	5.00
Total contained gold ounces		3,109,000	3,432,000	3,880,000

Notes:

(1)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above are based on a net smelter return cut-off value of the ore that varies between C$104 per tonne and C$115 per tonne depending on the deposit. Gold cut-off grades used for resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The Company's historical metallurgical recovery rates at the LaRonde mine from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2015 averaged 91.8% for gold, 86.7% for silver, 81.5% for zinc and 80.8% for copper. Since May 2013, when the precious metals circuit was upgraded to carbon-in-pulp technology, the metallurgical recovery rates to December 31, 2015 have averaged 94.5% for gold, 86.0% for silver, 73.3% for zinc, 84.0% for copper, and 0% for lead (lead has not been recovered since May 2013). The historical metallurgical recovery rate for lead from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2015 was 12.63%. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) change in the gold price would result in an approximate 1% change in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the LaRonde mine contained indicated mineral resources of 6,842,000 tonnes of ore grading 3.49 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 9,142,000 tonnes of ore grading 4.26 grams of gold per tonne.

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(3)

The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (rounded to the nearest thousand tonnes) at the LaRonde mine by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves and mineral reserves added from exploration activities during 2015.

	Proven	Probable		Total
December 31, 2014	4,460	16,072		20,532
Processed in 2015	2,241	–		2,241
Revision	1,236	(1,307	)	(71	)
December 31, 2015	3,455	14,765		18,220

(4)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the LaRonde mine may be found in the Technical Report on the 2005 LaRonde Mineral Resource & Mineral Reserve Estimate filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on March 23, 2005 and authored by Guy Gosselin, Eng.

Lapa Mine Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	444,000	832,000	1,011,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	5.49	5.87	5.99
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	–	74,000	456,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	–	5.50	5.92
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		444,000	907,000	1,466,000
Average grade – gold grams per tonne		5.49	5.84	5.97
Total contained gold ounces		78,000	170,000	281,000

Notes:

(1)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above were calculated using an assumed metallurgical gold recovery of 80.50% and a cut-off grade of 3.6 grams of gold per tonne, and the resource estimates were calculated using an assumed metallurgical gold recovery of 73.4% and a cut-off grade of 3.0 grams of gold per tonne. Gold cut-off grades used for resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The operating cost per tonne estimate for the Lapa mine in 2015 was C$133.05. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) increase or decrease in the gold price would result in an approximate 10% increase or 0% decrease, respectively, in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Lapa mine contained measured mineral resources of 49,000 tonnes of ore grading 5.33 grams of gold per tonne, indicated mineral resources of 1,086,000 tonnes of ore grading 4.21 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 1,440,000 tonnes of ore grading 6.52 grams of gold per tonne.

(3)

The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (rounded to the nearest thousand tonnes) at the Lapa mine by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves and mineral reserves added from exploration activities during 2015.

	Proven	Probable		Total
December 31, 2014	832	74		907
Processed in 2015	560	–		560
Revision	172	(74	)	98
December 31, 2015	444	–		444

(4)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Lapa mine may be found in the Technical Report on the Lapa Gold Project, Cadillac Township, Quebec, Canada filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on June 8, 2006.

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Goldex Mine Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	300,000	203,000	119,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	1.54	1.70	1.52
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	12,644,000	6,893,000	7,485,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	1.61	1.49	1.52
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		12,944,000	7,096,000	7,605,000
Average grade – gold grams per tonne		1.61	1.49	1.52
Total contained gold ounces		668,000	340,000	372,000

Notes:

(1)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above were estimated using an assumed metallurgical gold recovery of 89.40%. In 2015, the minesite costs per tonne were estimated to be C$36.00 for the E and M Zones. The cut-off grade used for mineral reserves was 1.04 grams of gold per tonne. Gold cut-off grades used for mineral resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) increase or decrease in the gold price would result in an approximate 0% increase or 4% decrease, respectively, in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Goldex mine contained measured mineral resources of 12,360,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.86 grams of gold per tonne, indicated mineral resources of 22,069,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.88 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 24,630,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.53 grams of gold per tonne.

(3)

The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (rounded to the nearest thousand tonnes) at the Goldex mine by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves, an update to mineral reserves based on changed mine plans and mineral reserves added from exploration activities during 2015.

	Proven	Probable	Total
December 31, 2014	203	6,893	7,096
Processed in 2015	2,313	–	2,313
Revision	2,410	5,751	8,161
December 31, 2015	300	12,644	12,944

(4)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Goldex mine may be found in the Technical Report on Production of the M and E Zones at Goldex Mine dated October 14, 2012 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on November 1, 2012, authored by Richard Genest, P.Geo., ing., Jean-François Lagueux, ing., François Robichaud, ing. and Sylvain Boily, ing.

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Canadian Malartic Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources (Agnico Eagle's 50% Interest)

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014
Gold
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	27,446,000	24,969,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	0.97	0.92
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	83,320,000	101,978,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	1.12	1.10
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		110,766,000	126,947,000
Average grade – gold grams per tonne		1.08	1.06
Total contained gold ounces		3,863,000	4,329,000

Notes:

(1)

The Canadian Malartic property is owned by the Partnership, in which the Company holds an indirect 50% interest, with the remaining 50% interest held indirectly by Yamana. The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above were calculated using an assumed metallurgical gold recovery of between 82.0% and 90.1% and a cut-off grade from 0.34 to 0.40 grams of gold per tonne, depending on the deposit. Gold cut-off grades used for resource estimates were fixed at 100% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade in pit and 1.0 grams of gold per tonne for resources below pit. The operating cost per tonne milled estimate for the Canadian Malartic mine in 2015 was C$20.24. The Company estimates that a $150 decrease in the gold price to $1,000 per ounce would result in an approximate 9% decrease in mineral reserves, while a $50 increase in the gold price to $1,200 per ounce would result in an approximate 2% increase in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Canadian Malartic mine (Agnico Eagle's 50% interest) contained measured mineral resources of 1,752,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.32 grams of gold per tonne, indicated mineral resources of 11,079,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.55 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 4,494,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.47 grams of gold per tonne.

(3)

The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (in nearest thousand tonnes) at the Canadian Malartic mine by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014, stating Agnico Eagle's 50% interest. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources during 2015.

	Proven	Probable		Total
December 31, 2014	24,969	101,978		126,947
Processed in 2015	9,545	–		9,545
Revision	12,022	(18,658	)	(6,636	)
December 31, 2015	27,446	83,320		110,766

(4)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Canadian Malartic mine may be found in the Technical Report on the Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Estimates for the Canadian Malartic Property dated June 16, 2014, filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on August 13, 2014, authored by Donald Gervais, P. Geo., Christian Roy, Eng., Alain Thibault, Eng., Carl Pednault, Eng. and Daniel Doucet, Eng.

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Kittila Mine Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	1,059,000	921,000	1,104,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	4.28	4.41	4.27
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	27,136,000	27,614,000	30,520,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	4.82	4.95	4.65
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		28,195,000	28,535,000	31,624,000
Average grade – gold grams per tonne		4.80	4.93	4.64
Total contained gold ounces		4,353,000	4,524,000	4,714,000

Notes:

(1)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above were calculated using a metallurgical gold recovery of 87.1%. Gold cut-off grades used were 2.22 grams per tonne, undiluted (1.97 grams per tonne, diluted) for open pit mineral reserves and between 3.39 grams per tonne and 3.71 grams per tonne, undiluted (between 2.87 grams per tonne and 3.18 grams per tonne, diluted), depending on the deposit, for underground mineral reserves. Gold cut-off grades used for mineral resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The open pit operating cost was estimated to be €49.41 per tonne in 2015, while the underground cost averaged €75.88 per tonne in 2015. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) increase or decrease in the gold price would result in an approximate 14% increase or 5% decrease, respectively, in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Kittila mine contained measured mineral resources of 991,000 tonnes of ore grading 2.58 grams of gold per tonne, indicated mineral resources of 14,935,000 tonnes of ore grading 3.05 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 11,833,000 tonnes of ore grading 4.64 grams of gold per tonne.

(3)

The breakdown of proven and probable mineral reserves between planned open pit operations and underground operations at the Kittila mine (with tonnage and contained ounces rounded to the nearest thousand) at December 31, 2015 is:

Category	Mining Method	Tonnes	Gold Grade (g/t)	Contained Gold (oz)
Proven mineral reserves	Open pit	176,000	3.52	20,000
Proven mineral reserves	Underground	883,000	4.43	126,000
Total proven mineral reserves		1,059,000	4.28	146,000
Probable mineral reserves	Open pit	157,000	3.64	18,000
Probable mineral reserves	Underground	26,979,000	4.83	4,189,000
Total probable mineral reserves		27,136,000	4.82	4,208,000

(4)

The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (in nearest thousand tonnes) at the Kittila mine by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves and mineral reserves added from exploration activities during 2015.

	Proven	Probable		Total
December 31, 2014	921	27,614		28,535
Processed in 2015	1,464	–		1,464
Revision	1,602	(478	)	1,124
December 31, 2015	1,059	27,136		28,195

(5)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Kittila mine may be found in the Technical Report on the December 31, 2009, Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Estimate and the Suuri Extension Project, Kittila Mine, Finland, filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on March 4, 2010, authored by Daniel Doucet, Ing., Dominique Girard, Ing., Louise Grondin, P.Eng., Ing. and Pierre Matte, Ing.

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Meadowbank Mine Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	1,203,000	1,090,000	1,128,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	1.51	1.50	2.88
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	9,586,000	10,705,000	15,692,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	2.87	3.24	3.26
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		10,789,000	11,795,000	16,819,000
Average grade – gold grams per tonne		2.72	3.08	3.24
Total contained gold ounces		943,000	1,168,000	1,751,000

Notes:

(1)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above were calculated using a cut-off grade that used a metallurgical gold recovery of 95.5% or 90.5%, depending on the deposit. The economic cut-off grade used to determine mineral reserves varied from 1.27 grams of gold per tonne to 1.38 grams of gold per tonne, depending on the deposit, and is 0.94 to 1.15 grams of gold per tonne as a marginal cut-off grade, depending on the deposit. Gold cut-off grades used for resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The estimated ore based operating costs used for the 2015 mineral reserve estimate varied between C$55.72 per tonne and C$56.60 per tonne, depending on the deposit, with an additional haulage cost of C$0.88 per tonne for Vault deposit mineral reserves. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) change in the gold price would result in an approximate 2% change in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Meadowbank mine contained measured mineral resources of 0.74 million tonnes of ore grading 1.01 grams of gold per tonne, indicated mineral resources of 6.2 million tonnes of ore grading 3.48 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 3.4 million tonnes of ore grading 3.99 grams of gold per tonne.

(3)

The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (rounded to the nearest thousand tonnes) at the Meadowbank mine by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves, an update to mineral reserves based on changed mine plans, and mineral reserves added from exploration activities during 2015.

	Proven	Probable		Total
December 31, 2014	1,090	10,705		11,795
Processed in 2015	4,033	–		4,033
Revision	4,146	(1,119	)	3,027
December 31, 2015	1,203	9,586		10,789

(4)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Meadowbank mine may be found in the Technical Report on the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves at Meadowbank Gold Mine, Nunavut, Canada as at December 31, 2011 filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on March 23, 2012, authored by Marc Ruel, P.Geo., Alex Proulx, ing., Pathies Nawej Muteb, ing. and Larry Connell, P.Eng.

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Meliadine Project Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	34,000	34,000	34,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	7.31	7.31	7.31
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	14,495,000	13,910,000	11,943,000
	Average grade – gold grams per tonne	7.32	7.44	7.38
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		14,529,000	13,944,000	11,977,000
Average grade – gold grams per tonne		7.32	7.44	7.38
Total contained gold ounces		3,417,000	3,335,000	2,841,000

Notes:

(1)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above were calculated using metallurgical gold recovery curves for the Tiriganiaq and Wesmeg deposits. The curves give a maximum recovery of 96.5% for Tiriganiaq and Wesmeg. The 2015 mineral resource estimates for Tiriganiaq-Normeg-Wesmeg, F Zone, Pump, Discovery and Wolf deposits were calculated using a fixed metallurgical gold recovery of 91.1%, 91.0%, 86.9%, 93.5% and 94.3%, respectively, for open pit resources, and 93.37%, 91.67%, 90.0%, 95.46% and 95.7%, respectively, for underground resources. For the Tiriganiaq and Wesmeg deposits, the cut-off grade used to determine the open pit mineral reserves was 2.50 grams of gold per tonne, undiluted (1.76 grams of gold per tonne, diluted), and the cut-off grade used to determine the underground mineral reserves was 6.07 grams of gold per tonne, undiluted (4.67 grams of gold per tonne, diluted). Gold cut-off grades used for mineral resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade for underground resource estimates and at 100% of the applicable reserve marginal cut-off grade for open pit mineral resource estimates. The estimated operating cost used for the 2015 mineral reserve estimate was C$81.97 per tonne for open pit and C$176.44 per tonne for underground. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) increase or decrease in the gold price would result in an approximate 5% increase or 7% decrease, respectively, in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Meliadine project contained indicated mineral resources of 20,778,000 tonnes of ore grading 4.95 grams of gold per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 14,710,000 tonnes of ore grading 7.51 grams of gold per tonne.

(3)

The breakdown of mineral reserves between contemplated open pit operations and underground operations at the Meliadine project (with tonnage and contained ounces rounded to the nearest thousand) at December 31, 2015 is:

Category	Mining Method	Tonnes	Gold Grade (g/t)	Contained Gold (oz)
Proven mineral reserves	Open pit stockpile	34,000	7.31	8,000
Probable mineral reserves	Open pit	4,001,000	5.00	644,000
Probable mineral reserves	Underground	10,494,000	8.20	2,766,000
Total probable mineral reserves		14,495,000	7.32	3,410,000
Total proven and probable mineral reserves		14,529,000	7.32	3,417,000

(4)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Meliadine project may be found in the Updated Technical Report on the Meliadine Gold Project, Nunavut, Canada dated February 11, 2015, filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities on March 12, 2015, authored by Julie Larouche, P.Geo., Denis Caron, ing., Larry Connell, P.Eng., Dany Laflamme, ing., François Robichaud, ing., François Petrucci, ing. P.Eng. and Alexandre Proulx, ing.

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Southern Business

Pinos Altos Mine Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold and Silver
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	2,769,000	2,441,000	1,966,000
	Average gold grade – grams per tonne	3.08	3.27	2.54
	Average silver grade – grams per tonne	82.51	86.27	82.17
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	12,967,000	15,788,000	26,738,000
	Average gold grade – grams per tonne	2.84	2.97	2.45
	Average silver grade – grams per tonne	72.40	78.63	63.00
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		15,736,000	18,230,000	28,703,000
Average gold grade – grams per tonne		2.88	3.01	2.46
Average silver grade – grams per tonne		74.18	79.65	64.32
Total contained gold ounces		1,459,000	1,763,000	2,266,000
Total contained silver ounces		37,531,000	46,682,000	59,354,000

Notes:

(1)

The mineral reserves in the above table for 2013 include both Pinos Altos and the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos. The mineral reserves for 2014 and 2015 include only the Pinos Altos mine. The Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos mineral reserves are now shown separately, immediately following this section.

(2)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above at the Pinos Altos mine (excluding the Creston Mascota deposit) are based on a net smelter return cut-off value of the open pit ore between $12.50 per tonne and $31.24 per tonne, depending on the processing method, and a net smelter return cut-off value of the underground ore of $60.44 per tonne. Gold cut-off grades used for resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The estimated operating cost used for the 2015 mineral reserve estimate was $55.42 per tonne. The metallurgical gold recovery used in the reserve estimates varied between 72% and 95.6%, depending on the deposit and the processing method. The metallurgical silver recovery used in the reserve estimates varied between 14% and 44.6%, depending on the deposit and the processing method. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) change in the gold price would result in an approximate 3% change in mineral reserves.

(3)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Pinos Altos mine contained indicated mineral resources of 11,141,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.83 grams of gold per tonne and 42.43 grams of silver per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 12,580,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.25 grams of gold per tonne and 29.33 grams of silver per tonne.

(4)

The breakdown of mineral reserves between planned open pit operations and underground operations at the Pinos Altos mine (with tonnage and contained ounces rounded to the nearest thousand) at December 31, 2015 is:

Category	Mining Method	Tonnes	Gold Grade (g/t)	Silver Grade (g/t)	Contained Gold (oz)	Contained Silver (oz)
Proven mineral reserves	Open pit stock pile	164,000	2.07	67.48	11,000	355,000
Proven mineral reserves	Underground	2,605,000	3.14	83.46	263,000	6,991,000
Total proven mineral reserves		2,769,000	3.08	82.51	274,000	7,345,000
Probable mineral reserves	Open pit	3,440,000	2.54	71.21	281,000	7,875,000
Probable mineral reserves	Underground	9,527,000	2.95	72.83	904,000	22,310,000
Total probable mineral reserves		12,967,000	2.84	72.40	1,185,000	30,186,000
Total proven and probable mineral reserves		15,736,000	2.88	74.18	1,459,000	37,531,000

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The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (in nearest thousand tonnes) at the Pinos Altos mine (excluding the Creston Mascota deposit) by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves and mineral reserves added from exploration activities during 2015.

