Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> December 25, 2000
ROBERT MACKAY BUCHAN is President and Chief Executive Officer of
Kinross Gold Corporation. He received a degree in Mining
Engineering from Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 1969 and
a Master's in Mineral Economics from Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario, in 1971. Following three years with a mining
equipment manufacturer, he joined a leading Canadian brokerage
company as a mining analyst. After four years with this company
and another six with an institutional boutique, again
specializing in mining related research and financing, he left to
participate in the formation of CMP Funds Management Ltd. This
company raised over $1 billion for the Canadian resource industry
in the period 1984-1990. In 1987 he participated in the creation
of associated companies, DCC Equities Limited (President), a
resource focused merchant banking company and Dundee Capital Inc.
(Vice Chairman), a financial services company. In 1993 he
initiated the creation of Kinross Gold Corporation, a company
that has grown from 25,000 ounces of gold production at its
inception to 2 million ounces of gold production on the
completion of the announced merger with TVX Gold and Echo Bay. Profile
Mr. Buchan: Kinross was started in 1993 with a small interest in a heap
leach gold producer in Nevada, and through a
