FORM 20-F

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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(Mark One)



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REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934OR



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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934OR



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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934



Commission file number:

0-28874



CANADIAN EMPIRE EXPLORATION CORP.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)



CANADIAN EMPIRE EXPLORATION CORP.

(Translation of Registrant's name into English)



PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)



#1205 - 675 West Hastings Street

Vancouver, British Columbia    V6B 1N2

(Address of principal executive offices)



Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:  None



Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:



Common Shares without par value

(Title of Class)



Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act:  None



Indicate the number of outstanding Common Shares of each of the Issuer's classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by this registration statement:



Common Shares without par value:

The Registrant has authorized 250,000,000 Common Shares.

As at December 31, 2003 and May 7, 2004, the Registrant had outstanding 28,474,086 and 28,889,336 Common Shares respectively.

At December 31, 2003, 1,680,000 (May 7, 2004  1,540,000) Common Shares were reserved for issuance on exercise of options, and 8,655,500 Common Shares (May 7, 2004  8,240,250 Common Shares) on exercise of warrants.

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant:  (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

YesXNo.



Indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow.

Item 17X Item 18



(APPLICABLE ONLY TO ISSUERS INVOLVED IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS)



Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed all documents and reports required to be filed by Section 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court.

Yes  No _____

N/A



Copies of communications to:



Jeffrey T.K. Fraser, Esq.

Lexas Law Group

1550 - 1185 West Georgia Street

Vancouver, B.C.  V6E 4E6  CANADA

(604) 689-9356 Telephone

(604) 689-7030 Facsimile



and to



John Iino

Reed Smith Crosby Heafey LLP

1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 700

Los Angeles, CA  90067

(310) 734-5200  Telephone

(310) 734-5299 Facsimile



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PART I



Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. (formerly Northern Crown Mines Ltd.) ("Canadian Empire" or the "Registrant")  has one wholly owned subsidiary, Minera Reina Isabel, S.A. de C.V. ("Minera Reina Isabel"), and one 90% owned subsidiary, Minera Tatemas, S.A. de C.V. (Minera Tatemas), both corporations formed under the laws of Mexico to carry out mineral exploration and development programs in Mexico.  During 1999, the Company sold all of its shareholdings of its 100% owned Mexican subsidiary, Minera Sierra Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. ("Minera Sierra") to an arms length purchaser. For the purposes of thisdocument,Canadian Empire is sometimes referred to herein as the "Registrant" and the Registrant, Minera Reina Isabel, and Minera Tatemas are sometimes referred to together herein as the "Company".



ITEM 1

IDENTITY OF DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND ADVISORS



A)

DIRECTORS AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT

John S. BrockPresident
Chief Executive Officer
DirectorWest Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaR.E. Gordon Davis, P. Eng.Director
Audit Committee MemberVancouver, British Columbia, CanadaLawrence Page, LL.B.,  Q.C.Director
Audit Committee MemberWest Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaWayne J. Roberts, P. Geo.Director
Vice-President, ExplorationCoquitlam, British Columbia, CanadaC. Douglas Proctor, C.A.Director
Audit Committee MemberVancouver, British Columbia, CanadaJeannine P. M. Webb, CGAChief Financial Officer
Corporate SecretaryBurnaby, British Columbia, Canada






Advisors

Principal Bankers of the Company:

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce400 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada  V6C 3A6




Legal Counsel of the Company:

CanadaLexas Law Group1550  1185 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada  V6E 4E6USReed Smith Crosby Heafey LLP1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA  90067MexicoGarcia Jimenez y AsociadosSan Francisco No. 656-601
Col Del Valle
Mexico, DF, Mexico  03100






B)

AUDITORS

Since 1991, the independent Auditors of the Company have been PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP "PWC" located at Suite 700, 250 Howe Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  V6C 3S73



ITEM II

OFFER STATISTICS AND EXPECTED TIMETABLE



This Form 20F is being filed as an annual report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide information under this item.



ITEM III

KEY INFORMATION

A)

SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA



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Set forth below is certain selected financial data of the Company for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999.  The selected financial data for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, was derived from the audited financial statements of the Company.



Unless otherwise indicated, all references to dollars herein are to Canadian dollars.  As at December 31, 2003, one United States dollar was equal to 1.31283333 Canadian dollar and that value is used in calculations herein, unless otherwise indicated.

Unless otherwise indicated, all references to share capital herein are on a post-consolidated basis. On December 5, 2001, the Registrant consolidated its capital on a ten (10) old Common Shares for one (1) new share basis.



TABLE OF SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA(1)

(Stated in Canadian Dollars)

Presented in Accordance with

Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Unless Otherwise Stated



FISCAL YEARS ENDED



Dec. 31, 2003Dec. 31, 2002Dec. 31, 2001Dec. 31, 2000Dec. 31, 1999Income (Loss)  for the Year($2,096,679)($1,022,609)($388,599)($2,692,574)($9,745,331)Income (Loss)  for the Year  US GAAP($1,088,027)($2,031,261)($388,599)($1,682,528)($2,174,332)Earnings (Loss) per common share (2)($0.12)($0.12)($0.11)($0.79)($4.27)Earnings (Loss) per common share  US GAAP (2)($0.06)($0.23)($0.11)($0.50)($0.96)Earnings (Loss) per common share diluted($0.12)($0.12)($0.11)($0.79)($4.27)Earnings (Loss) per common share diluted  US GAAP($0.06)($0.23)($0.11)($0.50)($0.96)Weighted Avg. No. Common Shares (net of escrowed)(3)17,964,3368,657,8923,531,0453,393,4982,280,897Working
Capital (deficiency) (4)$90,767$613,098$50,888($533,198)($852,003)Assets$1,085,920$1,807,957$265,271$912,732$3,417,024Assets  US GAAP$1,085,920$799,305$265,271$56,009$236,641Resource Assets$0$1,008,652$0$856,723$3,180,383Resource Assets  US GAAP$0$0$0$0$0Write-off of Deferred Exploration Expenses/Resource Properties($1,668,119)($394,751)($68,336)($2,389,745)($8,986,685)


Long-Term Debt$0$0$0$0$0Dividends per common share$0$0$0$0$0Shareholders Equity$846,724$1,621,750$53,124$326,657$2,375,256Shareholders Equity  US GAAP$846,724$613,098$53,124$326,657$1,365,210




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(1)

The financial information set forth in this table includes the accounts of Canadian Empire and its subsidiaries, Minera Reina Isabel and Minera Tatemas, on a consolidated basis.

(2)

After taking into effect the consolidation of the capital of the Registrant on December 5, 2001 on a ten (10) old Common Shares for one (1) new share basis.

(3)

The Registrant has no Common Shares held in escrow.

(4)

At December 31, 2003, the Registrant had cash and cash equivalents of $1,067,042, of which $927,891 is restricted to flow-through expenditures on Canadian mineral properties, resulting in an unrestricted working capital of $90,767.





The following table sets out the monthly average exchange rates of CDN$ for 1 US$ for each month during the previous six months:



|                       | April, 2004 | March, 2004 | February, 2004 | January, 2004 | December, 2003 | November, 2003
|---------------------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------------- | ------------- | -------------- | --------------
|Average for the period | 1.34245238  | 1.32835652  | 1.32896000     | 1.29599048    | 1.31283333     | 1.31257895    



B)

CAPITALIZATION AND INDEBTEDNESS



This Form 20F is being filed as an annual report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide information under this item.





C)

REASON FOR THE OFFER AND USE OF PROCEEDS



This Form 20F is being filed as an annual report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide information under this item.



D)

RISK FACTORS



The securities of the Registrant are highly speculative.  In evaluating the Company, it is important to consider that the Company is a resource exploration enterprise and that it is in the exploratory stage of its operations.  To date, the Company has had no revenues and there is no immediate expectation of revenues.  A prospective investor or other person reviewing the Company should not consider an investment in the Registrant unless the investor is capable of sustaining an economic loss of the entire investment.  All costs have been funded through equity and related party advances.  Certain risks are associated with the Company's business including:



Mineral Exploration and Development

The Companys properties are in the exploration stage and are without a known body of commercial ore. Development of any of the Companys properties will only follow upon obtaining satisfactory exploration results. Mineral exploration and development involve a high degree of risk and few properties which are explored are ultimately developed into producing mines. There is no assurance that the Companys mineral exploration and development activities will result in the discovery of a body of commercial ore on any of its properties. Several years may pass between the discovery and the development of commercial mineable mineralized deposits.  Most exploration projects do not result in the discovery of commercially mineralized deposits.



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Trends



The Company's financial success is dependent upon the discovery of properties which could be economically viable to develop.  Such development could take years to complete and the resulting income, if any, is difficult to determine.  The sales value of any mineralization discovered by the company is largely dependent upon factors beyond the Company's control, such as market value of the products produced.  Other than as disclosed herein, the company is not aware of any trends, uncertainties, demands, commitments or events which are reasonably likely to have a material effect on the Company's results or financial position.



Operating Hazards and Risks

Mineral exploration involves many risks. The operations in which the Company has a direct or indirect interest will be subject to all the hazards and risks normally incidental to exploration, development and production of resources, any of which could result in work stoppages and damage to persons or property or the environment and possible legal liability for any and all damage. Fires, power outages, labour disruptions, flooding, explosions, cave-ins, land slides and the inability to obtain suitable or adequate machinery, equipment or labour are some of the risks involved in the operation of mines and the conduct of exploration programs.  Although the Company will, when appropriate, secure liability insurance in an amount which it considers adequate, the nature of these risks is such that liabilities might exceed policy limits, the liability and hazards might not be insurable, or the Company might elect not to insure itself against such liabilities due to high premium costs or other reasons, in which event the Company could incur significant costs that could have a material adverse effect upon its financial condition.



Economics of Developing Mineral Properties

Substantial expenditures are required to establish ore reserves through drilling, to develop metallurgical processes to extract metal from ore and to develop the mining and processing facilities and infrastructure at any site chosen for mining. No assurance can be given that minerals will be discovered in sufficient quantities to justify commercial operation or that the funds required for development can be obtained on a timely basis.



The marketability of any minerals acquired or discovered may be affected by numerous factors which are beyond the Companys control and which cannot be predicted, such as market fluctuations, the proximity and capacity of milling facilities, mineral markets and processing equipment, and such other factors as government regulations, including regulations relating to royalties, allowable production, importing and exporting of minerals, and environmental protection. Depending on the price of minerals produced, the Company may determine that its is impractical to commence or continue commercial production.



Environmental Factors

The Company proposes to conduct exploration activities in various parts of Canada.  Such activities are subject to laws, rules and regulations governing the protection of the environment, including, in some cases, posting of reclamation bonds. In Canada, extensive environmental legislation has been enacted by federal, provincial and territorial governments. All phases of the Companys operations are subject to environmental regulation in the jurisdictions in which it operates. Environmental legislation is evolving in a manner which requires stricter standards and enforcement, increased fines and penalties for non-compliance, more stringent environmental assessments of proposed properties and a heightened degree of responsibility for companies and their officers, directors and employees. There is no assurance that future changes in environmental regulation, if any, will not adversely affect the Companys operations. The cost of compliance with changes in governmental regulations has the potential to reduce the profitability of operations or to preclude entirely the economic development of a property. Environmental hazards may exist on the Companys properties, which hazards are unknown to the Company at present, which may have been caused by previous or existing owners or operators of the properties. The Company is not aware of any environmental hazards on any of the properties held by the Company.



The approval on new mines of federal lands in Canada is subject to detailed review through a clearly established public hearing process, pursuant to the Federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.  In addition, lands under federal jurisdiction are subject to the preparation of a costly environmental impact assessment report prior to commencement of any mining operations.  These reports entail a detailed and scientific assessment as well as a prediction of the impact on the environmental and proposed development. Further, under such review process, there is no assurance that regulatory and environmental approvals will be obtained on a timely basis or at all. Failure to comply with the legislation may have serious consequences. Orders may be issued requiring operations to cease or be curtailed or requiring installation of additional facilities or equipment. Violators may be required to compensate those suffering loss or damage by reason of its mining activities and may be fined if convicted of an offense under such legislation.



Canadian provincial mining legislation establishes requirements for the decommissioning, reclamation and rehabilitation of

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mining properties in a state of temporary or permanent closure. Such closure requirements relate to the protection and restoration of the environment and the protection of the public safety. Some former mining properties must be managed for long periods of time following closure in order to fulfill closure requirements. The costs of closure of mining properties, and, in particular, the cost of long term management of mining properties can be substantial. The Company intends to progressively rehabilitate its mining properties during their period of operation, should any properties become operational, so as to reduce the cost of fulfilling closure requirements after the termination or suspension of production.



The Company has adopted environmental practices designed to ensure that it continues to comply with or exceeds all environmental regulations currently applicable to it.  All of the Companys activities are in compliance in all material respects with applicable environmental legislation.  The Company is currently engaged in exploration with nil to minimal environmental impact.



Uncertainty of Ownership Rights and Boundaries of Resource Properties

There is no assurance that the rights of ownership and other rights in concessions held by the Company are not subject to loss or dispute particularly because such rights may be subject to prior unregistered agreements or transfers or other land claims and may be affected by defects and adverse laws and regulations which have not been identified by the Company.  Notwithstanding that the exploration and exploitation concessions in respect of which the Company may hold various interests have been surveyed, the precise boundary locations thereof may be in dispute. Although the Company has exercised the usual due diligence with respect to title to properties in which it has a material interest, there is no guarantee that title to the properties will not be challenged or impugned. The Company's mineral property interest may be subject to prior unregistered agreements or transfers or native land claims and title may be affected by undetected defects. In addition, certain of the mining claims in which the Company has an interest are not recorded in the name of the Company and cannot be recorded until certain steps are taken by other parties. Before a number of claims under option can be recorded in the Company's name, the underlying title holder has to assign title to the Company once the Company satisfies its option agreement obligations. There are no assurances that the underlying title holder will assign title.



Potential Conflicts of Interest

The Directors of the Company serve as directors of other public and private companies and devote a portion of their time to manage other business interests.  This may result in certain conflicts of interest.  To the extent that such other companies may participate in ventures in which the Company is also participating, such directors and officers of the Company may have a conflict of interest in negotiating and reaching an agreement with respect to the extent of each company's participation.  The laws of British Columbia require the directors and officers to act honestly, in good faith, and in the best interests of the company and its shareholders.  However, in conflict of interest situations, directors of the Registrant may owe the same duty to another company and will need to balance the competing obligations and liabilities of their actions.  There is no assurance that the needs of the Registrant will receive priority in all cases.  From time to time, several companies may participate together in the acquisition, exploration and development of natural resource properties, thereby allowing these companies to:  (i) participate in larger programs; (ii) acquire an interest in a greater number of programs; and (iii) reduce their financial exposure with respect to any one program.  A particular company may assign, at its cost, all or a portion of its interests in a particular program to another affiliated company due to the financial position of the company making the assignment.  In determining whether or not the Company will participate in a particular program and the interest therein to be acquired by it, it is expected that the directors of the Company will primarily consider the degree of risk to which the Company may be exposed and its financial position at the time.



Indemnity and Protection of Directors, Officers and Employees

Article 19.1 of the Registrant's Articles states:



"Subject to the provisions of the Company Act [the British Columbia Company Act], the directors shall cause the Company to indemnify a director or former director of the Company and the directors may cause the Company to indemnify a director or former director of a corporation of which the Company is or was a shareholder and the heirs and personal representatives of any such person against all costs, charges and expenses including any amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, actually and reasonably incurred by him or them including an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment in a civil, criminal or administrative action or proceeding to which he is or they are made a party by reason of his or their being or having been a director of the Company or a director of such corporation, including any action brought by the Company or any such corporation.  Each director of the Company, on being elected or appointed, shall be deemed to have contracted with the Company on the terms of the foregoing indemnity."



The Article also provides similar protection for officers and employees for liabilities incurred arising out of the

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performance of their duties or by reason of their position with the Registrant.  Thus, the Registrant may be required to pay amounts to settle any such claims that may arise, if any.  The impact of any such possible future indemnity protection cannot be determined at this time.  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act") may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is therefore unenforceable.



Potential Dilution

Commitments exist which could require the issuance of additional shares of the Registrant, such as by way of the exercise of stock options and the exercise of outstanding share purchase warrants.  Furthermore future equity financings, property transactions, and issuance of additional stock options among other things may require the subsequent issuance of the Registrant's securities.



No U.S. Listing of the Company's Securities

The Registrant's Common Shares are listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange ("TSX").  The Registrant's investor base is located principally outside the United States and therefore, it has no current plans to apply for the listing of its shares or to otherwise qualify its securities on any U. S. stock exchange or the NASDAQ automated quotation system.  As a result, the market on the Registrant's securities is limited, particularly in the United States.  If market interest changes and the Registrant meets the applicable eligibility requirements of NASDAQ or other U.S. exchanges in the future, it may reconsider this policy.  Investors should recognize that U.S. market liquidity will not be readily available.



Canadian Aboriginal Land Claims

Canadian Aboriginal rights may be claimed on Crown properties or other types of tenure with respect to which mining rights have been conferred.  The Company is aware of the mutual benefits afforded by cooperative relationships with indigenous people in conducting exploration activity and is supportive of measures established to achieve such cooperation. While there is, to the Companys knowledge, no existing claim in respect of any of its properties, the advent of any future aboriginal land claims and the outcome of any aboriginal land claims negotiations cannot be predicted.



Competition

The mineral industry is intensely competitive in all its phases.  The Company competes with many companies possessing greater financial resources and technical facilities than itself for the acquisition of mineral concessions, claims, leases and other mineral interests as well as for the recruitment and retention of qualified employees.  Many of the mining companies with which the Company competes have operations and financial strength many times that of the Company.  Nevertheless, the market for the Company's possible future production of minerals tends to be commodity rather than enterprise oriented since mineral products tend to be fungible.  As a result, the competitive factors are principally impacted by overall market issues rather than by corporate presence and strength.  Accordingly, the Company expects to compete by keeping its production costs low (as yet, the Company does not have any property in the development or production stage) through judicious selection of the property to be developed and by keeping overhead and other charges within industry standards.



Governmental Regulation

Operations, development and exploration on the Companys properties are affected to varying degrees by: (i) government regulations relating to such matters as environmental protection, health, safety and labour; (ii) mining law reform; (iii) restrictions on production, price controls, and tax increases; (iv) maintenance of claims; (v) tenure; and (vi) expropriation of property. There is no assurance that future changes in such regulation, if any, will not adversely affect the Companys operations. Changes in such regulation could result in additional expenses and capital expenditures, availability of capital, competition, reserve uncertainty, potential conflicts of interest, title risks, dilution, and restrictions and delays in operations, the extent of which cannot by predicted.



