Kinross Gold

KGC

Market cap $33.9B

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Kinross Gold stands out as a high-margin, net-cash senior gold producer with stable output and robust free cash flow. KGC's diversified operations, long reserve life, and shareholder-friendly capital return programs support resilience and growth, even amid gold price volatility. Record margins, strong balance sheet, and aggressive buybacks position KGC as an attractive investment at current valuations, offering exposure to gold upside.

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Kinross Gold is upgraded to Strong Buy due to even more robust free cash flow, strong financials, and attractive valuation in a fundamentally improving gold market. KGC's production remains stable, with major projects in development and a potential focus on expansion now that debt has been significantly reduced into a net cash position. Gold's fundamentals are shifting, supporting higher long-term prices, while KGC benefits from industry consolidation and limited new supply.

Initial 2025 Chicken Mountain Drill Assays Confirm Grade, Thickness, Continuity and Scale; Reinforcing A Bulk-Tonnage, Open-Pit, Heap Leach RIRGS Opportunity VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / November 26, 2025 / Tectonic Metals Inc. ("Tectonic" or the "Company") (TSXV:TECT)(OTCQB:TETOF) today announced the initial assay results from 10 of the 79 holes drilled during the 2025 drill campaign at Chicken Mountain - a bulk-tonnage, open-pit, heap-leachable gold opportunity and one of six kilometre-scale intrusive centres at the Company's flagship ~99,800 acre Flat Gold Project ("Flat") in southwestern Alaska. The Chicken Mountain intrusion (6.5 x 6.0 kilometres) is the largest and most geologically understood intrusive center at Flat and widely recognized as the primary lode source of the 1.4 million ounces of placer gold historically mined from the surrounding drainages.1 To date, the 2025 drill campaign represents the largest and most comprehensive program ever completed at Flat, totaling 18,373 metres ("m") drilled across 125 holes, including 10,780 m in 79 holes at Chicken Mountain.

KGC's advancing projects from Great Bear to Round Mountain aim to boost output, cash flow and value as the miner enters its next phase of strength.

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