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Kinross makes move on Ecuador

ANDY HOFFMAN

From Friday's Globe and Mail

In a nervy bid to secure one of the world's largest untapped gold deposits, Kinross Gold Corp. is leaping into politically risky Ecuador with a $1.2-billion offer for Aurelian Resources Inc. The proposed all-stock deal amounts to an audacious bet that the South American country will reverse course and embrace foreign investment in its fledgling mining industry.

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