The Company is at the exploration stage on all of its properties. Exploration on the Companys properties requires responsible best exploration practices to comply with Company policy, government regulations, and maintenance of claims and tenure. The Company is required to be registered to do business and have a valid prospecting license (required to prospect or explore for minerals on Crown Mineral land or to stake a claim) in any Canadian province in which it is carrying out work. Mineral exploration primarily falls under provincial jurisdiction. However, the Company is also required to follow the regulations pertaining to the mineral exploration industry that fall under federal jurisdiction, such as the Fish and Wildlife Act.



If any of the Companys projects are advanced to the development stage, those operations will also be subject to various laws and regulations concerning development, production, taxes, labour standards, environmental protection, mine safety

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and other matters. In addition, new laws or regulations governing operations and activities of mining companies could have a material adverse impact on any project in the mine development stage that the Company may possess.



Uncertainty of Markets for Metals

The global market price for metals and in particular for gold and silver is influenced by numerous factors beyond the control of the Company. The world-wide precious metals market has experienced a degree of instability over the last few years, and a number of factors may impact future prices.  Such factors include supply and demand, inflation, imposition of export controls, government regulated ad valorem taxes and royalties that may be imposed on metal production, refining costs and penalties, labor problems experienced by large producers and market price fluctuations resulting from speculative and production hedging activity.  The exact effect of these factors cannot be accurately predicted and the combination of these factors may result in the Company not receiving an adequate return on invested capital.



Uncertainty of Establishing Mineral Reserves

Locating mineral deposits depends on a number of factors, including the technical skill of the exploration personnel involved.  Whether a mineral deposit, once discovered, will be commercially viable also depends on a number of factors, including the particular attributes of the deposit (i.e., the size and grade of the deposit and the proximity of the deposit to the mine development infrastructure) as well as the market prices of precious metals and ores, which can be highly volatile.  Factors contributing to the uncertainty of establishing reserves of minerals may be resolved by further exploration for additional mineralization, establishment of infrastructure by non-related entities, development of improved mining technologies and increased market prices for the metals.  In the event that the Company's exploration efforts succeed and established reserves of minerals are identified, but various factors make mining not commercially viable, the Company would postpone mine development until there was an improvement in the factors contributing to commercial viability.  In the event that such commercial viability is never attained, the Company could seek to sell or otherwise realize value or could be required to abandon its business and fail as a "going concern."



Need for Additional Capital

Currently, exploration programs and feasibility studies are pursued by the Company with an objective of establishing mineralization of commercial quantities.  The Company may fund the proposed programs and feasibility studies through equity financing and the possible exercise of outstanding options.  Such funding would be dilutive to current shareholders.  Should sources of equity financing not be available to the Company, the Company would seek a joint venture relationship in which the funding source could become entitled to a shared, negotiated interest in the property or the projects.  If exploration programs carried out by the Company are successful in es­tablishing ore of commercial quantities and/or grade, additional funds will be required to develop the properties and reach commercial production.  In that event, the Company may seek capital through further equity funding, debt instruments, by offering an interest in the property being explored and allowing the party or parties carrying out further exploration or development thereof to earn an interest, or through a combination of funding arrangements.  There can be no assurance of such funding sources.  Furthermore, if the Company is not able to obtain the capital resources necessary to meet property payments or exploration or development obligations which now apply or which would apply in joint ventures with others, its potential as a "going concern" could be seriously affected.



Management and Directors

The Company is dependent on a relatively small number of key directors and officers:  John S. Brock, Wayne J. Roberts and Jeannine P.M. Webb.  Loss of any one of those persons could have an adverse affect on the Company.  The Company does not maintain key-man insurance in respect of any of its management.



Price Fluctuations:  Share Price Volatility

In recent years, the securities markets in North America have experienced high level of price and volume volatility, and the market price of securities of many mineral exploration companies have experienced wide fluctuations in price which have not necessarily been related to the operating performance, underlying asset values or prospects of such companies. There can be no assurance that the continual fluctuations in price will not occur.  In particular, during the financial year ended December 31, 2003, the per share price of the Companys common shares fluctuated from a high of $0.170 to a low of $0.080.



Business Risks of Mineral Exploration

The Company is engaged in the exploration of mineral resource properties.  To date, any exploration program carried out by the Company has been an exploratory search for ore.  Mineral exploration involves significant operating and investment risks and few properties which are explored are ultimately successfully developed into producing mines.  The Company does not have any interests, direct or indirect, in producing mines or mineral properties which, as of the date hereof, have a

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known body of commercial ore.  Exploration for mineral resources requires compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the exploration is taking place and potential changes to laws relating to exploration activities, environmental considerations and ownership of the properties being explored can have a significant impact on the Company.



Uninsurable Risks

In the course of exploration and development of, and production from, mineral resource properties, certain risks, and in particular, unexpected or unusual geological formations and engineering operating conditions may occur and may expose the Company to liabilities.  Should such liabilities arise the payment of such liabilities may have a material, adverse effect on the Company's financial position.  It is not always possible to fully insure against such risks or the Company may elect not to cover such risks because of the high cost of such insurance.  The Company may become subject to liability for pollution or hazards.  Payment of liabilities for claims for such occurrences could reduce or eliminate any future profitability and could result in increasing costs and a decline in the value of the securities of the Company.  Currently, the Company is a named insured with respect to Commercial General Liability and Excess Liability in a gross amount limited to $10 million (Cdn.) for each occurrence.



Market Risk

The Company is in the business of mineral exploration.  Gold prices and foreign exchange rates may fluctuate widely from time to time.  The Company has not entered into market instruments for trading or other purposes.



Variations in Operating Results

The Registrant was incorporated on February 24, 1987 and since incorporation has not realized net income nor paid dividends.  During the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, the Company had net losses of $2,096,679, $1,022,609, and $388,599 respectively, deficits of $20,621,033, $18,524,354, and $17,501,745 respectively, and per share losses of $0.12, $0.12 and $0.11 respectively. There is no assurance that these trends in operating results will change.



Plan of Operations and Financial Sources and Liquidity

During 2003, the Company issued 12,633,000 Common Shares for gross proceeds of $1,512,000. At December 31, 2003, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $1,067,042, of which $927,891 is restricted to flow-through expenditures on Canadian mineral properties, resulting in an unrestricted working capital of $90,767.



At May 7, 2004, the Registrant had 28,889,336 Common Shares outstanding, outstanding options expiring on various dates until January 3, 2008, entitling the holders to purchase up to 1,540,000 Common Shares at $0.15 per share, warrants entitling the holders to purchase up to 8,240,250 shares at prices varying from $0.14 to $0.30 per share through December 22, 2005.



To date, the Companys mineral exploration activities have been funded through sales of common shares.  The Companys ability to continue operations is dependent on managements ability to secure additional financing.  Management is actively pursuing such additional sources of financing, and while it has been successful in doing so in the past, there can be no assurance it will be able to do so in the future.  Because of this uncertainty, there is substantial doubt about the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern.  The Consolidated Financial Statements do not include the adjustments that would be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.



Additional Financing

In order to continue exploring its mineral properties and acquiring additional properties, management may be required to pursue additional sources of financing. The Company has limited financial resources and there is no assurance that additional funding will be available to allow the Company to fulfill its obligations on existing exploration properties. Failure to obtain additional financing could result in delay or indefinite postponement of further exploration and the possible, partial or total loss of the Companys interest in certain properties. The Company may, in the future, be unable to meet its share of costs incurred under agreements to which it is a party and the Company may consequently have its interest in the properties subject to such agreements reduced. Furthermore, if other parties to such agreements do not meet their share of such costs, the Company may be unable to finance the cost required to complete recommended programs.





ITEM IV

INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY



A)

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPANY



Canadian Empire is a British Columbia corporation incorporated as Progressive Minerals Ltd. on February 24, 1987 by

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registration of its British Columbia Company Act Memorandum and Articles.  On February 10, 1989, the name was changed to Northern Crown Mines Ltd. On August 14, 2002, the name was changed to Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.



Canadian Empire's head office and principal place of business is located at #1205 - 675 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6B 1N2 (telephone:  (604) 687-4951; facsimile:  (604) 687-4991).  The principal contact person is John S. Brock, President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director.  Minera Reina Isabels and Minera Tatemas registered offices are at San Francisco No. 656-601, Col. Del Valle, C.P. 03100, Mexico, D.F.



Canadian Empire maintains a calendar fiscal year.  The Company's financial statements are stated in Canadian Dollars and are prepared in accordance with Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the application of which, in the case of the Company, conforms in all material respects for periods presented with U.S. GAAP except as noted in the notes to the Company's financial statements.  See "Item XVII Financial Statements".



During the year 2001, the Company abandoned its mineral interests in Mexico and accordingly has no further right, title and obligation in respect of those interests.  During 2002 and 2003, the Company entered into various agreements to acquire the right to various mineral properties located in Canada.   At December 31, 2003, the Company determined that, results not meeting expectations, it would no longer maintain its interests in these mineral properties and wrote off all costs associated with the properties.  See Item V  Operating and Financial Review and Prospects and Description of Property.







B)

BUSINESS OVERVIEW



TO DATE, THE COMPANY HAS FOCUSED ON ACQUIRING EXPLORATION RIGHTS AND DETERMINING WHETHER THE PROPERTIES HAVE SUFFICIENT MINERALIZATION TO MEET FULL DEVELOPMENT.  TO DATE, THE COMPANY HAS NOT GENERATED REVENUES FROM ITS EXPLORATION OPERATIONS AND THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE EXPECTATION OF ANY SUCH REVENUES.



2001:

During 2001, the Company and Teck Cominco Limited ("Teck Cominco") entered into a Funding and Participation Agreement, as amended (the "Teck Cominco Agreement"), whereby Teck Cominco is a strategic partner in the Companys CEEx Program (the CEEx Program).  The Company's CEEx Program will incur mineral exploration expenses qualifying as Canadian Exploration Expenses (CEE) as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada) on mineral properties. The CEEx Program is structured so that CEE funds will be expended on activities on selected mineral properties in consideration for the Company having the right to initially earn majority interests in those properties. The program is being directed towards a number of properties and a range of mineral commodities.  The CEEx Program operates under the direction of the Advisory Committee comprised of two representatives each from Teck Cominco and the Company.   The CEEx Program is dependent on the Companys acquisition of mineral properties on which a program of mineral exploration is warranted. Under the direction of the Advisory Committee mineral properties may be sourced by the Company from Teck Cominco or third parties.  Acquisition criteria places emphasis on the building of a portfolio of properties.  Approximately 70% of the portfolio is intended to contain properties sufficiently advanced to warrant immediate diamond drilling, approximately 20% of the portfolio is intended to contain properties that require additional exploration to develop drill targets and approximately 10% of the portfolio is intended to contain properties that are considered as early stage exploration projects.  Metal commodities of choice include: precious metals (gold, silver), base metals (copper and zinc), , diamonds and industrial minerals (including tantalum and rare-earths).  Properties are intended to be acquired by way of option agreements whereby the Company may elect to earn an initial majority interest in a property by making scheduled exploration expenditures that qualify as CEE.  Teck Cominco reserves the right at pre-feasibility to back into property interests ranging from 51% to 60.8% by spending 200% of the Companys prior exploration expenditures and completing final feasibility. See Description of Property for more detailed information on the Properties.



2002:

During 2002, under the CEEx program, the Company acquired the rights to the Hemlo West, Amos, Meridian, Yukon Olympic, Big Bulk and VMS Properties (see Description of Property for more detailed information on these Properties). Additional mineral properties were considered.

2003:

During 2003, the Company continued to work under a strategic alliance with Teck Cominco in the acquisition of Canadian exploration projects with drill targets indicating large metal systems.

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Yukon Olympic

The Yukon Olympic Property, located in Yukon, has an iron oxide copper gold system with a 2.0 milligal gravity anomaly and magnetic anomaly over a length of 8 kilometres and a width of 1 kilometre.  Copper-bearing hematitic breccia was discovered near the eastern end of the geophysical anomalies.  A drilling program conducted in 2002 failed to intersect significant mineralization and the property was relinquished in 2003 to an underlying vendor.



Big Bulk and VMS

During 2003, the Company completed 1664 metres of diamond drilling in 11 holes on the Big Bulk copper-gold property located in northwestern B.C.    Surface exploration work was conducted on the adjacent VMS property.  With exploration results failing to meet expectations, the Big Bulk and VMS properties were relinquished to underlying vendors.



Hemlo West

During 2002, seven drill holes were completed at the Hemlo West property, located in the western portion of Ontarios Hemlo Gold Camp, to test continuity of gold mineralization in a 1200 metre by 300 metre section of the Hemlo-Heron Bay Shear.  Although most of the holes intersected alteration, sulphides, quart veining and anomalous gold values characteristic of the Hemlo Camp host rocks, exploration results did not meet expectations and the property was relinquished  to its vendor in 2003.



Amos

Six gold-enriched massive sulphide VMS targets were drill tested during 2002 at the Amos Project, located near Amos, Quebec.  Drill results did not meet expectations and during 2003 the property was relinquished  to its vendor.



Meridian

In 2002, five drill holes were completed on the Meridian massive sulphide project in Northern Manitoba with inconclusive drilling results.  The option was relinquished to the propertys underlying vendor in 2003.





Subsequent Events

On January 19, 2004, the Company entered into an option/joint venture agreement to acquire the Atikokan West Property located in northwestern Ontario.  Work to date has outlined targets ready for drill testing, including the depth extensions of mineralization identified by prior drill holes with grades 6.2 g/t gold over 10.4 metres, as reported by the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines.  The Company proposes to carry out a program of exploration on the property during 2004.





TO THE COMPANY'S KNOWLEDGE, THE MINERAL PROPERTIES CANNOT BE PROVEN TO CONTAIN A BODY OF COMMERCIAL ORE UNTIL A POSITIVE FEASIBILITY STUDY DEMONSTRATING COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION HAS BEEN PREPARED BY INDEPENDENT CONSULTING ENGINEERS.

The Registrant's Common Shares are listed on the TSX  (formerly the Canadian Venture Exchange) and trade on the facilities of the TSX under the symbol "CXP."  On December 5, 2001, the Registrant consolidated its capital on a ten (10) old Common Shares for one (1) new share basis, changed its trading symbol from NCW to CXP, and received a new CUSIP number (664903 50 7). The Registrant is a reporting issuer and an exchange issuer under the Securities Act, R.S.B.C. 1993, c.418 (the "BC Act"), is a reporting issuer under the Securities Act, R.S.A. 2000, c S-4 (the "Alberta Act"), is a reporting issuer under the Securities Act of Manitoba, ccsm c.S50 (the "Manitoba Act") is a reporting issuer under the Securities Act R.S.O. 1990, c. S5 (the "Ontario Act") and is not in default of any requirements of the BC Act, the Alberta Act, the Manitoba Act or the Ontario Act or the rules and regulations pertaining to those acts.



In order to meet its obligation, the Company occasionally requires additional financing, which it may obtain through equity financing, joint venture of property interests, and other means, or a combination thereof.  In the event that the Company is not able to obtain additional equity financing, the Company will consider offering third parties the right to participate in its properties in exchange for supplying all or some part of the amounts needed on a particular contract or concession or the Company will seek extensions or other financing arrangements, including debt arrangements.  If all such opportunities fail, the Company and its investors could lose a significant portion of their contributions.

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C)

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE



Canadian Empire has one wholly owned subsidiary, Minera Reina Isabel and 90% ownership in another subsidiary, Minera Tatemas, both corporations formed under the laws of Mexico on March 27, 1991, and February 13, 1997 respectively.  The remaining 10% of Minera Tatemas is owned by Enrique Gaitan Enriquez. During 1999, the Company sold its shareholdings in one of its Mexican subsidiaries, Minera Sierra Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. ("Minera Sierra") to an arms length purchaser. Minera Sierra was incorporated under the laws of Mexico on March 27, 1991.



D)

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY



Hemlo West Property



Description of Property

The Hemlo West Property is located in northwestern Ontario, Canada.  During 2002, the Company, through an option/joint venture agreement with the owner Teck Cominco, acquired the right to earn an 80% interest in the Hemlo West property subject to certain back-in rights by Teck Cominco.  The Company completed a $276,195 exploration drilling program during 2002 to outline additional gold mineralization on the property.  During 2003, the Company compiled all technical data on the property with an expenditure of $4,000.



In exploring mineral properties, the Company has adopted as a general policy, phase protocol for its drilling and assessment efforts.  The Company was operator of the Hemlo West exploration program and contracted Teck Cominco to manage the conduct of the field work.  Exploration drilling has identified a zone of gold-silver mineralization on the Hemlo West property.  Further exploration is required before a resource of gold-silver can be determined.  The Company placed a priority on other mineral properties during 2003 and relinquished all rights to the Hemlo West Property in February 2004.



Property Title

The Hemlo West Property consists of 37 contiguous claim units or 592 hectares.  All claims are in good standing to 2004.  The property was acquired from Stenlund Resources under two separate agreements by Teck Corporation (now Teck Cominco) dated September 13, 1996 and May 30, 1997.  Teck Cominco has fulfilled all requirements of these agreements and has earned 100% interest in the property subject to a net profits royalty.  The Company has the right to acquire an 80% interest in the Hemlo West Property subject to a back-in right of Teck Cominco.  Under the mining laws of Ontario, mineral claims are granted to the recorded owner who must conduct sufficient exploration to file assessment work to keep the claims in good standing or annually pay-in-lieu.  All claims were in good standing when relinquished in 2004.



