Feb 24 (Reuters) - Kinross Gold Corp K.TO :
* Announces US$250 million bought deal financing
* Bought deal public equity offering of 83.4 million common shares of Kinross
at a price of US$3.00 per common share
* To use about $175 million of net proceeds to repay credit facilities that
were utilized to purchase assets from Barrick Gold Corporation
* Remainder of the proceeds will be used to repay debt maturing in 2016
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