	Proven	Probable		Total
December 31, 2014	2,441	15,788		18,230
Processed in 2015	2,378	–		2,378
Revision	2,706	(2,821	)	(116	)
December 31, 2015	2,769	12,967		15,736

(6)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Pinos Altos mine may be found in the Pinos Altos Gold-Silver Mining Project, Chihuahua State, Mexico, Technical Report on the Mineral Resources and Reserves as of December 31, 2008 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on March 25, 2009, authored by Dyane Duquette, Geo., Louise Grondin, P. Eng., Pierre Matte, Eng. and Camil Prince, Eng.

Creston Mascota Deposit at Pinos Altos Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold and Silver
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	187,000	187,000	–
	Average gold grade – grams per tonne	0.68	0.76	–
	Average silver grade – grams per tonne	8.05	8.60	–
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	4,026,000	5,657,000	–
	Average gold grade – grams per tonne	1.33	1.27	–
	Average silver grade – grams per tonne	12.21	13.63	–
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		4,213,000	5,844,000	–
Average gold grade – grams per tonne		1.30	1.25	–
Average silver grade – grams per tonne		12.02	13.47	–
Total contained gold ounces		176,000	236,000	–
Total contained silver ounces		1,628,000	2,530,000	–

Notes:

(1)

The mineral reserves in the above table for 2014 and 2015 include only the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos. Prior to 2014 the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos mineral reserves were shown combined with the mineral reserves from the Pinos Altos mine, immediately preceding this section.

(2)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above at the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos are based on a net smelter return cut-off value of the open pit ore of $9.95 per tonne. Gold cut-off grades used for resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The operating cost per tonne estimate for the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos in 2015 was $12.16 actual versus $15.09 budgeted. The metallurgical gold recovery used in the reserve estimates was 65%. The metallurgical silver recovery used in the reserve estimates was 16%. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) change in the gold price would result in 0% change in mineral reserves.

(3)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos contained indicated mineral resources of 4,264,000 tonnes of ore grading 0.51 grams of gold per tonne and 5.14 grams of silver per tonne and inferred mineral resources of 4,263,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.06 grams of gold per tonne and 14.16 grams of silver per tonne.

(4)

The following table sets out the reconciliation of mineral reserves (rounded to the nearest thousand tonnes) at the the Creston Mascota deposit) by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision indicates additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves and mineral reserves added from exploration activities during 2015.

	Proven	Probable		Total
December 31, 2014	187	5,657		5,844
Processed in 2015	2,099	–		2,099
Revision	2,099	(1,631	)	468
December 31, 2015	187	4,026		4,213

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(5)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos may be found in the Pinos Altos Gold-Silver Mining Project, Chihuahua State, Mexico, Technical Report on the Mineral Resources and Reserves as of December 31, 2008 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on March 25, 2009, authored by Dyane Duquette, Geo., Louise Grondin, P. Eng., Pierre Matte, Eng. and Camil Prince, Eng.

La India Mine Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources

		As at December 31,
		2015	2014	2013
Gold
	Proven mineral reserves – tonnes	244,000	99,000	228,000
	Average gold grade – grams per tonne	0.68	0.53	0.64
	Average silver grade – grams per tonne	12.69	8.62	–
	Probable mineral reserves – tonnes	29,743,000	24,783,000	26,868,000
	Average gold grade – grams per tonne	0.90	0.85	0.87
	Average silver grade – grams per tonne	4.16	6.06	–
Total proven and probable mineral reserves – tonnes		29,987,000	24,882,000	27,096,000
Average gold grade – grams per tonne		0.90	0.85	0.87
Average silver grade – grams per tonne		4.23	6.07	–
Total contained gold ounces		867,000	679,000	758,000
Total contained silver ounces		4,081,000	4,859,000	–

Notes:

(1)

The 2015 proven and probable mineral reserve estimates set out in the table above for the La India mine (including the Tarachi deposit) were calculated using an average metallurgical gold recovery of 40% to 92% depending on the zone. The economic cut-off grade used to determine mineral reserves varied depending on domain from 0.27 grams of gold per tonne to 0.62 grams of gold per tonne. Marginal cut-off grades varied depending on domain from 0.15 grams of gold per tonne to 0.34 grams of gold per tonne. Gold cut-off grades used for resource estimates were fixed at 75% of the applicable reserve cut-off grade. The estimated operating cost used for the 2015 mineral reserve estimate was $8.44 per tonne. The Company estimates that a $100 (9%) increase or decrease in the gold price would result in an approximate 8% increase or 7% decrease, respectively, in mineral reserves.

(2)

In addition to the mineral reserves set out above, at December 31, 2015, the La India mine (including the Tarachi deposit) contained measured mineral resources of 8,339,000 tonnes of ore grading 0.25 grams of gold per tonne and 2.48 grams of silver per tonne, indicated mineral resources of 61,950,000 tonnes of ore grading 0.38 grams of gold per tonne, and inferred mineral resources of 90,868,000 tonnes of ore grading 0.37 grams of gold per tonne.

(3)

The following table shows the reconciliation of mineral reserves (rounded to the nearest thousand tonnes) at the La India mine by category at December 31, 2015 with those at December 31, 2014. Revision means additional mineral reserves converted from mineral resources or other categories of mineral reserves and mineral reserves added from exploration activities and metallurgical testing during 2015.

	Proven	Probable	Total
December 31, 2014	99	24,783	24,882
Processed in 2015	5,371	–	5,371
Revision	5,516	4,960	10,476
December 31, 2015	244	29,743	29,987

(4)

Complete information on the verification procedures, the quality assurance program, quality control procedures, expected payback period of capital, parameters and methods and other factors that may materially affect scientific and technical information presented in this AIF relating to the La India mine project may be found in the Technical Report on the June 30, 2012 Update of the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, La India Gold Project, Municipality of Sahuaripa, Sonora, Mexico, dated August 31, 2012, filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR on October 12, 2012, authored by Daniel Doucet, ing., Tim Haldane, P.Eng. and Michel Julien, P.Eng.

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Principal Products and Distribution

The Company earns substantially all of its revenue and cash flow from the production and sale of gold in both dore bar and concentrate form. The remainder of revenue and cash flow is generated from the production and sale of by-product metals, namely silver, zinc and copper. The gold produced by the Company is sold in refined form, primarily in the London spot market. The Company is not dependent on any particular purchaser of its principal product.

Employees

As of December 31, 2015, the Company had 7,588 employees comprised of 5,093 permanent employees, 1,824 contractors, 599 temporary employees and 72 students. Of the permanent employees, 842 were employed at the LaRonde mine, 165 at the Lapa mine, 283 at the Goldex mine, 687 at the Canadian Malartic mine (with an additional 48 in the Canadian Malartic office), 371 at the Kittila mine (with an additional 10 at the Finnish exploration group), 689 at the Meadowbank mine (with 2 at the Baker Lake office and 12 in Quebec), 17 at the Meliadine project, 988 at the Pinos Altos mine, 257 at the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos, 368 at the La India mine, 18 in the exploration group in Canada and the United States, 67 in the exploration group in Mexico, 133 at the regional technical office in Abitibi, 6 at the regional office in Tucson and 130 at the corporate head office in Toronto. The number of permanent employees of the Company at the end of 2015, 2014 and 2013 was 5,093, 5,187 and 4,259, respectively.

Competitive Conditions

The precious metal exploration and mining business is a highly competitive business. The Company competes with other mining and exploration companies in connection with the acquisition of mining claims and leases, the sourcing of raw materials and supplies used in connection with mining operations and the recruitment and retention of qualified employees.

The ability of the Company to continue its mining business in the future will depend not only on its ability to develop its current properties, but also on its ability to select and acquire suitable producing properties or prospects for precious metal development or exploration. See "Risk Factors" for a description of additional competitive risks the Company faces.

Sustainable Development

In 2015, the Company continued the process of incorporating health, safety and environmental sustainability into all aspects and stages of its business, from the corporate objectives and executive responsibility of 'maintaining high standards in sustainability' to exploration and acquisition activities, day to day operating and site closure. This integration began in 2012 with the adoption of an integrated Health, Safety, Environment and Social Acceptability Policy (the "Sustainable Development Policy") that reflects the Company's commitment to responsible mining practices. The Sustainable Development Policy replaced the Company's previous environmental and health and safety policies. The Company believes that the Sustainable Development Policy will lead to the achievement of more sustainable practices through oversight and accountability.

The Sustainable Development Policy operates through the development and implementation of a formal and integrated Health, Safety and Environmental Management System, termed the Responsible Mining Management System (the "RMMS"), across all divisions of the Company. The Partnership has committed to implementing the RMMS at Canadian Malartic in the future. The aim of the RMMS is to further promote a culture of accountability and leadership in managing health, safety, environmental and social acceptability matters. RMMS implementation is supported by software widely used in the Canadian mining industry that is consistent with the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and the OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety Management System.

The RMMS incorporates the Company's commitments as a signatory to the International Cyanide Management Code (the "Cyanide Code"), a voluntary program that addresses the safe production, transport, storage, handling and disposal of cyanide. The Company became a signatory to the Cyanide Code in September 2011. External audits were performed in 2014 by an independent third party and certification was received for Kittila, Pinos Altos and Meadowbank.

The RMMS also integrates the requirements of the Mining Association of Canada's industry-leading Towards Sustainable Mining Initiative (the "TSM Initiative"), as well as the Global Reporting Initiative's sustainability reporting guidelines for the mining industry. In December 2010, the Company became a member of the Mining Association of Canada and endorsed the TSM Initiative. The TSM Initiative was developed to help mining companies evaluate the quality, comprehensiveness and robustness of their management systems under six performance elements: crisis management; energy and greenhouse gas emissions management; tailings management; biodiversity conservation management; health and safety;

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and aboriginal relations and community outreach. A gap analysis audit of the TSM Initiative was carried out in 2014. An external audit was completed in the first quarter of 2015 and as a result of this audit, the Kittila, Goldex and Laronde mines received TSM awards for having achieved "A" level performance in all protocols.

The Company has adopted and implemented the World Gold Council's Conflict-Free Gold Standard. This implementation was initiated on January 1, 2013.

The Company's Sustainable Development Policy is available on the Company's website at www.agnicoeagle.com. The Canadian Malartic mine's sustainable development report is available at its website, www.canadianmalartic.com.

Employee Health and Safety

The Company's overall health and safety performance, as measured by accident frequency, improved during 2015. A combined lost-time and restricted work accident frequency rate (excluding the Canadian Malartic mine) of 1.23 was achieved, a 17% reduction from the 2014 rate of 1.48 and substantially below the target rate of 1.50. This is the best combined accident frequency rate ever recorded by the Company. Extensive health and safety training was also provided to all employees during 2015.

One of the measures implemented by the Company to improve safety performance is the workplace safety card system. This system was implemented across all of the Company's operations, in Canada and abroad, to strengthen the risk-based training program. Developed by the Quebec Mining Association (the "AMQ"), the safety card system teaches workers and supervisors to use risk-based thinking in their duties. Workers and their supervisors must meet every day to discuss on-the-job health and safety matters. The safety card system also allows the Company's workers and supervisors to document daily inspections and record observations on conditions in the workplace, as well as the nature of risks, issues and other relevant information. In addition, it allows supervisors to exchange and analyze all relevant information between shifts and various technical services to improve efficiency and safety.

In 2015, the AMQ acknowledged the Company's strong performance in the area of health and safety, recognizing 23 of the Company's supervisors from the LaRonde, Lapa and Goldex mines for keeping their workers safe. The supervisors received AMQ security trophy awards for 50,000 or more hours supervised without a lost-time accident.

Each of the Company's mining operations has its own Emergency Response Plan and has personnel trained to respond to safety, fire and environmental emergencies. Each mine also maintains the appropriate response equipment. In 2014, the corporate crisis management plan was updated to align with industry best practices and the TSM Initiative requirements. Emergency response simulations were also performed at all divisions. The TSM Initiative also contains a Health and Safety protocol. A gap analysis of compliance with the protocol was conducted in 2014 and an external audit was part of the external TSM Initiative audit carried out at the beginning of 2015.

The Canadian Malartic mine's combined accident frequency rate in 2015 was 1.28, compared to an objective of 1.45, and decreased from the 2014 rate of 1.52.

Community

The Company's goal, at each of its operations worldwide, is to hire as much of its workforce as possible, including management teams, directly from the local region in which the operation is located. In 2015, the overall company average for local hiring was 80%. The Company believes that providing employment is one of the most significant contributions it can make to the communities in which it operates.

The Company continued its efforts in community development agreements in Nunavut. In 2015, the Meadowbank IIBA was renewed and the Meliadine IIBA was signed. In 2015, the Company also continued its dialogue with First Nations in the Abitibi region. The Partnership has entered into negotiations with First Nations around the Kirkland Lake project and has also initiated a dialogue with First Nations in the Abitibi region.

In 2015, the Company continued to work closely with neighboring communities to develop alternative employment and business opportunities to help diversify local economies.

The Canadian Malartic mine continued its contribution to the economic development fund (FEMO) which was established prior to mine development to diversify the local economy throughout the mine life so that the town of Malartic is well equipped to face the eventual mine closure. The Canadian Malartic mine has also participated in forums initiated by the town council on the future of the town of Malartic. Approximately 90% of the hiring in 2015 at the Canadian Malartic mine was from the local area.

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Stakeholder mapping exercises were performed at all divisions to support the development of local community engagement plans. As well, community liaison committees were active in 2015.

In 2015, the Company continued its support of the Kivalliq Mine Training Society and for the unique upward mobility training program for Inuit employees developed at Meadowbank. This program provides training and career path opportunities for Inuit with limited education and work experience in the area of heavy equipment operations, mill operations and site services. Skills acquired through the program are easily transferable to other sectors of the Nunavut economy.

For the eighth year in a row, the Pinos Altos mine was certified as a Socially Responsible Company by the Mexican Centre for Philanthropy (Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía) and the Alliance for Social Responsibility of Enterprises (Alianza por la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en México). This certification recognizes the excellence of the social responsibility practices at the Pinos Altos mine.

The Company continues to support a number of community health and educational initiatives in the region surrounding the Pinos Altos mine, including the establishment of a local sewing cooperative and donating material for the construction of new classrooms or for the repair of existing classrooms.

The Company's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Policy is available on the Company's website at www.agnicoeagle.com.

Environmental Protection

The Company's exploration activities and mining and processing operations are subject to the federal, state, provincial, territorial, regional and local environmental laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which the Company's activities and facilities are located. These include requirements for planning and implementing the closure and reclamation of mining properties and related financial assurance. Each mine is subject to environmental assessment and permitting processes during development and, in operation, has an environmental management system consistent with ISO 140001 as well as an internal audit program. The Company works closely with regulatory authorities in each jurisdiction where it operates to ensure ongoing compliance.

The Company has reported greenhouse gas emissions and climate change risk factors annually to the Carbon Disclosure Project since 2007.

The Meadowbank mine was under investigation in 2014 by Environment Canada and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada for a seepage event that occurred in 2013. Environment Canada charged the Company with two infractions under the Fisheries Act. The hearing in relation to these charges is expected in 2016.

The Canadian Malartic mine received 25 infractions in 2015, mostly related to noise, blasting fumes and overpressure, a decrease from the 33 infractions received in 2014. Action plans have been established to improve compliance.

The Company's total liability for reclamation and closure cost obligations at December 31, 2015 was $260 million and the Company's reclamation expenses for the year ended December 31, 2015 were $0.6 million. For more information please see note 13 to the Annual Financial Statements.

The Company's Environmental Policy is available on the Company's website at www.agnicoeagle.com.

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RISK FACTORS

The operations of the Company are speculative due to the high-risk nature of its business, which is the acquisition, financing, exploration, development and operation of mining properties. These risk factors could materially affect the Company's financial condition and/or future operating results and could cause actual events to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements relating to the Company. These are not the only risks and uncertainties that the Company faces. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to the Company or that the Company currently considers immaterial may also impair its business operations.

The Company's financial performance and results may fluctuate widely due to volatile and unpredictable commodity prices.