HEMLO WEST PROPERTY

MINERAL CLAIM STATUS



NumberTownshipHolderRecord DateDue DateTB 518621PicTeck Cominco79-07-2304-07-23TB 518622PicTeck Cominco79-07-2304-07-23TB 518623PicTeck Cominco79-07-2304-07-23TB 518628PicTeck Cominco79-11-0504-11-05TB 518629PicTeck Cominco79-11-0504-11-05TB 518991PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518997PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518998PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 519558PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 519559PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 644815PicTeck Cominco82-10-0104-10-01TB 644816PicTeck Cominco82-10-0104-10-01TB 656697PicTeck Cominco82-10-0104-10-01TB 657216PicTeck Cominco82-10-1904-10-19TB 657217PicTeck Cominco82-10-1904-10-19TB 657218PicTeck Cominco82-10-1904-10-19


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TB 811852PicTeck Cominco84-05-1604-05-16TB 811853PicTeck Cominco84-05-1604-05-16TB 518619PicTeck Cominco79-07-0304-07-03TB 518624PicTeck Cominco79-08-1004-08-10TB 518625PicTeck Cominco79-08-1004-08-10TB 518992PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518993PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518994PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518995PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518996PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518997PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518998PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 518999PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 519000PicTeck Cominco79-09-0404-09-04TB 657112PicTeck Cominco82-10-0604-10-06TB 657113PicTeck Cominco82-10-0604-10-06TB 657114PicTeck Cominco82-10-0604-10-06TB 657115PicTeck Cominco82-10-0604-10-06TB 657116PicTeck Cominco82-10-0604-10-06TB 674457PicTeck Cominco82-11-2504-11-25TB 687260PicTeck Cominco83-12-0504-12-05TB 687261PicTeck Cominco83-12-0504-12-05TB1216414PicTeck Cominco97-05-2604-05-26




Underlying Agreements

In an agreement dated March 5, 2002, the Company has an option to earn an 80% interest in the Hemlo West property by spending $2.0 million on exploration by December 31, 2005 with a commitment to spend $300,000 by December 31, 2002.  Upon completion of the $2.0 million expenditure, a joint venture will be formed, with the Company holding 80% and Teck Cominco holding 20%.  In order to maintain its 80% interest in the joint venture, the Company must fund additional exploration to the completion of a pre-feasibility study.  Teck Cominco will then have a one-time election to back-in for 60.8% interest in the project by funding a minimum of 200% of the Companys prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.  The Company will then have a 39.2% interest and the option to either fund its share of production financing or negotiate with Teck Cominco for a carried interest through to production.



Teck Cominco acquired a 100% interest in the Hemlo West property that is subject to a net profits royalty to Stenlund Resources.  The Company has assumed all continuing obligations of the underlying agreement between Teck Cominco and Stenlund Resources.



Due to the Company undertaking an excess of committed 2002 expenditures on other Teck Cominco properties, Teck Cominco advised the Company that they reduced the 2002 expenditure commitment of $300,000 on the Hemlo West property to $276,195.  As of February 2004, the Company relinquished all right and title to earn an interest in the Hemlo West Property.  All costs relating to the property were written off in December 2003.



Location, Access, Infrastructure, Physiography

The Hemlo West property is centred at latitude 48040N and longitude 86015E on NTS map sheet 42D/09.  It is located 10 km southeast of Marathon, Ontario and approximately 25 km west of Hemlo mines.  The claims are in Lots 11, 12, 13 and 14 and Mining Locations 7, 8 and 9 of Concession VI and Mining Locations 1c, 2, 2c, 3, 3c, D5 and 12 of Concession V of Pic Township in the Thunder Bay Mining Division.



Access to the property is via Highway 17 and then south along Highway 627.  The town site of Heron Bay is located in the central part of the property.  Access to the areas of 2002 drilling include a gravel pit access road immediately north of the town of Heron Bay and a private road just south of the railway which crosses the property.  The easternmost part of the property is accessible from the east via a power dam access road south from Highway 17.



Topography on the Hemlo West Property is usually moderate with elevation changes occurring gradually and relief ranging between 190 m and 275 m above mean sea level (ASL).  Several quite rugged sections occur in the northwestern part of the

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property.  Outcrop exposure is sparse and occurs in clusters in the northwest, northeast, and southeast corners of the property.  The Pic River flows through the western portion of the claims.  Most of the property is buried beneath deep glaciolacustrine deposits (sand, silt, gravel), which are terraced in the vicinity of the Pic River, and are vegetated by black spruce, trembling aspen, balsam fir, and tag alder.  The overburden in the vicinity of the Pic River is deeply incised by small streams.  Outcrop areas host a growth of over mature white birch, balsam fir, black spruce, and mountain maple.  A wide, topographically low region centered on, and roughly paralleling the baseline, is primarily covered by a forest of mature black spruce.  There is considerable deadfall within the southeastern claims.



History

Work on the property dates back to 1872, when prospector Moses Peekongay made the first discovery of gold mineralization.  n 1873-1874, a company called Silver Islet sank a 17 metre shaft on the discovery showing and referred it to as the Heron Bay mine.  Assays up to 1.7 g/t Au and 241 g/t Ag are reported from dump samples.



Bowhill Mines acquired the property in 1938 and excavated on a vein (Bowhill Trench) 800 metres west of the Heron Bay mine.  A selectively picked 225 kg (500 lb) sample from these workings reportedly assayed 10.3 g/t Au and 53 g/t Ag.  Bowhill Mines conducted no subsequent work.



Victor Stenlund staked the claims in 1979 and drilled several shallow vertical drill holes near the old workings.  Information on this drilling is not available.  Lytton Minerals optioned the property in 1983 (then the Peekongay Property) and over the next two years conducted geological mapping and trenching, property-wide magnetometer and VLF-EM, selective IP surveys, and there phases of diamond drilling for a total of 67 drill holes in 15,675 metres.  Lytton identified four anomalous gold-bearing zones/corridors on the property.  In 1990 and 1991, Golden Myra Resources and Stenlund Resources completed four shallow diamond drill holes (960 metres) in the Porphyry/C Zone area.  Teck Corporation optioned the western half of the property on September 13, 1996.  In the fall of 1996 and winter of 1997, a 29-line km grid was established and available drill core was re-logged and sampled.



During the period 1997-2001, Teck Exploration Ltd. drilled in the relatively unexplored overburden covered eastern half of the property.  Twenty-two diamond drill holes were completed totaling 10,226 metres.  Significant gold and silver assays were returned in six of the twenty-two holes from carbonate-rich veining ranging from highly anomalous to grade and thickness of potential economic significance.  Assays of up to 9.3 g/t gold, 184 g/t silver over 7.3 metres were returned.  These results represent the best intersections on the property thus far and are the most encouraging known in the Hemlo belt outside of the Hemlo mine area since discovery of the Hemlo deposit in 1981.  This zone of mineralization has been termed Zone 109 by the Company.



Geological Setting

The Hemlo West Property is located in the west end of the Hemlo greenstone belt approximately 25 km west of the Hemlo mines.  The property covers the western extension of a regional-scale deformation zone and favourable gold trend coined the Hemlo-Heron Bay Shear Zone that also hosts the Hemlo deposit.  This regional structure extends from Lake Superior eastward beyond the deposit.  In the western portion of the Hemlo belt, the Hemlo-Heron Bay Shear Zone trends in a southwesterly direction (2450) and is interpreted as a splay or secondary fault structure similar to the setting of many gold deposits in the Abitibi.



The Hemlo-Heron Bay Shear Zone extends across the property at 2450 covering a strike length of some 2.5 kilometres.  The northern boundary of deformation zone occurs along the northern contact of the felsic fragmentals marked by zones of more intense shearing, mylonitic rocks and faulting.  Rock units proximal to the northern shear boundary have been isoclinally folded with fold axes and linear elements plunging shallowly to the northwest.  The southern boundary is ill-defined.



Greenschist facies rocks of the Heron Bay assemblage underlie the Hemlo West property.  The southern portion of the property is underlain by predominantly felsic to intermediate fragmentals, the central portion by intermediate tuffs and sedimentary rocks and mafic volcanics are most abundant in the northern portion.  Quartz-feldspar and feldspar porphyry sills occur along the northern geologic contact of the felsic fragmentals.  Gold-silver mineralization is spatially associated with these sills.  North to northeast trending diabase dyke swarms cross-cut all rock units in the western and eastern portions of the property.



Exploration of the Hemlo West Property

Exploration of the Hemlo West Property has outlined two promising zones of gold-silver mineralization that have been partially outlined by prior diamond drilling.  Prior to Teck Cominco acquiring rights to the Hemlo West Property, much of

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the drill testing was focused to near surface mineralization.  Teck Cominco recognized potential for increasing alteration and associated mineralization and successfully made the discovery of Zone 109 with a deep drilling program in 1999.



Zone 109, measuring approximately 250 by 100 by 100 meters, remains open for expansion with further drilling.  Multiple intersections in the three holes defining Zone 109 grade to 9.3 g/t gold and 184.0 g/t silver over 7.3 metres (0.27 oz/ton gold and 5.4 oz/ton silver over 24 feet).  Gold-silver grades are associated with potassic alteration in felsic volcanclastic rocks similar to the alteration envelope within host rocks of the gold ore being mined at Hemlo.  An I.P. geophysical survey has defined coincident chargeability and resistivity anomalies associated with Zone 109 mineralization.  Zone 109 consists of pink and grey coarse-grained calcite and dolomite veins with up to 3-5% sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite.  Host rocks are carbonate and potassic altered.  Zone 109 occurs within and proximal to quartz-feldspar porphyritic rocks close to the northern boundary of the Hemlo-Heron Bay Shear and are interpreted to plunge shallowly to the northwest similar to property and regional scale structural elements.



A large 500-metre wide oval shaped geophysical resistivity-chargeability anomaly located 200 metres to the south of Zone 109 has not been drill tested and is an exploration target for discovery of additional mineralization.



The Porphyry Zone mineralization occurs within the mid- and upper portions of the porphyry sill mentioned above, over a possible strike length of approximately 200 meters.  Anomalous gold values are most commonly in altered feldspar porphyry which is typically pale pink, very hard and contains 3-5% disseminated pyrite and variable amounts of white quartz veining.  Results from geochemical sampling indicate that this rock is strongly albitic with Na2O values up to 10.2%.  The most significant drill hole intersection reported is 9.2 g/t Au over 4.2 metres in drill hole P84-50.  Other anomalous gold intersections include: 1.4 g/t Au over 14.6 metres (P85-61); 1.3 g/t Au over 15.5 metres (P85-59); 1.0 g/t Au over 10.7 metres (P84-43); 1.2 g/t Au over 14.1 metres; and 0.8 g/t Au over 15.2 metres (P85-57).  The Porphyry zone is a secondary exploration target.



During 2002, the Company conducted a deep drilling program of 8 holes totaling 3,364 metres to test three areas:  1.  grade and continuity up-plunge and south of Zone 109 (up to 9.3 g/t Au, 184 g/t Ag over 7. metres); 2.  a large resistivity low anomaly in the southeast portion of the property; and 3. east of broad alteration with associated gold mineralization intersected in previous drilling at the east end of the property.



The 2002 diamond drilling program of widely spaced hole encountered limited zones of veining with anomalous gold values and only local, narrow higher grade intercepts.  The easternmost and final drill hole of the program (HW02-07) was the most encouraging.  Although yielding only low gold values, it intersected a zone of veining and associated alteration identical to that of Zone 109.  HW02-07 encountered unexpectedly thick overburden (202 metres) then immediately cut these favourable veins suggesting a possibility that it may have overshot a larger vein system further to the north.



During 2003, the Company compiled all technical data on the property but did not conduct any further drilling.  The Property was relinquished in February 2004.   All costs relating to the property were written off in December 2003.



Yukon Olympic Property



Property Description

The Yukon Olympic property consists of 389 claims (approximately 8,300 hectares) and is located in the Ogilvie Mountains approximately 134 kilometres north-northeast of Dawson City in north central Yukon.  The claims are centered at 138012 north latitude and 65003 west longitude covering Cambrian to Devonian age sedimentary rocks as well as several copper bearing hematite breccias of Proterozoic age.  The claims straddle the Dempster Highway, from the northwest corner of the claim block north of Engineer Creek at kilometre 161, to the southeast corner east of the Blackstone River at kilometre 142.



The Yukon Olympic property (formerly HEM property) covers an iron oxide copper-gold target similar to Olympic Dam deposit in Australia which contains a resource of the order of 2 billion tonnes of 1.6% copper, 0.6 g/t gold and 3.5 g/t silver.



Mineralization at Yukon Olympic is associated with hematite-rich breccia as well as intrusive rocks of intermediate to mafic compositions within Proterozoic argillite, shale and siltstone.  The breccias are known to occur intermittently over a distance of 6 kilometres.  Copper mineralization occurs as disseminations and blebs of chalcopyrite within intrusive rocks and with specular hematite in the breccias.



Prior exploration has outlined a 8 by 1 kilometre gravity feature indicative of a large mineralizing system at depth.

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During 2002, the Company entered into an option agreement to earn an interest in the Yukon Olympic property and conducted a two-hole diamond drilling program late in the year.  The Companys field expenditures on the Yukon Olympic property during 2002 totaled $184,340.  Exploration results were encouraging and a two-phase 2003 program is proposed.



During 2003, the Company completed the phase I deep penetrating geophysical survey but did not conduct a phase II drilling program.



Property Title

The Yukon Olympic property consists of 389 contiguous claims that straddle the Dempster Highway north of Dawson City on map sheet 116-G-1 in the Dawson Mining district.  All claims are in good standing under the Quartz Mining Act of the Yukon.  The claims are registered in the name of the vendor and subject to an option agreement with Copper Ridge Explorations and subsequent assignment agreement with the Company.



YUKON OLYMPIC PROPERTY

MINERAL CLAIMS DATA





Claim Name & No.Grant No.Expiry DateRegistered Owner% OwnedNTS  #sHeg 1 - 12YC21595  YC216062004/08/02R.Allan Doherty100.00116-G-01Heg 13 - 20YC21607  YC216142004/08/08Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 1 - 6YC19966  YC199712004/05/02Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 1  5YC20973  YC209772007/09/07Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 6  78YC20978  YC210502007/09/07Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 79  88YC21135  YC211442007/11/29Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 89  100YC21442  YC214532003/06/10Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 101  112YC21532  YC215432004/06/11Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 113  122YC21454  YC214632004/06/10Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 123  317YC21615  YC218092004/08/08Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 317  328YC22062  YC220732004/10/22Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 318  328YC21810  YC218202004/08/04Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 329  333YC21821  YC218252004/08/04Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01Hem 334  335YC21826  YC218272004/08/08Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01HM 1  4YC21189  YC211922004/04/22Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01HM 5  8YC21464  YC214672003/06/10Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01HM 9  12YC21544  YC215472003/06/11Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01HM 13  16YC21468  YC214712003/06/10Shawn Ryan100.00116-G-01






Underlying Agreements

In an Assignment and Assumption Agreement dated September 20, 2002 between Western Prospector Group, Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. and the Company, the Company can earn a 51% interest in the Yukon Olympic property by making staged exploration expenditures totaling $1.5 million dollars and staged share payments totaling 900,000 shares to Copper Ridge Explorations by December 31, 2005.



Upon earn-in, a joint venture will be formed with the Company contributing to 51% and Copper Ridge contributing to 49% through completion of a preliminary feasibility study after which Teck Cominco will have the right to earn a 51% interest in the project by incurring 200% of prior exploration expenditures and completing a final feasibility on the project.  Should Teck Cominco earn 51%, the Company would hold 25% and Copper Ridge Explorations 24% assuming that each party had maintained their interests through preliminary feasibility.



Western Prospector Group facilitated the acquisition of the Yukon Olympic property by completing initial due diligence and securing the property in consideration of 100,000 shares to be paid to Copper Ridge Explorations.  In consideration for assignment of the agreement to the Company, Western Prospector will be paid 200,000 units of the Company and will have the future right to purchase 50% of an NSR royalty held by an underlying vendor.  In an underlying Option Agreement, Copper Ridge Explorations has the right to earn a 100% interest in the property subject to a 1.5% NSR payable to the

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underlying vendor.



Location, Access, Infrastructure, Physiography

Dawson City is the closest community to the Yukon Olympic property and can adequately support exploration programs in the area.  The property is easily accessed by road or helicopter from Dawson City. The average driving time from Dawson City to the property is 2 to 2.5 hours. The Dempster Highway runs through the center of the property along the west of the Blackstone River.  The claim area east of the Blackstone River is accessible by boat or by helicopter.  Most of the property can be accessed by foot.  Seasonal Restrictions are in place to restrict motorized-wheeled vehicles from leaving the highway right-of-way.



Elevations range from approximately 850 meters in the Blackstone River valley to approximately 1600 meters on the ridge south of the central part of the property. The property area is covered by permafrost-tundra to sparse treed areas to rocky talus slopes. The majority of the claim group is above treeline. Climate is typical for northern Yukon, with long cold winters, and warm, typically dry summers. Snow accumulation within the property area is normally minimal due to high winds through the pass along the Dempster Highway.  By April most of the snow has disappeared.



The exploration field season usually runs from early June until mid-September however geophysical surveys and drill programs can extend the field season from March to October.  The migration of the Dempster-Porcupine caribou herd has been known to pass by or through the claim area.



History

Although the area has been prospected over the years, no previous work on the Yukon Olympic property is reported prior to 1993.  Recent exploration activity is listed below:



During 1993, Pamicon Developments Ltd. and Equity Engineering Ltd. jointly conducted a small work program consisting of limited geological mapping, prospecting and soil geochemical sampling.  This work was carried out on the Devil claims (now known as HEM 1-6 claims) located on the west side of the Dempster highway at approximately kilometer 134.  A total of 21 rock samples and 32 soil samples were collected and assayed.



Between June and July of 2002, Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. contracted Al Doherty for regional scale mapping in the area east of Blackstone River in the Spectacular Creek valley.  Between July 13 and August 6, 2002, Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. contracted Shawn Ryan to construct a grid and conduct a magnetic survey on the Yukon Olympic property.  A total of 110 kilometers of grid were laid out.  A total of 95 kilometers of magnetic survey covered an area of approximately 20km (E-W) by 10km (N-S).  The survey identified a large magnetic anomaly measuring 2.5 kilometers by 1.5 kilometers.  Between July 15 and August 3, Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. contracted Aurora Geosciences Ltd. to conduct a gravity survey on the Yukon Olympic property.  A total of 261 points were surveyed in an area of approximately 20 kilometers (E-W) by 10 kilometers (N-S).  The survey identified a large Bouguer gravity anomaly measuring 8 by 1 kilometers.



SJ Geophysics Ltd. was contracted in the fall of 2002, to assess the gravity data collected by Aurora Geosciences Ltd.  A 4-kilometer by 10-kilometer block was extracted from the raw bouguer gravity data to create an Inversion Model to determine the causative source of the gravity feature.  Elevations and gravity readings were processed for input to the gravity inversion program.  An inversion mesh comprised of 100 meter by 100 meter by 50-meter cells (north by east by depth) below topography was created.  A block model showing the distribution of densities within the inversion mesh defined three high-density targets.



