Silvermex Resources, Ltd

(SMR - TSXV)   (C. $) Price: $0.14 Price range (2008): $1.44 - $0.08 Shares outstanding: 29.6M Market capitalization $4.5M Stockholders' equity $3.8M

Silvermex Resources Ltd. was formed in 2005 and taken public in August of 2006 on the TSX Venture Exchange. The company's largest shareholder (12.5%) is Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ: SSRI). Silvermex's primary objective is to increase shareholder value through the discovery, acquisition, and development of near-surface, advanced-stage silver deposits in Mexico. The company holds an impressive 85,000 acres of mineral claims located in Mexico's most prolific silver producing regions. Highlights include: 42.7 million Oz silver resource (NI 43-101) 240 million lbs of lead and zinc (NI 43-101) 1.44 Oz silver resource per share 648% resource growth in last 24 months  High resource return on money raised  Offers the most leverage within its peer group  Offers the lowest market cap within its peer group Lowest MCAP Value per Oz ($0.10 per Oz) Superior leveraged exposure to silver prices Near-surface, bulk-mineable projects Proven management in Canada and Mexico

Silvermex is a junior silver resource company. The company has approximately 42.7 million ounces of silver. The resources have been prepared using CIM definitions for mineral resources as required by National Instrument 43-101. These resources are confirmed by an accounting standard but they are not yet advanced to production.

Silvermex has the smallest market cap of the junior silver companies that have established resources. It has a market cap of C. $4.5 million compared to $15 million for Silvercrest and $40 billion for Goldcorp.

See Table 1.

TABLE 1 Top 5 Official Gold Reserves <---------------------------------- (tons) ----------------------------------> Cash-Rich Countries U.S. $135 Germany 3440 IM2 3217 France 3025 Italy 2452 Japan 765 China 600 World 32,000 tons 1 billion oz. $1 trillion

The countries with gold reserves are listed above. The largest is the United States with 8,100 tons of reserves.

The actual gold production going back to 1980 is impressive but we must keep in mind that in the last two years gold production remained steady and the actual production has been on decline.

Let us not look at the actual figures. In the Central Banks there are 32,000 tons of reserves with a corresponding value of $1,000,000,000,000, or $1 trillion at the price of $1,000.

For simplicity we have to create a table. Every ton of gold is equivalent to 32,150 troy ounces of gold and, accordingly. Table 2 shows the background material for future arguments.

TABLE 2  Total World Mine Production   1980 1990 1996 2000 2002 2007   (Tons) 1000 1600 2100 2500 2400 2000 1 ton 32,150 troy oz. $1000/oz. $32,150,000 Total gold reserves 32,000 tons 1 billion ounces $1 trillion in value

The current valuation of pure resource junior silver companies appears in Table 3.

TABLE 3 A LOW-PRICED EMERGING SILVER COMPANY Company Shares Outstanding Share Price Market Cap Silver Ounces Market Cap/oz.  Leverage MC/Ag oz Silvermex 28,850,000 $0.15 $ 4,477,500 42,700,000 $0.10 9.54 Minco Silver 32,000,000 $0.85 $ 27,200,000 159,000,000 $0.17 5.85 Aurcana 108,000,000 $0.09 $ 9,720,000 52,200,000 $0.19 5.37 Silvercrest 46,000,000 $0.30 $ 13,800,000 69,000,000 $0.20 5.00 Orko Silver 107,000,000 $0.37 $ 39,690,000 103,000,000 $0.38 2.80 Fortune Silver 85,000,000 $0.56 $ 47,600,000 90,000,000 $0.53 1.89 Great Panther 81,000,000 $0.25 $ 20,250,000 37,000,000 $0.55 1.83 Alexco Resources 35,800,000 $0.56 $ 20,048,000 17,900,000 $1.12 0.89 ECU Silver 243,000,000 $0.89 $ 216,270,000 161,000,000 $1.34 0.74 Endeavour Silver 49,000,000 $1.26 $ 61,740,000 44,000,000 $1.40 0.71 Mag Silver 49,000,000 $5.72 $ 280,280,000 116,000,000 $2.42 0.41

At the same time, based on the potential for expansion, the measure is the potential increase in the leverage of silver per share. What it amounts to is that the companies can expand rapidly.

The capitalization of the company is indicative of the leverage value. See Table 4.