The Company's earnings are directly related to commodity prices, as revenues are derived from the sale of gold, silver, zinc and copper. Gold prices, which have the greatest impact on the Company's financial performance, fluctuate widely and are affected by numerous factors, including central bank purchases and sales, producer hedging and de-hedging activities, expectations of inflation, investment demand, the relative exchange rate of the U.S. dollar with other major currencies, interest rates, global and regional demand, political and economic conditions, production costs in major gold-producing regions, speculative positions taken by investors or traders in gold and changes in supply, including worldwide production levels, all of which are beyond the Company's control. The aggregate effect of these factors is impossible to predict with accuracy. In addition, the price of gold has on occasion been subject to very rapid short-term changes because of speculative activities or world events. Fluctuations in gold prices may materially adversely affect the Company's financial performance or results of operations. If the market price of gold falls below the Company's all-in sustaining costs per ounce of production at one or more of its mines or projects at that time and remains so for any sustained period, the Company may experience losses and/or may curtail or suspend some or all of its exploration, development and mining activities at such mines or projects or at other mines or projects. In addition, such fluctuations may require changes to the mine plans. The Company's current mine plans and mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates are based on a gold price of $1,100 per ounce, other than the Canadian Malartic mine, where mineral reserves and mineral resources are based on a gold price of $1,150 per ounce (see "Operations and Production – Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources – Information on Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources of the Company"); if the price of gold falls below such levels, the mines may be rendered uneconomic and production may be suspended. In addition, lower gold prices may require the mine plans to be changed, which may result in reduced production, higher costs than anticipated, or both, and estimates of mineral reserves and mineral resources may be reduced. Further, the prices received from the sale of the Company's by-product metals produced at its LaRonde mine (silver, zinc and copper) and its Pinos Altos, La India and Canadian Malartic mines (silver) affect the Company's ability to meet its targets for total cash costs per ounce or all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold produced when such measures are calculated on a by-product basis. These by-product metal prices fluctuate widely and are also affected by numerous factors beyond the Company's control. The Company's policy and practice is not to sell forward its future gold production; however, under the Company's Board-approved price risk management policy, the Company may review this practice on a project by project basis. See "Risk Profile – Commodity Prices and Foreign Currencies" and "Risk Profile – Financial Instruments" in the Annual MD&A for more details on the Company's use of derivative instruments. The Company occasionally uses derivative instruments to mitigate the effects of fluctuating by-product metal prices; however, these measures may not be successful.

The volatility of gold prices is illustrated in the following table which sets out, for the periods indicated, the high, low and average afternoon fixing prices for gold on the London Bullion Market (the "London P.M. Fix").

	2016 (to March 15)	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
High price ($ per ounce)	1,278	1,296	1,385	1,694	1,792	1,895
Low price ($ per ounce)	1,077	1,049	1,142	1,192	1,540	1,319
Average price ($ per ounce)	1,172	1,160	1,266	1,411	1,669	1,572

On March 15, 2016, the London P.M. Fix was $1,232 per ounce of gold.

The assumptions that underlie the estimates of future operating results and the strategies used to mitigate the effects of risks of metal prices are set out in "Operations and Production – Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources – Information

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on Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources of the Company" in this AIF and under the heading "Risk Profile" in the Annual MD&A.

Based on 2016 production estimates, the approximate sensitivities of the Company's after-tax income to a 10% change in certain metal prices from 2015 market average prices are as follows:

	Income per share
Gold	$0.84
Silver	$0.02
Zinc	$0.01
Copper	$0.02

Sensitivities of the Company's after-tax income to changes in metal prices will increase with increased production.

The Company is largely dependent upon its mining and milling operations at its Meadowbank mine in Nunavut and its LaRonde mine and Canadian Malartic mines in Quebec, and any adverse condition affecting those operations may have a material adverse effect on the Company.

The Company's operations at the Meadowbank mine in Nunavut and at the LaRonde mine and Canadian Malartic mines in Quebec accounted for approximately 23%, 16% and 17%, respectively, of the Company's gold production in 2015 and are expected to account for approximately 20%, 18% and 18%, respectively, of the Company's gold production in 2016. Also, in 2015 the Meadowbank, LaRonde and Canadian Malartic mines accounted for approximately 22%, 15% and 16%, respectively, of the Company's operating margin. Any adverse condition affecting mining or milling conditions at these mines could be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial performance and results of operations (see "– If the Company experiences mining accidents or other adverse conditions, the Company's mining operations may yield less gold than indicated by its estimated gold production" below). Gold production at the Meadowbank mine is also subject to risks relating to operating in a remote location (see "– The Company may experience difficulties operating its Meadowbank mine and developing the Meliadine project as a result of their remote location" below).

Unless the Company acquires or develops other significant gold-producing assets, the Company will continue to be dependent on its operations at the Meadowbank, LaRonde and Canadian Malartic mines for a substantial portion of its gold production and cash flow provided by operating activities. The Company's current life of mine plans for the Meadowbank mine contemplates the final year of gold production in 2018, and there can be no assurance that the Company's current exploration and development programs at Meadowbank (including at the Amaruq property) or its other mining projects will result in any new economically viable mining operations or yield new mineral reserves to replace and expand current production and mineral reserves.

The Company may experience difficulties operating its Meadowbank mine and developing the Meliadine project as a result of their remote location.

The Meadowbank mine, which is the Company's largest mine in terms of production and operating margin, is located in the Kivalliq District of Nunavut in northern Canada, approximately 70 kilometres north of Baker Lake. In addition, the Amaruq property, located 50 kilometres northwest of the Meadowbank mine, is being considered as a possible satellite operation to the Meadowbank mine. The closest major city to the Meadowbank mine is Winnipeg, Manitoba, approximately 1,500 kilometres to the south. The Company built a 110-kilometre all-weather road from Baker Lake, which provides summer shipping access via Hudson Bay to the Meadowbank mine and the Company plans to build an all-weather road between Meadowbank and the Amaruq property. However, the Company's operations are constrained by the remoteness of the mine, particularly as the port of Baker Lake is only accessible approximately ten weeks per year. Most of the materials that the Company requires for the operation of the Meadowbank mine must be transported through the port of Baker Lake during this shipping season, which may be further truncated due to weather conditions. If the Company is unable to acquire and transport necessary supplies during this time, it may result in a slowdown or stoppage of operations at the Meadowbank mine. Furthermore, if major equipment fails, items necessary to replace or repair such equipment may have to be shipped through Baker Lake during this window. Failure to have available the necessary

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materials required for operations or to repair or replace malfunctioning equipment at the Meadowbank mine (including at the Amaruq property) may require the slowdown or stoppage of operations. For example, a March 2011 fire at the kitchen facilities of the Meadowbank mine required operations to be reduced at the mine, which resulted in gold production at the mine being below expected levels in 2011.

The Company's Meliadine project, 290 kilometres southeast of the Meadowbank mine, is also located in the Kivalliq District of Nunavut, approximately 25 kilometres northwest of the hamlet of Rankin Inlet on the west coast of Hudson Bay. Most of the materials that the Company requires to operate the advanced exploration program, and may require if it determines to build a mine in the future, must be transported through the port of Rankin Inlet during its approximately 14-week shipping season. If the Company cannot identify and procure suitable equipment and materials within a timeframe that permits transporting them to the project within this shipping season, it could result in delays and/or cost increases in the exploration program and, if the Company determines to build a mine, any construction or development on the property.

The remoteness of the Meadowbank mine, the Amaruq property and Meliadine project also necessitates the use of fly-in/fly-out camps for the accommodation of site employees and contractors, which may have an impact on the Company's ability to attract and retain qualified mining, exploration and construction personnel. If the Company is unable to attract and retain sufficient personnel or contractors on a timely basis, the Company's operations at the Meadowbank mine (including at the Amaruq property) and future development plans at the Meliadine project may be adversely affected.

If the Company experiences mining accidents or other adverse conditions, the Company's mining operations may yield less gold than indicated by its estimated gold production.

The Company's gold production may fall below estimated levels as a result of mining accidents such as cave-ins, rock falls, rock bursts, pit wall failures, fires or flooding or as a result of other operational problems such as a failure of a production hoist, autoclave, filter press or semi-autogenous grinding mill. In addition, production may be reduced if, during the course of mining or processing, unfavourable weather conditions, ground conditions, high geomechanical stress areas or seismic activity are encountered, ore grades are lower than expected, the physical or metallurgical characteristics of the ore are less amenable than expected to mining or treatment, dilution increases, electrical power is interrupted or heap leach processing results in containment discharge. While the Company has met or exceeded production forecasts since 2012, it failed to do so in five of the previous ten years primarily due to: increased stress levels in a sill pillar requiring the temporary closure of production sublevels in 2005 at LaRonde; delays in the commissioning of the Goldex production hoist and the Kittila autoclave in 2008; and autoclave issues at Kittila, filtering issues at Pinos Altos and dilution issues at Lapa in 2009. In 2010, gold production was below the initial anticipated range primarily as a result of lower throughput at the Meadowbank mine mill due to a bottleneck in the crushing circuit and continued autoclave issues at the Kittila mine in the first half of the year. In 2011, gold production was below the initial anticipated range primarily as a result of suspension of mining operations at the Goldex mine due to geotechnical concerns with the rock above the mining horizon, a fire in the Meadowbank mine kitchen complex that negatively impacted production, and lower than expected grades at the Meadowbank and LaRonde mines. In 2012, gold production was negatively affected by the temporary suspension of heap leach operations at the Creston Mascota deposit at Pinos Altos as a result of issues with the phase one leach pad liner. In 2013, gold production was negatively affected by an extended maintenance shutdown at Kittila during the second quarter, during which the mine only operated for 14 days, and a 16-day unplanned shutdown related to the LaRonde hoist drive. In 2014, gold production was negatively affected by ten days of downtime resulting from a production hoist drive failure at LaRonde. In 2015, gold production was negatively affected by lower than expected grades at Kittila and a decision during the year to extend the Vault pit at Meadowbank resulting in lower than expected 2015 production. Occurrences of this nature and other accidents, adverse conditions or operational problems in future years may result in the Company's failure to achieve current or future production estimates.

The Company's total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold production depend, in part, on external factors that are subject to fluctuation and, if such costs increase, some or all of the Company's activities may become unprofitable.

The Company's total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold are dependent on a number of factors, including the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar, Euro and Mexican peso, smelting and refining charges, production royalties, the price of gold and by-product metals (when calculated on a by-product basis) and the cost of inputs used in mining operations. At the LaRonde mine, the Company's total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce of production (when calculated on a by-product basis) are affected by the prices and

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production levels of by-product zinc, silver and copper, the revenue from which is offset against the cost of gold production. At the Canadian Malartic mine, the Company's total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce of production (when calculated on a by-product basis) are affected by the prices and production levels of by-product silver, the revenue from which is offset against the cost of gold production. Total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce from the Company's operations at the Pinos Altos and La India mines are affected by the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Mexican peso and the price and (when calculated on a by-product basis) production level of by-product silver, the revenue from which is offset against the cost of gold production. Total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce from the Company's operations at its mines in Canada and the Kittila mine in Finland are affected by changes in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar and the Euro, respectively. Total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce at all of the Company's mines are also affected by the costs of inputs used in mining operations, including labour (including contractors), steel, chemical reagents and energy. All of these factors are beyond the Company's control. If the Company's total cash costs per ounce or all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold rise above the market price of gold and remain so for any sustained period, the Company may experience losses and may curtail or suspend some or all of its exploration, development and/or mining activities.

Total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce are not recognized measures under US GAAP or IFRS, and this data may not be comparable to data presented by other gold producers. See the Annual MD&A for reconciliation of total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce and minesite costs per tonne to their closest IFRS measure and "Introductory Notes – Note to Investors Concerning Certain Measures of Performance" in this AIF for a discussion of non-GAAP measures.

The Company's mine construction projects and expansion projects are subject to risks associated with mine development, which may result in delays in the optimization of mining operations, delays in existing operations and unanticipated costs.

The Company's production forecasts are based on full production being achieved at all of its mines, and the Company's ability to achieve and maintain full production rates at these mines is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Production from these mines in 2016 may be lower than anticipated if the anticipated full production rate cannot be achieved.

The LaRonde mine extension, which commenced operation in late 2011, is one of the deepest operations in the Western Hemisphere with a currently expected maximum depth of 3,110 metres below the surface and, in 2016, 89% of the LaRonde mine's production is anticipated to be from the LaRonde mine extension. The LaRonde mine extension has not yet begun to operate at expected steady-state levels. The Company's operations at the LaRonde mine extension rely on infrastructure installed in connection with the extension for hauling ore and materials to the surface, including a winze (or internal shaft) and a series of ramps linking mining deposits to the Penna Shaft that services historic operations at the LaRonde mine. The depth of the operations poses significant challenges to the Company, such as geomechanical and seismic risks and ventilation and air conditioning requirements, which may result in difficulties and delays in achieving gold production objectives. Operations at the lower level of the LaRonde mine are subject to high levels of geomechanical stress and there are few resources available to assist the Company in modelling the geomechanical conditions at these depths, which may result in the Company not being able to extract the ore at these levels as currently contemplated. In 2012, challenges associated with excess heat and congestion at the lower parts of the mine delayed the ramp up of production and in 2013, throughput at the LaRonde mine was reduced as a result of 16 days of unplanned shut down to the hoist drive. In 2014, ten days of downtime resulting from a production hoist drive failure resulted in annual production at LaRonde being approximately 10,000 ounces below the Company`s expectations.

The further development of the Kittila and Pinos Altos mines, as well as the development of the new mining zones at the Goldex mine, requires the construction and operation of new underground mining infrastructure and, at Kittila, milling operations were required to be expanded. The construction and operation of underground mining facilities and the expansion of milling facilities are subject to a number of risks, including unforeseen geological formations, implementation of new mining or milling processes, delays in obtaining required construction, environmental or operating permits and engineering and mine or mill design adjustments.

Mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates are only estimates and such estimates may not accurately reflect future mineral recovery.

The figures for mineral reserves and mineral resources published by the Company are estimates and no assurance can be given that the anticipated tonnages and grades will be achieved or that the indicated level of recovery of gold will be

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realized. Mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates are based on gold recoveries in small scale laboratory tests and may not be indicative of the mineralization in the entire orebody and the Company may not be able to achieve similar results in larger scale tests under on-site conditions or during production. The ore grade actually recovered by the Company may differ from the estimated grades of the mineral reserves and mineral resources. The estimates of mineral reserves and mineral resources have been determined based on assumed metal prices, foreign exchange rates and operating costs. For example, the Company has estimated proven and probable mineral reserves based on, among other things, a $1,100 per ounce gold price ($1,150 for Canadian Malartic). The yearly average gold price has been above $1,100 per ounce since 2010; however, prior to that time, yearly average gold prices were below $1,100 per ounce. Prolonged declines in the market price of gold (or applicable by-product metal prices) may render mineral reserves containing relatively lower grades of mineralization uneconomical to recover and could materially reduce the Company's mineral reserves. Should such reductions occur, the Company may be required to take a material write-down of its investment in mining properties, reduce the carrying value of one or more of its assets or delay or discontinue production or the development of new projects, resulting in increased net losses and reduced cash flow. The Company used an assumed $1,250 long-term gold price to test for impairment of its mines and concluded no impairments existed as at December 31, 2015. Market price fluctuations of gold (or applicable by-product metal prices), as well as increased production costs or reduced recovery rates, may render mineral reserves containing relatively lower grades of mineralization uneconomical to recover and may ultimately result in a restatement of mineral resources. Short-term factors relating to the mineral reserve, such as the need for orderly development of orebodies or the processing of new or different grades, may impair the profitability of a mine in any particular accounting period.

Mineral resource estimates for properties that have not commenced production or at deposits that have not yet been exploited are based, in most instances, on very limited and widely spaced drill hole information, which is not necessarily indicative of conditions between and around the drill holes. Accordingly, such mineral resource estimates may require revision as more drilling information becomes available or as production experience is gained.

The Company may experience problems in executing acquisitions or managing and integrating any completed acquisitions with its existing operations.

The Company regularly evaluates opportunities to acquire securities or assets of other mining businesses. Such acquisitions may be significant in size, may change the scale of the Company's business and may expose the Company to new geographic, political, operating, financial or geological risks. The Company's success in its acquisition activities depends on its ability to identify suitable acquisition candidates, acquire them on acceptable terms and integrate their operations successfully with those of the Company. Any acquisition would be accompanied by risks, such as: due diligence failures; the difficulty of assimilating the operations and personnel of any acquired businesses; the potential disruption of the Company's ongoing business; the inability of management to maximize the financial and strategic position of the Company through the successful integration of acquired assets and businesses; the maintenance of uniform standards, controls, procedures and policies; the impairment of relationships with employees, customers, suppliers and contractors as a result of any integration of new management personnel; and the potential unknown liabilities (including potential environmental liabilities or any prior bribery or corruption activities) associated with acquired assets and businesses. In addition, the Company may need additional capital to finance an acquisition. Potential acquisition targets may operate in jurisdictions in which the Company does not operate and that may have a different risk profile than the jurisdictions in which the Company currently operates (see "– The Company may experience operational difficulties at its foreign operations"). Debt financing related to any acquisition may expose the Company to the risks related to increased leverage, while equity financing may cause existing shareholders to suffer dilution. The Company is permitted under the terms of its unsecured revolving bank credit facility and its guaranteed senior unsecured notes referred to under "Material Contracts" below to incur additional unsecured indebtedness, provided that it maintains certain financial ratios and meets financial condition covenants and, in the case of the bank credit facility, that no event of default under the bank credit facility has occurred and is continuing, or would occur as a result of the incurrence or assumption of such indebtedness. There can be no assurance that the Company would be successful in overcoming these or any other problems encountered in connection with such acquisitions.

The Company may experience operational difficulties at its foreign operations.