During 2003, the Company contracted Aurora Geosciences to conduct a deep penetrating geophysical survey to define drill targets within the large gravity anomaly.  The survey outlined a deep target but no drilling was undertaken.



Geological Setting

The Yukon Olympic property is located on the northern limb of the Chapman Anticline, which is bisected by east-west trending thrust faults.  The property is underlain by Proterozoic age rocks consisting of argillite, shale and siltstone.  These rocks have been intruded by a variety of gabbroic intrusives and related hematitic breccia bodies.  The main breccia mass, east of the Blackstone River along Spectacular Creek, covers an area of approximately 1 by 1.5 kilometers, with additional occurrences noted intermittently up to 6 kilometers to the west.  The breccias are of Proterozoic age and correlate with many known hematitic breccias elsewhere in the Ogilvie Mountains as well as in the Wernecke Mountains further to the east.

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The Proterozoic rocks are in turn overlain unconformably by Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, consisting of predominantly massive to bedded Cambrian limestone and dolostone overlain by basinal shale to siltstone sequences.  The major Proterozoic to Paleozoic unconformity is gently north dipping with an estimated average dip of 8 degrees.



Proterozoic age Quartet Group shale and siltstone along Spectacular Creek, east of Blackstone River, hosts hematite breccia bodies with associated iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) mineralization.  Specular hematite is the main iron oxide mineral observed.  Chalcopyrite along with malachite staining occurs as a minor constituent within the breccias.



The geological setting the Yukon Olympic property is thought to be favorable for hosting Olympic Dam style copper-gold-silver breccia type deposits.  The Olympic Dam deposit contains a resource of the order of 2000Mt containing 1.6% copper, 0.6 g/t gold and 3.5 g/t silver.  The Olympic Dam deposit occurs within a 5 kilometer by 7 kilometer zone of apparently fault controlled brecciation and alteration cored by a diatreme complex and developed entirely within granite.  The diatreme is intruded by many ultramafic, mafic and felsic dykes which are temporally related to the diatreme.  Economic iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in Australian Proterozoic terrains are extremely variable in character ranging from very large (Olympic dam) to small, high grade deposits such as those near Tennant Creek and Eloise in the Cloncurry district.  The iron-oxide association varies from magnetite-dominated (e.g. Ernest Henry) to hematite-dominated (e.g. Olympic Dam).  Iron sulfides present vary from pyrite (e.g. Olympic Dam, Starra), to pyrrhotite (e.g. Eloise) or both (e.g. Mt. Elliott).  Chalcopyrite is commonly the only significant copper mineral but some deposits, such as Olympic Dam and Starra, have hypogene bornite and chalcocite.  Copper to gold ratios (Cu:Au) vary substantially among deposits and there is no single consistent minor element association.



Mineralization within the Yukon Olympic property is associated with hematitic breccias exposed at several locations within the property.  The largest exposure of hematite breccia occurs in an area measuring approximately 1.5 by 1 kilometers within the Spectacular Creek valley, east of the Blackstone River.  The breccias occur within the Proterozoic shale and siltstones just below an unconformity with overlying Paleozoic carbonate rocks.  Although detailed study of the breccia bodies has not been carried out, there appear to be two distinct varieties.  One type is a pink to pale colored multilithic breccia with disseminated hematite common in a fine-grained matrix, while the other is darker green, chloritic variety and often has more massive hematite.  The latter breccia variety is associated with mafic intrusive rocks and has slightly elevated magnetic susceptibility.  Copper mineralization observed to date is most often associated with the chloritic breccia as well as with the mafic intrusive rocks.



Although none of the breccia bodies have been systematically or adequately sampled on surface, grab rock samples from the property have shown that the breccias are locally enriched in copper, cobalt, fluorine, rare earth elements and barium, with local minor gold enrichment.  Chalcopyrite, malachite and locally bornite mineralization have been observed within the breccias and related intrusive rocks throughout the property.  Analysis of grab samples have returned values up to 0.9% Cu.



Exploration of the Yukon Olympic Property

Prior gravity and magnetic surveys completed by Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. over Yukon Olympic property have defined an 8 kilometer by 1 kilometer, 2 milligal bouguer gravity anomaly adjacent to a circular 2.5 by 1.5 kilometer magnetic anomaly suggestive of a large buried iron-oxide-copper-gold mineralizing system.



In the fall of 2002, the Company contracted SJ Geophysics Ltd. to assess the gravity data and determine using computer modeling techniques, the possible causative sources of the high gravity response. Three high-density targets were defined through an inversion technique. The three estimated causative sources are aligned in an east-west orientation and are spaced at approximately 2 kilometres apart. The easternmost anomaly is adjacent to, but not coincident with, a magnetic anomaly.  A preliminary review of the data suggests that the gravity anomaly may reflect hematite-rich breccias, while magnetite-bearing intrusive rocks at depth may cause the magnetic anomaly.  This interpretation is strengthened by the fact that the easternmost portion of the gravity anomaly trends into the Spectacular Creek breccia occurrence that locally contains copper mineralization. The Yukon Olympic geophysical signature, with the large gravity anomaly being displaced from the magnetic anomaly is similar to the geophysical response over the Olympic Dam mineralizing system.



During late 2002, the Company completed two diamond drill hole totaling 773 metres.  Both drill holes were collared close to the Dempster Highway due to permitting restrictions.

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The initial drill hole was collared to intersect the causative source of the westernmost of the three inversion gravity anomalies.  The hole was terminated at a depth of 563 metres without reaching the Proterozoic host rocks.



A second drill hole was collared to undercut mineralized Proterozoic hematite breccias exposed in surface outcrop along the Dempster Highway.  Due to inaccessibility and drill set up limitations, the hole was collared 200 meters from the mineralized outcrop.  Breccia was intersected from a depth of 8 to 32 metres.  Trace amounts of pyrite and chalcopyrite were observed in this breccia.



Although the Company completed two drill holes in 2002 into the peripheral area of the target without success, the large geophysical target and the widespread hematite breccias remain under-explored for an Olympic Dam type deposit.



During 2003, the Company conducted a geophysical program to refine drill targets within the 8-kilometre long gravity anomaly by utilizing deep penetrating induced polarization techniques.  The Company contracted Aurora Geosciences Ltd. of Whitehorse, Yukon, to conduct Induced Polarization & Magnetic surveys on four parallel lines spaced over a distance of 20.25 kilometres of survey.  The lines were selected by the Company and targeted the projected causative sources of the central and eastern gravity anomalies.  The eastern most line also targeted the down-dip extension of known outcropping of hematite-rich breccia, which locally contains copper mineralization.



In review, interpretation of the geophysical surveys delineated possible drill targets at depths greater than two hundred metres below ground level.  Drill testing was not conducted.



During February 2004, the Company relinquished all right and title of the Yukon Olympic Property back to Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. All costs relating to the property were written off in December 2003.





Big Bulk Property



Property Description

The large Big Bulk property of 351 claim units, located in the Kitsault area in northwestern British Columbia, has seen a prolonged period of exploration from 1910 to the present.  Teck Cominco staked the claims and completed general geologic mapping and limited rock sampling on the property.  This work was focused on determining the geological environment on the property and to examine the styles of the numerous mineralized occurrences.  The property has an excess of 40 mineral occurrences hosted in lower Jurassic Hazelton volcanics and recently recognized lower Jurassic intrusives.  There is potential for both Eskay analogue VMS systems on the property and Red Mtn. and Sulphurets style porphyry copper-gold and intrusion related gold vein systems on the property.



During 2002, the Company entered into an option agreement with Teck Cominco on the Big Bulk Property and conducted a sampling program on the porphyry copper-gold mineralization with an expenditure of $131,616.



During 2003, the Company conducted a 2003 field program focused to expanding porphyry style copper-gold mineralization on the Big Bulk property.  Fieldwork consisted of geological prospecting, rock geochemical surveys, staking and 1664.44 metres of diamond drilling in 11 holes.



Property Title

The Big Bulk Property consists of 21 metric grid claims totaling 351 claim units located in the headwaters of the Kitsault River in northwestern British Columbia.  The claims are recorded in the Skeena Mining Division and registered in the name of Teck Cominco who own 100% interest in the property and subject to an option agreement with the Company.  All claims are in good standing.



BIG BULK PROPERTY

MINERAL CLAIMS DATA





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Claim Name# of unitsTenure No.Expiry Date


Lahte 112383011November 28, 2004Lahte 218383012November 28, 2004Lahte 320383013November 28, 2004Lahte 420383014November 28, 2004Lahte 520383277November 28, 2004Tchintin 120385605April 03, 2005Tchintin 220383606April 03, 2005Tchintin 38383607April 03, 2005Tchintin 48385608April 03, 2005LC 120385609April 04, 2005LC 228385610April 04, 2005Lavender 112385589April 03, 2004Lavender 218385590April 03, 2004Lavender 312385591April 03, 2005Lavender 418385592April 03, 2004Lavender 520385602April 03, 2004Lavender 620385603April 03, 2004Lavender 715385604April 03, 2005KL 116385585April 03, 2004KL 216385586April 03, 2005KL 320385587April 03, 2005






Underlying Agreements

In an agreement dated August 15, 2002 between Teck Cominco and the Company, the Company acquired the rights to earn an interest in the Big Bulk property, subject to back-in rights by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendors net profits interest.  The Company may earn an initial 80% interest by spending $800,000 on exploration by December 31, 2005 ($131,617 spent by December 31, 2002).  Under the terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement, Teck Cominco will have the right to earn a 60.8% interest in the property by incurring 200% of the Companys prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study. Should Teck Cominco earn the 60.8%, the Company would then hold 39.2%.



Location, Access, Infrastructure, Physiography

The Big Bulk property extends along the Illiance River valley from 15 kilometres east to 25 kilometres northeast of Alice Arm, B.C.  This property extends up past the east and south end of Kinskuch Lake.  The Big Bulk property is located approximately 50 kilometres southeast of Stewart on NTS 103P/11E and 103P/11W centred near 55 degrees 45 minutes north, 129 degrees, 10 minutes east.  The property is approximately 12 kilometres east of the Dolly Varden camp and is accessed by helicopter from Stewart.  Logging roads up the Tchitin and Kinscuch rivers are within 7 and 4 kilometres of the eastern side of the property.



The Big Bulk property lies within the Skeena coast physiographic unit and locally covers a variety of topographic styles ranging from alpine mountainous to heavily wooded valley.  Mountain topography of the property varies from moderate to extreme with elevations ranging from 500 to 2020 metres.  The mountainous terrain is variable with numerous areas covered with glacial ice and snowfields and areas with very steep, unstable rock walls.  Varying amounts of glacial and glacial-fluvial debris occur in the valleys and along valley walls.  Alpine style vegetation occurs above elevations of approximately 1000 metres while forest vegetation below this elevation consists of mountain varieties of fir, hemlock, spruce and cedar with areas of thick brush comprised of alder, willow and devils club.  Prolific summer seasonal plants are common at lower elections, forming a thick vegetable mass in some areas.  Glaciers within the valleys extend down to elections of 1000 metres below the ridges.



Precipitation within the coastal climactic zone is very high with winter precipitation resulting in heavy snowfalls of 5-12 metres.  Snow covers the property from late September to late June and coastal weather strongly affects airborne access to the property during the summer exploration season.



History

The Big Bulk area has seen an extended exploration history dating back to approximately 1910.  Earliest recorded information dates back to provincial government Annual Reports from 1915.  The primary area of exploration has been

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centred in the Kitsault River area with lesser exploration in the Lahte Creek-Illiance River valley, the Dak River area and the area surrounding Kinskuch Lake.



The Dolly Varden, North Star and Torbit mines are past-producing mines, which operated in the Kitsault River valley at intermittent times from 1919 to 1959, and produced silver, lead, zinc, copper and gold.  These deposits were originally considered to be veins hosted along a tensional fault system but were later studied by Devlin and Godwin (1987) and interpreted to be an exhalative, stratiform deposit.  The Kitsault River valley as well as the surrounding area saw extensive exploration for a number of metals during the early part of the 20th century.  Copper and gold mineralization was extensively explored in an area historically known as the Copper Belt, located west of the Kitsault River near its headwaters.  A number of showings, such as the Homestake Ridge, Vanguard Copper, Red Point and Vanguard Gold are located in this area.   Numerous other showings such as the Sault, Ace/Galena and Wolf are all located in the Kitsault River/Kitsault Lake area.



The Homestake Ridge trend has seen numerous exploration programs of trenching, surface work and underground development during the period from 1914 to 1939.  Numerous programs involving prospecting, geological mapping, rock and soil geochemistry, geophysics and diamond drilling have been carried out by Canex Aerial Explorations Limited, 196(?); Dwight Collison, 1964-1979; Newmont Canada, 1979-80; S. Coombes, D. Nelles and Cambria Resources Limited, 1986-88; Noranda Exploration Company Limited, 1989-91; Lac Minerals (Barrick Resources), 1994; Teck Corp., 2000; and Teck Cominco, 2001.



The Red Point prospect, also within the Copper Belt, was discovered during the 1910s and was subsequently explored by adits on the higher-grade copper prospects.  The prospect was acquired by Dolly Varden Minerals Incorporated and was explored by geological, geochemical and geophysical methods and was later trenched and drilled.



Sporadic exploration throughout the Kitsault River valley has been conducted over many of the known showings.  Of note are the silver-lead-zinc deposits of the Dolly Varden, Wolf, Torbit and Northstar deposits, which were explored during the period 1964 to 1990.  These deposits have been explored by geophysical, geological and geochemical methods and in some cases have been trenched and/or drilled.



South of Kitsault Lake, the Sault property was discovered in 1966 by Cominco Ltd. and was explored intermittently until 1990.  The property has been described by prior workers, as mineralized carbonate deposits restricted to syn-sedimentary grabens which acted as traps for local accumulation of carbonate, sulphate and minor sulphide mineralization.  Cominco in 1984 and Oliver Gold Corporation and joint venture partners Aber Resources Limited and Tanqueray Resources Limited in 1989 drilled the property and conducted geological, geochemical and geophysical work.



The area of the Illiance River and Lahte Creek saw numerous discoveries of relatively small veins commonly hosted within shear structures with high silver values associated with lead and zinc mineralization.  The area first received attention during the period from early 1910s through the 1920s.  Exploration activity increased again during the 1950s-1960s, during which time numerous companies were active in the area.  Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Co. explored this same area during 1980-81 to explore the rhyolite hosted lead-silver float and occurrences, which were discovered originally in 1916 and were rediscovered in 1980.  The occurrence is known as the Left Over showing.



Exploration to the northwest of the Illiance River and southwest of Lahte Creek near Mt. McGuire was focused on a porphyry molybdenum deposit known as the Ajax.  Minfile inventory reports 178,540,000 t combined reserves at 0.070% molybdenum.



Northwest of Lahte Creek in the area south and east of Kinskuch Lake copper showings were first explored in the 1930s.  The areas was sampled by Brittania Mines in 1939 and was drilled in 1955-56 by Northwestern Explorations Limited, establishing a small reserve of a few million tons of 0.4% copper on the Bonnie zone.  Forest Kerr Mines Ltd. conducted geological, geophysical and diamond drilling during 1965.  Cyprus Exploration Corp. explored the property by geological, geochemical surveys and diamond drilling during 1966.  In 1970 Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. conducted geophysical surveys and a limited diamond drill program.  The property was restaked in 1979 as the Big Bulk and was mapped and sampled by Prism Resources in 1980.  Procan Resources drilled five diamond drill holes in 1982.  The property was again looked at in 1990 and 1991 by the joint venture partnership of Oliver Gold Corporation, Aber Resources Ltd. and Tanqueray Resources Ltd.  The joint venture conducted extensive geological mapping, geochemical sampling, trenching and prospecting.  During 1989 the joint venture also carried out a regional survey.  The 1991 program focused on the Big Bulk area and was primarily a blast trench, geological mapping and prospecting program for exploring for porphyry copper-gold
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Geological Setting

The Big Bulk property is primarily located over lower to middle Jurassic volcanics and sediments deposited in a marine environment along the western margin of the Bowser basin.  This sequence is collectively known as the Hazelton Group which consists of a well-mineralized sequence formed in an island arc environment.



The Kitsault area is the southern limit of a continuous belt of the Hazelton group which hosts the highly profitable Eskay Creek VMS deposit, owned and operated by Barrick Resources and located 90 kilometres northwest of the Big Bulk property.  This unusual high precious metal content VMS system has a total resource of 2.558 MT grading 48.4 g/t gold, 2152 g/T silver, 2.5% lead, 4.16% zinc and 0.54% copper.  This high grade resource is within a substantially larger resource of lower grade material.  The Eskay deposit occurs in sediments overlying felsic volcanics in a setting at the top of the Hazelton volcanics.  Another system that remains undeveloped is the Red Mountain deposit with a resource of 13.2 Mt @ 0.074 opt gold.  Seabridge Resources Inc. is presently exploring the potential of developing a higher grade portion of this system.  The system is related to ~190 mya Goldslide intrusions which are also present throughout the area including intrusions  along the east shore of Kinskuch Lake on the Big Bulk Property.



Another undeveloped system is the Sulphurets camp where Seabridge is assessing the potential in a complex system of copper-gold porphyries (Kerr 135 MT @ 0.76% copper, 0.34 g/t gold), gold porphyries (Snowfield 7 MT @ 2.8 g/t gold) and high grade gold-silver vein systems (West Zone @ 15.4 g/t gold, 650 g/t silver) again related to Mitchell intrusions ~190 MY aged Goldslide-Texas creek equivalents.



The Big Bulk property has an early to middle Jurassic sequence of volcanics and sediments covering most of the Hazelton volcanic sequence along the upright east limb of the Mt. McGuire anticline and the property has a diverse variety of mineralized systems.



These include in order of priority:



The Big Bulk target area in the western portion of the property covers a large prominent gossanous area around the southern and eastern sides of Kinscuch Lake.  Mapping and sampling mapping has shown this area occupies the lower Hazelton volcanic sequence well below the Salmon River Fm.  and the area has little VMS potential.  On the positive side the mapping has outlined extensive zones of copper-gold porphyry mineralization associated with a large subvolcanic Goldslide type intrusive complex.  In many ways this complex has many similarities to that of the Sulphurets camp located 105 kilometres to the northwest and the Red Mtn. area located 35 kilometres to the northwest as a diverse high level of copper-gold porphyry system.  Widespread areas of copper-gold porphyry style mineralization is present over a 6.0+ square kilometre area with several styles of quartz vein and stockwork mineralization associated with pervasive chlorite/sericite/pyrite and later sericite/pyrite mineralization.  This system is a large complex multiphase porphyry system with good potential for both bulk tonnage copper-gold and high grade gold mineralization.