TABLE 4 SHARE STRUCTURE  Shares outstanding 29,600,000     Options outstanding 1,000,000 550,000 100,000 $0.30 $1.11 $0.96 $300,000.00 $610,500.00 $96,000.00   1,650,000   $1,006,500.00 Warrants outstanding 932,250 160,000 1,098,750 160,000 1,453,000 192,880 $1.00 $0.80 $1.25 $1.00 $1.25 $1.00 $932,250.00 $128,000.00 $1,373,437.50 $160,000.00 $1,816,250.00 $192,880.00   3,996,880   $4,602,817.50 Fully diluted 35,246,880   $5,609,317.50 Major shareholders Management Silver Standard Resources 7,000,000 3,500,000 24% 12%   Total 10,500,000 35.5%   52-week high/low $1.44 to $0.08

The total number of shares outstanding is 29,600,000, of which management owns 7,000,000, an equivalent of 24%, and the giant Silver Standard with a market cap of $650 million owns 12%. Accordingly, 35.5% is closely held. Considering that the stock is selling at 14¢, a total of C. $4.5 million, it is important to notice that upon the exercise of options and warrants, $5.6 million would accrue to the company. In other words, its total potential cash on the exercise of the various instruments is greater than the current market value of the company.

As we mentioned earlier, the company offers high leveraged exposure to silver in terms of realizable value. This being the case, with additional capital the company could increase its silver value and if this leads to an increased price. The exercise of options and warrants, a cash input of $5.6 million would increase the value of the stock quite rapidly.

What it amounts to is that a company with 42.7 million NI43-101 resources would stand very intriguing in a rising silver market. Built on the capital raised so far, every dollar invested has created 4.7 ounces of silver. The fully diluted cost per results is only 15¢ an ounce.

The most obvious question that comes into the fore is the price of silver. If we are talking about a 30 million share company whose current value is $4.5 million, and whose silver resources can grow from 42.7 million to 100 million, we must consider the facts about the company by the silver price. At $0.15 per share the company’s 42.7 million ounces of silver is currently being valued at only $0.10 per ounce. With a potential to reach 100 million ounces identifiable silver, the pertinent market cap may be $10 to $150 million. Since the ratio of the cost of mining and identifying silver is highly leveraged, the evaluation of the company basically boils down to the price of silver, the success of further realization of silver potential, and the cost of capital and the size of capital that the company has to raise.

Silvermex has raised $9.1 million, which translates to 4.7 ounces of silver for every dollar raised. In additional, $10 million would at least double the silver exposure and at a higher price taking into consideration the cost of capital, the valuation would increase substantially. With 30,000,000 shares outstanding, the current picture is as follows.

In October, 2008, the measured, indicated and inferred resources totaled 42.7 million ozs silver, 71.4 million lbs lead, and 152 million lbs zinc. A summary of the various resources is reflected in Table 5.

As disclosed in news releases dated October 9, October 14 and October 15, 2008, the updated NI 43-101 silver resources (ozs) per project are as follows:

TABLE 5 Category San Marcial La Frazada Penasco Quemado Totals Measured: 0 2,615,493 2,591,752 5,207,245 Indicated: 18,021,221 2,156,335 7,468,166 27,645,722 Total M&I: 18,021,221 4,771,828 10,059,918 32,852,967 Inferred: 4,371,018 4,132,520 1,366,749 9,870,287 The updated resources per metal are as follows: Category Silver (oz.) Gold (oz.) Lead (lbs) Zinc (lbs) Measured: 5,207,245 1,797 5,657,445 15,834,150 Indicated: 27,645,722 1,264 35,230,132 71,123,399 Total (M&I): 32,852,967 3,061 40,887,577 86,957,549 Inferred: 9,870,287 2,231 30,054,276 65,499,878

As indicated by the table above, measured and indicated resources represent 77% of total resources.

Let us not forget that in the early part of 2008, in the so-called commodity boom, silver almost hit the price of $20. Looking at the market for silver, we see a total production and distribution of 43.554 million troy ounces. A more detailed breakdown of disposition is as follows.

There is, however, an unusual factor that came into the picture. Because of the financial crisis, which affects the whole world, silver companies and mining companies declined as much as 80-90%. Silver mistakenly is being considered now just like any other metal, like nickel and copper. It is no longer buried in the day-to-day financial press, understanding that silver is in many ways a monetary metal.

In this year, the demand and the purchase of silver coins increased many fold. Whereas coins amounted to 578 million ounces in 2007, in the current year the number is between 2,000 and 3,000 million ounces. Furthermore, coin purchase is worldwide. Just as in the 21st century five billion people are working, we also have five billion savers who have abandoned the stock market and acquired silver coins which are selling sometimes at 30, 50 or even 100% premiums.

A less pronounced trend established itself for silver bullion, whose total consumption in 2007 was 464 million ounces. In other words, the combined one million bullion and coin purchases in 2007 may be reaching 4,000 to 5,000 in 2008. Furthermore, this figure is unlikely to decline in 2009, as investors all over the world have been flying from paper currency. Combined on a 5-year basis -- bullion and coin purchase can reach $25-30 million ounces; 50% of a yearly silver consumption. At a $10 silver price, $300,000,000 is 15% of the total value of the hedge funds.

The following table gives a range for silver prices over the last ten years. Because of the consistent deficit in the silver supply/demand equation, the price of silver after 1990-91 increased from $5 to almost $19 in the early part of 2008.