The Company's operations include a mine in Finland and two mines in northern Mexico. Collectively, these mines accounted for approximately 32% of the Company's gold production in 2015 and are expected to account for approximately 34% of the Company's gold production in 2016. These operations are subject to various levels of political, economic and other risks and uncertainties that are different from those encountered at the Company's Canadian properties. These risks and uncertainties vary from country to country and may include: extreme fluctuations in currency

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exchange rates; high rates of inflation; labour unrest; risks of war or civil unrest; expropriation and nationalization; renegotiation or nullification of existing concessions, licences, permits and contracts; illegal mining; corruption; restrictions on foreign exchange and repatriation; hostage taking; changing political conditions; and currency controls. In addition, the Company must comply with multiple and potentially conflicting regulations in Canada, the United States, Finland and Mexico, including export requirements, taxes, tariffs, import duties and other trade barriers, as well as health, safety and environmental requirements.

Changes, if any, in mining or investment policies or shifts in political attitude in Finland or Mexico may adversely affect the Company's operations or profitability. Operations may be affected in varying degrees by government regulations with respect to matters including restrictions on production, price controls, export controls, currency controls or restrictions, currency remittance, income and other taxes, expropriation of property, foreign investment, maintenance of claims, environmental legislation, land use, land claims of local people, water use and mine safety. Failure to comply strictly with applicable laws, regulations and local practices relating to mineral rights applications and tenure could result in loss, reduction or expropriation of entitlements or the imposition of additional local or foreign parties as joint venture partners with carried or other interests.

In addition, Finland and Mexico have significantly different laws and regulations than Canada and there are cultural and language differences between these countries and Canada. Also, the Company faces challenges inherent in efficiently managing employees over large geographical distances, including the challenges of staffing and managing operations in several international locations and implementing appropriate systems, policies, benefits and compliance programs. These challenges may divert management's attention to the detriment of the Company's other operations. There can be no assurance that difficulties associated with the Company's foreign operations can be successfully managed.

In the future, the Company may choose to operate in foreign jurisdictions other than Finland and Mexico. For example, the Company currently has exploration properties in each of the United States and Sweden, as well as strategic investments in companies holding properties in Brazil and Panama. Such operations would inherently be subject to various levels of political, economic and other risks and uncertainties that are different from those encountered at the Company's Canadian, Finnish and Mexican properties.

The Company is subject to the risks normally associated with the conduct of joint operations.

The Company holds an indirect 50% interest in the Canadian Malartic mine through the Partnership, with the remaining interest in this property being held indirectly by Yamana. The Company's interest in the Canadian Malartic mine is subject to the risks normally associated with the conduct of partnerships and other joint operations. The existence or occurrence of one or more of the following circumstances and events could have a material adverse effect on Company's profitability or the viability of its interests held through joint operations, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial performance and results of operations: (i) lack of control over the joint operations and disagreement with partners on how to explore, develop or operate mines efficiently; (ii) inability to exert influence over certain strategic decisions made in respect of jointly held properties; (iii) inability of partners to meet their obligations to the joint operation or third parties; (iv) litigation between joint venture partners regarding joint operation matters; and (v) liability that might accrue to partners as a result of the failure of the joint venture or general partnership to satisfy their obligations. The Company may enter into additional joint ventures or partnerships in the future. In 2015, the Company entered into a joint venture with Orex Minerals Inc. with respect to the Barsele project in Sweden.

To the extent that the Company is not the operator of its joint venture properties, the Company will be dependent on the operators for the timing of activities related to these properties and the Company will be largely unable to direct or control the activities of the operators. The Company also will be subject to the decisions made by the operators regarding activities at the properties, and will have to rely on the operators for accurate information about the properties. Although the Company expects that the operators of the properties in which it owns a joint venture interest will operate these properties in accordance with industry standards and in accordance with any applicable operating agreements, there can be no assurance that all decisions of the operators will achieve the expected goals.

Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates in relation to the U.S. dollar may adversely affect the Company's results of operations.

The Company's operating results and cash flow are significantly affected by changes in the U.S. dollar/Canadian dollar exchange rate. All of the Company's revenues are earned in U.S. dollars but the majority of its operating costs at the LaRonde, Lapa, Goldex, Canadian Malartic and Meadowbank mines, as well as the Meliadine project, are incurred in Canadian dollars. The U.S. dollar/Canadian dollar exchange rate has fluctuated significantly over the last several years.

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From January 1, 2011 to January 1, 2016, the Noon Buying Rate fluctuated from a high of C$1.0583 per $1.00 to a low of C$0.7148 per $1.00. Historical fluctuations in the U.S. dollar/Canadian dollar exchange rate are not necessarily indicative of future exchange rate fluctuations. Based on the Company's anticipated 2016 after-tax operating results, a 10% change in the U.S. dollar/Canadian dollar exchange rate from the 2015 market average exchange rate would affect net income by approximately $0.26 per share. To attempt to mitigate its foreign exchange risk and minimize the impact of exchange rate movements on operating results and cash flow, the Company has periodically used foreign currency options and forward foreign exchange contracts to purchase Canadian dollars; however, there can be no assurance that these strategies will be effective. See "Risk Profile – Commodity Prices and Foreign Currencies" in the Annual MD&A for a description of the assumptions underlying the sensitivity calculations. In addition, the majority of the Company's operating costs at the Kittila mine are incurred in Euros and a significant portion of operating costs at the Pinos Altos and La India mines are incurred in Mexican pesos. Each of these currencies has also fluctuated significantly against the U.S. dollar over the past several years. There can be no assurance that the Company's foreign exchange derivatives strategies will be successful or that foreign exchange fluctuations will not materially adversely affect the Company's financial performance and results of operations.

The Company estimates the recoverable amount of long-lived assets and goodwill using assumptions and if the carrying value of an asset or goodwill is then determined to be greater than its actual recoverable amount, an impairment is recognized reducing the Company's earnings.

The Company conducts annual impairment assessments of goodwill and at the end of each reporting period the Company assesses whether there is any indication that long-lived assets (such as mining properties and plant and equipment) may be impaired. If an indicator of impairment exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is calculated in order to determine if any impairment loss is required. Testing for impairment involves a comparison of the recoverable amount of the cash generating unit to its carrying value. An impairment charge is recognized for any excess of the carrying amount of the asset group or reporting unit over its recoverable amount. As at December 31, 2015, the Company tested for impairment of its mines and projects and concluded no impairments existed.

The assessment for impairment is subjective and requires management to make estimates and assumptions for a number of factors including estimates of production levels, mineral resources and mineral reserves, operating costs and capital expenditures reflected in the Company's life-of-mine plans, as well as economic factors beyond management's control, such as gold prices, discount rates and observable net asset value multiples. Should management's estimates and assumptions regarding these factors be incorrect, the Company may be required to realize impairment charges, which will reduce the Company's earnings. The timing and amount of such impairment charges is difficult to predict.

The Company's transition to reporting its financial results under IFRS may also have an effect on the frequency and amount of impairment charges. Under US GAAP, a two-step approach is used for long-lived asset impairment testing whereby long-lived assets are first tested for recoverability based on their expected undiscounted cash flows. If a long-lived asset's expected undiscounted cash flow exceeds the recorded carrying amount, no impairment charge is required. If the expected undiscounted cash flow is lower than the recorded carrying amount, the long-lived assets are written down to their estimated fair value. IFRS prescribes a one-step approach for asset impairment testing and measurement whereby an asset's recoverable amount is compared directly against its recorded carrying amount. Under IFRS, an asset's recoverable amount is determined as the higher of the estimated fair value less costs to sell or value in use (which is measured using discounted cash flows). If an asset's recoverable amount is less than the recorded carrying amount, an impairment charge is required. The difference in the approach to asset impairment testing and measurement may result in more frequent impairment charges under IFRS, where asset carrying values previously supported under US GAAP on an undiscounted cash flow basis cannot be supported on a discounted cash flow basis.

If the Company fails to comply with restrictive covenants in its debt instruments, the Company's ability to borrow under its unsecured revolving bank credit facility could be limited and the Company may then default under other debt agreements, which could harm the Company's business.

The Company's unsecured revolving bank credit facility limits, among other things, the Company's ability to permit the creation of certain liens, make investments other than investments in businesses related to mining or a business ancillary or complementary to mining, dispose of the Company's material assets or, in certain circumstances, pay dividends. In addition, the Company's guaranteed senior unsecured notes limit, among other things, the Company's ability to permit the creation of certain liens, carry on business unrelated to mining or dispose of the Company's material assets. The bank credit facility and the guaranteed senior unsecured notes also require the Company to maintain specified financial ratios and meet financial condition covenants. Events beyond the Company's control, including changes in general economic

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and business conditions, may affect the Company's ability to satisfy these covenants, which could result in a default under the bank credit facility or the guaranteed senior unsecured notes and, by extension, the BNS Letter of Credit Facility (as defined below). At March 15, 2016, there was approximately $266 million drawn under the bank credit facility (including outstanding letters of credit), approximately C$239 million drawn under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility and approximately C$97 million drawn under the TD Letter of Credit Facility (as defined below). If an event of default under the unsecured revolving bank credit facility or the guaranteed senior unsecured notes occurs, the Company would be unable to draw down further on the bank credit facility and the lenders could elect to declare all principal amounts outstanding thereunder at such time, together with accrued interest, to be immediately due and it could cause an event of default under the Company's guaranteed senior unsecured notes and the BNS Letter of Credit Facility. An event of default under the unsecured revolving bank credit facility, the guaranteed senior unsecured notes or the uncommitted letter of credit facilities may also give rise to an event of default under other existing and future debt agreements and, in such event, the Company may not have sufficient funds to repay amounts owing under such agreements.

The exploration of mineral properties is highly speculative, involves substantial expenditures and is frequently unsuccessful.

The Company's profitability is significantly affected by the costs and results of its exploration and development programs. As mines have limited lives based on proven and probable mineral reserves, the Company actively seeks to replace and expand its mineral reserves, primarily through exploration and development as well as through strategic acquisitions. Exploration for minerals is highly speculative in nature, involves many risks and is frequently unsuccessful. Among the many uncertainties inherent in any gold exploration and development program are the location of economic orebodies, the development of appropriate metallurgical processes, the receipt of necessary governmental permits, the acceptance or support of local stakeholders and the construction of mining and processing facilities. Substantial expenditures are required to pursue such exploration and development activities. Assuming discovery of an economic orebody, depending on the type of mining operation involved, several years may elapse from the initial phases of drilling until commercial operations are commenced and during such time the economic feasibility of production may change. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Company's current or future exploration and development programs will result in any new economically viable mining operations or yield new mineral reserves to replace and expand current mineral reserves.

The mining industry is highly competitive, and the Company may not be successful in competing for new mining properties.

There is a limited supply of desirable mineral properties available for claim staking, leasing, exploration or acquisition in the areas where the Company contemplates conducting activities. Many companies and individuals are engaged in the mining business, including large, established mining companies with substantial capabilities and long earnings records. The Company may be at a competitive disadvantage in acquiring mining properties, as it must compete with these companies and individuals, some of which have greater financial resources and larger technical staff than the Company. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to compete successfully for new mining properties.

The success of the Company is dependent on good relations with its employees and on its ability to attract and retain employees and key personnel.

Production at the Company's mines and mine projects is dependent on the efforts of the Company's employees and contractors. The Company competes with mining and other companies on a global basis to attract and retain employees at all levels with appropriate technical skills and operating experience necessary to operate its mines. Relationships between the Company and its employees may be affected by changes in the scheme of labour relations that may be introduced by relevant government authorities in the jurisdictions that the Company operates. Changes in applicable legislation or in the relationship between the Company and its employees or contractors may have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, results of operations and financial condition.

The Company is also dependent on a number of key management personnel. The loss of the services of one or more of such key management personnel could have a material adverse effect on the Company. The Company's ability to manage its operating, development, exploration and financing activities will depend in large part on the efforts of these individuals.

The Company faces significant competition to attract and retain qualified personnel and there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to attract and retain such personnel.

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The Company may have difficulty financing its additional capital requirements for its planned mine construction, exploration and development.

The capital required for operations (including potential expansions) and the development of the Meliadine project and the exploration and development of the Company's properties, including continuing exploration and development projects in Quebec, Nunavut, Finland, Sweden, Mexico and Nevada, will require substantial expenditures. The Company expects that capital expenditures will be approximately $491 million in 2016. As at March 15, 2016, the Company had approximately $934 million available to be drawn down under its bank credit facility. Based on current funding available to the Company and expected cash from operations, the Company believes it has sufficient funds available to fund its projected 2016 capital expenditures for all of its current properties. However, if cash from operations is lower than expected or capital costs at the Company's mines or projects exceed current estimates, if the Company incurs major unanticipated expenses related to exploration, development or maintenance of its properties, or for other purposes or if advances from the bank credit facility are unavailable, the Company may be required to seek additional financing to maintain its capital expenditures at planned levels. In addition, the Company will have additional capital requirements to the extent that it decides to expand its present operations and exploration activities, construct additional mining and processing operations at any of its properties or take advantage of opportunities for acquisitions, joint ventures or other business opportunities that may arise. Additional financing may not be available when needed or, if available, the terms of such financing may not be favourable to the Company and, if raised by offering equity securities, or securities convertible into equity securities, any additional financing may involve substantial dilution to existing shareholders. Failure to obtain any financing necessary for the Company's capital expenditure plans may result in a delay or indefinite postponement of exploration, development or production on any or all of the Company's properties, which may have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.

The continuing weakness in the global credit and capital markets could have a material adverse effect on the Company's liquidity and capital resources.

Since 2008, the credit and capital markets have experienced weakness and volatility. These credit and capital markets conditions continue to have a negative impact on the availability and terms of credit and capital. If uncertainties in these markets continue, or these markets deteriorate further, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company's liquidity, ability to raise capital and costs of capital. If the Company experiences difficulty accessing the credit and/or capital markets, the Company may seek alternative financing options, including, but not limited to, streaming transactions, royalty transactions or the sale of non-core assets. Failure to raise capital when needed or on reasonable terms may have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.

The Company's properties and mining operations may be subject to rights or claims of indigenous groups and the assertion of such rights or claims may impact the Company's ability to develop or operate its mining properties.

The Company operates in, and in the future may operate in or explore additional, areas currently or traditionally inhabited or used by indigenous peoples and subject to indigenous rights or claims. Accordingly, the Company is subject to the risk that one or more groups may oppose the continued operation, further development or new development of the Company's current or future properties. Such opposition may be directed through legal or administrative proceedings, or though protests or other campaigns against the Company's activities. Any such actions may have an adverse impact on the Company's operations. Although the Company attempts to develop and maintain good working relationships with all stakeholders, there can be no assurance that these relationships can be successfully managed.

The Company's operations are subject to numerous laws and extensive government regulations which may require significant expenditures or cause a reduction in levels of production, delays in production or the prevention of the development of new mining properties or otherwise cause the Company to incur costs that adversely affect the Company's results of operations.

The Company's mining and mineral processing operations, exploration activities and properties are subject to the laws and regulations of federal, provincial, territorial, state and local governments in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates. These laws and regulations are extensive and govern prospecting, exploration, development, production, exports, taxes, labour standards, occupational health and safety, waste disposal and tailings management, toxic substances, environmental protection, mine safety, reporting of payments to governments and other matters. Compliance with such laws and regulations increases the costs of planning, designing, drilling, developing, constructing, operating, managing, closing, reclaiming and rehabilitating mines and other facilities. New laws or regulations, amendments to current laws and regulations governing operations and activities on mining properties or more stringent implementation or

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interpretation thereof could have a material adverse effect on the Company, increase costs, cause a reduction in levels of production and delay or prevent the development of new mining properties. Regulatory enforcement, in the form of infraction or compliance notices, has occurred at some of the Company's mines and, while the current risks related to such enforcement are not expected to be material, the risk of material fines or corrective action cannot be ruled out in the future.

Due to the nature of the Company's mining operations, the Company may face liability, delays and increased production costs from environmental and industrial accidents and pollution, and the Company's insurance coverage may prove inadequate to satisfy future claims against the Company.

The business of gold mining is generally subject to risks and hazards, including environmental hazards (including hazardous substances, such as cyanide), industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected rock formations, changes in the regulatory environment, cave-ins, rock bursts, rock falls, pit wall failures and flooding and gold bullion losses. Such occurrences could result in, among other things, damage to, or destruction of, mineral properties or production facilities, personal injury or death, environmental damage, delays in mining, monetary losses and possible legal liability. As well, risks may arise with respect to the management of tailings, waste rock, mine closure and management of closed mine sites (whether the Company operated the mine site or acquired it after operations were conducted by others). The Company carries insurance to protect itself against certain risks of mining and processing in amounts that it considers to be adequate but which may not provide adequate coverage in certain unforeseen circumstances. The Company may also become subject to liability for, among other things, pollution, cave-ins or other hazards against which it cannot insure or against which it has elected not to insure because of high premium costs or other reasons, or the Company may become subject to liabilities which exceed policy limits. In these circumstances, the Company may incur significant costs that could have a material adverse effect on its financial performance and results of operations. Financial assurances may also be required with respect to closure and rehabilitation costs.