The Lahte Creek-Illiance target area on the eastern portion of the property hosts a distinctive 60-250 metre thick panel of andesitic to rhyolite tuffs, pyroclastics and mixed sediments that strike generally N-S with subvertical to moderately east dips and has been traced discontinuously over a minimum of 8.0 kilometres of strike length.  A second tuffaceous mineralized horizon outlined by the Silver and Monarch showings may be present in andesitic tuffs and epiclastics 150-200 metres stratigraphically above this horizon.  Both these sequences are stratigraphically within a thick sequence of Betty Creek andesitic pyroclastics and are stratigraphically well below the Salmon River contact.  The mineralization and alteration is extensive within the horizons and has been traced for a minimum of 6 kilometres of strike length with a variety of sulphide rich horizons and numerous sulphide vein occurrences within intense sericite +/- chlorite, carbonate altered tuffs and pyroclastics.  The mineralization displays a consistent signature with high values in silver, lead and zinc with highly anomalous values of copper, gold, arsenic, mercury and antimony.  This is consistent with an Eskay type VMS environment and the sulphide veins could represent stringers or VMS horizons structurally deformed with an impressive areal extent.  Lead age dating of these veins indicates the sulphides fit well in the lower Jurassic cluster.  Post mineralization deformation has strongly deformed and remobilized both mineralization and alteration and developed a strong shear fabric and boudinage features.  This strong remobilization into the foliation and disruption of mineralization will take careful structural restoration.



The North Lahte Creek area contains the northern extensions of the mineralized horizons seen at Lahte Creek but mineralization observed to date is much weaker.  A dacite dome complex is present along the eastern side of the area in an Eskay setting at the contact of the Hazelton volcanics and the overlying Salmon River sediments.  This area has

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anomalous values in zinc, arsenic and mercury.



Exploration of the Big Bulk Property

Exploration by the Company during 2002 was focused  to outlining copper-gold zones within the big Bulk target through surface mapping and sampling techniques.  Bulk tonnage targets include the Bonnie, Bonnie east, Marla, Marla West, Tracey and Twyla zones and are summarized:



At the Bonnie zone prior workers had channel sampled the northwest end of the peninsula with an average grade of 1.25% copper, 0.029 opt gold across 27.9 metres in a N-S sample direction.  This was extended an additional 40 metres to the south for a cumulative average of 0.89% copper, 0.83 g/t gold and 5.2 g/t silver across 70 metres.  This zone is open to the south and demonstrates a significant size potential.



A program of field mapping and sampling to determine the style and occurrence of mineralization as well as the alteration, stratigraphy and structure in the Big Bulk area was conducted during the 2002 field season.  The Bonnie Zone located on the peninsula on the southeast side of Kinskuch Lake was examined in detail to establish descriptive, standardized nomenclature for the alteration intensity and types and textures observed at this location as well as other locations on the property.



A channel sampling program was incorporated into the detailed geological mapping of the Bonnie Zone.  This channel sampling program involved layout of a semi-continuous channel across the west end of the zone near the area previously sampled during an exploration program in 1991.  The focus of the 2002 program was to confirm grades previously encountered as well as  extending the channel sampling in areas previously un-sampled.  In addition, a continuous channel sample was established east of the area previously sampled in an attempt to determine the average grade in the Bonnie Zone on the peninsula.  Results of the two major channels are shown in the table below.



Big Bulk Channel Sample:  Bonnie Zone



Sample AreaSample IntervalPercent copperGold g/tTrench 182.6m0.5540.328Trench 239.0m0.1380.096




Detailed mapping of the Bonnie Zone determined that most of the area is underlain by feldspar porphyry or feldspar hornblende porphyry, all of which are pervasively sericite and chlorite altered.  Minor dykes of lamprophyre were mapped as a late Tertiary intrusive unit.  Other mapping criteria utilized for the 2002 program are chlorite alteration intensity, chalcopyrite concentration and degree of brecciation of the host rock.  All the criteria were given a numerical value for intensity with low values indicating the least amount in all categories of alteration, chalcopyrite concentration and brecciation.  Late stage carbonate alteration, which aprallels fault structures, appears to be restricted to within metres of these structures but commonly is exposed over large areas as a dip-slope exposures and appears very late in the alteration sequence.  Strong sericite-pyrite altered, gossanous, discontinuous shear zones generally have limited strike and are either displaced by later fault structures or have very limited strike length.  These sericite-pyrite shear zones are commonly observed and are very difficult to obtain a sense of motion.  These sericite altered structures appear generally post the pervasive sericite/chlorite alteration event and could represent late advanced-argillic alteration.  In general, the rocks of the Bonnie Zone are very difficult to map since they are compositionally similar and have been the subject of varying hydrothermal brecciation and alteration.  Structurally the rock units are very discontinuous and numerous small-scale faults, some with barely discernible fault planes, were observed to displace features in the order of a few metres.



Large areas of chlorite-sericite alteration appear to be the earliest alteration package observed over the map area.  A very distinct breccia unit was observed at the Bonnie Zone as well as at other locations on the property.  This unit appears to host the most significant grades of copper mineralization and is distinctive in appearance due to the combination of sericite and chlorite coupled to form a breccia unit which in some cases appears to have been strongly sericite altered and subsequently chlorite altered or chloritic altered first then sericite altered later.



The Bonnie Zone is considered a priority target at this point and is the most advanced target with respect to mapping and sampling.  The target has a minimum exposure of 200 by 250 metres and remains open into the lake on the south, west and north sides.  The next stage on this target is drill testing to demonstrate size and grade continuity.



Mapping at a scale of 1:50000 in the Big Bulk area during the 2002 season, utilized criteria that were established on a small scale at the Bonnie Zone.  The varying composition, grain size and field relationships of the rock types indicate a

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multiphase intrusion of a large intrusive complex.



Results of the mapping program indicate a crude alteration zoning of the Big Bulk area.  Relatively unaltered rock on west and east appear to bound alteration packages in the Big Bulk area.  On the south end of Kinskuch Lake, a large zone of weakly potassic alteration was identified.  Fault contacts bound this unit on the south, east and west side of the alteration package and the lake bordered the north side.  Potassic alteration consists of relatively fresh HFP with minor amounts of pink K-spar, with or without magnetite and rare biotite.  Chalcopyrite was observed in minor amounts throughout this potassic alteration zone.  Although the block is described as potassic, it appears to be prophylitic in some areas as the relatively fresh HFP and the occurrence of epidote suggest propylitic grade alteration, in part, although this maybe magmatic epidote analogous to alkaline porphyry systems in parts of B.C.  Sampling of this unit returned a best value of 2530ppm copper and 0.104ppm gold sampled over an area of 100 square metres.



Large areas of chlorite-sericite alteration appear to be the earliest alteration package observed over the map area.  A very distinct breccia unit was observed at the Bonnie Zone as well as at other locations on the property and as previously mentioned this unit contains the highest copper-gold values.  Another area on the property which host mineralization with sericite and chlorite alteration similar to the Bonnie Zone is located east of the Bonnie Zone hence Bonnie East Zone.  Approximately 1200 metres east of the Bonnie Zone, one sample returned 5120ppm copper and 0.278ppm gold over a 10- metre interval.  In the same area, another sample assayed 3830ppm copper and 0149ppm gold over a 20-metre length.  This area is known as the Bonnie East zone and while extensions of this area are covered by glaciers, it is considered a priority target area.  Exposed area to date on this target support a minimum strike length of 400 metres in an east-west direction.



Later stage sericite-pyrite alteration generally shows a well developed foliation within moderate to strong pevasive sericite alteration.  Sulphides are dominated by pyrite in quantities ranging from 5-20% generally as disseminations with lesser veinlets.  Quartz veinlets and stockwork and 5-40cm veins are common throughout the system but appear most common associated with sericite alteration.  Significant copper values are found in sericite alteration at the Twyla, Tracey, Metallica and Marla zones but gold values tend to be 1 g/t or less.  Sericite-pyrite altered zones in the Bonnie East areas have generally low copper values but contain higher 1-3 g/t gold values.



As mentioned, quartz stockwork and quartz veining are common throughout the system, particularly with sericite alteration.  Veins display a wide diversity including quartz-calcite-pyrite veins with chlorite selvages.  Quartz veins with carbonate +/- barite margins and variable chalcopyrite grade to 1.3% copper, 19.54 g/t gold.  Vuggy high level veins with variable amounts of pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite grade to .21% copper, 3.23% lead, 8.15% zinc, 1.60 g/t gold and 37.8 g/t silver.  These veins do not display a clear zonation but appear to overprint each other likely reflecting a large multiple phase intrusive and porphyry alteration system.



A study of the plots of alteration patterns combined with copper/gold values indicates a crude alteration/mineralization zoning.  Copper/gold mineralization is strongly associated with pervasive sericite alteration combined with chlorite alteration.  On a large scale, this alteration appears to be located in an area near the outer margin of a central potassic alteration core.  The crude zoning appears to go from potassic altered rocks, to chlorite-sericite, to strongly sericite +/- siliceous alteration at the peripheries.  This zone appears to roughly trend from south to north in the area from the Brianne Zone through the Bonnie zones to the Marla Zone at the north end.



Little work has been done in additional altered and mineralized zones at the very northern limits of this system.  These zones are known as the Twyla and Tracey zones and have seen a moderate amount of previous exploration and are the northern limits of the alteration and mineralized system.  These zones consist of extensive sericite +/- chlorite alteration and are hosted in Betty Creek andesites at the north end of the hydrothermal system.



Results of the 2002 program suggest the Big Bulk area appears to be underlain by a complex, multiphased intrusive system.  The rocks are compositionally and texturally different and have been overprinted with varying alteration patterns.



During 2003, the Company contracted Equity Engineering Ltd. to conduct a prospecting program on the Big Bulk property.  Several zones of interest were targeted with priority placed on the Bonnie and Bonnie East Zones.  Other areas that were prospected include the Brianne, Darcy, Nickie, and SeaBee Zones.  A total of 58 rock samples from surface chips and grabs were collected from the Big Bulk property.



A highlight of the prospecting was the discovery of a gold showing in the Brianne Zone.  Coarse visible gold occurs in a 1 to 5 cm qtz-carb-chlor-epi vein striking 174° and dipping -30° west.  A weak to moderate stockwork of similar veins, 1 to 3 veins per meter, occurs within the immediate surrounding area measuring 150 meters in diameter.

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The prospecting program also delineated a prominent E-W structure marking the change from chlorite to sericite alteration in the Bonnie East Zone.  Previous sampling in the area returned 3 assays of greater than 1200 ppb Au and 6 assays of greater than 2000 ppm Cu. The surface expression of the structure hosts malachite gossans over 30 meters of strike length, which are related to concentrations of coarse stringer/blebby pyrite and chalcopyrite.  Prospecting in the general area outlined a zone, extending at least 180m E-W and 120m N-S, with visible chalcopyrite and malachite mineralization from which 11 surface samples were taken.



During 2003, the Company completed a diamond drilling program on the Big Bulk property.  Hy-Teck Drilling Ltd. from Smithers, BC was awarded the drilling contract.  A total of 1664.44 meters were drilled in eleven holes with BTW sized core.  Table 2 summarizes drill collar information.



BIG BULK PROJECT - Drill Hole InformationZoneNumberNorthingEastingAzimuthDipDepth (m)BonnieBB03 - 0161671034771070-45197.21BonnieBB03 - 026167103477107315-45195.90BonnieBB03 - 0361670654771110-60222.20BonnieBB03 - 0461669894772010-45203.91BonnieBB03 - 0561670894772040-45216.10Bonnie EastBB03 - 066166907477917180-45173.43Bonnie WestBB03 - 0761668774769460-45100.28Bonnie WestBB03 - 086166877476946180-45106.38BrianneBB03 - 096166706476958180-6072.85BrianneBB03 - 1061667064769580-4572.85BrianneBB03-10anchor61667064769580-70(5.79)BrianneBB03 - 1161666624768900-45103.33TOTAL METERS DRILLED1664.44






Table 2.Drill Hole information.





The presently defined 1250-meter long by 300-meter wide Big Bulk Zone was drill-tested with 8 holes along three off-set sectional locations.  All holes intersected intervals of pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization to an approximate depth of 200 meters.  A summary of the best mineralized intersections is presented in Table 3.



HoleInterval (m)AssayNumberFromToLengthAu (g/t)Cu (%)BB03-018.8421.0312.190.410.68BB03-0211.89  142.9533.22  195.9921.33   53.03BB03-035.7933.2227.430.420.64BB03-04******2.7414.9412.200.260.1488.09100.2812.190.260.16BB03-0711.8921.039.140.180.4585.0491.146.100.220.47BB03-08






Table 3.2003 Drill-Hole Assay Results.

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Drill holes BB03-01 to BB03-05 tested the Bonnie Zone, within an area where surface sampling returned 0.9% copper and 0.83 g/t gold over a 70-metre interval.  Drill hole BB03-06, tested an area of exposed copper mineralization 800 meters east of the Bonnie Zone but did not intersect significant copper-gold values. Drill holes BB03-07 and BB03-08 were drilled 250 meters southwest of the Bonnie Zone and targeted surface mineralization located on an island between the Bonnie zone and the potassic core of the alteration system.



Drill holes BB03-09 to BB03-11 were drilled in the vicinity of a new discovery of visible gold within a quartz vein system located 400 meters southwest of the Bonnie Zone.  Although anomalous gold values were intersected, no economically significant assays were obtained.  The coarse-grain gold mineralization in quartz veins is hosted within the potassic core of the intensely altered hornblende-feldspar porphyry.



The 2003 diamond drilling program on the Big Bulk copper-gold target intersected a shallow dipping near surface zone of porphyry style mineralization but did not locate extensions to depth.  Near surface drill hole grades assayed to 0.86% copper and 0.6 g/t gold over 21.33 metres.  Due to the indicated limited target size of the attractive copper-gold grades, no further drilling is anticipated.



The Big Bulk property was relinquished back to Teck Cominco in January 2004. All costs relating to the property were written off in December 2003.







VMS Property



Property Description

The VMS 1-4 claim group consists of four claims totaling 19 units.  The claims are underlain by geology of lower to middle Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Hazelton and Stuhini Groups, the same stratigraphy that hosts the 1.8 million-ounce Eskay Creek deposit, located 135 kilometres to the northwest.  The claims cover the highest gold and copper stream sediment anomalies of the map sheet as well as strong lead and zinc values.  Several areas with known VMS style mineralization have returned grab sample values up to 5.6 g/t gold, 1.6% copper in the Boulder Zone.  Additional massive and semi-massive sulphide float assayed to 4.54 g/t gold, 10% copper and 99.7 g/t silver.



Although a VMS style deposit has been the focus of past prospecting, the area appears favourable for discovery of gold veins with quartz vein float from the property returning values up to 20.24 g/t gold.  Prior work has included preliminary prospecting and sampling.  No advanced stage targeting or drilling has been undertaken to date.  The property presents an attractive target for discovery of a gold enriched massive sulphide and/or epithermal deposit.



In an agreement dated October 22, 2002, the Company has the option to earn a 100% interest in the VMS property subject to a NSR royalty payable to the underlying vendor.



The VMS property lies within the larger Big Bulk Property and covers favourable felsic volcanic rocks similar to those hosting VMS mineralization at Eskay Creek.  Several large gossans and associated base metal mineralization have been discovered but never drill tested.



Property Title

The VMS property is comprised of four mineral claims totaling 19 claims units.  The claims were located on June 10, 1999 and are valid mining claims registered in the Skeena Mining Division.  The registered owner of the VMS claims is Fayz Yacoub of Surrey, B.C.  The VMS property is surrounded on all sides by the Big Bulk Property.  The Company also has an option to acquire a majority interest in the Big Bulk Property.



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VMS PROPERTY

MINERAL CLAIMS DATA



Claim Name# of UnitsRecord NumberRecord DateExpiry DateVMS 19369532June 14, 1999June 10, 2003VMS 23369533June 14, 1999June 10, 2003


VMS 34369534June 14, 1999June 10, 2003VMS 43369535June 14, 1999June 10, 2003






Underlying Agreements

In an Assignment and Assumption Agreement between Fayz Yacoub, Western Prospector Group Ltd. and the Company, dated October 22, 2002, the Company has acquired, by way of assignment from Western Prospector Group Ltd., an option to earn a 100% interest in the VMS Property in consideration for making cash payments in an aggregate amount of $35,000, an share payments in an aggregate amount of 200,000 shares over a three-year period to Fayz Yacoub.  Mr. Yacoub will retain a 1.5% NSR.  Western Prospector assigned the agreement to the Company for reimbursement of costs in the amount of $5,000 and 100,000 units of the Company.  Western Prospector also holds the right to buy back 1% NSR from Mr. Yacoub for $1.0 million.



Location, Access, Infrastructure, Physiography

The VMS Claim Group is located approximately 55 kilometres southeast of Stewart, B.C. and 155 kilometres northwest of Smithers, B.C.  The property lies within the Skeena Mining Division on NTS map sheet 103P/11W.  The property is centered at latitude 55 degrees 37 minutes north and longitude 129 degrees 17 minutes west.



A logging road off the Lavendar mainline comes within 10 kilometres of the property.  A helicopter from Stewart is the only access to the property, an approximate 25-30 minute trip.



The area of the VMS claims exhibits the characteristics of the typical glaciated physiography.  These include wide U-shaped, drift-filled valleys flanked by steep rugged mountains.  Elevations within the property range from 1400 metres at the north part of the claim group to 700 metres in the valley at the south-central part of the property.  Vegetation consists mainly of mixed grassland and scrub brush in the valleys, where at higher elevations vegetation grades into alpine.  The highest parts of the property support only moss and lichen.  Water for drilling is available from several creeks draining the north side of the property, and the Lahte Creek, which runs through the southern part of the property.



History

Previous work on the VMS property has consisted mostly of prospecting, reconnaissance mapping and rock sampling.



