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PERSEUS MINING LIMITED — AGM Information 2008
Nov 27, 2008
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AGM Information
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Mark CalderwoodManaging Director
November 2008

Cash & Equity
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| $OOUlidiM(PRU)09020ttnseponsar- | M23 |
| $OhlidOi()120ttterunseponsavg | M75 |
| CCilii/httapasaonas | |
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| Ch1Nb08asovemer | $A63M |
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| MiBkacquarean• | 14% |
| COGiilLiid&taspanasme• | 9% |
| Ditrecors• | 2% |
| OhT20terop• | 19% |
Cash Preservation
Current budget outflow expectations
Nov 08 - A$1.8M (mostly residual drilling invoices)
Dec 08 - Mar 09 A$650,000 per month average
Inflow of A$2.5M expected in March from 20c options
Exploration and other expenditure likely to be reduced further
Directors & Senior Staff

**Reg Gillard (Chairman)**22yrs director / chairman, public companies

**Mark Calderwood (Managing Director)**22yrs exploration management

**Colin Carson (Executive Director)**23yrs in public company management

**Rhett Brans (Executive Director)**30yrs in feasibilities and engineering

**Neil Fearis (Non Executive Director)**29yrs as commercial lawyer

**Kevin Thomson (Exploration Manager)**20yrs in exploration & resource geology
Ghana - 650km2
- •Ayanfuri (90%)
- •Grumesa (90%)
Ivory Coast - 2724km2
- •Tengrela (80%)
- •Mahale (90%)
- •Mbengue (90%)
Projects

Resources
Resources
• 5.7Moz* - 149Mt at 1.2g/t = (EV of A$9.7/Eoz or US$6.3/Eoz)includes
• 4.3Moz* - 88.5Mt at 1.5g/t = (EV of A$13.0/Eoz or US$8.5/Eoz)Next resource upgrade February 2009Ayanfuri feasibility target 2009 1.9 - 3.0MozCurrent enterprise value is same as discovery cost per ounce
* See appendix 1 Eozequates to equity ounce
Ghana
Central Ashanti Gold Projects
•Resources - 4.7Moz
Ayanfuri
- •3.9Moz resource base
- •Favourable metallurgy
- • Very wide deposits = Low cost mining
- • Still under-explored numerous drill targets

Ayanfuri @ US$850-950/oz
Current Base Case for Feasibility
- •EBITDA - US$51-66Mpa avg.
- •Payback period - 2 years
- •Upside exists (resource upgrades )
| GldPiorce | $SU/oz | 850 | 950 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thhtrogpuu | Mtpa | 45 | 45 |
| Pdi()15trouconyrs- | Opaz | 196000, | 196000, |
| Pdi(60)1troconrsuy- | Ozpa | 162000, | 162000, |
| Ch()15tascossyrs- | $US/oz | 460 | 460 |
| Ch(60)1tascossyrs- | $SU/oz | 495 | 495 |
| CAPEX | $USM | 1725 | 1725 |
| EBITDA()15rsy- | $SUM | 74 | 93 |
| EBITDA(610)rsy- | $AM | 114 | 143 |
| Pbkayac | Years | 2 | 15 |
Ayanfuri - Value Engineering

Recent Optimisation work has identified potential for significant changes to the preferred process route
- • Comminution - HPGR crushing testwork has highlighted potential to dramatically reduce mill size and reduce power and grinding media consumption
- • Potential exists to avoid milling for primary product processing
Ayanfuri - Value Engineering

• Metallurgy - preliminary flotation test-work has indicated high recoveries at coarse grind sizes, resulting in high grade free milling concentrate and clean "throw away" tails for +95% of material.
The results of the comminution and metallurgical test-work could have major positive consequences on capital costs, operating costs and mine life
Ayanfuri - Key DatesFeasibility Study
Dec 2008 - Final drill data compiledJan 2009 - Flotation optimisedJan 2009 - Resource updatedApr 2009 - Process route definedApr 2009 - Pit Designs completed
Deposit Comparisons
In pit Resource/Reserve MtGold grade g/t 1.58Contained ounces ,000Waste to ore ratioThroughput rate MtpaMining cost per tonneProcessing + G&A per tGold Recovery 94%Average Gold ProductionCost per ounce
Date of source information
RedbackChirano (1) LihirBonikro (1) PerseusAyanfuri 22.9 16.0 45.6 1.88 1.32 1,214 926 1,936 2.7 3.8 1.8 2.1 2.0 4.5 $2.16# $1.42* $2.89 $8.54 $7.94 $10.22 94% 93.2% 107,000 116,000 180,000 $469^ $336 $460 20072006 2008
(1)In production
estimated * out dated owner-operator estimate ^ 2Q 08 production cost

