UNITED STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM
6-K
REPORT OF
FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT
TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
the month of January, 2010
Commission
File Number: 001-13382
KINROSS
GOLD CORPORATION
(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
25
York Street, 17th
Floor
Toronto,
Ontario M5J 2V5
(Address
of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the
registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form
40-F:
Form 20-F
o Form
40-F x
Indicate by check mark if the
registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T
Rule 101(b)(1): o
Note: Regulation S-T Rule
101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted solely
to provide an attached annual report to security holders.
Indicate by check mark if the
registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T
Rule 101(b)(7): o
Note: Regulation S-T Rule
101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to
furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer
must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant’s “home country”), or under the
rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant’s securities are
traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not
required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant’s security
holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a
Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR.
Indicate by check mark whether by
furnishing the information contained in this Form, the registrant is also
thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Yes o No
x
If “Yes” is marked, indicate below the
file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule
12g3-2b:
___________
This
report on Form 6-K is being filed for the sole purpose of providing the
technical report with respect to the Fruta del Norte property dated December 31,
2009.
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Table of
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SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.
KINROSS GOLD CORPORATION
Signed:/Shelley M.
Riley
V.P. Administration and Corporate
Secretary
January
28, 2010.