- Hudson Bay Exploration carried out a prospecting, rock sampling and geological mapping program in the summer of 1981.  The work program identified a number of rhyolitic massive sulfide float boulders located on the south side of Lahte Creek.
- In 1989, Dolly Varden Mineral Inc. conducted prospecting, reconnaissance mapping and pan concentrate silt sampling.  Significant gold values were returned from outcrops and float boulders.  A number of gossan zones were identified on the now VMS-2 claim, the gossan zones were not tested due to difficulties in crossing the Lahte Creek.  Gold values ranged up to 20240 ppb from quartz vein float.
- In 1994, the area of the VMS 1-4 claim group were included as part of regional stream sediment geochem sampling program by the geological survey.  Anomalous gold (226 and 229 ppb) were returned, these values were the highest in the map sheet area, and indicated a favourable environment for gold deposit possibly similar to that at the Red Mountain gold deposit.
- In 1995, Cyprus Canada Inc. and Rubicon Management Ltd. staked the area based on the results of the regional geochem survey, and conducted prospecting, rock, silt, and soil sampling.  Anomalous gold values to 0.32 g/t was returned from mineralized zones.
- During 1997, exploration work on the claims was carried out by Rubicon Minerals Corporation, rock sampling was targeted at evaluating a number of gossan zones on what is now known as the VMS 1 claim.  Assays returned up to 6.26% zinc, and 414 g/t silver with elevated metal values up to 202ppm arsenic, 145ppm mercury, and 356ppm antimony.  Numerous boulders of massive sulfides were located at the toe of the main glacier, and a barite-sphalerite-galena showing was located on the north side of Lahte Creek.



Geological Setting

The VMS property lies within the Stewart Complex on the western margin of the intermountain belt of lower to middle

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Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks belonging to the Hazelton and Stuhini Groups.  The Stewart Complex is composed of a broad belt of island arc volcanics and related intrusions trending north for 150 kilometres from Anyox in the south to the Iskut River in the north.  The volcanics are part of Hazelton Group and are Jurassic in age.



The Stewart Complex hosts several mines, the rocks are highly prospective with numerous mineralized showings and prospects, including the Red Mountain, Eskay Creek, Snip, Willoughby, Sulphurets, Clone, Dolly Varden and Torbrit deposits.



The area of the VMS 1-4 claims is predominantly underlain by lower to middle Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Hazelton and Stuhini Groups.  The property geology has been divided into two rock units, intermediate volcanic, composed of green andesite pyroclastic feldspar, and andesite porphyry.  This unit is exposed in the far western part of the property.  The majority of the property is underlain by maroon and green volcanic conglomerate, volcanic breccia, minor sandstone and rhyolite beds, this unit exists in the eastern side of the property.



Several gossans occur within the felsic maroon volcanic unit of the Jurassic Hazelton rocks.  These felsic rocks are overlain by middle to upper Jurassic sedimentary unit consisting of basal fossiliferous wacke, siltstones and argillites.



Intensive prophylitic to argillic alteration is pervasive in all major rock units within the area of the VMS claim group in a form of several gossan zones, where rocks are intensively altered, bleached and silicified.



Mineralized prospects on the property are related to structural elements within a number of gossan zones.  The highest grade mineralization occurs in intensely fractured, silicified and pyritized zones, in both the volcanic and the sedimentary rock units of the Hazelton group.



Pyrite is the most common sulfide mineral present, and is usually associated with several altered gossan zones on the property.  Weathering of pyrite results in light brown iron oxides.  Quartz-carbonate veins and pods, appear to be associated with areas of advanced argillic alteration within the gossan zones.



Four mineralized zones have been described on the property and have only seen a preliminary inspection by the Company.  The zones are largely gossans and boulder trains which have only seen preliminary exploration by prior workers.  The following is a brief description of the zones:



The Boulders Zone consists of angular boulders of intermediate, light gray volcanics were located on the north side of the Lahte Creek, the boulders are scattered over an area of 75 metres long by 50 metres wide.  Mineralization consists of disseminated, semi-massive to massive banded galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and green malachite.  The topography of the area around the boulders zone strongly suggests that the best area to prospect for the source rock would be north to northwest from the boulders location.



The Main Gossan Zone is located on the north side of Lahte Creek.  It is considered to be the most persistent alteration zone on the property, and represents a fault contact between the green maroon volcanic dacite and sedimentary argillite.  The gossan zone is exposed for approximately one kilometre with an average width of 100 metres.  Rocks are light brown to red on weathering surfaces.  Argillic to sericitic alteration is common within the zone particularly at the volcanic-sedimentary contact.  The gossan zone displays strong silification and pyritization associated with advanced argillic alteration.  Sulfide mineralization consists of fine-grained pyrite, minor pyrrhotite and galena.



The Western Gossan alteration zone, represented by brown rusty volcanic dacite rocks, located approximately 800 metres southwest of the main gossan zone, is characterized by intensive alteration and silification.  Mineralization consists of 5-6% fine-grained pyrite, very fine-grained galena, and trace of chalcopyrite in altered, rusty volcanic outcrop.  The zone can be traced for twenty metres with an average width of 3 metres.



The Float Zone consists of numerous massive sulfide boulders located on the western side of the property.  The mineralized boulders were found just below the main glacier and along the flats southeast of the main creek below the ice field.  The source of the float boulders is believed to be within large gossans exposed near the head of the glacier.  No source rock has been located so far.



The Company has not conducted  a detailed exploration program on the VMS property  and relinquished the property back to the vendor in October 2003. All costs relating to the property were written off in December 2003.

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Atikokan West Property



Property Description

The Atikokan West property of 137 claim units, located in the Atikokan area of northwestern Ontario, is a grassroots property covering underexplored gold prospects.  The vendor acquired the property after discovering the gold prospects and optioned the property to Teck Cominco in January 2004.  The Company subsequently entered into an option/joint venture agreement with Teck Cominco to earn an interest in the Property.



The Atikokan West property covers 7 structurally controlled gold occurrences in favourable volcanic rocks analogous to the Red Lake high-grade gold system located approximately 300 kilometres to the northwest.



Property Title

The Atikokan West property consists of 11 claims totaling contiguous 137 claim units that occur in the Arnold Lake area.  The claims are registered in the name of the underlying vendor and subject to agreement with Teck Cominco and the Company.  All claims are in good standing.



Atikokan West Property

Mineral Claims Data





Claim NumberUnitsExpiry DateTB 300161012April 8, 2005TB 30016119April 8, 2005TB 300155515February 21, 2005TB 300155615February 21, 2005TB 300155715February 21, 2005TB 300155816February 21, 2005TB 300155916February 21, 2005TB 300156015February 21, 2005TB 30082046July 21, 2005TB 30077596September 18, 2005TB 300713712November 28, 2005Total137units






Underlying Agreements

In an agreement dated January 15, 2004, between Teck Cominco and the underlying vendor, Teck Cominco has the option to earn 100% interest in the Atikokan West Property by making $200,000 in cash payments to the vendor and completing $1.0 million of exploration expenditures by February 1, 2009.  The vendor has retained a 2% NSR of which Teck Cominco may buy down 1% NSR for $1.0 million.



Under the terms of the agreement dated January 19, 2004 with Teck Cominco, the Company may earn an 80% interest in the Atikokan West Property by making staged exploration expenditures in the aggregate amount of $1,000,000 by December 31, 2008 and then maintaining that interest by funding ongoing exploration through pre-feasibility.  After the completion of a pre-feasibility study, Teck Cominco may back-in for a 60.8% interest in the project by funding a minimum of 200% of the Companys prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.



During the currency of the agreement, Teck Cominco will be responsible for making all cash and advance royalty payments to the underlying vendor.



Location, Access, Infrastructure

The Atikokan West Property is located in Baker Township (Miranda Lake Area G-0543) approximately 10 kilometres west

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of the community of Atikokan and 200 kilometres west of Thunder Bay, Ontario.  It lies within NTS block 52B/13SW.



The property can be accessed via newly created logging roads departing from highway 11 approximately 25 kilometres west of Atikokan.  New roads in 2001 have reached the Black Vein (north and south) Showings, passing within 100 to 200 metres of both.  These roads will carry on eastwards going south of Arnold Lake and then proceeding north between the east shore of Arnold Lake and the Eye River up to Ear Lake in 2002.  Alternate access is from Atikokan via highway 622 north for 24 kilometres, then south on Valerie Falls Road for 20 kilometres.  A recent network of logging roads is providing access to much of the property.



History

The following list summarizes the historical exploration conducted on the Atikokan West Property and in the general area of the property.



1894:  Discovery of gold in quartz veins at Harold Lake (volcanic/tonalite contact) by the Wiley brothers of Port Arthur, Ontario.  1311 tons milled @ .59 oz/tn Au



1900:  Discovery of gold at Elizabeth Gold Mine (250,000 tons @ 4.57 g/tn Au)



1956:  Discovery of Audet/Bergman high grade by Stratman Ltd.  Stratman also drilled two targets on the north shore of Arnold Lake in search for hematite iron deposits.



1986:  Denver Stone, while working for Atomic Energy Canada, mapped the area and discovered the Zephyr Zone, an area of intense deformation within the volcanics just west of Harold Lake.



1987/1990:  Societe Miniere Mimiska Inc. performed approximately 30,000 ft of diamond drilling on the property while evaluating the Fern Elizabeth property.



Mimiska completed several geophysical surveys on portions of the property and carried out a regional prospecting and mapping program.  This resulted in the discovery of the Black Vein just southwest of Arnold Lake and numerous other high grade samples.



1998:  Karl Bjorkman located a grab sample, just west of the Eye River at Ear Lake, while staking assaying approx. 0.5 oz/tn Au.



1998/1999:  Karl Bjorkman and Brian Nelson carried out a mapping and prospecting program as part of their 98/99 OPAP program



Geological Setting

The Atikokan area, one of Ontarios earliest gold camps, was known in the late 1800s as the Upper Seine District.  Combined with the Mine Centre area, limited recorded production of more than 22,000 ounces of gold was realized from approximately 15 producers (Schnieders 1983).  In addition there are more than 50 other gold occurrences within a 50 km radius of Atikokan (ibid).  The vast majority of occurrences are hosted by supracrustal rocks in a number of small, interconnected greenstone belts (Calm Lake, Finlayson Lake, Lac des Mille Lacs and Lumby Lake) and within the Marmion Lake tonalitic batholith, near the southern margin of the Wabigoon Subprovince (Blackburn et al. 1991; Wilkinson 1982).  The southern subprovincial boundary is locally defined by the Quetico Fault, a regional, dextral, transcurrent fault zone; metasedimentary and related plutonic rocks of the Quetico Subprovince occur on the south side of the fault.



Gold mineralization is associated with quartz +/- carbonate veins and stockworks, as well as deformed and altered felsic intrusive rocks.  There is a strong association with regional faults, branching splay faults and brittle-ductile deformation zones.  Gold mineralization in the Marmion Lake batholith is associated with northeast-trending structures and its contacts with greenstone belt rocks (Lavigne and Scott 1995a, 1996b).  Past workers have described many gold occurrences hosted by deformed and altered metavolcanic rocks and associated with high-level intrusive rocks such as quartz-feldspar porphyry, aplite and felsite.  Typical alteration assemblages include sericite, albite, chlorite, iron carbonate, saussurite, epidote, tourmaline and green mica.  Pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and arsenopyrite, as well as other, less common sulphides, are associated with auriferous quartz-carbonate veins (Schnieders 1983; Wilkinson 1982).



The Atikokan West Property covers a large area of old Steep Rock Group (2960+) mya pillowed basalts, flows and Fe Fms

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and ultramafic flows in a belt similar in setting and size to the Red Lake camp.  There is a strong suggestion that the entire Steep Rock sequence is much more extensive than previously recognized.  Extensive basal Fe Fm and ultramafic sequences are present across the entire area and may not be restricted to the Atikokan townsite area as previously thought.  These basal units date back to 3100-3200 mya and are attractive gold hosts.  Numerous deformation zones and structures follow NE and NW trends throughout the package and are axial planar to folding which seems to control some of the showings at the noses of folds.  Several high-grade occurrences are present on this largely unexplored property including new vein discoveries with values up to 68 g/t Au (Sunshine showing).  Most showings were of little interest but the area is impressive for recent extensive logged areas and discovery of new high-grade showings in a number of structural zones with QFP sills and dykes with associated sericite, ankerite and green mica alteration.  This property is along the structural projection from the large intrusive hosted Hammond Reef system 85 MT @ 1 g/t Au (2.6 MOz Au) which demonstrates a large Au system.



Several gold prospects have been discovered on the property and are summarized:



The Harold Lake target consists of numerous quartz veins within the intrusive with past production of 1131 tons @ 0.59 opt Au.  Very local drilling has intersected veins grading up to 19.2 g/t Au. / 1.52 m.



Zephyr Zone:  In 1988 Mimiska drilled the Zephyr Zone based on some promising surface assays.  Hole MZ 88 09 intersected 6.2 g/t Au over 10.3 m.  Again in February of 1996, Mimiska drilled the Zephyr Zone in the area of the hole 09 high grade intersection.  After drilling they interpreted the mineralization to be striking approximately north 25 degrees east in four separate fingers.  The last hole drilled was MZ 96 19.  This hole had an intersection of 18.5 g/t Au over 0.5 metres, however it was drilled almost right on the property line of the Harold Lake Gold Mine, which Mimiska had already dropped.  The area in between is spruce swamp and should be drilled to test the extent of mineralization heading towards the historic north and south adits area.  The western sector should be intensely prospected followed by surface stripping of any high-grade assays.



Black Vein:  This showing was drilled in 1990 but only very locally as no surface stripping was done.  This area also has a new gravel road to within 100-200 metres of both showings and should be surface stripped to better define a drill target.  Grab samples in 2001 returned a value of 8.6 g/t from an intensely altered felsic volcanic rock with no quartz veining.  The black vein area within a large shear structure with ankerite-green mica alteration and associated sericite QFP sills has returned values to 134 g/t Au, with values to 25 g/t from the carb-green mica alteration.



Ear Lake is a largely unexplored area extending to the NW of Harold Lake for 5+ kms with grabs taken by the underlying vendor returning values to 48 g/t Au.



Arnold Lake:  The Arnold Lake area has received little attention according to the various reports on this property, yet the area underlying Arnold Lake is part of a large fold (open, anticline) with the nose of the fold lying just to the east.  Both the Zephur Zone and the Black Vein are coincident with magnetic lows probably due to the intense alteration at both locations.  At the northeast corner of Arnold Lake a mag low also occurs.  Stratmat Ltd. drilled this area (swamp covered) in 1956 looking for hematite and hit various sulfide zones, quartz veins and fault zones, but no hematite.  No assays are recorded for any of their holes.



Most of the gold showings on this property are associated with some structural event whether faults, splays, or their accompanying deformation zones and furthermore associated with where these lineaments cross favourable geology.



Exploration of the Atikokan West Property

The Company plans to conduct a prospecting, stripping and chip sampling program on known gold occurrences and within areas between the known occurrences during 2004.  Drilling is planned in late summer and fall on the priority targets.



TO THE COMPANY'S KNOWLEDGE, THE MINERAL PROPERTIES CANNOT BE PROVEN TO CONTAIN A BODY OF COMMERCIAL ORE UNTIL A POSITIVE FEASIBILITY STUDY DEMONSTRATING COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION HAS BEEN PREPARED BY INDEPENDENT CONSULTING ENGINEERS.







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ITEM V

OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW AND PROSPECTS



The following discussion of the financial condition, changes in financial condition and results of operations of the Company for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001 should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001. Except as otherwise indicated, all dollar amounts contained in this discussion and analysis and the Consolidated Financial Statements are in Canadian dollars.  The financial information presented in the Consolidated Financial Statements was prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in Canada.  Note 9 of these Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company sets forth the material differences between Canadian and U.S. GAAP.  In keeping with accepted industry practice in Canada, the Company capitalizes  property acquisition and exploration expenditures relating to mineral properties in which the Company has an active interest.  In the event that such properties become inactive or prove uneconomic, they are written off.  For a more detailed description of the properties, see Item IV - Information of the Company - Description of Property.



A)

OPERATING RESULTS



CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Stock-based Compensation:

Effective January 1, 2003, the Company elected to apply the fair value method of accounting for stock options granted to directors, officers and employees on a prospective basis in accordance with the recommendations of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.  Accordingly, the fair value of all stock options granted is recorded as a charge to administration expenses and a credit to shareholders' equity.  Consideration received on exercise of stock options is credited to share capital.



Critical Accounting Estimates:

The detailed accounting policies are listed in Note 2 to the Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2003; however, the valuation of resource assets requires the application of significant management judgment.  Management uses its best estimates for recording mineral property carrying values based on expenditures incurred, the results of any exploration conducted, prevailing market conditions and future plans for the projects.



FISCAL 2003

In connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement, the Registrant issued 820,000 special warrants for funds in the amount of $246,000 received in 2002.  The special warrants were converted during 2003 and the Registrant issued 820,000 units, with each unit comprised of one Common Share in the capital of the Registrant and one Common Share purchase warrants entitling the holder to acquire one Common Share in the capital of the Registrant at $0.30 per Common Share until June 30, 2004

In connection with private placements, the Registrant issued Common Shares and warrants as follows:

Number of flow-through  Common SharesNumber of non-flow-through Common SharesTotal Common SharesPrice per Common Share
($)Total
($)Number of non-flow-through warrants6,244,0002,186,0008,430,0000.10843,0002,186,0002,500,00002,500,0000.12300,00000820,000820,0000.15123,000820,0008,744,0003,006,00011,750,0001,266,0003,006,000




In respect of the above private placements, the Registrant also issued to agents who introduced arms-length purchasers to the Registrant 63,000 units, each unit comprised of one Common Share and one Common Share purchase warrant, with two Common Share purchase warrants entitling the holder to acquire one Common Share at $0.10 per Common Share until September 14, 2004 and 348,000 warrants, each warrant entitling the holder to acquire one Common Share at $0.14 per Common Share until October 12, 2004.  At December 31, 2003 all of the warrants remained unexercised.

In connection with financings completed in 2002, the Registrant amended the terms of warrants as follows:

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i.

the expiry date of 1,500,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,500,000 Common Shares at $0.15 per Common Share was extended from May 23, 2003 to May 22, 2004

ii.

the expiry date of 1,080,000 agents warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,080,000 Common Shares at $0.35 per Common Share was extended from June 18, 2003 to June 18, 2004

iii.

the exercise price of 4,050,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of 2,025,000 Common Shares was amended from $0.35 per Common Share to $0.15 per Common Share and the expiry date was extended from June 18, 2003 to June 18, 2004.

In connection with incentive stock options granted, the Registrant valued such warrants at $145,509 and credited that amount to stock options and warrants.

