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CANADA’S INTERMEDIATE GOLD PRODUCER

BMO Global Metals & Mining Conference

Hollywood, FL – February 22-25, 2015

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Forward Looking Information This presentation contains certain forward-looking information and statements as defined in applicable securities law (referred to herein as

“forward-looking statements”). Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to Detour Gold’s future

financial or operating performance; guidance for production, total cash costs, all-in sustaining costs, capital costs, deferred stripping costs,

exploration costs; expected throughput, mining and recovery rates; expected future production and mining activities; opportunities to

optimize the mine operation; the mine plan and economic analysis of the Detour Lake mine including, but not limited to, the life of mine plan,

the waste to ore ratio, processing and production rates, grades, metallurgical recovery rates, operating and sustaining capital costs, and the

projected life of mine, opportunities to optimize the mine operation; the success and continuation of exploration activities, the future price of

gold, reclamation obligations, government regulations and environmental risks.

Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance

or achievements to be materially different from any of its future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-

looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, assumptions and parameters underlying the

life of mine update not being realized, a decrease in the future gold price, discrepancies between actual and estimated production, changes

in costs (including labour, supplies, fuel and equipment), changes to tax rates; environmental compliance and changes in environmental

legislation and regulation, exchange rate fluctuations, general economic conditions and other risks involved in the gold exploration and

development industry, as well as those risk factors discussed in the section entitled “Description of Business - Risk Factors” in Detour

Gold’s 2013 AIF and in the continuous disclosure documents filed by Detour Gold on and available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

Such forward-looking statements are also based on a number of assumptions which may prove to be incorrect, including, but not limited to,

assumptions about the following: the availability of financing for exploration and development activities; operating and sustaining capital

costs; the Company’s ability to attract and retain skilled staff; sensitivity to metal prices and other sensitivities; the supply and demand for,

and the level and volatility of the price of, gold; the supply and availability of consumables and services; the exchange rates of the Canadian

dollar to the U.S. dollar; energy and fuel costs; the accuracy of reserve and resource estimates and the assumptions on which the reserve

and resource estimates are based; market competition; ongoing relations with employees and impacted communities and general business

and economic conditions. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking

statements contained herein are made as of the date hereof, or such other date or dates specified in such statements.

All forward-looking statements in this presentation are necessarily based on opinions and estimates made as of the date such statements

are made and are subject to important risk factors and uncertainties, many of which cannot be controlled or predicted. Detour Gold and the

Qualified Persons who authored the associated Technical Report undertake no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any

forward-looking statements contained herein whether as a result of new information or future events or otherwise, except as may be

required by law.

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Notes to Investors

The mineral reserve and resource estimates reported in this presentation were prepared in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 Standards of

Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”), as required by Canadian securities regulatory authorities. For United States reporting purposes, the United States

Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) applies different standards in order to classify mineralization as a reserve. In particular, while the terms “measured,”

“indicated” and “inferred” mineral resources are required pursuant to NI 43-101, the SEC does not recognize such terms. Canadian standards differ significantly from

the requirements of the SEC. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in these categories constitute or will ever be

converted into reserves. In addition, “inferred” mineral resources have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and great uncertainty as to their economic

and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian securities

laws, issuers must not make any disclosure of results of an economic analysis that includes inferred mineral resources, except in rare cases.

On February 4, 2014, Detour Gold announced an updated life of mine plan for the Detour Lake mine. The NI 43-101 compliant Technical Report for this update was

filed on SEDAR on February 4, 2014. The following QPs participated in this update: BBA Inc., under the direction of André Allaire, Eng., Acting President and CEO

and Patrice Live, Eng., Director Mining; SGS Canada Inc., under the direction of Yann Camus, Eng., Project Engineer, and Maxime Dupéré, P.Geo., Senior

Geologist; and AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, a Division of AMEC Americas Limited, David G. Ritchie M.Eng., P.Eng, Senior Associate Geotechnical Engineer

and Geotechnical Engineering Group Manager.

The scientific and technical content of this presentation has been reviewed, verified and approved by Drew Anwyll, P.Eng., Senior Vice President Technical

Services, a Qualified Person as defined by Canadian Securities Administrators National Instrument

43-101 “Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects”.

Information Containing Estimates of Mineral Reserves and Resources

Non-IFRS Financial Performance Measures The Company has included non-IFRS measures in this presentation: total cash costs and all-in sustaining costs. The Company believes that these measures, in

addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, provide investors an improved ability to evaluate the underlying performance of the Company.

