Technical Report for the Maricunga Gold Mine - Kinross Gold

Kinross Gold CorporationMaricunga Mine Technical Report10.0 EXPLORATIONExploration of the Verde and Pancho deposits has been ongoing since 1984 when theMaricunga Property was identified as a gold prospect in 1984 by David Thomson and MarioHernandez during a field visit to areas of alteration. The existing claims on the propertywere acquired by the partnership Companio Minera Maricunga (CMR) consisting ofHernandez, Thomson, and three other partners.CMR subsequently completed a program of geological mapping, rock chip and geochemicalsampling and identified three large areas of alteration with anomalous gold values. Theseareas were named Cerro Verde, Cerro Pancho and Guanaco.In December 1985, CMR optioned the Maricunga Property to Anglo American for 3 years.During that period Anglo American accomplished the following:• Geological mapped the property at a scale of 1:5,000• Collected 2,161 surface samples over an 8 km 2 area and assayed for gold, silver,copper, molybdenum and zinc.• Constructed 7.5 km of roads• Geologically mapped Pancho and Verde at 1:1,000 scale• Cut 6,000 m trenches on Pancho; collected and assayed 1,682 samples• Cut 7,500 m of trenches on Verde; collected and assayed 2,350 rock samples• Drilled 45 percussion drill holes on Pancho to average depths of 50 m (total of 2,234m), along with 6 diamond drill holes (total of 366 m).• Drilled 35 percussion holes, also to a depth of 50 m on Verde (total of 1,744 m).Anglo American’s exploration program outlined broad areas of gold mineralization onPancho, Verde and Guanaco, targeted by geochemical anomalies of +100 ppb gold in thesoil.40