During 2003, 2,985,903 warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,635,903 Common Shares expired unexercised, and at December 31, 2003, all of the remaining warrants remained unexercised.

As a result of the financings completed during 2003, at December 31, 2003, the Registrant had cash and cash equivalents of $1,067,042, of which $927,891 is restricted to flow-through expenditures on Canadian mineral properties, resulting in an unrestricted working capital of $90,767. From January 1 to May 7, 2004, the company issued a total of 415,250 Common Shares on the exercise of 420,500 warrants for total consideration of $123,700.



Fiscal 2003 corporate costs were relatively unchanged at $439,041 as compared with $432,836 in fiscal 2002.  The Company saw an increase in audit costs due to increased costs required to meet regulatory compliance requirements ($35,458 for fiscal 2003 as compared with $14,887 for fiscal 2002).  The Company incurred a tax penalty of $14,309 on flow-through funds expended in fiscal 2003 and renounced in fiscal 2002.  Legal fees for fiscal 2003 decreased by $62,428 as a result of the Registrant stream-lining its corporate functions.  Shareholder communications decreased by $91,944 as a result of the abandonment of the Company's exploration properties during the year.  The Registrant granted incentive stock options to directors, officers and employees allowing for the purchase of up to 1,680,000 Common Shares at $0.15 per Common Share until January 3, 2008.  The Registrant valued these options at $145,509 and credited that amount to stock options and warrants.



During fiscal 2003, exploration and mineral property expenditures were approximately $659,467 as compared to approximately $1,403,403 for fiscal 2002 as a result of the abandonment of properties during the year.  The Registrant expended $78,800 on general exploration costs incurred while conducting regional exploration work and relating to properties in which it held no interest.  The Registrant wrote off $1,475,505 and $113,814 in exploration expenditures and property acquisition costs respectively in connection with the relinquishment of properties to the vendors.  At December 31, 2003, the Company had $nil resource assets, as compared with $1,008,652 at December 31, 2002. In January 2004 and in connection with the Teck Cominco agreement, the company entered into an agreement to acquire an 80% interest in the Atikokan West property in Ontario, in consideration for making staged exploration expenditures in the aggregate of $1,000,000 by December 31, 2008 and then maintaining that interest by funding ongoing exploration through feasibility, after which Teck Cominco may back-in for a 60.8% interest by funding a minimum of 200% of the companys prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.



Exploration and Mineral Property Expenditures for Fiscal 2003:



Hemlo WestAmosMeridianYukon OlympicBig BulkVMSGeneralTotalExploration and Mineral Property ExpendituresAccommodation00013,76817,00401,48832,260Assays and geochemical analysis00024312,049062612,918Consulting0001,62016,6231,08012,24031,563Drilling0000110,48300110,483Expediting94231251,6184,5460166,422Field supplies0004,1744,74305049,421Fuel00036714,4430014,810


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Maps, printing and drafting102001,3572,93006645,053Property acquisition and maintenance costs00021,720400435022,555Project management fees5442774113,32330,6884956,67352,041Salaries and wages2,6912,84029959,73788,4003,90854,788212,663Surveys00048,30200048,302Transportation659008,07390,44301,801100,976Total4,0903,140465174,302392,7525,91878,800659,467




No dividends have been paid by the Company, and the Company has no present intention of paying dividends on its Common Shares as it anticipates that all available funds will be invested to finance the growth of its business.



Loss for the year is affected by the administration costs, write off of deferred exploration expenditures and mineral property expenditures, general exploration expenditures and costs recovered by way of option payments.



The following table sets forth a comparison of revenues and earnings for the previous eight quarters ending with December 31, 2003.



SUMMARY QUARTERLY INFORMATION

Quarter Ended:December 31,  2003
($)September 30, 2003
($)June 30, 2003
($)March 31, 2003
($)December 31,  2002
($)September 30, 2002
($)June 30, 2002
($)March 31, 2002
($)Current Assets1,076,320887,916529,683614,108799,3051,559,8921,782,842220,892Resource Assets01,213,5601,109,5221,045,5461,008,65248,67719,6271,772Current Liabilities239,196255,491177,563121,612186,207151,605155,757236,928Shareholders EquityCapital Stock21,257,46420,436,41320,076,18220,076,18219,835,32019,245,92019,245,92017,490,085Special Warrants0000246,000000Contributed Surplus64,78464,78464,78464,78464,78464,78464,78464,784Stock Options and Warrants145,5090000000Deficit(20,621,033)(19,116,912)(18,679,325)(18,602,924)(18,524,354)(17,853,740)(17,663,992)(17,569,133)Net Income (Loss)(1,504,121)(437,587)(76,401)(78,570)(670,614)(189,748)(94,859)(67,388)Working Capital (Deficit)837,124632,425352,120492,496613,0981,408,2871,627,085(16,036)Loss per share (1)(0.084)(0.028)(0.005)(0.005)(0.077)(0.020)(0.029)(0.017)







(1)

Fully diluted earnings (loss) per share are not presented as the exercise of warrants and stock options would be anti-dilutive.



At the Annual General Meeting of shareholders held on June 25, 2003, all resolutions placed before the shareholders were passed.





FISCAL 2002

During the year ended December 31, 2002 in connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement, the Registrant received proceeds of $117,000 on the exercise of 390,000 warrants and issued 390,000 Common Shares.  The Registrant also received $246,000 for 820,000 special warrants allowing for the purchase of 820,000 units convertible, until October 15, 2003 and for no further consideration, into one Common Share and one underlying share purchase warrant exercisable into

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one Common Share at $0.30 per Common Share for a period of one year from the date of conversion of the special warrant.  The special warrants were issued in January 2003.



In connection with private placements, the Registrant received gross proceeds of $578,000 and issued a total of 4,444,166 Common Shares.  Of these, 2,941,666 Common Shares were issued for $353,000 of flow-through funds.  The Registrant also issued 1,778,333 warrants allowing for the purchase of up to 1,778,333 Common Shares as to 1,500,000 Common Shares at $0.15 per Common Share until May 22, 2003, 258,333 Common Shares at $0.12 per Common Share until December 20, 2003 and 20,000 Common Shares at $0.12 per Common Share until December 30, 2003.



In connection with a Short Form Offering Document, the Registrant raised $1.62 million comprised of $1,215,000 in flow-through funds and gross proceeds of $405,000 in non-flow-through funds.  The Registrant issued 1,350,000 non-flow-through units and 4,050,000 flow-through units each priced at $0.30 per unit.  Each flow-though unit consisted of one flow-through Common Share and one non-transferable flow-through share purchase warrant, with each two flow-through warrants entitling the holder to purchase one additional flow-through share at a price of $0.35 per Common Share until June 18, 2003.  Each non-flow-through unit consisted of one non-flow-through Common Share and two transferable non-flow-through share purchase warrants, with each two non-flow-through warrants entitling the holder to purchase one additional non-flow-through share at a price o $0.35 per Common Share until June 18, 2003.  The Registrant also issued 1,080,000 agents warrants allowing for the purchase of up to 1,080,000 Common Shares at $0.35 per share until June 18, 2003 and 200,000 Common Shares to an agent as finance fee.  The non-flow-through warrants commenced trading through the facilities of the TSX-Venture Exchange on June 28, 2002 under the trading symbol CXP-WT.



At the Annual General Meeting of shareholders held on June 27, 2002, all resolutions placed before the shareholders were passed, including a Special Resolution approving changing the Registrants name to Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.



In connection with the CEEx Program, the Registrant entered into agreement to acquire the right to earn an 80% interest in Teck Comincos interest in the Helmo West property, subject to back-in rights by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendors net profits interest, by making staged exploration expenses totaling $2.0 million by December 31, 2005 ($276,195 spent by December 31, 2002). Upon completion of the minimum expenditures, a joint venture will be formed, with the Registrant holding 80% and Teck Cominco holding 20%.  In order to maintain its 80% interest in the joint venture, the Registrant must fund additional exploration to the completion of a pre-feasibility study.  Teck Cominco will then have a one-time election to back-in for 60.8% interest in the project by funding a minimum of 200% of the Registrants prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.  The Registrant will then have a 39.2% interest and the option to either fund its Common Shares of production financing or negotiate with Teck Cominco for a carried interest through to production.



In connection with the CEEx Program, the Registrant entered into agreement to acquire the right to earn an 80% interest in Teck Comincos interest in the Amos property, subject to back-in rights by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendors net profits interest, by making staged exploration expenses totaling $2.0 million by December 31, 2005 ($325,065 spent by December 31, 2002). Upon completion of the minimum expenditures, a joint venture will be formed, with the Registrant holding 80% and Teck Cominco holding 20%.  In order to maintain its 80% interest in the joint venture, the Registrant must fund additional exploration to the completion of a pre-feasibility study.  Teck Cominco will then have a one-time election to back-in for 60.8% interest in the project by funding a minimum of 200% of the Registrants prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.  The Registrant will then have a 39.2% interest and the option to either fund its Common Shares of production financing or negotiate with Teck Cominco for a carried interest through to production.  During 2002, the Registrant expended $7,959 acquiring the Amos property.  During 2002, the Registrant entered into an agreement with an optionee whereby the optionee may acquire up to 50% of the Companys interest in the property by exercising three options by way of staged exploration expenditures totaling $2.0 million by September 30, 2003.  Upon completion of each option period, the optionee has the right to convert its investment in the project into Common Shares of the Registrant (840,000 Common Shares issued to December 31, 2002 at a market value of $315,000).  Prior to December 31, 2002 the optionee relinquished the right to the property back to the Registrant.



In connection with the CEEx Program, the Registrant entered into agreement to acquire the right to earn an 80% interest in Teck Comincos interest in the Meridian property, subject to back-in rights by Teck Cominco, by making staged exploration expenses totaling $800,000 by December 31, 2005. The Registrant expended $346,866 during 2002 on the Meridian project.  Results not having met expectations, the Registrant relinquished its rights to the Meridian project, and costs of $346,866 in relation to the Meridian project were written off.



In connection with the CEEx Program, the Registrant entered into agreement to acquire up to a 51% interest in the Yukon

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Olympic property by making staged exploration expenditures totaling $1.5 million ($182,040 spent by December 31, 2002) and staged share payments totaling 900,000 Common Shares by December 31, 2005 (300,000 Common Shares issued during 2002).  A joint venture will then be formed with the Registrant holding 51% and the vendor holding 49% through to completion of a preliminary feasibility study.  Under the terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement, Teck Cominco will have the right to earn a 51% interest in the property by incurring 200% of the Registrants prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.  Should Teck Cominco earn the 51%, the Registrant would then hold 25% and the vendor 24%.  In connection with the Yukon Olympic property, a finders fee of 200,000 units comprised of 200,000 Common Shares and 200,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of up to a further 200,000 Common Shares at $0.20 per Common Share until September 20, 2004 was paid to a party related by virtue of common management and directorship.  The vendor has the right to earn a 100% interest in the property subject to a 1.5% net smelter return royalty (NSR).   During 2002, the Registrant expended $60,300 towards the acquisition of the Yukon Olympic property, which amount includes the 300,000 Common Shares issued to the vendor and 200,000 Common Shares issued as finders fee.



In connection with the CEEx Program, the Registrant acquired the rights to earn an interest in the Big Bulk property, subject to back-in rights by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendors net profits interest.  The Registrant may earn an initial 80% interest by spending $800,000 on exploration by December 31, 2005 ($131,617 spent by December 31, 2002).  Under the terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement, Teck Cominco will have the right to earn a 51% interest in the property by incurring 200% of the Registrants prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study. Should Teck Cominco earn the 51%, the Registrant would then hold 25% and the vendor 24%.



In connection with the CEEx Program, the Registrant entered into an agreement to acquire a 100% interest  in the VMS property by making staged payments of $35,000 ($5,000 paid to December 31, 2002) and issuing 200,000 Common Shares in stages prior to December 31, 2005 (50,000 Common Shares issued during 2002).  A joint venture will then be formed with the Registrant holding 51% and the vendor holding 49% through to completion of a preliminary feasibility study.  The vendor retains a 1.5% NSR. Under the terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement, Teck Cominco will have the right to earn a 51% interest in the property by incurring 200% of the Registrants prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study. Should Teck Cominco earn the 51%, the Company would then hold 25% and the vendor 24%.  In connection with the VMS property, a finders fee of 100,000 units comprised of 100,000 Common Shares and 100,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of up to a further 100,000 Common Shares at $0.20 per Common Share until October 22, 2004 and reimbursement of costs of $5,000 were paid to a party related by virtue of common management and directorship. The related party has the right to reacquire a 1% NSR held by an underlying vendor for $1.0 million. During 2002, the Registrant expended $23,000 towards the acquisition of the VMS property, which amount includes the 50,000 Common Shares issued to the vendor and 100,000 Common Shares  issued as a finders fee, and expended $2,476 exploring the VMS property.



During 2002, the Registrant wrote off $45,647 relating to properties in which it held no interest.



Prior to 2002, the Company had requested reimbursement from the Government of Mexico for $199,672 of value-added tax paid by the Company in prior years.  During 2002, the Company determined that it was not financially practicable to continue pursuing collection of the reimbursement and accordingly the $199,672 was written off.



As a result of the Companys increased activity, fiscal 2002 corporate costs were approximately $433,000, an increase of approximately $110,000 from fiscal 2001.  The increase is primarily seen in shareholder communications expenses due to increased communication with shareholders in respect of the CEEx Program. Exploration and mineral property expenditures were approximately $1,403,000 as compared to approximately $68,000 for fiscal 2001 as a result of the acquisition of several properties and the review of properties under consideration. For a more detailed description of the CEEx Program see Item IV - Information of the Company - Business Overview. At December 31, 2002, the Company had working capital of approximately $613,000, which amount includes cash and cash equivalents of approximately $730,000 as a result of funds received for the public and private placements, on the exercise of warrants and in connection with the special warrants issued in 2003.



Stock Based Compensation: During fiscal 2002 the Registrant adopted the requirements of the new Canadian Institute of Charted Accountants standard concerning the accounting for stock-based compensation.  The Company elected not to adopt the fair value method of accounting for stock options.  No compensation expense is recognized if the exercise price of the stock option at date of grant is equal to market value.

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Mineral Property Expenditures:  In keeping with accepted industry practice in Canada, the Company capitalizes  property acquisition and exploration expenditures relating to mineral properties in which the Company has an active interest.  In the event that such properties become inactive or prove uneconomic, they are written off.





FISCAL 2001

During the year ended December 31, 2001, in connection with exploration and option to purchase agreements (the Agreements) with Meridian Gold Company (Meridian) of Reno, Nevada, the Company received the remainder of the funds from Meridian, and completed the initial stages of its sale of the G&R Property to Meridian.  Prior to December 31, 2001, the Company announced that it had received notice from Meridian that Meridian had terminated the Agreements. Prior to December 31, 2001, the Company relinquished its rights to the Guadalupe Property and returned the concessions to the vendors.  See Fiscal 2000 below for a more detailed description of the Agreements.



During 2001, with delays experienced in completing a due diligence process of ReBASE Corporation of Barrie, Ontario the Company advised ReBASE that it was terminating the August 4, 2000 Memorandum of Understanding with ReBASE and would continue to seek acquisition of other opportunities in the minerals resource sector.



On June 7, 2001, all ordinary resolutions placed before shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders were passed.  A special resolution was passed allowing that the authorized share capital of the Company be altered by consolidating all of the Companys 250,000,000 Common shares without par value into that number of Common shares without par value as may be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company but, in any event, not less than 25,000,000 Common shares without par value, up to a maximum of 10 such shares being consolidated into one (1) Common share without par value; increasing the authorized capital of the Company from not less than 25,000,000 Common shares without par value to 250,000,000 Commons shares without par value; altering the Memorandum of the Company to reflect the consolidation of share capital and the increase in authorized capital to 250,000,000 Common shares without par value; authorizing the Board of Directors in their discretion by resolution, without requiring further approval, ratification or confirmation by the members, to determine the number of Common shares without par value into which the 250,000,000 Common shares without par value are to be consolidated, provided, however, that such number shall not be less than 25,000,000 Common shares without par value, and may decline to implement this Special Resolution.



On September 11, 2001, the Company announced that its Common Shares were being de-listed from The Toronto Stock Exchange, and that the Companys Common Shares would continue to be traded through the facilities of the Canadian Venture Exchange.  On October 2, 2001, the Company announced that trading in its Common Shares was being halted pending consolidation of the Companys capital on the basis of 10 old Common Shares for 1 new share and a change of company name.  The Company elected not to change its name until its next Annual General Meeting to be held on June 27, 2002.  The consolidation became effective on December 5, 2001.



During 2001, the Company and Teck Cominco formed a strategic alliance for the operation of the Companys CEEx Program.  Teck Cominco endorsed the CEEx Program by entering into an agreement with the Company.  The CEEx Program is a Canadian Exploration Expense (CEE) flow-through mineral exploration program designed for the exploration of selected mineral properties in which the Company will have the right to earn property interests.   During 2001, under the terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement, the Company issued to Teck Cominco 390,000 Units at $0.30 per Unit, which allow Teck Cominco to maintain future participation rights by providing staged funding to the Company in the aggregate amount of $480,000. An initial $117,000 was received prior to December 31, 2001.  Each Unit consists of one common share and one $0.30 share purchase warrant.  Exercise of the warrants on or before February 7, 2002 (subsequently amended to July 8, 2002), will provide an additional $117,000 the Company.  Teck Comincos next funding election for an additional $246,000  takes place on April 15, 2002 (subsequently amended to September 15, 2002).



During 2001, the Company terminated its administrative and exploration management services agreements with John S. Brock Limited and entered into management services agreements with Badger and Co. Management Corp. (Badger & Co.). Under the agreements, the Company is charged for office facilities and operations expenses, costs of corporate, administrative, exploration, field wages and professional services of Badger & Co. employees incurred by Badger & Co. on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up, and exploration project management fees calculated at 8% of all exploration costs incurred by the Company.



During 2001, the Company received, from the Government of Mexico, reimbursement of value-added tax (IVA) of $40,038.  The Company has requested the remaining $199,672 of IVA  from the Government of Mexico.  While the

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Company has been successful in receiving reimbursement in the past, there can be no assurance that it will be successful in the future.



