Kinross Gold Corp. engages in the production, acquisition, exploration, and development of gold properties. The firm operates through the following business segments: Tasiast, Paracatu, La Coipa, Fort Knox, Round Mountain, Bald Mountain, and Corporate & Other. The Fort Knox segment includes Fort Knox and Manh Choh mine. Its mining operations are in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Mauritania, and Canada. The company was founded by Robert MacKay Buchan on May 31, 1993 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 2X Shares seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 200% of the daily performance of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index. The index is comprised of publicly traded companies that operate globally in both developed and emerging markets, and are involved primarily in mining for gold and, in mining for silver. It invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments, such as swap agreements, ETFs that track the index, securities of the index and other financial instruments that provide daily leveraged exposure to the index or to ETFs that track the index which provide returns consistent with the objective. It is non-diversified.