FIFTH AMENDMENT TO SENIOR FIRST PRIORITY SECURED PROMISSORY NOTE

Exhibit 10.1

FIFTH AMENDMENT TO
SENIOR FIRST PRIORITY SECURED PROMISSORY NOTE

This FIFTH AMENDMENT TO SENIOR FIRST PRIORITY SECURED PROMISSORY NOTE (this “Fifth Amendment”) is made as of November 13, 2013 by and between Prospect Global Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Maker”), and the Karlsson Group, Inc., an Arizona corporation (“Holder”), with respect to the following facts:

RECITALS

WHEREAS, Maker issued to Holder that certain Senior First Priority Secured Promissory Note dated August 1, 2012 (the “Original Note”), whereby the Maker promised to pay to Holder the principal sum of One Hundred Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($125,000,000);

WHEREAS, American West Potash, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“AWP”), Prospect Global Resources, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Prospect Nevada”), Apache County Land & Ranch, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“Apache”), Maker and Holder entered into that certain Extension Agreement (the “Extension Agreement”) dated as of April 15, 2013;

WHEREAS, Maker and Holder entered into an Amendment to Senior First Priority Secured Promissory Note dated April 15, 2013 (“First Amendment” and the Original Note as amended thereby and as otherwise amended, restated or modified from time to time, the “Note”);

WHEREAS, AWP, Prospect Nevada, Apache, Maker and Holder entered into that certain Second Extension Agreement dated as of June 26, 2013;

WHEREAS, Maker and Holder entered into a Second Amendment to Senior First Priority Secured Promissory Note dated as of June 26, 2013;

WHEREAS, Maker and Holder entered into a Third Amendment to Senior First Priority Secured Promissory Note dated as of September 9, 2013;

WHEREAS, AWP, Prospect Nevada, Apache, Maker and Holder entered into that certain Third Extension Agreement dated as of September 13, 2013;

WHEREAS, Maker and Holder entered into a Fourth Amendment to Senior First Priority Secured Promissory Note dated as of September 13, 2013;

WHEREAS, Maker has requested that Holder extend until December 4, 2013 the deadline for payment of the 2012 453A Amount; and

WHEREAS, Holder is willing so to modify the Note.

NOW, THEREFORE, for valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Maker and Holder hereby agree as follows:

AGREEMENT

1.             Defined Terms.  All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Note.

2.             Amendment to Section 2.2.  Clause (i) of Section 2.2 of the Note is amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

“a payment equal to the 2012 453A Amount on or before December 4, 2013.”

3.             Karlsson’s Costs.  No later than November 18, 2013, Maker shall pay to Holder Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) in partial reimbursement of Holder’s legal fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Note and the other documents executed and delivered in connection therewith.

4.             Miscellaneous.

(a)           No Other Amendment.  Except as expressly amended in this Fifth Amendment, all provisions of the Note shall remain in full force and effect, and the parties thereto and hereto shall continue to have all their rights and remedies under the Note.  In the event of a conflict between the terms and provisions of this Fifth Amendment and the terms and conditions of the Note, the provisions of this Fifth Amendment shall govern.

(b)           Relation to Note.  This Fifth Amendment constitutes an integral part of the Note.  Upon the effectiveness of this Fifth Amendment, each reference in the Note to “this Promissory Note,” “hereunder,” “hereof,” or words of like import referring to the Note, shall mean and be a reference to the Note as amended hereby.

(c)           Successors and Assigns.  This Fifth Amendment shall be binding on and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns except as otherwise provided herein.

(d)           Counterparts.  This Fifth Amendment may be executed by the parties hereto on any number of separate counterparts, any of which may be executed and transmitted by facsimile, and each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which, taken together, shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Fifth Amendment to be executed and delivered as of the date first above written.

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