Increased regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change issues may adversely affect the Company's operations.

The Company operates in jurisdictions where regulatory requirements have taken effect, or are proposed, to monitor, report and/or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Increased regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change issues may adversely affect the Company's operations. In 2015, Canada established a greenhouse gases reduction target of 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. In December 2015, Canada signed the Paris Agreement to limit the global average temperature rise below 2^oC and pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5^oC. By the fall of 2016, the provinces and the federal government have committed to agree on a pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change. Canada's federal and provincial regulations also impose mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting requirements and the Company's Quebec mines are subject to cap and trade regulation. Similarly, Finland was a signatory to the Paris Agreement and participates in the European Union's cap and trade system. Mexico has enacted climate change legislation with a greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 30% (from business as usual levels) by 2020.

The Company monitors and reports annually its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions to the international Carbon Disclosure Project. In Quebec, the Company primarily uses hydroelectric power and is not a large producer of greenhouse gases. As a result, Quebec's regulatory requirements are not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company. In 2015, the Meadowbank mine produced approximately 190,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases (direct and indirect) mostly from the production of electricity from diesel power generation, which is approximately 47% of the Company's total greenhouse gas emissions (without accounting for the Canadian Malartic mine). It is expected that any mining operation at the Meliadine project will also primarily use diesel power generation. The Pinos Altos and La India mines purchase electricity that is largely fossil-fuel generated and, as a result, are the Company's second and third highest greenhouse gas producers (approximately 105,000 tonnes and 40,000 tonnes, respectively, of greenhouse gases in 2015), which combined are approximately 35% of the Company's total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions (without accounting for the Canadian Malartic mine). In 2015, the Canadian Malartic mine's greenhouse gas production was approximately 155,000 tonnes (direct and indirect). While these evolving regulatory requirements in respect of greenhouse gases and the additional costs required to comply are not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company's operations, such requirements may not be adopted as currently proposed, may be amended or may have unexpected effects on the Company and, as a result, may have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial performance and its results of operations.

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Title to the Company's properties may be uncertain and subject to risks.

The acquisition of title to mineral properties is a very detailed and time-consuming process. Title to, and the area of, mineral concessions may be disputed. Although the Company believes it has taken reasonable measures to ensure proper title to its properties, there is no guarantee that title to any of its properties will not be challenged or impaired. Third parties may have valid claims on underlying portions of the Company's interests, including prior unregistered liens, agreements, transfers or claims, including land claims by indigenous groups, and title may be affected by, among other things, undetected defects. In addition, although the Company believes that it has sufficient surface rights for its operations, the Company may be unable to operate its properties as permitted or to enforce its rights in respect of its properties.

The Company is subject to the risk of litigation, the causes and costs of which cannot be known.

The Company is subject to litigation arising in the normal course of business and may be involved in disputes with other parties in the future which may result in litigation. The causes of potential future litigation cannot be known and may arise from, among other things, business activities, environmental laws, volatility in stock price or failure or alleged failure to comply with disclosure obligations. For example, the Company was recently the subject of certain class action lawsuits relating to the Company's disclosure prior to the suspension of mining operations at the Goldex mine in October 2011. See "Legal Proceedings and Regulatory Actions". The results of litigation cannot be predicted with certainty. If the Company is unable to resolve litigation favourably, either by judicial determination or settlement, it may have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial performance and results of operations.

In the event of a dispute involving the foreign operations of the Company, the Company may be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of foreign courts or may not be successful in subjecting foreign persons to the jurisdiction of courts in Canada. The Company's ability to enforce its rights could have an adverse effect on its future cash flows, earnings, results of operations and financial condition.

The use of derivative instruments for the Company's by-product metal production may prevent gains from being realized from subsequent by-product metal price increases.

While the Company's general policy is not to sell forward its future gold production, the Company has used, and may in the future use, various by-product metal derivative strategies, such as selling future contracts or purchasing put options. The Company continually evaluates the potential short and long term benefits of engaging in such derivative strategies based upon current market conditions. No assurance can be given, however, that the use of by-product metal derivative strategies will benefit the Company in the future. There is a possibility that the Company could lock in forward deliveries at prices lower than the market price at the time of delivery. In addition, the Company could fail to produce enough by-product metals to offset its forward delivery obligations, requiring the Company to purchase the metal in the spot market at higher prices to fulfill its delivery obligations or, for cash settled contracts, make cash payments to counterparties in excess of by-product revenue. If the Company is locked into a lower than market price forward contract or has to buy additional quantities at higher prices, its net income could be adversely affected. None of the current contracts establishing the by-product metal derivatives positions qualify for hedge accounting treatment under IFRS and therefore any year-end mark-to-market adjustments are recognized in the "Loss on derivative financial instruments" line item of the consolidated statements of income (loss) and comprehensive income. See "Risk Profile – Financial Instruments" in the Annual MD&A for additional information.

The trading price for the Company's securities is volatile.

The trading price of the Company's common shares has been and may continue to be subject to large fluctuations which may result in losses to investors. The trading price of the Company's common shares may increase or decrease in response to a number of events and factors, including:

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changes in the market price of gold or other by-product metals the Company sells;



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events affecting economic circumstances in Canada, the United States and elsewhere;



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trends in the mining industry and the markets in which the Company operates;



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changes in financial estimates and recommendations by securities analysts;



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acquisitions, divestitures and financings;



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quarterly variations in operating results;

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compliance with new and existing regulations, including with respect to tailings management and greenhouse gas emissions;



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the operating and share price performance of other companies that investors may deem comparable; and



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purchases or sales of large blocks of the Company's common shares or securities convertible into or exchangeable for the Company's common shares.

Wide price swings are currently common in the markets on which the Company's securities trade. This volatility may adversely affect the prices of the Company's common shares regardless of the Company's operating performance.

The Company is subject to anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws.

The Company's operations are governed by, and involve interactions with, various levels of government in numerous countries. The Company is required to comply with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws, including the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada) and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as well as similar laws in the countries in which the Corporation conducts its business. Recently, there has been a general increase in the frequency of enforcement and the severity of penalties under such laws, resulting in greater scrutiny and punishment to companies convicted of violating anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws. The Company may be found liable for violations by not only its employees, but also by its third party agents. Although the Company has adopted a risk-based approach to mitigate such risks, including the implementation of policies and programs to ensure compliance with such laws, such measures are not always effective in ensuring that the Company, its employees or third party agents will comply strictly with such laws. If the Company finds itself subject to an enforcement action or is found to be in violation of such laws, this may result in significant penalties, fines and/or sanctions imposed on the Company which could result in a material adverse effect on the Company's reputation, financial performance and results of operations.

The Company is dependent on information technology systems.

The Company's operations depend, in part, upon information technology systems. The Company`s information technology systems are subject to disruption, damage or failure from a number of sources, including, but not limited to, computer viruses, security breaches, natural disasters, power loss and defects in design. Although to date the Company has not experienced any material losses relating to information technology system disruptions, damage or failure, there can be no assurance that it will not incur such losses in future. Any of these and other events could result in information technology systems failures, operational delays, production downtimes, destruction or corruption of data, security breaches or other manipulation or improper use of the Company`s systems and networks, any of which could have adverse effects on the Company`s reputation, results of operations and financial performance.

The Company may not be able to comply with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX") requires an annual assessment by management of the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Section 404 of SOX also requires an annual attestation report by the Company's independent auditors addressing the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. The Company has completed its Section 404 assessment and received the auditors' attestation as of December 31, 2015.

If the Company fails to maintain the adequacy of its internal control over financial reporting, as such standards are modified, supplemented or amended from time to time, the Company may not be able to conclude that it has effective internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of SOX. The Company's failure to satisfy the requirements of Section 404 of SOX on an ongoing, timely basis could result in the loss of investor confidence in the reliability of its financial statements, which in turn could harm the Company's business and negatively impact the trading price of its common shares or market value of its other securities. In addition, any failure to implement required new or improved controls, or difficulties encountered in their implementation, could harm the Company's operating results or cause it to fail to meet its reporting obligations. Future acquisitions of companies may provide the Company with challenges in implementing the required processes, procedures and controls in its acquired operations. Acquired companies may not have disclosure controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting that are as thorough or effective as those required by securities laws currently applicable to the Company.

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No evaluation can provide complete assurance that the Company's internal control over financial reporting will prevent misstatement due to error or fraud or will detect or uncover all control issues or instances of fraud, if any. The effectiveness of the Company's controls and procedures could also be limited by simple errors or faulty judgments. In addition, as the Company continues to expand, the challenges involved in maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting will increase and will require that the Company continue to improve its internal control over financial reporting. The Company cannot be certain that it will be successful in continuing to comply with Section 404 of SOX.

DIVIDENDS

The Company's current policy is to pay quarterly dividends on its common shares and, on February 10, 2016, the Company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.08 per common share, payable on March 15, 2016. In 2015, the dividend paid was $0.32 per common share (quarterly payments of $0.08 per common share). In 2014, the dividend paid was $0.32 per common share (quarterly payments of $0.08 per common share). In 2013, the dividend paid was $0.88 per common share (quarterly payments of $0.22 per common share). Although the Company expects to continue paying a cash dividend, future dividends will be at the discretion of the Board and will be subject to factors such as the Company's earnings, financial condition and capital requirements. The Company's bank credit facility contains a covenant that restricts the Company's ability to declare or pay dividends if certain events of default under the bank credit facility have occurred and are continuing.

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE

The Company's authorized capital consists of an unlimited number of shares of one class designated as common shares. All outstanding common shares of the Company are fully paid and non-assessable. The holders of the common shares are entitled to one vote per share at meetings of shareholders and to receive dividends if, as and when declared by the directors of the Company. In the event of voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company, after payment of all outstanding debts, the remaining assets of the Company available for distribution would be distributed rateably to the holders of the common shares. Holders of the common shares of the Company have no pre-emptive, redemption, exchange or conversion rights. The Company may not create any class or series of shares or make any modification to the provisions attaching to the Company's common shares without the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes cast by the holders of the common shares.

RATINGS

The rating of the Company's notes (the "Notes") issued under the Note Purchase Agreements (as defined under "Material Contracts – Note Purchase Agreements") by the rating agency Dominion Bond Rating Service ("DBRS") as at December 31, 2015 is BBB (low) with a stable outlook.

DBRS's long-term credit ratings are on a rating scale that ranges from AAA to D, which represents the range from highest to lowest quality of securities rated. DBRS's BBB rating assigned to the Company's Notes is the fourth highest of the ten rating categories for long-term debt. Debt securities rated "BBB" are of adequate credit quality, and the capacity for the payment of financial obligations is considered acceptable. However, the obligor is fairly susceptible to adverse changes in financial and economic conditions, or there may be other adverse conditions present which reduce the strength of the obligor. A reference to "high" or "low" reflects the relative strength within the rating category. DBRS has also assigned a stable outlook to the rating, which indicates the direction DBRS considers the rating is headed should present trends continue.

The Company understands that the rating is based on, among other things, information furnished to DBRS by the Company and information obtained by DBRS from publicly available sources. The credit rating given to the Company's Notes by DBRS is not a recommendation to buy, hold or sell debt instruments since such rating does not comment as to market price or suitability for a particular investor. There is no assurance that any rating will remain in effect for any given period of time or that any rating will not be revised or withdrawn entirely by a rating agency in the future if, in its judgment, circumstances so warrant. Credit ratings are intended to provide investors with: (i) an independent measure of the credit quality of an issue of securities; (ii) an indication of the likelihood of repayment for an issue of securities; and (iii) an indication of the capacity and willingness of the issuer to meet its financial obligations in accordance with the terms of those securities. The credit rating accorded to the Notes may not reflect the potential impact of all risks on the value of debt instruments, including risks related to market or other factors discussed in this AIF. If DBRS lowers the credit rating on the

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Notes, particularly a downgrade below investment grade, it could adversely affect the Company's cost of financing and access to liquidity and capital. See also "Risk Factors".

MARKET FOR SECURITIES

Common Shares

The Company's common shares are listed and traded on the TSX and on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") under the symbol "AEM". On March 15, 2016 the closing price of the common shares was C$47.84 on the TSX and $35.77 on the NYSE.

The following table sets forth the high and low sale prices and the average daily trading volume for the Company's common shares on the TSX and the NYSE since January 1, 2015.

	TSX			NYSE
	High (C$)	Low (C$)	Average Daily Volume	High ($)	Low ($)	Average Daily Volume
2015
January	43.33	28.32	1,388,630	34.36	24.19	3,678,679
February	43.70	37.70	882,847	34.78	29.95	2,560,368
March	41.07	34.30	783,142	33.00	26.90	2,213,522
April	38.98	35.40	843,464	32.24	28.18	2,106,896
May	41.69	36.36	905,772	34.89	30.08	2,054,470
June	40.95	35.08	727,489	32.82	28.15	1,621,640
July	38.07	27.86	920,818	30.10	21.40	2,785,944
August	36.54	27.63	1,146,806	27.91	21.00	3,970,144
September	34.82	28.15	1,054,256	26.14	21.22	3,757,598
October	39.57	32.48	1,176,610	30.69	24.47	3,449,670
November	37.28	33.00	756,635	28.39	24.80	2,278,844
December	39.08	34.80	779,011	29.15	24.93	2,057,544
2016
January	42.67	37.07	1,133,064	30.29	26.10	2,994,987
February	51.49	40.68	1,248,981	37.24	28.95	3,523,566
March (to March 15)	48.78	44.07	1,330,000	36.79	32.87	3,156,848

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DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY

Directors

The following is a brief biography of each of the Company's directors:

Dr. Leanne M. Baker, of Sebastopol, California, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. From November 2011 until June 2013, Dr. Baker was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Gold Mining Inc. Previously, Dr. Baker was employed by Salomon Smith Barney where she was one of the top-ranked mining sector equity analysts in the United States. Dr. Baker is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines (M.S. and Ph.D. in mineral economics). Dr. Baker has been a director of Agnico Eagle since January 1, 2003, and is also a director of Sutter Gold Mining Inc. (a mining exploration company traded on the TSX-V and the OTCQX), Reunion Gold Corporation (a mining exploration company traded on the TSX-V) and McEwen Mining Inc. (a gold and silver producing company traded on the NYSE Arca and the TSX). Area of expertise: Corporate Finance and Mineral Economics.

Sean Boyd, CPA, CA, of Toronto, Ontario, is the Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Agnico Eagle. Mr. Boyd has been with Agnico Eagle since 1985. Prior to his appointment as Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in April 2015, Mr. Boyd served as Vice-Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 2012 to 2015, Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2012 and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2005, Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer from 1996 to 1998, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer from 1990 to 1996, Secretary Treasurer during a portion of 1990 and Comptroller from 1985 to 1990. Prior to joining Agnico Eagle in 1985, he was a staff accountant with Clarkson Gordon (Ernst & Young). Mr. Boyd is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm.). Mr. Boyd has been a director of Agnico Eagle since April 14, 1998. Area of expertise: Executive Management and Finance.

Martine A. Celej, of Toronto, Ontario, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Ms. Celej is currently a Vice-President, Investment Advisor with RBC Dominion Securities and has been in the investment industry since 1989. She is a graduate of Victoria College at the University of Toronto (B.A. (Honours)). Ms. Celej has been a director of Agnico Eagle since February 14, 2011. Area of expertise: Investment Management.

Robert J. Gemmell, of Toronto, Ontario, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Now retired, Mr. Gemmell spent 25 years as an investment banker in the United States and in Canada. Most recently, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Global Markets Canada and its predecessor companies (Salomon Brothers Canada and Salomon Smith Barney Canada) from 1996 to 2008. In addition, he was a member of the Global Operating Committee of Citigroup Global Markets from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Gemmell is a graduate of Cornell University (B.A.), Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B.) and the Schulich School of Business (M.B.A.). Mr. Gemmell has been a director of Agnico Eagle since January 1, 2011. Area of expertise: Corporate Finance and Business Strategy.

Mel Leiderman, FCPA, FCA, TEP, ICD.D, of Toronto, Ontario, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Mr. Leiderman is the senior partner of the Toronto accounting firm Lipton LLP, Chartered Accountants. He is a graduate of the University of Windsor (B.A.) and is a certified director of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D). He has been a director of Agnico Eagle since January 1, 2003 and is also a director and a chairman of the Audit Committee of Morguard North American Residential REIT. Area of expertise: Audit and Accounting.

Deborah McCombe, P. Geo. of Toronto, Ontario, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Mrs. McCombe is the President and CEO of Roscoe Postle Associates Inc., a mining consultant firm ("RPA"). She has over 30 years' of international experience in exploration project management, feasibility studies, reserve estimation, due diligence studies and valuation studies. Prior to joining RPA, Ms. McCombe was Chief Mining Consultant for the Ontario Securities Commission and was involved in the development and implementation of NI 43-101. She is actively involved in industry associations as a member of the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards – (CIM); President of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (2010 – 2011); a Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (1999 – 2011); a CIM Distinguished Lecturer on NI 43-101; a member of the CIM Standing Committee on Reserve Definitions; a member of the Canadian Securities Administrators Mining Technical Advisory and Monitoring Committee; and a Guest Lecturer at the Schulich School of Business (M.B.A.) in Global Mine Management at York University. Ms. McCombe holds a degree in Geology from the University of Western Ontario. Ms. McCombe has been a director of Agnico Eagle since February 12, 2014. Area of expertise: Executive Management and Mining.

