Iron Range Property

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The Iron Property is 100% owned by Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. The Iron Range Property was discovered and staked in 1897 along an extensive belt of iron oxide showings. Initial work included several small shafts, adits, and trenches, and later with limited diamond drilling to a maximum depth of 20m. Many of the original claims on the Property were established as Crown Grants. In 1939, The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ltd., along with its parent company CPR, acquired the main claim block on the northern part of Iron Range Mountain. The claims were evaluated by CM&S (pre‐Cominco Ltd., now Teck Ltd.), to assess the potential for a large iron resource. As part of this evaluation, Cominco completed an extensive trenching program in 1957, exposing the Iron Range structure and mineralization over more than 4km strike length. In the 1980’s Cominco completed regional‐scale work through the area as part of its Sullivan SEDEX search program.

This included reconnaissance‐scale mapping, contour soil geochemistry, and UTEM surveys. Most of the Iron Range Crown Grants were held by Cominco – CPR until 1999 when they were reverted. Eagle Plains Resources Limited re‐staked the original Crown Grants as the FeO and IR claims on the day the historic grants lapsed. These claims cover the main part of the Iron Range structure worked by Cominco including the historic Union Jack crown grant in the north and the Rhodesia crown grant in the south. Eagle Plains subsequently staked the TCK claims in the area of Thompson Creek to cover the historic Great War crown grants.