Tengrela - Ivory Coast
9 Prospects
•
- • To date only 1km of 4km long Sissingue drilled with RC and Core
- • Maiden resource 15.7Mt at 1.9g/t containing ~1Moz of gold
- • Includes high grade 5.1Mt at 3.1g/t containing 0.5Moz of gold
- • Significant upside potential - but drilling reduced to minimum until completion of scoping study

Sissingue - Tengrela

Country Considerations
- • Bonikro 2Mt plant - Ivory Coast fabricated
- • Bonikro (first large mine) convention:
- low cost power (hydro)
- 5yr tax holiday 35% thereafter
- 18% dividend tax 12% from year 5
- exemption from VAT
- 3% royalty
- •Politics improved significantly
Sissingue - Scoping Study
- • Infrastructure good
- grid power 24km away
- water 2.2km away
- good access (mostly sealed roads)
- flat terrain
- • Initial Metallurgy - 97% CIL recovery (70% gravity)
- •Strip ratio – low (expected 2.5:1)
- •Oxide - 40m of free dig (low mining cost)
- •Resources (2008) – 0.97Moz
- •Additional metallurgy underway
- • Potential to heap leach oxides then add on CIL to reduce up front capital
Future Production
By April 2009 the Company will understand the preferredproduction route for Ayanfuri, these potentially include-
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- Traditional CIL with a focus grade rather than throughput, Ayanfuri resources include 1.1Moz at 2.5g/t Au
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- Low capital and operating cost coarse feed flotation concentrator and on site concentrate processing
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- Possible, low cost heap leach start-up option (for oxide and transition) to fund options 1 or 2
Tengrela due to its relatively high grade has potential to be a very robust gravity CIL or hybrid including heap leach start up
The Tengrela resource includes 0.5Moz at 3.1g/t Au
Heap Leach Plant
The Company is currently progressing with its heap leach plant refurbishment – a low cost exercise
The heap leach plant has potential to give the Company a very low capex start up option for Ayanfuri or Tengrela
The plant could be set up within months of approval
Heap leach is ideal where capital is scarce and high internal rates of returns are required
Heap leach operations have historically been very successful in West Africa

Appendix 1
Mineral Resources (Gold) - Perseus Mining Limited Projects
| Deitpos | Indicadte | Inferdre | Tolta | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tonnes | /tgAu | OuncesAu | Tonnes | /tgAu | OuncesAu | Tonnes | /tgAu | OuncesAu | |
| Ayfurian(1)0.8g/t> | 31,399,000 | 1.5 | 1,478,300 | 37,522,000 | 1.5 | 1,825,000 | 68,921,000 | 1.5 | 3,303,300 |
| Ayfurian(1)0.4g/t -0.8g/t | 11,799,000 | 0.6 | 240,200 | 18,296,000 | 0.7 | 386,800 | 30,095,000 | 0.7 | 627,000 |
| (2)Telangre1.0g/t> | 6,040,000 | 2.0 | 379,000 | 9,630,000 | 1.9 | 591,000 | 15,660,000 | 1.9 | 970,000 |
| Grumesa(3)Sth >0.4-0.6g/t | 118,0007, | 0.9 | 195,000 | 1,900,000 | 0.8 | 46,000 | 9,018,000 | 0.8 | 241,000 |
| Grumesa(4)h >0.4g/tNt | 21,400,000 | 0.8 | 573,000 | 21,400,000 | 0.8 | 573,000 | |||
| Tols >0.8g/tta | 37,439,000 | 1.5 | 1,857,300 | 47,152,000 | 1.6 | 2,416,000 | 84,581,000 | 1.6 | 4,273,300 |
| Tols >0.4g/tta | 56,356,000 | 1.3 | 2,292,500 | 88,748,000 | 1.2 | 3,421,800 | 145,094,000 | 1.2 | 5,714,300 |
Notes
1.Last updated on 2 May 2008
2.Last updated on 27 November 2008
3.Last updated on 30 April 2007
4.Last updated on 29 September 2006
5.The company holds 90% of Ayanfuri, 90% of Grumesa and 80% of Tengrela
after allowing for Government equity at mining stage