Toronto, Ontario, March 31, 2015 - Kinross Gold
Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) today filed an updated technical
report for its Fort Knox mine in Alaska, U.S.A. and its Kupol and
Dvoinoye mines in the Russian Federation.
The Fort Knox technical report incorporates updates with respect
to the current operations at the mine including the mineral
resource and mineral reserve estimates as of December 31, 2014
previously announced by news release on February 10, 2015. The
current operations at Fort Knox described in the technical report
include conventional open pit truck-and-shovel mining, a mill
operation consisting of crushing, grinding, agitated cyanide
leaching, and a carbon-in-pulp circuit; and a run-of-mine
valley-fill heap leaching operation.
The Kupol-Dvoinoye technical report incorporates updates with
respect to the current operations at the mines including the
mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates as of December 31,
2014 previously announced by news release on February 10, 2015. The
current operations at Kupol-Dvoinoye described in the technical
report include underground mines at Kupol and Dvoinoye, and a plant
at Kupol that processes ore from both mines using crushing,
grinding, gravity and agitated cyanide leaching.
These technical reports have been prepared pursuant to Canadian
Securities Administrators' National Instrument 43-101, and may be
found at www.kinross.com or under the Company's profile at
www.sedar.com.
On March 31, 2015, Kinross concurrently filed its Annual
Information Form ("AIF") in Canada under the Company's profile on
SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and its annual report on Form 40-F
("40-F") in the U.S. under the Company's profile on EDGAR at
www.sec.gov. The 40-F is largely comprised of the Company's 2014
annual audited financial statements, management discussion and
analysis and the AIF, and is also available on SEDAR under the
Kinross profile. All of these Canadian and U.S. regulatory filings
are also available on the Company's website at www.kinross.com.
About Kinross Gold Corporation
Kinross is a Canadian-based senior gold mining company with
mines and projects in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Mauritania, Russia, and
the United States. Kinross maintains listings on the Toronto Stock
Exchange (symbol:K) and the New York Stock Exchange
(symbol:KGC).