The non-IFRS measures are intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance

prepared in accordance with IFRS. These measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed under IFRS, and therefore may not be comparable to other

issuers. Other companies may calculate these measure differently.

Detour Gold reports total cash costs on a sales basis. Total cash costs per gold ounce include production costs such as mining, processing, refining and site

administration, less non-cash share-based compensation and net of silver sales divided by gold ounces sold to arrive at total cash costs per gold ounce sold.

Production costs are exclusive of depreciation and depletion. Production costs include the costs associated with providing the royalty in kind ounces.

Starting in 2015, the Company will report “all-in sustaining costs”. The Company believes this measure more fully defines the total costs associated with producing

gold. The Company calculates all-in sustaining costs per ounce of gold sold as the aggregate of total cash costs (as described above), share-based compensation,

corporate general and administrative expense, exploration and evaluation expenses that are sustaining in nature, reclamation cost accretion, sustaining capital and

deferred stripping costs.

The following items are excluded from all-in sustaining costs: non-sustaining capital expenditures and exploration costs that are expected to materially increase

production, financing costs and tax expense. Consequently, this measure is not representative of all of the Company’s cash expenditures. In addition, the

Company’s calculation of all-in sustaining costs does not include depletion and depreciation expense.

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Unique Investment Opportunity

GROWING

CASH FLOW

ATTRACTIVE

VALUE

PROPOSITION

SIGNIFICANT

PRODUCTION

GROWTH

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2015 Production Guidance (Koz)

Mining friendly jurisdiction

DGC

Detour Lake

AEM/YRI

Canadian

Malartic

AEM

Meadowbank

G

Red Lake

Canadian Intermediate Gold Producer

DOMINANT GOLD

PRODUCER IN CANADA

400-

425

560 475-

525 400

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Gold Reserves (Moz)

DGC

Detour Lake

(Yr-end 2013)

AEM/YRI

Canadian

Malartic

AEM

Meadowbank

G

Red Lake

Canadian Intermediate Gold Producer

LARGEST RESERVES OF

CANADIAN PRODUCERS

2.1

15.5

8.7

1.2

#1 in Canada

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$1,182

$930E

$300

$500

$700

$900

$1,100

$1,300

$1,500

050

100150200250300350400450500

Toward Steady State Operation

BLOCK MODEL

Right design

Exceeded design

milling rate

MINING FLEET

■ Gold Production (K oz)

2013 2014

232 457

Right selection Positive

reconciliation

to date

1. Refer to the section on Non-IFRS Performance Measures on slide 3 of this presentation.

2. 2014 subject to year-end closing.

PROCESS PLANT

■ Total Cash Costs (US$/oz sold)1,2

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VALUE ENHANCEMENTS

Processing fines

Pebble extraction

Increase gold production

Strengthen our balance sheet

EXECUTION OF PLAN

Significant leverage to gold

price and CDN dollar

Low power and declining

diesel costs

ADDED BENEFITS

2015 Drivers to Success

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third year

of operation

2015

1. Refer to the section on Non-IFRS Performance Measures on slide 3 of this presentation.

2015 Guidance

TCC1

$780-

$850

AISC/oz sold1

$1,050-$1,150

Cost Assumptions (US$) Gold price of $1,200/oz, diesel fuel price of $0.82 per litre; power cost of $0.04 per

kilowatt hour; and exchange rate of $1.00US:$1.15Cdn.

ACHIEVABLE

475,000 -

525,000

Gold ounces

ESTIMATED

COSTS

ESTIMATED

PRODUCTION

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2015 Key Targets

PLAN FOR MILL

~54,000 tpd mill throughput

(milling rates of ~2,600 tpoh

at 87% availability)

2

Improve mill availability

and recovery

PLAN FOR MINE

238,000 tpd average mining rate

(approx. 87 Mt total mined)

1

Improve drilling performance

and increase shovel

productivity

FOCUS: FOCUS:

