Kinross Gold Corporation Update 26 October 2009

Kinross has released an update on its Paracatu expansion project in Paracatu, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, as follows:


The Company has revised its overall guidance and now expects to produce approximately 2.2 million gold equivalent ounces at an average cost of sales per ounce of $435-450 for full-year 2009.

We have highlighted the overall production figures first as that is as much as some of our readers want to know, the snippet below captures the jist of the news release but if you do want to read the whole message then please click here.


As a result of lower than expected production from Paracatu, the Company has revised its regional guidance for Brazil, where production for the full year 2009 is now expected to be 420,000-440,000 gold equivalent ounces at an average cost of sales per gold equivalent ounce of $645-670.

Based on the expansion plant’s current operating levels and an expected production run rate of approximately 35,000 gold equivalent ounces per month in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Company expects full-year 2009 gold equivalent production at the Paracatu operation to be approximately 340,000-360,000 ounces, at an average cost of sales per ounce of $700-735.

Kinross Gold Corporation trades on the Toronto stock Exchange under the symbol of ‘K’ and on the New York Exchange under the symbol of ‘KGC’

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