Status Update on Late Financial Statements Filing

TORONTO, Aug. 19 /CNW/ - Kinross Gold Corporation ("Kinross" or the
"Company") (TSX-K; NYSE-KGC) provides a status update on the preparation and
filing of its financial statements and related matters.
As previously disclosed, Kinross has not yet filed its audited financial
statements and related management's discussion and analysis or its annual
information form as a result of the review of the accounting treatment for the
assets acquired in the TVX Gold/Echo Bay merger ("the Merger"). On June 26,
2005 Kinross submitted a letter to the United States Securities & Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") responding to comments on the registration statement
filed by Kinross in connection with the proposed acquisition of Crown
Resources Corporation. Included with the response letter were the independent
valuations of the assets acquired in the Merger and related documents and
opinions from independent advisors and valuators.
As noted previously, Kinross received comments from the SEC in connection
with the above-mentioned response letter requesting clarification of certain
items included in that submission. This week Kinross filed its response to
these latest SEC comments.
Kinross will file audited financial statements after it has satisfied all
of the comments issued by the relevant regulators, the auditors have signed
off on the financial statements, and the financial statements have been
approved by Kinross' board of directors.
Kinross will issue bi-weekly updates as to the status and timing which
can be viewed on the website at www.kinross.com. The next update is scheduled
for the week of August 29, 2005.

Kinross will continue to provide bi-weekly status updates to the market
regarding the process relating to the preparation and filing of its financial
statements and related matters, pursuant to the alternative information
guidelines of the Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") Policy 57-603 and
Canadian Securities Administrators Staff Notice 57-301, until such time as
Kinross is current with its filing obligations under Canadian securities laws.

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