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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 October, 2007
Commission File Number:  001-13382
KINROSS GOLD CORPORATION
(Translation of registrant's name into English)

52nd Floor, Scotia Plaza, 40 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario  M5H 3Y2
(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 40F:

Form 20-F_____                                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):_____

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):_____

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_____                      No_X__

 
If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2b:
 
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This Current Report on Form 6-K, dated October 26, 2007, is specifically incorporated by reference into Kinross Gold Corporation's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-141896), filed on April 4, 2007.

 
 

 

 
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This report on Form 6-K is being furnished for the sole purpose of providing a copy of the press release released on October 26, 2007 in which the Company announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kinam Magadan Gold Corporation, had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with OAO Polymetal under which Polymetal had agreed to purchase all of the shares held by Kinam Magadan in OAO Omolon Gold Mining Company.


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99.1  
Press release dated October 26, 2007.


 
 

 
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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
 
       
   
Vice President, Administration and
 
   
Corporate Secretary
 




October 26, 2007.