The Tasiast mine in Mauritania has been a giant black cloud over Kinross Gold Corp. for a long time. The company badly overpaid for Tasiast in 2010, if this spent an astounding US$7.1 billion to buy Red Back Mining Inc. (the mine’s former owner). And since then, there has been a steady flow of not so good news, writedowns and ...
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