James D. Nasso, ICD.D, of Toronto, Ontario, is Chairman of the Board of Directors and an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Mr. Nasso is now retired. Mr. Nasso is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University (B.Comm.) and is a certified director of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D). Mr. Nasso has been a director of Agnico Eagle since June 27, 1986. Area of expertise: Management and Business Strategy.

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Dr. Sean Riley, of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Now retired, Dr. Riley served as President of St. Francis Xavier University from 1996 to 2014. Prior to 1996, his career was in finance and management, first in corporate banking and later in manufacturing. Dr. Riley is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University (B.A. (Honours)) and of Oxford University (M. Phil, D. Phil, International Relations). Dr. Riley has been a director of Agnico Eagle since January 1, 2011. Area of expertise: Management and Business Strategy.

J. Merfyn Roberts, CA, of London, England, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Mr. Roberts, now retired, was a fund manager and investment advisor for more than 25 years and has been closely associated with the mining industry. From 2007 until his retirement in 2011, he was a senior fund manager with CQS Management Ltd. in London. Mr. Roberts is a graduate of Liverpool University (B.Sc., Geology) and Oxford University (M.Sc., Geochemistry) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Mr. Roberts has been a director of Agnico Eagle since June 17, 2008, and is also a director and a member of the Audit Committee of Eastern Platinum Limited and Newport Exploration Limited and a director of Blackheath Resources Inc. Area of expertise: Investment Management.

Jamie Sokalsky, CPA, CA, of Toronto, Ontario, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Now retired, Mr. Sokalsky has over 20 years' experience as a senior executive in the mining industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer and President of Barrick Gold Corporation ("Barrick") from June 2012 to September 2014, and as Chief Financial Officer of Barrick from 1999 to June 2012 and Executive Vice President of Barrick from April 2004 to June 2012. Prior to entering the mining industry, Mr. Sokalsky served for 10 years at George Weston Limited and began his professional career at Ernst & Whinney Chartered Accountants (KPMG). Mr. Sokalsky is graduate of Lakehead University (B.Comm. (Honours)). Mr. Sokalsky has been a director of Agnico Eagle since June 2, 2015, and is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Probe Metals Inc. and a director of Pengrowth Energy Corporation and Royal Gold, Inc. Area of expertise: Executive Management, Finance and Accounting.

Howard R. Stockford, P.Eng., of Toronto, Ontario, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Mr. Stockford is a retired mining executive with 50 years of experience in the industry. Most recently, he was Executive Vice-President of Aur Resources Inc. ("Aur") and a director of Aur from 1984 until August 2007, when it was taken over by Teck Cominco Limited. Mr. Stockford has previously served as President of the CIM and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the Society of Economic Geologists. Mr. Stockford is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London University, U.K. (B.Sc., Mining Geology). Mr. Stockford has been a director of Agnico Eagle since May 6, 2005. Area of expertise: Executive Management and Mining.

Pertti Voutilainen, M.Sc., M.Eng., of Espoo, Finland, is an independent director of Agnico Eagle. Mr. Voutilainen is a mining industry veteran. Until 2005, he was the Chairman of the board of directors of Riddarhyttan Resources AB. Previously, Mr. Voutilainen was the Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of Kansallis Banking Group and President after its merger with Union Bank of Finland until his retirement in 2000. He was also employed by Outokumpu Corp., Finland's largest mining and metals company, for 26 years, including as Chief Executive Officer for 11 years. Mr. Voutilainen holds the honorary title of Mining Counselor (Bergsrad), which was awarded to him by the President of the Republic of Finland in 2003. Mr. Voutilainen is a graduate of Helsinki University of Technology (M.Sc.), Helsinki University of Business Administration (M.Sc.) and Pennsylvania State University (M. Eng.). He has been a director of Agnico Eagle since December 13, 2005. Area of expertise: Mining and Finance.

The by-laws of Agnico Eagle provide that directors will hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of shareholders of Agnico Eagle or until their successors are elected or appointed or the position is vacated. The Board annually appoints the officers of Agnico Eagle, who are subject to removal by resolution of the Board at any time, with or without cause (in the absence of a written agreement to the contrary).

Committees

The members of the Audit Committee are Dr. Leanne M. Baker (Chair), Mel Leiderman, Dr. Sean Riley and Mr. Jamie Sokalsky.

The members of the Compensation Committee are Robert J. Gemmell (Chair), Martine A. Celej, J. Merfyn Roberts and Howard R. Stockford.

The members of the Corporate Governance Committee are Pertti Voutilainen (Chair), James D. Nasso and J. Merfyn Roberts.

The members of the Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainable Development Committee are Deborah McCombe (Chair), James D. Nasso and Howard R. Stockford.

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Officers

The following is a brief biography of each of the Company's officers (for Mr. Boyd, see "Directors and Officers of the Company – Directors"):

Ammar Al-Joundi, of Toronto, Ontario, is President of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since April 6, 2015. From September 2010 to June 2012, Mr. Al-Joundi was Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Agnico Eagle. Prior to returning to Agnico Eagle in 2015, Mr. Al-Joundi served in various roles at Barrick, including as Chief Financial Officer from July 2012 to February 2015, Senior Executive Vice President from July 2014 to February 2015 and Executive Vice President from July 2012 to July 2014. Prior to joining Agnico Eagle in 2010, Mr. Al-Joundi spent 11 years at Barrick serving in various senior financial roles, including Senior Vice President of Capital Allocation and Business Strategy, Senior Vice President of Finance, and Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Barrick South America. Prior to joining the mining industry, Mr. Al-Joundi served as Vice President, Structured Finance at Citibank, Canada. Mr. Al-Joundi is a graduate of Western University (M.B.A. (Honours)) and the University of Toronto (BASc (Mechanical Engineering)).

Donald G. Allan, CPA, CA, of Toronto, Ontario, is Senior Vice-President, Corporate Development of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since December 14, 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Allan had been Vice-President, Corporate Development since May 6, 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Allan spent 16 years as an investment banker covering the mining and natural resources sectors with the firms Salomon Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Allan is a graduate of the Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College (M.B.A.) and the University of Toronto (B.Comm.). Mr. Allan is also qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

Alain Blackburn, P.Eng., of Oakville, Ontario, is Senior Vice-President, Exploration of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since December 14, 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Blackburn had been Vice-President, Exploration since October 1, 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Blackburn served as Agnico Eagle's Manager, Corporate Development from January 1999 and Exploration Manager from September 1996 to January 1999. Mr. Blackburn joined Agnico Eagle in 1988 as Chief Geologist at the LaRonde mine. Mr. Blackburn is a graduate of Université du Quebec de Chicoutimi (P.Eng.) and Université du Quebec en Abitibi-Temiscamingue (M.Sc.).

Picklu Datta, CPA, CA, of Toronto, Ontario is Senior Vice-President, Treasury and Finance of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since October 24, 2012. Mr. Datta was previously Vice-President, Treasurer and prior to that, he was Vice-President, Controller of Agnico Eagle. Prior to joining Agnico Eagle in 2005, Mr. Datta worked at Philip Morris Companies in New York City for approximately eight years and the technology industry for three years in various financial management roles. Mr. Datta is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm.) and acquired his Chartered Accountancy designation by articling with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Louise Grondin, Ing. P.Eng., of Toronto, Ontario, is Senior Vice-President, Environment, Sustainable Development and People of Agnico Eagle, a position she has held since February 2015. Prior to that, Ms. Grondin was Senior Vice-President, Environment and Sustainable Development and before that she was Vice-President, Environment and Sustainable Development. Prior to her employment with Agnico Eagle, Ms. Grondin worked for Billiton Canada Ltd. as Manager Environment, Human Resources and Safety. Ms. Grondin is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (B.Sc.) and McGill University (M.Sc.). Ms. Grondin is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario since 1984 and of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec since 2001.

Tim Haldane, P.Eng., of Tucson, Arizona, is Senior Vice-President, Operations – USA & Latin America of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since February 15, 2014. Prior to that, Mr. Haldane was Senior Vice-President, Latin America. Prior to joining Agnico Eagle in May 2006, he was Vice President, Development for Glamis Gold Inc. Mr. Haldane has participated in numerous acquisition and development activities in North America and Central America, most recently including the Pinos Altos, Creston Mascota and La India properties for Agnico Eagle. He is a graduate of the Montana School of Mines and Technology (B.S. Metallurgical Engineering) and has 35 years of experience in the precious metals and base metals industries.

R. Gregory Laing, of Oakville, Ontario, is General Counsel, Senior Vice-President, Legal and Corporate Secretary of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since December 14, 2006, prior to which, Mr. Laing had been General Counsel, Vice-President, Legal and Corporate Secretary since September 19, 2005. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Legal of Goldcorp Inc. from October 2003 to June 2005 and General Counsel, Vice President, Legal and Corporate Secretary of TVX Gold Inc. from October 1995 to January 2003. He worked as a corporate securities lawyer for two prominent Toronto law firms prior to that. Mr. Laing is a graduate of the University of Windsor (LL.B.) and Queen's University (B.A.).

Marc Hubert Legault, P.Eng, of Mississauga, Ontario, is Senior Vice-President, Project Evaluations of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since February 2012. Prior to that, he was Vice-President, Project Development since 2007. Mr. Legault has been with Agnico Eagle since 1988, when he was hired as an exploration geologist in Val d'Or, Quebec.

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Since then, he has taken on successively increasing responsibilities in the Company's exploration, mine geology and project evaluation activities. Mr. Legault is a graduate of Carleton University (M.Sc. in Geology) and Queen's University (B.Sc.H. in Geological Engineering). Mr. Legault is a registered Professional Engineer.

Jean Robitaille, of Oakville, Ontario, is Senior Vice-President, Business Strategy and Technical Services of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since February 2014. Prior to that, he held various positions with Agnico Eagle since 1988, most recently as Senior Vice-President, Technical Services and Project Development, Vice-President, Metallurgy & Marketing, General Manager, Metallurgy & Marketing and Mill Superintendent and Project Manager for the expansion of the LaRonde mill. Prior to joining Agnico Eagle, Mr. Robitaille worked as a metallurgist with Teck Mining Group. Mr. Robitaille is a director of Pershimco Resources Inc. (a mining exploration company) traded on the TSX-V and has served on the board of directors of the Canada Mining Innovation Council since May 2014. Mr. Robitaille is a mining graduate of the College de l'Abitibi Témiscamingue with a specialty in mineral processing.

David Smith, P.Eng., of Toronto, Ontario, is Senior Vice-President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Agnico Eagle, a position he has held since October 24, 2012. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice-President, Strategic Planning and Investor Relations, a position he held since January 1, 2011, prior to that he was Senior Vice-President, Investor Relations and prior to that he was Vice-President, Investor Relations. He started work in investor relations at Agnico Eagle in February 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Smith was a mining analyst for more than five years and held a variety of mining engineering positions, both in Canada and abroad. Mr. Smith is a Chartered Director, a member of the Board of Directors of the Denver Gold Group and an alternate Director of the World Gold Council. He is a graduate of Queen's University (B.Sc.) and the University of Arizona (M.Sc.). Mr. Smith is also a Professional Engineer.

Yvon Sylvestre, of Mississauga, Ontario, is Senior Vice-President, Operations – Canada & Europe, a position he has held since February 2014. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice-President, Operations, Vice-President, Construction, Mine General Manager at the Goldex division of Agnico Eagle and, previously, Mill Superintendent at the LaRonde division. Mr. Sylvestre is a Metallurgical Engineering Technology graduate from Cambrian College in Sudbury. Following graduation, he served as Metallurgist and Mill Superintendent at the Joutel division of Agnico Eagle and also held the position of Mill Superintendent at the Trollus division of Inmet Mining Corporation.

Shareholdings of Directors and Officers

As at March 15, 2016, the directors and officers of Agnico Eagle, as a group, beneficially owned, or controlled or directed, directly or indirectly, an aggregate of 427,077 common shares or approximately 0.2% of the 220,993,605 issued and outstanding common shares.

Cease Trade Orders, Bankruptcies, Penalties or Sanctions

No director or officer of the Company is, or within ten years prior to the date hereof has been, a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer of any company (including the Company) that: (i) was subject to a cease trade order, an order similar to a cease trade order or an order that denied the relevant company access to any exemption under securities legislation, that was in effect for a period of more than 30 consecutive days, that was issued while the director or officer was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer; or (ii) was subject to a cease trade order, an order similar to a cease trade order or an order that denied the relevant company access to any exemption under securities legislation, that was in effect for a period of more than 30 consecutive days, that was issued after the director or officer ceased to be a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer and which resulted from an event that occurred while that person was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer.

Except as described below, no director or officer of the Company, or a shareholder holding a sufficient number of securities of the Company to affect materially the control of the Company: (i) is, or within ten years prior to the date hereof has been, a director or officer of any company (including the Company) that, while that person was acting in that capacity, or within a year of that person ceasing to act in that capacity, became bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or was subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold its assets; or (ii) has, within ten years prior to the date hereof, become bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, or become subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors, or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold the assets of the director, officer or shareholder.

No director or officer of the Company, or a shareholder holding a sufficient number of securities of the Company to affect materially the control of the Company, has been subject to: (i) any penalties or sanctions imposed by a court relating to securities legislation or by a securities regulatory authority or has entered into a settlement agreement with a securities

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regulatory authority; or (ii) any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body that would likely be considered important to a reasonable investor in making an investment decision.

Mr. Leiderman, a director of the Company, was a director of Colossus Minerals Inc. ("Colossus") from August 1, 2011 until his resignation on November 13, 2013. On February 7, 2014, Colossus filed a proposal to its creditors under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada). On February 25, 2014, the resolution approving an amended proposal was approved by the requisite majority of Colossus' creditors. On April 30, 2014, Colossus announced that it had completed the implementation of the court-approved proposal.

Conflicts of Interest

To the best of the Company's knowledge, and other than as disclosed in this AIF, there are no known existing or potential conflicts of interest between the Company and any director or officer of the Company, except that certain of the directors and officers of the Company serve as directors and officers of other public companies and therefore it is possible that a conflict may arise between their duties as a director or officer of the Company and their duties as a director or officer of such other company.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

The Audit Committee has two primary objectives. The first is to advise the Board of Directors in its oversight responsibilities regarding:

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the quality and integrity of the Company's financial reports and information;



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the Company's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements;



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the effectiveness of the Company's internal controls for finance, accounting, internal audit, ethics and legal and regulatory compliance;



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the performance of the Company's auditing, accounting and financial reporting functions;



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the fairness of related party agreements and arrangements between the Company and related parties; and



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the independent auditors' performance, qualifications and independence.

The second primary objective of the Audit Committee is to prepare the reports required to be included in management information circulars of the Company in accordance with applicable laws or the rules of applicable securities regulatory authorities.

The Board has adopted an Audit Committee charter, which provides that each member of the Audit Committee must be unrelated to and independent from the Company as determined by the Board in accordance with the applicable requirements of the laws governing the Company, the stock exchanges on which the Company's securities are listed and applicable securities regulatory authorities. In addition, each member must be financially literate and at least one member of the Audit Committee must be an audit committee financial expert, as the term is defined in the rules of the SEC. The Audit Committee charter is attached as Schedule A to this AIF.

Composition of the Audit Committee

The Audit Committee is composed entirely of directors who are unrelated to and independent from the Company (currently, Dr. Baker (Chair), Mr. Leiderman, Dr. Riley and Mr. Sokalsky), each of whom is financially literate, as the term is used in the CSA's Multilateral Instrument 52-110 – Audit Committees. In addition, Mr. Leiderman and Mr. Sokalsky are Chartered Accountants; the Board has determined that both of them qualify as an audit committee financial experts, as the term is defined in the rules of the SEC.

Relevant Education and Experience

The education and experience of each member of the Audit Committee is set out under "Directors and Officers of the Company – Directors" above.

Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

In 2003, the Audit Committee established a policy to pre-approve all services provided by the Company's independent public auditor, Ernst & Young LLP. The Audit Committee determines which non-audit services the independent auditors are prohibited from providing and authorizes permitted non-audit services to be performed by the independent auditors to

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the extent those services are permitted by SOX and other applicable legislation and regulations. All fees paid to Ernst & Young LLP in 2015 were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.

External Auditor Service Fees

Ernst & Young LLP has served as the Company's independent public auditor for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014. Fees paid to Ernst & Young LLP in 2015 and 2014 are set out below.

	Year Ended December 31,
	2015	2014
	(C$ thousands)
Audit fees	2,305	2,489
Audit-related fees(1)	222	23
Tax fees(2)	308	1,475
All other fees(3)	214	752
Total(4)	3,049	4,739

Notes:

(1)

Audit related fees consist of fees paid for assurance and related services performed by the auditors that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit of the Company's financial statements. This includes consultation with respect to financial reporting, accounting standards and compliance with Section 404 of SOX.

