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Kinross Announces Crown Shareholders' Meeting
Kinross Announces Crown Shareholders' Meeting.
About this update from Kinross Gold Corporation
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nTORONTO, Aug. 2 /CNW/ - Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX-K; NYSE-KGC)\n(\"Kinross\" or the \"Company\"), is pleased to announce that Crown Resources\nCorporation (\"Crown\") (OTCBB-CRCE) has scheduled its shareholders' meeting for\nAugust 31, 2006, and has mailed the related proxy statement/prospectus to\nobtain the necessary shareholders' approval for the proposed merger with\nKinross. The merger is subject to the approval of at least two-thirds of the\noutstanding shares of Crown common stock entitled to vote.\nThis press release is not, and is not intended to be, a solicitation of\nproxies or an offer of securities. Investors and security holders of Crown are\nurged to read the proxy statement/prospectus that will be mailed to all Crown\nshareholders of record as of July 20, 2006 as it contains important\ninformation about Kinross, Crown and the proposed merger. Kinross'\nregistration statement on Form F-4 and any other documents filed or to be\nfiled by Kinross or Crown with the SEC, are available free of charge at the\nSEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, or directly from Kinross and Crown.\nCrown and its officers and directors may be deemed to be participants in\nthe solicitation of proxies from the Crown shareholders. A description of the\ninterests of the directors and executive officers is contained in the proxy\nstatement/prospectus included in the registration statement filed with the\nSEC.\n%SEDAR: 00002968E\n\n\n","length":1498,"tagName":"div"}]