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 November, 2006
                        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]

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paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): [_]

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holders.

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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.

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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]

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registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2b:

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This report on Form 6-K is being furnished for the sole purpose of providing a
copy of the material change report dated November 16, 2006 and the Binding
Letter Agreement between the Company and Bema Gold Corporation dated November 6,
2006 filed with the Canadian Regulatory authorities.

                                      INDEX

                                Table of Contents

SIGNATURES

EXHIBIT INDEX

99.1   Material Change Report dated November 16, 2006

99.2   Binding Letter Agreement between Kinross Gold Corporation and Bema Gold
       Corporation dated November 6, 2006



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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: /s/ Shelley M. Riley
                                                      --------------------------
                                              Vice President, Administration and
                                              Corporate Secretary

November 16, 2006.