(2)

Tax fees were paid for professional services relating to tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning. These services included the review of tax returns and tax planning and advisory services in connection with international and domestic taxation issues.

(3)

All other fees were paid for services other than the services described above and include fees for professional services rendered by the auditors in connection with the conversion to IFRS as well the translation of securities regulatory filings required to comply with securities laws in certain Canadian jurisdictions.

(4)

No other fees were paid to auditors in the previous two years.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS

On March 8, 2012 and April 10, 2012, a Notice of Action and Statement of Claim (collectively, the "Ontario Claim") were issued by William Leslie, AFA Livforsakringsaktiebolag and certain other entities against the Company and certain of its current and former officers and directors. On September 27, 2012, the plaintiffs issued a Fresh as Amended Statement of Claim. The Fresh as Amended Statement of Claim alleged that the Company's public disclosure concerning water flow issues at the Goldex mine was misleading. The Ontario Claim was issued by the plaintiffs on behalf of all persons and entities who acquired securities of the Company during the period March 26, 2010 to October 19, 2011, excluding persons resident or domiciled in the Province of Quebec at the time they purchased or acquired such securities. The plaintiffs sought, among other things, damages of C$250 million. On April 17, 2013 an Order was granted on consent certifying the action and granting leave for the claims under Section 138 of the Securities Act (Ontario) to proceed.

On March 28, 2012, the Company and certain of its current and former officers, some of whom also are or were directors of the Company, were named as respondents in a Motion for Leave to Institute a Class Action and for the Appointment of a Representative Plaintiff (the "Quebec Motion"). The action was on behalf of all persons and entities with fewer than 50 employees resident in Quebec who acquired securities of the Company between March 26, 2010 and October 19, 2011. The proposed class action was for damages of C$100 million arising as a result of allegedly misleading disclosure by the Company concerning its operations at the Goldex mine. On October 15, 2012, the plaintiffs served an amended Quebec Motion seeking leave to commence an action under the Securities Act (Quebec) in addition to seeking authorization to institute a class action. On October 1, 2013, the Quebec court certified the class action on terms identical to those set out in the consent Order granted in Ontario on April 17, 2013.

In September 2015, the Company participated in a mediation with the plaintiffs in respect of both the Ontario and Quebec actions and reached an agreement in principle to settle the Ontario and Quebec actions for C$17.0 million without any admission of liability. As part of the settlement, the proceedings against the Company and the individual defendants have been dismissed. The settlement was approved by the Ontario and Quebec courts on February 11, 2016 and February 1, 2016, respectively. The amount of the settlement has been covered by the insurers to the Company.

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INTEREST OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS

Other than as described in this AIF, since January 1, 2014, no director, officer or 10% shareholder of the Company or any associate or affiliate of any such person or shareholder, has or had any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction that has materially affected or will materially affect the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

The registrar and transfer agent for the Company's common shares is Computershare Trust Company of Canada, Toronto, Ontario.

MATERIAL CONTRACTS

The Company believes the following contracts constitute the only material contracts to which it is a party.

Credit Facility

On August 4, 2011, the Company amended and restated its credit facility with a group of financial institutions that provides a $1.2 billion unsecured revolving bank credit facility (the "Credit Facility"). The Credit Facility was subsequently amended on July 20, 2012, September 8, 2014 and September 30, 2015. The Credit Facility matures and all indebtedness thereunder is due and payable on June 22, 2020. The Company, with the consent of lenders representing at least 66²/3% of the aggregate commitments under the Credit Facility, may extend the term of the Credit Facility for additional one-year terms. The Credit Facility is available in multiple currencies through prime rate and base rate advances, priced at the applicable rate plus a margin that ranges from 0.45% to 1.75%, depending on the Company`s credit rating, and through LIBOR advances, bankers' acceptances and letters of credit, priced at the applicable rate plus a margin that ranges from 1.45% to 2.75% depending on the Company's credit rating. The lenders under the Credit Facility are each paid a standby fee at a rate that ranges from 0.29% to 0.55% of the undrawn portion of the facility, depending on the Company`s credit rating. The Credit Facility provides for an uncommitted accordion feature which permits the Company to request an increase in the principal amount of the facility by up to $300 million. No increase to the principal amount of the facility will occur pursuant to the accordion feature unless one or more lenders agree to increase their commitments or a new lender agrees to commitments under the Credit Facility. Payment and performance of the Company's obligations under the Credit Facility are guaranteed by each of its material subsidiaries and certain of its other subsidiaries (the "Guarantors" and, together with the Company, each an "Obligor").

The Credit Facility contains covenants that limit, among other things, the ability of an Obligor to:

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incur additional indebtedness;



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pay or declare dividends or make other restricted distributions or payments in respect of the Company's equity securities if an event of default has occurred and is continuing;



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make sales or other dispositions of material assets;



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create liens on its existing or future assets, other than permitted liens;



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enter into transactions with affiliates other than the Obligors, except on a commercially reasonable basis as if it were dealing with such person at arm's length;



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make any investment or loan other than: investments in or loans to businesses related to mining or a business ancillary or complementary to mining; investments in cash equivalents; or certain inter-company investments or loans;



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enter into or maintain certain derivative instruments; and



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amalgamate or otherwise transfer its assets.

The Company is also required to maintain a total net debt to EBITDA ratio below a specified maximum value as well as a minimum tangible net worth. Events of default under the Credit Facility include, among other things:

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the failure to pay principal when due and payable or interest, fees or other amounts payable within five business days of such amounts becoming due and payable;

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the breach by the Company of any financial covenant;



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the breach by any Obligor of any of its obligations or undertakings under the Credit Facility or related agreements or documents that is not cured within 30 days after written notice of the breach has been given to the Company;



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a default under any other indebtedness of the Obligors if the effect of such default is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the due date of such indebtedness in an aggregate amount of $50 million or more;



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a change of control of the Company which is defined to occur upon (a) the acquisition, directly or indirectly, by any means whatsoever, by any person, or group of persons acting jointly or in concert, (collectively, an "offeror") of beneficial ownership of, or the power to exercise control or direction over, or securities convertible or exchangeable into, any securities of the Company carrying in aggregate (assuming the exercise of all such conversion or exchange rights in favour of the offeror) more than 50% of the aggregate votes represented by the voting stock then issued and outstanding or otherwise entitling the offeror to elect a majority of the board of directors of the Company, or (b) the replacement by way of election or appointment at any time of one-half or more of the total number of the then incumbent members of the board of directors of the Company, or the election or appointment of new directors comprising one-half or more of the total number of members of the board of directors in office immediately following such election or appointment; unless, in any such case, the nomination of such directors for election or their appointment is approved by the board of directors of the Company in office immediately preceding such nomination or appointment in circumstances where such nomination or appointment is made other than as a result of a dissident public proxy solicitation, whether actual or threatened (a "Change of Control"); and



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various events relating to the bankruptcy or insolvency or winding-up, liquidation or dissolution or cessation of business of any Obligor.

As at March 15, 2016, there was approximately $266 million in the aggregate drawn under the Credit Facility (including outstanding letters of credit).

Letter of Credit Facilities

BNS Letter of Credit Facility

On June 26, 2012, the Company entered into a letter of credit facility with The Bank of Nova Scotia, as lender, providing for a C$150 million uncommitted letter of credit facility (the "BNS Letter of Credit Facility"). Through a series of amendments to the BNS Letter of Credit Facility from November 5, 2013 to October 28, 2015, the Company and the lender increased the maximum aggregate amount that may be outstanding under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility to C$250 million.

Under the terms of the BNS Letter of Credit Facility, the Company may request to be issued one or more letters of credit in a maximum aggregate amount outstanding at any time not exceeding C$250 million. The BNS Letter of Credit Facility may be used by the Company to support (a) reclamation obligations of the Company or its subsidiaries or (b) non-financial or performance obligations of the Company or its subsidiaries that are not directly related to reclamation obligations. If the Company fails to pay any amount of a reimbursement obligation under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility, including any interest thereon, on the date such amount is due, the overdue amount will bear interest at equal to 2% greater than the prime rate (as calculated under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility). Payment and performance of the Company's obligations under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility are guaranteed by the Guarantors.

Events of default under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility include, among other things:

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the failure to pay any amount drawn under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility within three business days of when notified or demanded by the lender;



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the breach by any Obligor of any obligation or undertaking under the Letter of Credit Facility or guarantee provided pursuant to the BNS Letter of Credit Facility;



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a default under any other indebtedness of the Obligors if the effect of such default is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the due date of such indebtedness in an aggregate amount of $50 million or more; and



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a Change of Control.

The BNS Letter of Credit Facility provides that upon an event of default, The Bank of Nova Scotia may declare immediately due and payable all amounts drawn under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility.

As at March 15, 2016, there was approximately C$239 million in the aggregate drawn under the BNS Letter of Credit Facility.

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TD Letter of Credit Facility

On September 23, 2015, the Company entered into a standby letter of credit facility with The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as lender, providing for a C$150 million uncommitted letter of credit facility (as amended, the "TD Letter of Credit Facility").

Under the terms of the TD Letter of Credit Facility, the Company may request to be issued one or more letters of credit in a maximum aggregate amount outstanding at any time not exceeding C$150 million. The TD Letter of Credit Facility may be used by the Company to support (a) the reclamation obligations of the Company, its subsidiaries or any entity in which the Company has a direct or indirect interest or (b) the performance obligations (other than with respect to indebtedness for borrowed money) of the Company, its subsidiaries or any entity in which the Company has a direct or indirect interest that are not directly related to reclamation obligations.

Payment and performance of the Company's obligations under the TD Letter of Credit Facility are supported by an account performance security guarantee issued by Export Development Canada ("EDC") in favour of the lender. EDC issued the guarantee in connection with a declaration and indemnity dated September 23, 2015 between EDC and the Obligors (as supplemented, the "EDC Indemnity"). Pursuant to the EDC Indemnity, each of the Obligors has agreed to indemnify EDC against all claims and demands made in respect of any indemnity bonding product issued by EDC pursuant to the EDC Indemnity.

As at March 15, 2016, there was approximately C$97 million in the aggregate drawn under the TD Letter of Credit Facility.

Note Purchase Agreements

On April 7, 2010, the Company entered into a note purchase agreement with certain institutional investors, providing for the issuance of notes consisting of $115 million 6.13% Series A senior notes due 2017, $360 million 6.67% Series B senior notes due 2020 and $125 million 6.77% Series C senior notes due 2022 (the "2010 Note Purchase Agreement"). On July 24, 2012, the Company entered into another note purchase agreement with certain institutional investors, providing for the issuance of notes consisting of $100 million 4.87% Series A senior notes due 2022 and $100 million 5.02% Series B senior notes due 2024 (the "2012 Note Purchase Agreement"). On September 30, 2015, the Company entered into the 2015 Note Purchase Agreement, providing for the issuance of $50 million 4.15% senior notes due 2025 (together with the 2010 Note Purchase Agreement and the 2012 Note Purchase Agreement, the "Note Purchase Agreements").

Payment and performance of the Company's obligations under the Note Purchase Agreements, the notes issued pursuant thereto and the obligations of the Guarantors under the guarantees are guaranteed by the Guarantors.

The Note Purchase Agreements contain restrictive covenants that limit, among other things, the ability of an Obligor to:

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enter into transactions with affiliates other than the Obligors, except on a commercially reasonable basis upon terms no less favourable to the Obligor than would be obtainable in a comparable arm's length transaction;



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amalgamate or otherwise transfer its assets;



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carry on business other than those related to mining or a business ancillary or complementary to mining;



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engage in any dealings or transactions with any person or entity identified under certain anti-terrorism regulations;



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create liens on its existing or future assets, other than permitted liens;



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incur subsidiary indebtedness where the Obligor is a subsidiary of the Company; and



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make sales or other dispositions of material assets.

The Company is also required to maintain the same financial ratios and the same minimum tangible net worth under the Note Purchase Agreements as under the Credit Facility. Events of default under the Note Purchase Agreements include, among other things:

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the failure to pay principal or make whole amounts when due and payable or interest, fees or other amounts payable within five business days of such amounts becoming due and payable;



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the breach by any Obligor of any other term or covenant that is not cured within 30 business days after the earlier of written notice of the breach having been given to the Company or actual knowledge of the breach is obtained;



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the finding that any representation or warranty made by an Obligor was false or incorrect in any material respect on the date as of which it was made;

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a default under any other indebtedness of the Obligors if the effect of such default is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the due date of such indebtedness in an aggregate amount of $50 million or more; and



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various events relating to the bankruptcy or insolvency or winding-up, liquidation or dissolution or cessation of business of any Obligor.

The Note Purchase Agreements provide that, upon certain events of default, the notes automatically become due and payable without any further action. In addition, the Note Purchase Agreements contain a "Most Favored Lender" clause which acts to incorporate into the Note Purchase Agreements any grace periods upon an event of default that are shorter in the Credit Facility than in the Note Purchase Agreements.

INTERESTS OF EXPERTS

Ernst & Young LLP, the auditors of the Company, has advised the Company that it is independent of the Company in accordance with the Rules of Professional Conduct of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and has complied with the SEC's rules on auditor independence.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information relating to the Company can be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and on the Company's website at www.agnicoeagle.com. Additional information, including directors' and officers' remuneration and indebtedness, principal holders of the Company's securities and securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans, is contained in the Company's management information circular dated March 11, 2016 relating to the annual and special meeting of shareholders of the Company scheduled for April 29, 2016. Additional financial information is provided in the Annual Financial Statements and Annual MD&A.

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SCHEDULE "A"
AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER OF THE COMPANY

This Charter shall govern the activities of the audit committee (the "Audit Committee") of the board of directors (the "Board of Directors") of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (the "Corporation").

I.    PURPOSE OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE

The Audit Committee shall: (a) assist the Board of Directors in its oversight responsibilities with respect to: (i) the integrity of the Corporation's and it's subsidiaries' financial statements, (ii) the Corporation's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, (iii) the external auditor's qualifications and independence, and (iv) the performance of the Corporation's internal and external audit functions; and (b) prepare any report of the Audit Committee required to be included in the Corporation's annual report or proxy material. The head of the Corporation's internal audit function and the external auditors shall have direct and ready access to the chair of the Audit Committee (the "Chair").

The Audit Committee shall have the authority to delegate to one or more of its members, responsibility for developing recommendations for consideration by the Audit Committee with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Charter.

II.   COMPOSITION

The Audit Committee shall be comprised of a minimum of three directors. No member of the Audit Committee shall be an officer or employee of the Corporation or any of its affiliates for the purposes of the applicable corporate statute. Each member of the Audit Committee shall be an unrelated and independent director as determined by the Board of Directors in accordance with the applicable requirements of the laws governing the Corporation, the applicable stock exchanges on which the Corporation's securities are listed and applicable securities regulatory authorities. (See Schedule A for requirements.)

Each member of the Audit Committee shall be financially literate. Unless the Audit Committee shall otherwise determine, a member of the Audit Committee shall be considered to be financially literate if he or she has the ability to read and understand a set of financial statements that present a breadth and level of complexity of accounting issues that are generally comparable to the breadth and complexity of the issues that can reasonably be expected to be raised by the Corporation's financial statements.

At least one member of the Audit Committee shall be a financial expert. (See Schedule B for definition.)

The members of the Audit Committee shall be appointed by the Board of Directors annually at the first meeting of the Board of Directors after a meeting of the shareholders at which directors are elected and shall serve until: the next annual meeting of the shareholders; they resign; their successors are duly appointed; or such member is removed from the Audit Committee by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall designate one member of the Audit Committee as the Chair or, if it fails to do so, the members of the Audit Committee shall appoint the Chair from among its members.

No member of the Audit Committee may earn fees from the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries other than directors fees (which fees may include cash, shares, restricted share units and/or other in-kind consideration ordinarily available to directors, as well as all of the regular benefits that other directors receive). For greater certainty, no member of the Audit Committee shall accept any consulting, advisory or other compensatory fee from the Corporation.

III.  MEETINGS

The Audit Committee shall meet at least quarterly or more frequently as required.

As a part of each meeting of the Audit Committee at which the Audit Committee recommends that the Board of Directors approve the annual audited financial statements or at which the Audit Committee reviews the quarterly financial statements, the Audit Committee shall meet in a separate session with the external auditor and, if desired, with management and/or the internal auditor. In addition, the Audit Committee or the Chair shall meet with management quarterly to review the Corporation's financial statements as described in Section IV.5 below and the Audit Committee or a designated member of the Audit Committee shall meet with the external auditors to review the Corporation's financial statements on a quarterly or other regular basis as the Audit Committee may deem appropriate.

The Audit Committee shall seek to act on the basis of consensus, but an affirmative vote of a majority of members of the Audit Committee participating in any meeting of the Audit Committee shall be sufficient for the adoption of any resolution.