None of these factors indicate that the so-called supply from government sales have been gradually declining and a new factor, namely the various silver ETF's, have begun to accumulate silver on a very large scale. In 2006, investors bought 121.1 million ounces of silver through Silver Trust. They added 4.6 million ounces in 2007. Two other silver ETF's were launched in 2007, one in London and one in Zurich, Switzerland. By the end of 2007, ETF's held 230.0 million ounces of silver, including the Zurich and the Central Fund of Canada 4.3 million ounces.

We go to great extent to describe the vast deficit in the traditional silver market and emphasize the new financial territories, namely bullion purchases, ETF's and coin purchases on the horizon. We are doing this because altogether we see that the accumulation of the financial interest is creating slowly such a shortage that in a so-called change in psychology, the price of silver cannot only advance to $15 but even to $20 an ounce. This is happening because silver is becoming a monetary metal. Being a monetary metal is not the definition of conventional media. Silver is a monetary metal for one reason: People are buying it for monetary purposes.

If this is changing, there is a very legitimate, although far-fetched comparison, when the value of a commodity, namely silver, changes. In 1973, the Saudi Arabian oil minister, Sheik Yamani, said on American television, "Gentlemen, the era of cheap energy is over." I was lucky to sit next to the late Secretary of the Treasury Simon, who in December 1974, when gold was legalized by Congress, hit the table saying, "It is high time we put gold on the commodity pages next to pork bellies, because that is where it belongs."

Both Sheik Yamani and Secretary Simon were right. Silver is on the commodity pages next to pork bellies, and that is where it belongs.

For various reasons which I don't want to elaborate on, there are theories which I support that the price of gold will go to $2,000 from $730 today. This week an article in Barron's indicated that when two to three trillion in cash is launched on the open market, the price of gold, the main precious metal, is likely to hit sometime $1,500. Today on December 7, 2008, President-elect Obama said that he will inherit for this year a one trillion dollar deficit, upon which he has to build a further deficit to put the economy in order. This caters well for gold and caters for silver. See page 3 of "Gold at 2000."

Undoubtedly, if gold could head towards $2,000, silver is headed towards $20.

The question of financing

If we agree to the theories that I have advocated in the previous pages, we have to turn now to the task of monetizing a small $4.5 million market cap company with relatively good reserves and reserve potential and corporate connections, in anticipation of a much higher silver market.

I consider first the conventional financing. The stock is $0.15, we create a unit of $0.15 price with 20¢ warrants or half warrants. To put forward such a financing is what is called a conventional way of thinking, and really has to fight its way through the system. Silvermex is considering a novel type of financing whereby they tie together a common stock at 15¢, warrants say at 20¢, and a certain amount of silver, let's say a dollar value in a unit. Experimenting with such a configuration has to be done privately so people can understand it. In the following table I indicate what would happen to such a unit if the stock goes from 15¢ to 20¢, and the price of silver goes from $9.50 to $11.

Obviously, the price increase of the unit is quite rapid. Furthermore, if we foresee a major change in precious metal pricing, the stock will go to 25¢, the warrant will bring in 5¢, and the price of silver will go to $12.

The advantage of such financing and its monitoring on a daily basis is important because we are breaking a market which was totally inactive for most silver companies, and creating a vehicle which can actually increase in price.

There are other benefits. If such a private placement unit is monitored, it can be publicized on a daily basis and indicate the success of a financing technique. We can add an additional feature that Silvermex has the right to buy out the unit any time for 10% above it's privately evaluated price. In that case, Silvermex would gain all the value of the silver and have basically completed a successful financing for cash.

If such transaction is successful, a little bit more complicated picture can be put together and application can be made to list the unit on the venture exchange. We have information that such application could be favorably considered.

A public financing, because of the demand and the picture of the private placement, may bring in not $2 million but $5 million, and suddenly the whole future of Silvermex could change. After all, of the previously printed junior silver mines, not one of them completed a $5 million financing, and as such, with a unique feature, would put Silvermex into a winning top category.

All in all, we are in a new century, in the 21st century. I subscribe to the view that silver is a monetary metal. I subscribe to the view that after the trillion dollar deficit of the United States alone in 2008, the international financial world is going to use everything, including gold and silver and gold and silver-related papers, to raise capital and pay off debt.

If we are right, Silvermex can join together new exploration, higher silver resources, modern financing, liquid assets, and become a different company. We live in the 21st century. What applies Silvermex on the positive side should also apply to General Motors.

TABLE 6 Year-End 2007 Total = 43,554 Million Troy Ounces Estimated Disposition (Million Troy Ounces) Silver bullion and coins:   Bullion 464 Coins 578 Subtotal 1,042 Jewelry, Decorative & Religious Objects 20,461 Industrial use, undetermined or lost 22,051 Total 43,554