Company: AEM
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 40-F
Source: 0001104659-25-017551
Chunk: 6

Company: AGNICO EAGLE MINES LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 40-F
Chunk 6
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” 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 limited circumstances. Investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource exists, or is or will ever be economically or legally mineable.

The mineral reserve and mineral resource data contained or incorporated by reference 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 and mineral reserves are not reported as a subset of mineral resources. See “Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources” in the AIF for additional information.

<div align='center'>NOTE TO INVESTORS CONCERNING CERTAIN MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE</div>

This Form 40-F presents certain financial performance measures, including “total cash costs per ounce”, “all-in sustaining costs per ounce”, “minesite costs per tonne”, “adjusted net income”, “adjusted net income per share”, “realized prices”, “sustaining capital expenditures”, “development capital expenditures”, “sustaining capitalized exploration”, “development capital exploration”, and “operating margin” that are not standardized measures under International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). These measures may not be comparable to similar measures 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 and why management believes them to be useful to investors, please see the Company’s management’s discussion and analysis for the year ended December 31, 2024, which is filed as Exhibit 99.3 to this Form 40-F and incorporated by reference herein (the “Annual MD&A”) and the Company’s AIF. The Company believes that these generally accepted industry measures are realistic indicators of operating performance and are useful in allowing year over year comparisons. However, these non-IFRS measures should be considered together with other data prepared in accordance with IFRS, and these measures, taken by themselves, are not necessarily indicative of operating costs or cash flow measures prepared in accordance with IFRS