Eagle Plains Announces Financing
Cranbrook, BC; 27 September, 2005: Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:EPL) announces that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement to a single arms-length investor. Application will be filed with the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) to sell 250,000 flow-through common shares at a price of $1.00 CDN per share for aggregate proceeds of $250,000 CDN. No commission or finders fee will be paid.
Funds generated by the financing will be used to advance exploration activities on the Company’s British Columbia properties.
Eagle Plains Resources continues to conduct research, acquisition and exploration projects in western Canada. The Company controls over 30 gold and base-metal projects, many with third parties including NovaGold Inc. (NG:AMEX,TSX), Amarc Resources Ltd. - a Hunter Dickinson Group Company (AHR:TSX-V), Northern Continental Resources Inc. (NCR:TSX-V), and Golden Cariboo Resources Inc. (GCC:TSX-V). These agreements expose Eagle Plains to over $16.5 million in exploration expenditures over the next five years. In recent years, Eagle Plains has completed option agreements with Billiton Metals, Rio Algom Exploration, Kennecott Exploration, Viceroy Resource Corp. and numerous other junior exploration companies, resulting in over 27,000m (90,000 ft) of drilling and over $8,000,000 in exploration spending on its projects since 1998.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Signed
“Tim J. Termuende”
President and CEO
For further information on EPL, please contact Mike Labach at 1 866 HUNT ORE (486 8673)
Email: mgl@eagleplains.com or visit our website at http://www.eagleplains.com
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