2010 Mining Explorers: Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. 10/31/2010
EPL: TSX-V President and CEO: Tim J. Termuende Chief Financial Officer and Director: Glen J. Diduck Vice President, Exploration and Director: Charles C. Downie Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. is a 20-y...

Mining News: Peel land use plan gets 1-year timeout 02/28/2010
Government of Yukon vows to work with all stakeholders, including First Nations and the public, to achieve an equitable agreement
The Government of Yukon has issued an immediate one-year interim withdrawal from mineral staking for all Crown Land, Category B settlement lands and fee simple lands in the Peel Watershed Region of Yu...

Ho-ho-hold the holidays 01/10/2010
Proponents of Mackenzie gas have tight deadline to respond to 679-page report
It landed Dec. 30 with a thud on desks in the high-rise petroleum towers of downtown Calgary, spoiling whatever hopes employees working on the Mackenzie Gas Project might have had to put their feet up...

Mining Explorers 2009: Prize Mining Corporation 11/01/2009
PRZ: TSX-V President and CEO: James "Jim" Glass Interim chairman and CFO: Feisal Somji Prize Mining Corp., founded in 1996 in Alberta, is dedicated to the exploration, discovery and development of p...

Mining Explorers 2009: Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. 11/01/2009
EPL: TSX-V President and CEO: Tim J. Termuende Chief Financial Officer and Director: Glen J. Diduck Vice President, Exploration and Director: Charles C. Downie Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. is a 20-yea...

Mining Explorers 2009: B.C. explorers recover slowly 11/01/2009
Gold prices and federal funding for power line give boost to northern miners
Most of the mining companies looking for minerals in northern British Columbia ushered in 2009 with high hopes and little else. "It's a perfect storm. The credit crunch in the world financial system...

Mining News: Yellowjacket gears up for production 06/28/2009
JV partners Prize Mining Corp. and Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. move closer to startup with upgrades to mill at gold mining project
Now that Prize Mining Corp. and Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. have completed modifications on a 350-metric-ton-per-day mill at the Yellowjacket Gold Project near Atlin in northwestern British Columbia,...

Mining News: Mineral Roundup in Yukon Territory 03/29/2009
Yukon Territory has one producing mine, the Minto copper-gold-silver operation near the Yukon River north of Whitehorse. During 2008, more than 150 active hardrock exploration projects in the territor...

MINING NEWS: Busy junior gears up for new season 03/25/2007
Successful spin-off of Galore Creek-area property into new exploration company caps productive 2006 exploration program
Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. of Cranbrook, B.C., has both breadth and depth when it comes to mineral exploration in western Canada. The aggressive junior has acquired more than 36 properties in a doze...

The Mackenzie gas line numbers game 01/01/2006
More studies grapple with initial marketable gas resources available for a pipeline from Canada's Arctic; anchor fields rated at 5.8 tcf
One of the imponderables of the Mackenzie Gas Project will come under growing scrutiny as the venture enters the regulatory hearing process in late January. For now, getting a fix on the reserves that...

MINING NEWS: Yukon miners win reclamation awards 12/25/2005
Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Archie Lang presented annual awards at the Yukon Geoscience Forum banquet in Whitehorse
The government of Yukon announced the annual Robert E. Leckie award winners for outstanding quartz and placer reclamation practices Nov. 24. The awards are for companies and individuals who go above a...

MINING NEWS: Lawsuit badge of honor for Galore Creek 10/30/2005
The Grace property in British Columbia appears so far not to contain any significant gold or copper, but its surface could still be extremely valuable to Vancouver-based NovaGold Resources. In a pre-f...

Devon: Pipelines could bring Yukon boom 10/02/2005
Huge independent looks past territory's rough edges to attractive prospects for oil, gas reserves; says infrastructure needed
Getting oil and gas producers to sink investment capital into Yukon Territory won't be easy, but it can be done, says an executive with Devon Canada Corp. The Canadian arm of Oklahoma-based Devon Ener...

All systems go for Canadian Beaufort well 04/17/2005
Devon Canada gets environmental clearance and signs contracts to drill first well in 17 years; four wells possible over four winters
A program to explore for natural gas in the Beaufort Sea is squarely in the sights of Devon Canada. The unit of Devon Energy will not have to face any further environmental scrutiny before launching a...