Strong focus on optimization and efficiency

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Improve mining rates

2015 Mine Plan Upside

0

40

80

120

160

200

240

280

10 5 20

Q1 Q2 Q4 Q3

PHASE I

2015 Projected Mining Rates (Ktpd)

Budget 222,000 tpd for Phase 1 mining rates

Target 250,000 tpd by year-end

PHASE II

Targets for

improvement

222 222 222 222

16 16 16 16

280

240

200

160

120

80

40

0

Higher mining rates

= Higher gold grade

30

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200

160

120

80

40

0

Improve mining rates

2015 Mine Plan Upside

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

H H H

H

2015 Estimated Production (Koz)

Work towards bringing Q4 stockpiled (SP) ounces into Q3

L

L L L

SP

Higher mining rates

= Lower unit costs

Q1 Q2 Q4 Q3

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Potential to increase production and reduce costs

Targeting 3,000 tpd

(or 0.5 Mt) for H2 2015

No capital required

Re-handling costs only

2015 Start Realizing on Opportunities

Potential 15,000-25,000 oz/yr

at low cost

Economic review underway

< US$2 M for prototype

Use barren pebbles for road

or tailings dam construction

Up to 1 Mt/yr incremental

mill throughput = savings

1 PROCESSING OF FINES 2 PEBBLE EXTRACTION

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Upside for lower costs (US$ M)

2015 Added Benefits vs. Plan

Now 1.25 vs

1.15 budget

If 2015 avg rate

is same as 2014

If 10% lower than

budget US$0.82/L

Up to

$35 M

LOWER

CANADIAN

DOLLAR

COST

REDUCTION

PROGRAM

ELECTRICITY

CONTRACT

BENEFIT

LOWER

DIESEL

PRICE

Consumables

and contractors

$4 M

Probability factor of 50% = approx. $30 M reduction

Up to Up to

$20 M $7 M

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Goal: Strengthen balance sheet and financial flexibility

Solid Financial Position

No debt

maturities

until Nov.

2017

Short-term

debt to be

repaid in

Q1’15 (US$ M)

Towards repaying convertible notes 1

CREDIT FACILITY 2 Restructure credit & lease facilities

SURPLUS CASH

$57 Repaid in

2014

$124

Revolver +

CAT Lease

$500

Convertible

Notes

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11% of operating costs

LOOK AT HEDGING

DIESEL IN 2015

Prudent Financial Management

Forward sales on 140,000 oz

@ US$1,249/oz

Zero-cost collars for US$115 M

or 30% of opex with a ceiling

of 1.19

CURRENCY EXCHANGE

CONTRACTS

HEDGE UP TO 50% OF

2015 GOLD PRODUCTION

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Guidancemidpoint

at $1200 /oz Au at $1250 /oz Au Guidancemidpoint

at 1.25 f/x at $1250 /oz Au

2015 Cash Flow Projections

Guidance

midpoint

@ $1,250/oz

F/X 1.25

@ $1,200/oz

F/X 1.25

~$40

~$10

~$65 ~$170

~$140

~$195

Goal: US$100 M surplus cash towards convertible notes

Pro-Forma Net Cash Flow 2015 Yr-end Cash Balance

(US$ M)

Note: Guidance at gold price of $1,200/oz, F/X rate of 1.15 and capex of $123 M

(sustaining + deferred stripping).

Guidance

midpoint

@ $1,250/oz

F/X 1.25

@ $1,200/oz

F/X 1.25

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Block A (2 Moz M&I resource)1

Processing of fines and

pebble extraction

INCLUDE NEW

OPPORTUNITIES

Tonnage rationalization study

Re-evaluate cut-off grade

Based on current operational

experience

REVIEW OF COST

ESTIMATES

Optimizing Economic Returns

TRADE OFF STUDIES

1. Refer to February 2014 Technical Report: Measured: 1.5 Mt @ 1.21 g/t (57,000 oz);

Indicated: 52.5 Mt @ 1.15 g/t (1.93 M oz).

LOM PLAN

UPDATE IN

H2 2015

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Continue surface exploration

activities (i.e. geophysical

surveys)

REGIONAL POTENTIAL

Q1’15 DRILLING PROGRAM

Promising Exploration on 630 km2

With purchase of remaining

50% of Sunday Lake

CONSOLIDATED

PROPERTY

3,000 m started at Lower

Detour

Test depth extension of

high-grade mineralization

discovered last year

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Lower Detour Area

630 km2

Q1 2015 Drilling: Lower Detour

Block A

Resource

Detour Lake

OP Mine

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PRODUCTION GROWTH / DECLINING UNIT COSTS

REALIZE VALUE-ENHANCING OPPORTUNITIES

MATERIAL INPUTS TRENDING FAVOURABLY

GROWING CASH FLOW

A GREAT TIME TO BE A

GOLD PRODUCER