Robert Buchan, president and chief executive at
Buchan, who has been chief executive for 12 years, will step down after the company’s annual meeting in late April. The board has started searching for a successor.
Kinross also announced it had bought
Paracatu, in which Kinross had been a 49% non-operating partner since taking over TVX Gold in 2003, had produced about 142,000 oz. gold in the eight months ended September 2004. Total cash production costs ran to US$220 per oz. and total costs to US$283. It is a high-tonnage, low-grade operation, with head grades of around 0.45 gram gold per tonne.
As well, Kinross has extended the closing date on its acquisition of
Crown received surface rights for its Buckhorn Mountain gold project in Okanogan Cty., Washington state, which is 67 km from Kinross’s Kettle River gold mill. Permitting is under way and Kinross expects to start building a mine late in the year.
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