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IV.  RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

The Audit Committee's primary responsibilities are to:

General

1.

review and assess the adequacy of this Charter at least annually and, where necessary or desirable, recommend changes to the Board of Directors;



2.

report to the Board of Directors regularly at such times as the Chair may determine to be appropriate but not less frequently than four times per year;



3.

follow the process established for all committees of the Board of Directors for assessing the Audit Committee's performance;

Documents/Reports Review

4.

review the Corporation's financial statements and related management's discussion and analysis, Annual Information Form ("AIF") and related Form 40-F, Annual Report and any other annual reports or other financial information to be submitted to any governmental body or the public, including any certification, report, opinion or review rendered by the external auditors before they are approved by the Board of Directors and publicly disclosed;



5.

review with the Corporation's management and the external auditors, the Corporation's quarterly financial statements and related management's discussion and analysis, before they are released;



6.

ensure that adequate procedures are in place for the review of the Corporation's disclosure of financial information extracted or derived from the Corporation's financial statements other than the disclosure referred to in the two immediately preceding paragraphs and periodically assess the adequacy of such procedures;



7.

review the effects of regulatory and accounting initiatives, as well as off-balance sheet structures, on the financial statements of the Corporation;



8.

review with the Corporation's management any press release of the Corporation which contains financial information (paying particular attention to the use of any "pro forma" or "adjusted" non-GAAP information);



9.

review and assess, on a quarterly basis, management's risk assessment and risk management strategies including hedging and derivative strategies;

External Auditors

10.

recommend external auditors nominations to the Board of Directors to be put before the shareholders for appointment and, as necessary, the removal of any external auditor in office from time to time;



11.

approve the fees and other compensation to be paid to the external auditors;



12.

pre-approve all significant non-audit engagements to be provided to the Corporation with the external auditors;



13.

require the external auditors to submit to the Audit Committee, on a regular basis (at least annually), a formal written statement delineating all relationships between the external auditors and the Corporation and discuss with the external auditors any relationships that might affect the external auditors' objectivity and independence;



14.

recommend to the Board of Directors any action required to ensure the independence of the external auditors;



15.

advise the external auditors of their ultimate accountability to the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee;



16.

oversee the work of the external auditors engaged for the purpose of preparing an audit report or performing other audit, review and attestation services for the Corporation;



17.

evaluate the qualifications, performance and independence of the external auditors which are to report directly to the Audit Committee, including (i) reviewing and evaluating the lead partner on the external auditors' engagement with the Corporation, (ii) considering whether the external auditors' quality controls are adequate and the provision of permitted non-audit services is compatible with maintaining the external auditors' independence, (iii) determine the rotation of the lead external audit partner and the external audit firm, and

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(iv) take into account the opinions of management and the internal audit function in assessing the external auditors' qualifications, independence and performance;

18.

present the Audit Committee's conclusions with respect to its evaluation of external auditors to the Board of Directors and take such additional action to satisfy itself of the qualifications, performance and independence of external auditors and make further recommendations to the Board of Directors as it considers necessary;



19.

obtain and review a report from the external auditors at least annually regarding: the external auditors' internal quality-control procedures; material issues raised by the most recent internal quality-control review, or peer review, of the firm, or by any inquiry or investigation by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years respecting one or more external audits carried out by the firm; any steps taken to deal with any such issues; and all relationships between the external auditors and the Corporation;



20.

establish policies for the Corporation's hiring of employees or former employees of the external auditors;

Internal Auditor

21.

receive regular quarterly reports from the Corporation's internal auditor on the scope and material results of its internal audit activities, based on the Internal Audit Charter;



22.

review and discuss the Corporation's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and fraud policy and the actions taken to monitor and enforce compliance with the Corporation's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and fraud policy;



23.

establish procedures for:



i)

the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints regarding accounting, internal controls or auditing matters;



ii)

the confidential, anonymous submission of concerns regarding questionable accounting, internal control and auditing matters; and



iii)

compliance with applicable foreign corrupt practices legislation, guidelines and practices.

Fraud Prevention and Detection

24.

oversee and assess management's controls and processes to prevent and detect fraud;



25.

receive periodic reports from the internal auditor on findings of fraud as well as significant findings regarding the design and/or operation of internal controls and management responses;

Financial Reporting Process

26.

periodically discuss the integrity, completeness and accuracy of the Corporation's internal controls and the financial statements with the external auditors in the absence of the Corporation's management;



27.

in consultation with the external auditors, review the integrity of the Corporation's financial internal and external reporting processes;



28.

consider the external auditors' assessment of the appropriateness of the Corporation's auditing and accounting principles as applied in its financial reporting;



29.

review and discuss with management and the external auditors at least annually and approve, if appropriate, any material changes to the Corporation's auditing and accounting principles and practices suggested by the external auditors, internal audit personnel or management;



30.

review and discuss with the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") the procedures undertaken in connection with the CEO and CFO certifications for the interim and annual filings with applicable securities regulatory authorities;



31.

review disclosures made by the CEO and CFO during their certification process for the annual and interim filings with applicable securities regulatory authorities about any significant deficiencies in the design or operation of

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internal controls which could adversely affect the Corporation's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data or any material weaknesses in the internal controls, and any fraud involving management or other employees who have a significant role in the Corporation's internal controls;

32.

establish regular and separate systems of reporting to the Audit Committee by management and the external auditors of any significant decision made in management's preparation of the financial statements, including the reporting of the view of management and the external auditors as to the appropriateness of such decisions;



33.

discuss during the annual audit, and review separately with each of management and the external auditors, any significant matters arising from the course of any audit, including any restrictions on the scope of work or access to required information; whether raised by management, the head of internal audit or the external auditors;



34.

resolve any disagreements between management and the external auditors regarding financial reporting;



35.

review with the external auditors and management the extent to which changes or improvements in financial or accounting practices, as approved by the Audit Committee, have been implemented at an appropriate time subsequent to the implementation of such changes or improvements;



36.

retain and determine the compensation of any independent counsel, accountants or other advisors to assist in its oversight responsibilities (the Audit Committee shall not be required to obtain the approval of the Board of Directors for such purposes);



37.

discuss any management or internal control letters or proposals to be issued by the external auditors of the Corporation;

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

38.

obtain and review the statement of Corporate Disclosure Controls, Procedures and Policies prepared by the disclosure committee of the Board of Directors and, if appropriate, approve the disclosure controls and procedures set out in such statement and any changes made thereto;



39.

receive confirmation from the CEO and CFO that reports to be filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities, the he United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any other applicable regulatory agency:



(a)

have been prepared in accordance with the Corporation's disclosure controls and procedures; and



(b)

contain no material misrepresentations or omissions and fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition, results of operations and cash flow as of and for the period covered by such reports;



40.

receive confirmation from the CEO and CFO that they have concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of the end of the period covered by the reports;



41.

discuss with the CEO and CFO any reasons for which any of the confirmations referred to in the two preceding paragraphs cannot be given by the CEO and CFO;

Legal Compliance

42.

confirm that the Corporation's management has the proper review system in place to ensure that the Corporation's financial statements, reports, press releases and other financial information satisfy legal requirements;



43.

review legal compliance matters with the Corporation's legal counsel;



44.

review with the Corporation's legal counsel any legal matter that the Audit Committee understands could have a significant impact on the Corporation's financial statements;



45.

conduct or authorize investigations into matters within the Audit Committee's scope of responsibilities;



46.

perform any other activities in accordance with this Charter, the Corporation's by-laws and governing law that the Audit Committee or the Board of Directors deems necessary or appropriate;

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Related Party Transactions

47.

review the financial reporting of any transaction between the Corporation and any officer, director or other "related party" as defined within the Corporation's Accounting Policy (including any shareholder holding an interest greater than 5% in the Corporation) or any entity in which any such person has a financial interest;

Reporting and Powers

48.

report to the Board of Directors following each meeting of the Audit Committee and at such other times as the Board of Directors may consider appropriate; and



49.

exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and responsibilities as are incidental to the purposes, duties and responsibilities specified herein and as may from time to time be delegated to the Audit Committee by the Board of Directors.

V.    LIMITATION OF RESPONSIBILITY

While the Audit Committee has the responsibilities and powers provided by this Charter, it is not the duty of the Audit Committee to plan or conduct audits or to determine that the Corporation's financial statements are complete and accurate and are in accordance with international financial reporting standards. This is the responsibility of management (with respect to whom the Audit Committee performs an oversight function) and the external auditors.

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TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER OF THE CORPORATION

Unrelated Director

Under the Toronto Stock Exchange rules, "independent director" means a director who:

(a)

is not a member of management and is free from any interest and any business or other relationship which in the opinion of the Exchange could reasonably be perceived to materially interfere with the director's ability to act in the best interest of the company; and



(b)

is a beneficial holder, directly or indirectly, or is a nominee or associate of a beneficial holder, collectively of 10% or less of the votes attaching to all issued and outstanding securities of the applicant.

The Exchange will consider all relevant factors in assessing the independence of the director. As a general rule, the following persons would not be considered an independent director:

i)

a person who is currently, or has been within the past three years, an officer, employee of or service provider to the company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates; or



ii)

a person who is an officer, employee or controlling shareholder of a company that has a material business relationship with the applicant.

Independent Director

National Instrument – 52-110

A director is "independent" if he or she has no direct or indirect material relationship with the issuer. The following summarizes the major aspects of National Instrument 52-110 – Audit Committees ("NI52-110") relating to the independence of a director.

Certain Relationships Automatically Exclude a Director From Serving on the Audit Committee

If a director (or a member of the director's immediate family) has a specified type of relationship with the issuer (which includes the issuer's parent and subsidiary entities), then that director will not be considered independent. NI52-110 assumes that the following persons have a material relationship with the issuer (and are therefore precluded from sitting on the audit committee):

Employment Relationships

•

an individual who is, or has been within the last three years, employee or executive officer of the issuer or an individual whose immediate family member is, or has been within the last three years, an executive officer of the issuer;



•

an individual who, or whose immediate family member, is, or has been within the last three years, an executive officer of another entity if any of the issuer's current executive officers serves or served at that same time on the compensation committee of that entity;



•

an individual who received, or whose immediate family member who is employed as an executive officer of the issuer who received, more than C$75,000 in direct compensation from the issuer during any 12 month period within the last three years (other than remuneration for acting as a member of the board of directors or any board committee of the issuer and fixed amounts received under a retirement plan for prior service with the issuer that is not contingent on continued service);

Relationships with Internal or External Auditors

•

an individual who is a partner or employee of the issuer's internal or external auditor or an individual who was within the last three years a partner or employee of the issuer's internal or external auditor and personally worked on the issuer's audit within that time;



•

an individual whose spouse, minor child or stepchild, or child or stepchild who shares a home with the individual, is (i) a partner of the issuer's internal or external auditor, (ii) an employee of the issuer's internal or external auditor and participates in its audit, assurance or tax compliance (but not tax planning) practice, (iii) or an individual who

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was within the last three years a partner or employee of the issuer's internal or external auditor and personally worked on the issuer's audit within that time;

Advisory or Consulting Relationships

•

an individual who accepts, directly or indirectly, any consulting, advisory or other compensatory fee from the issuer or any subsidiary entity of the issuer, other than remuneration for acting as a member of the board or any board committee or as a part-time chair or vice-chair of the board or any board committee, including the indirect acceptance of a fee by an individual's spouse, minor child or stepchild, or child or stepchild who shares the individual's home or by an entity in which such individual is a partner, member, officer such as a managing director or executive officer and which provides accounting, consulting, legal, investment banking or financial advisory services to the issuer or any subsidiary entity of the issuer; and

Relationships with Affiliated Entities

•

an individual who is an affiliated entity of the issuer or any of its subsidiary entities, where affiliated entity means a person that has the direct or indirect power to direct or cause the direction of management and the policies of the issuer or any of its subsidiary entities, whether through ownership of voting securities or otherwise (other than an individual who owns, directly or indirectly, ten percent of less of any class of voting securities of the issuer and is not an executive officer of the issuer) or an individual who is both a director and an employee of an affiliated entity or an executive officer, general partner or managing member of an affiliated entity.

The Materiality of Other Relationships is for the Board to Determine

If a director has a direct or indirect relationship with the issuer, then it will be material if, in the view of the issuer's board of directors, the relationship could reasonably interfere with the exercise of the director's independent judgement. These relationships may include commercial, charitable, industrial, banking, consulting, legal, accounting or familial relationships or any other relationship that the board considers to be material.

Exceptions to the Independence Requirement

NI52-110 provides exemptions from the independence requirements for:

•

audit committee members who cease to be independent for reasons outside their control (but only for a limited period of time);



•

directors appointed to the audit committee to fill a vacancy resulting from the death, disability or resignation of a member of the audit committee (but only for a limited period of time). The director appointed to fill the vacancy is also temporarily exempt from the financial literacy requirements;



•

audit committee members, under exceptional and limited circumstances as determined by the board in its reasonably judgment, who are not consultants or advisors, not an affiliated entity of the issuer or any of its subsidiary entities, not an employee or officer of the issuer or an immediate family member of such and do not act as chair of the audit committee (but only for a maximum period of two years); and



•

U.S. listed issuers complying with the audit committee requirements of their U.S. exchange or quotation system (provided they make the necessary disclosure in their AIF (Annual Information Form).

New York Stock Exchange Rules

Under the New York Stock Exchange rules, the following requirements must be met to qualify as an "Independent Director":

(a)

no director qualifies as "independent" unless the board of directors affirmatively determines that the director has no material relationship with the listed company (either directly or as a partner, shareholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with the company). Companies must disclose these determinations.



(b)

in addition, the following persons are not independent:



•

any director who is (or who has an immediate family member who is) an executive officer, other than on an interim basis, of the listed company;

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any director who receives (or who has an immediate family member who receives) more than $120,000 per year in direct compensation from the listed company;



•

any director who is (or who has an immediate family member who is, in a professional capacity) a partner or employee of the listed company's internal or external auditor;



•

any director who is (or who has an immediate family member who is) employed as an executive officer of another company where any of the executives of the listed company also serves or served on that other company's compensation committee; and



•

any director who is an employee (or who has an immediate family member who is an executive officer) of another company that has made payments to, or received payments from, the listed company for property or services which exceeds the greater of $1 million or 2% of such other company's consolidated gross revenues.

Three Year "Cooling Off" Period.    For each of the categories above where a director is not (or is presumed not to be) independent, there is a three-year "cooling off" period. Accordingly, the existence of the prohibited relationship at any time during the preceding three years is presumed to impair independence.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

(a)

In General.    Each member of the audit committee of the issuer shall be a member of the board of directors of the issuer, and shall otherwise be independent.



(b)

Criteria.    In order to be considered to be independent for purposes of this paragraph, a member of an audit committee of an issuer may not, other than in his or her capacity as a member of the audit committee, the board of directors or any other board committee:



•

accept any consulting, advisory or other compensatory fee from the issuer; or



•

be an affiliated person of the issuer or any subsidiary thereof.

Exemption Authority.    The Commission may exempt from the requirements of subparagraph (b) a particular relationship with respect to audit committee members, as the Commission determines appropriate in light of the circumstances.

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TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER OF THE CORPORATION

Audit Committee Financial Expert

An "audit committee financial expert" must possess all of the following attributes:

(a)

an understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and financial statements;



(b)

the ability to assess the general application of such principles in connection with the accounting for estimates, accruals, and reserves;



(c)

experience preparing, auditing, analyzing or evaluating financial statements that present a breadth and level of complexity of accounting issues that are generally comparable to the breath and complexity of issues that can reasonably be expected to be raised by the issuer's financial statements, or experience actively supervising one or more persons engaged in such activities;



(d)

an understanding of internal control over and procedures for financial reporting; and



(e)

an understanding of audit committee functions.

The audit committee financial expert must also have acquired those attributes through:

(a)

education and experience as a principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, controller, public accountant, auditor or experience in one or more positions that involve the performance of similar functions;



(b)

experience actively supervising a principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, controller, public accountant or auditor or person performing similar functions;



(c)

experience overseeing or assessing the performance of companies or public accountants for the preparation, auditing or evaluation of financial statements; or



(d)

other relevant experience.

"Active supervision" means the supervisor participated in, and contributed to, the process of addressing the same types of issues relating to the preparation, auditing, analysis and evaluation of financial statements as the person actually performing the work.

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Exhibit 99.1

AGNICO EAGLE MINES LIMITED ANNUAL INFORMATION FORM
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
Note to Investors Concerning Estimates of Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources
Note to Investors Concerning Certain Measures of Performance
SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
GLOSSARY OF SELECTED MINING TERMS
CORPORATE STRUCTURE
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS
GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS
OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTION
RISK FACTORS
DIVIDENDS
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE
RATINGS
MARKET FOR SECURITIES
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY
AUDIT COMMITTEE
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS
INTEREST OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR
MATERIAL CONTRACTS
INTERESTS OF EXPERTS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SCHEDULE "A" AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER OF THE COMPANY
SCHEDULE A TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER OF THE CORPORATION
SCHEDULE B TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER OF THE CORPORATION