Ms. Tamara Brown reports

PRIMERO ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

Primero Mining Corp. shareholders at the annual general and special meeting today re-elected director nominees as listed in the management information circular dated April 8, 2013. The detailed results are shown in the table.

                                Votes for         Withheld votes    
Director                          #          %          #          %
Wade Nesmith             64,545,755      96.41  2,403,148       3.59
Joseph Conway            64,546,542      96.41  2,402,361       3.59
David Demers             64,547,805      96.41  2,401,098       3.59
Grant Edey               62,015,563      92.63  4,933,340       7.37
Rohan Hazelton           63,992,549      95.58  2,956,354       4.42
Timo Jauristo            58,393,183      87.22  8,555,719      12.78
Eduardo Luna             62,887,806      93.93  4,061,097       6.07
Robert Quartermain       66,308,580      99.04    640,323       0.96
Michael Riley            66,806,589      99.79    142,314       0.21

As a ballot was not required, the number of votes disclosed reflects only the proxies received by management of the company in advance of the meeting.

The company has also filed a report of voting results on all other resolutions voted on at the meeting on SEDAR.