As a result of the Companys increased activity, fiscal 2001 corporate costs were approximately $323,000, an increase of approximately $41,000 from fiscal 2000. Exploration and mineral property expenditures were approximately $68,000 as compared to approximately $142,000 for fiscal 2000 as a result of review of properties under consideration.  At December 31, 2001, the Company had working capital of approximately $50,888, which amount includes the remaining $199,672 of IVA requested from the Government of Mexico.



FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2003 VS. FISCAL 2002 AND 2001

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, the Company had total assets of $1,085,920 as compared with $1,807,957 and $265,271 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2002 and December 31, 2001 respectively.  Resource assets at December 31, 2003 were $nil as compared with $1,008,652 and $nil at December 31, 2002 and December 31, 2001 respectively.  The decrease in resource assets at December 31, 2003 results from the return of all properties to the vendors during the year.  The increase in resource assets at December 31, 2002 results from agreements entered into to earn interests in the Hemlo West, Amos, Yukon Olympic, Big Bulk and VMS Properties, while the reduction in resource assets at December 31, 2001 results from the relinquishing of the Guadalupe property to the vendors.  As a result of the financings completed during 2003, at December 31, 2003, the Registrant had cash and cash equivalents of $1,067,042 (2002: $729,735, 2001: $54,237), of which $927,891 is restricted to flow-through expenditures on Canadian mineral properties, resulting in an unrestricted working capital of $90,767.  Current liabilities remained relatively unchanged at December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, as to $239,196 at December 31, 2003, $186,207 at December 31, 2002 and $212,147 at December 31, 2001.  During 2003, the Company was advanced $30,000 by a related party owned by Directors of the Company and charged interest in the amount of $412.  The interest was paid during 2003 and the principal was repaid in 2004.  During 2001, under a promissory note bearing interest at 8% per annum, the Company repaid the balance of principal and interest to a related party owned by Directors of the Company.



Exploration and mineral property expenditures in fiscal 2003 were of $659,467, as compared with $1,403,403 and $68,336 for fiscal 2002 and 2001 respectively.  The increase from $68,336 in fiscal 2001 to $1,403,403 results from funds expended for review of properties under consideration in connection with the CEEx Program and agreements entered into to earn interests in the Hemlo West, Amos, Yukon Olympic, Big Bulk and VMS Properties. The decrease from $1,403,403 in fiscal 2002 to $659,467 in fiscal 2003 results from the abandonment of properties during 2003 and reduced activity at the Big Bulk property.



Due to the reduced activity in fiscal 2003, the administrative expenses remained relatively unchanged in fiscal 2003 ($439,041) as compared with fiscal 2002 ($432,836).  Due to the increased activity in fiscal 2002, administrative expenditures increased in to $432,836 as compared with $323,350 in fiscal 2001 .



Shareholder communications in fiscal 2003 decreased to $44,201 as a result of the realignment of projects and the return of properties to the vendors, while shareholder communications in fiscal 2002 increased to $136,145 as compared with $455 for fiscal 2001, due to increased communication with shareholders relating to the CEEx Program and the attendant costs of agreements entered into to earn interests in the Hemlo West, Amos, Yukon Olympic, Big Bulk and VMS Properties. Interest expenses for fiscal 2003 were $412 as compared with $Nil in fiscal 2002 and $4,013 in fiscal 2001.  Fiscal 2003 saw an advance of $30,000 made to the Company by a related party owned by Directors of the Company.  Interest of $412 was paid in connection with the advance and the principal was repaid in the 2004.  Interest expense of $4,013 in fiscal 2001 related to the repayment of advances made to the Company by a related party owned by Directors of the Company during 2001.



During fiscal 2003, the Company wrote off exploration expenditures of $1,475,505 and property acquisition expenditures of $113,814  previously capitalized as resource assets relating to the relinquished properties, as compared with $349,104 and $nil respectively for fiscal 2002 relating primarily to the disposition of the Meridian Property, and $18,612 and $91 respectively for fiscal 2001.





B)

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

As a result of the financings completed during 2003, at December 31, 2003, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $1,067,042, of which $927,891 is restricted to flow-through expenditures on Canadian mineral properties, resulting in an unrestricted working capital of $90,767.

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To date, the Companys mineral exploration activities have been funded through sales of common shares.  The Companys ability to continue operations is dependent on managements ability to secure additional financing.  Management is actively pursuing such additional sources of financing, and while it has been successful in doing so in the past, there can be no assurance it will be able to do so in the future.  Because of this uncertainty, there is doubt about the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern.  The Consolidated Financial Statements do not include the adjustments that would be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.



In connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement, the Registrant issued 820,000 special warrants for funds in the amount of $246,000 received in 2002.  The special warrants were converted during 2003 and the Registrant issued 820,000 units, with each unit comprised of one Common Share in the capital of the Registrant and one share purchase warrants entitling the holder to acquire one common share in the capital of the Registrant at $0.30 per share until June 30, 2004

In connection with private placements, the Registrant issued a total of 8,744,000 flow-through shares, 3,006,000 non-flow-through shares for total consideration of $1,266,000 and warrants allowing for the purchase of up to 2,110,500 shares at prices from $0.10 to $0.14 per share, with expiry dates ranging from September 15, 2004 to October 12, 2004. In respect of these private placements, the Registrant also issued to agents who introduced arms-length purchasers to the Registrant 63,000 units, each unit comprised of one Common Share and one Common Share purchase warrant, with two Common Share purchase warrants entitling the holder to acquire one Common Share at $0.10 per Common Share until September 14, 2004 and 348,000 warrants, each warrant entitling the holder to acquire one Common Share at $0.14 per Common Share until October 12, 2004.  At December 31, 2003 all of the warrants remained unexercised.

In connection with financings completed in 2002, the Registrant amended the terms of warrants such that the expiry date of 1,500,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,500,000 shares at $0.15 per share was extended from May 22, 2003 to May 22, 2004, the expiry date of 1,080,000 agents warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,080,000 shares at $0.35 per share was extended from June 18, 2003 to June 18, 2004 and the exercise price of 4,050,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of 2,025,000 shares was amended from $0.35 per share to $0.15 per share and the expiry date was extended from June 18, 2003 to June 18, 2004.

During 2003, 2,985,903 warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,635,903 Common Shares expired unexercised, and at December 31, 2003, all of the remaining warrants remained unexercised.



Warrants outstanding at December 31, 2003:



Exercise Price ($)Number of WarrantsNumber of SharesExpiry Date0.151,500,0001,500,000May 22/040.154,050,0002,025,000June 18/040.351,080,0001,080,000June 18/040.30820,000820,000Dec. 13/040.10973,000486,500Sept. 15/040.20200,000200,000Sept. 20/040.141,624,0001,624,000Oct. 12/040.20100,000100,000Oct. 22/040.15820,000820,000Dec 22/0511,167,0008,655,500




Stock Options outstanding at December 31, 2003:



OptioneeNumberExercise Price ($)Date of GrantExpiry DateJohn S. Brock560,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Lawrence Page75,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08R. E. Gordon Davis75,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Douglas Proctor75,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Wayne J. Roberts430,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Jeannine P. M. Webb200,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Brian Thurston50,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08George Norman50,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08


Susie Rivera25,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Terri Goglin40,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Blaine Monaghan100,0000.15Aug. 21/03Aug. 21/081,680,000




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From January 1 to May 7, 2004, the company issued a total of 415,250 Common Shares on the exercise of 420,500 warrants for total consideration of $123,700.



OUTSTANDING SHARE DATA AS AT MAY 7, 2004

Authorized - 250,000,000 no par value common shares

Issued - 28,889,336



Warrants outstanding:

|Exercise Price ($) | Number of Warrants | Number of Shares | Expiry Date
|------------------ | ------------------ | ---------------- | -----------
|0.15               | 1,500,000          | 1,500,000        | May 22/04  
|0.15               | 4,039,500          | 2,019,750        | June 18/04 
|0.35               | 1,080,000          | 1,080,000        | June 18/04 
|0.30               | 410,000            | 410,000          | Dec 13/04  
|0.10               | 973,000            | 486,500          | Sept. 15/04
|0.20               | 200,000            | 200,000          | Sept. 20/04
|0.14               | 1,624,000          | 1,624,000        | Oct. 12/04 
|0.20               | 100,000            | 100,000          | Oct. 22/04 
|0.15               | 820,000            | 820,000          | Dec 22/05  
|                   | 10,746,500         | 8,240,250        |            



Stock Options outstanding:

|Optionee            | Number    | Exercise Price ($) | Date of Grant | Expiry Date
|------------------- | --------- | ------------------ | ------------- | -----------
|John S. Brock       | 560,000   | 0.15               | Jan. 3/03     | Jan. 3/08  
|Lawrence Page       | 75,000    | 0.15               | Jan. 3/03     | Jan. 3/08  
|R.E. Gordon Davis   | 75,000    | 0.15               | Jan. 3/03     | Jan. 3/08  
|Douglas Proctor     | 75,000    | 0.15               | Jan. 3/03     | Jan. 3/08  
|Wayne J. Roberts    | 430,000   | 0.15               | Jan. 3/03     | Jan. 3/08  
|Jeannine P. M. Webb | 200,000   | 0.15               | Jan. 3/03     | Jan. 3/08  
|Susie Rivera        | 25,000    | 0.15               | Jan. 3/03     | Jan. 3/08  
|Blaine Monaghan     | 100,000   | 0.15               | Aug. 21/03    | Aug. 21/08 
|                    | 1,540,000 |                    |               |            



Escrowed or pooled shares: nil shares.



OTHER INFORMATION

The Company's web address is www.canadianempire.com.  Other information relating to the Company may be found on the SEDAR website (www. SEDAR.com).



OUTLOOK

During the year 2004, the Company proposes to continue to operate under the provisions of its strategic alliance with Teck Cominco in the acquisition of Canadian mineral exploration projects with drill targets indicating large metal systems. In consideration for Teck Cominco continuing to elect to provide the Company with working capital by way of purchases of common shares of the Company, Teck Cominco will maintain the right at pre-feasibility to back into property interests ranging from 51% to 60.8% by spending 200% of the Companys prior exploration expenditures and completing final feasibility studies.

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With approximately $1.0 million of Flow-Through funding in hand for year 2004, the Company has sufficient exploration funding in hand for exploration expenditures budgeted for work on its Atikokan West property and the preliminary exploration expenditures that may be incurred on an additional property acquisition. As at May 7, 2004 the Company is completing technical due diligence on several mineral properties.  As may be required, contingent on exploration success,  the Company proposes to continue to fund its Canadian exploration activity largely through the sale of Flow Through shares.





FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This discussion includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements".  All statements in this discussion, other than statements of historical facts, that address future production, reserve potential, exploration drilling, exploration activities and events or developments that the Company expects, are forward-looking statements.  Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.  Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions.  Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results or developments may differ materially form those projected in the forward-looking statements.





C)

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, PATENTS AND LICENSES, ETC.



The Company is not involved in any research, development, patenting or licensing activities.



D)

TREND INFORMATION



The Company is in the business of mineral exploration.  The Company is affected by operating trends and uncertainties which are dependent on the extraction of minerals.



E)

OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

The Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements required to be disclosed in the Annual Report on Form 20-F.



F)

TABULAR DISCLOSURE OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS



The Company has no contractual obligations other than those included under " Item V - Operating and Financial Review and Prospects - Liquidity and Capital Resources".





ITEM VI

DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES





A)

DIRECTORS AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT



John S. Brock (age 62) has been President and a Director of the Registrant since March 8, 1990.  Mr. Brock is a Geologist and the President and controlling shareholder of John S. Brock Ltd. (JSB) from 1966 to present.  Mr. Brock was employed by JSB from 1990 to March 31, 2001, and by Badger & Co. Management Corp. (Badger & Co.) from April 1, 2001 to present.  Badger & Co. is a private company owned by Mr. Brock, Mr. Roberts and Ms. Webb, as to 40%, 30% and 30% respectively.  Mr. Brock was a governor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange from June 1990 to June 1995 and a director of the CDNX Venture Exchange from November 1999 to July 2001. Mr. Brock currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Registrant, Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd., Western Prospector Group Ltd., Bravo Venture Group Inc. and Canadian Resources House Limited.



R.E. Gordon Davis, P. Eng. (age 66), has been a Director of the Registrant since June 8, 1994.  Mr. Davis is a Professional Geological Engineer and Businessman.  Mr. Davis serves on the Boards of Directors of the Registrant, Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd., Western Prospector Group Ltd., Canadian Resources House Limited, and Silver Standard Resources Inc. President and Director of Canplats Resources Corporation.

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Lawrence Page, LL. B., Q.C. (age 65) has been a Director of the Registrant since October 31, 1989.  Mr. Page is a Barrister and Solicitor who practised with the Vancouver, British Columbia law firm of Worrall Scott and Page from 1981 to April 30, 1995.  Since 1995, Mr. Page has practised with Lawrence Page, Q.C. Law Corporation.  Mr. Page is the President and serves on the Boards of Directors of Bravo Venture Group Inc.., Newcoast Silver Mines Ltd., is a Director and the Secretary of Western Silver Corporation., is the Chairman and a Director of Rio Fortuna Exploration Corp.,  Quaterra Resources Inc. and Avalon Venture Corporation.



Wayne J. Roberts, P. Geo. (age 58),  has been a Director of the Registrant since March 8, 1990 and its Vice-President, Exploration since June 14, 1995.  Mr. Roberts is a minority shareholder (30%) of JSB, was employed by JSB from 1990 to March 31, 2001, and by Badger & Co. from April 1, 2001 to present.  Badger & Co. is a private company owned by Mr. Brock, Mr. Roberts and Ms. Webb, as to 40%, 30% and 30% respectively.  Mr. Roberts is a Registered Professional Geoscientist in the Province of British Columbia.  Mr. Roberts serves on the Board of Directors of the Registrant, Western Prospector Group Ltd. and Canadian Resources House Limited, and is Vice-President, Exploration of the Registrant, Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd., Western Prospector Group Ltd. and  Canadian Resources House Limited.



C. Douglas Proctor, C.A. (age 61) has been a Director of the Registrant since July 5, 2002.  Mr. Proctor is the sole proprietor of C. Douglas Proctor Ltd., a private company.  Mr. Proctor is a director of Jumbo Development Corporation, Dolly Varden Resources Ltd. and Heritage Explorations Ltd.



Jeannine P.M. Webb, CGA (age 44), has been the Chief Financial Officer of the Registrant since October 31, 1995, the Corporate Secretary of the Registrant since October 16, 1997, and an employee of JSB from 1991 to March 31, 2001.  Ms. Webb  has been employed by Badger & Co. from April 1, 2001 to present.  Badger & Co. is a private company owned by Mr. Brock, Mr. Roberts and Ms. Webb, as to 40%, 30% and 30% respectively.  Ms. Webb is the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Registrant, Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd., Canadian Resources House Limited, and Western Prospector Group Ltd.



There are no family relationships between any of the directors, senior management and employees of the Company.



B)

COMPENSATION



The Registrant does not compensate its directors or senior management (or executive officers) for their services as directors or senior management.  Directors and senior management are entitled to reimbursement for reasonable travel and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with corporate matters pertaining to the Company.  The Board of Directors may award special remuneration to any director or senior management undertaking any special services on behalf of the Company other than services ordinarily required of a director or senior management.  Other than indicated below no director or senior management received any compensation for his services as a director or senior management, including committee participation and/or special assignments.



The Registrant grants stock options to directors, senior management and employees - see "Options to Purchase Securities from Registrant".



The following table sets forth details of the compensation paid during the Registrant's fiscal year ended December 31, 2003 to directors and senior management:





Directors/Executive OfficersSalary/BonusStock Option Exercise Net Market Value(a)Other CompensationTotal CompensationJohn Brock$0$0$60,177(b)$60,177Wayne J. Roberts$0$0$69,825 (c)$69,825Jeannine P. M. Webb$0$0$24,080 (d)$24,080Other Directors/ Senior Management$0$0$0$0




(a)

Stock Option Exercise Net Market Value represents the aggregate difference between the exercise price of stock options exercised during fiscal 2003 and the market value of the common stock on the date of exercise.

(b)

The $60,177 in other compensation represents payments to John S. Brock made by Badger & Co. for services

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provided by John S. Brock to the Company under an Administrative Agreement and an Exploration Services Agreement between the Company and Badger & Co..  In addition, Badger & Co., which is owned 40% by John S. Brock and 30% each by Wayne J. Roberts and Jeannine P.M. Webb, received compensation from the Company for services under the Administrative Agreement and the Exploration Services Agreement.  The $60,177 includes a 10% mark-up retained by Badger & Co..

(c)

The $69,825 in other compensation represents payments to Wayne J. Roberts made by Badger & Co. for services provided by Wayne J. Roberts to the Company under an Administrative Agreement  and an Exploration Services Agreement between the Company and Badger & Co..  In addition, Badger & Co., which is owned 40% by John S. Brock and 30% each by Wayne J. Roberts and Jeannine P.M. Webb, received compensation from the Company for services under the Administrative Agreement and the Exploration Services Agreement.  The $69,825 includes a 10% mark-up retained by Badger & Co..

(d)

The $24,080 in other compensation represents payments to Jeannine P. M. Webb made by Badger & Co. for services provided by Jeannine P. M. Webb to the Company under an Administrative Agreement  and an Exploration Services Agreement between the Company and Badger & Co..  In addition, Badger & Co., which is owned 40% by John S. Brock and 30% each by Wayne J. Roberts and Jeannine P.M. Webb, received compensation from the Company for services under the Administrative Agreement and the Exploration Services Agreement.  The $24,080 includes a 10% mark-up retained by Badger & Co..







Under the Administrative Agreement with Badger & Co., the Company is charged for the cost of corporate and administrative wages of Badger & Co. employees incurred by Badger & Co.  on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up, as well as office facilities and operations expenses incurred by Badger & Co.  on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up.  For the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company was charged as follows:



CostMark-upCorporate and administrative wages(1) (2)$102,066$10,207Office facilities and operations$56,616$7,043Total in respect of the Administrative Agreement$156,682$17,250


(1) Includes $60,177 for services provided by John S. Brock as President and CEO.

(2) Includes $24,080 for services provided by Jeannine P. M. Webb as CFO and Corporate Secretary.





Under the Exploration Agreement with Badger & Co., the Company is charged for the cost of exploration and field wages of JSB employees incurred by Badger & Co.  on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up, and exploration project management fees charged by Badger & Co. calculated at 8% of all exploration costs incurred by the Company. For the year ended December 31, 2003 the Company was charged as follows:



CostMark-upExploration and field wages(1)$144,103$14,410Exploration Project Management Fees$None$52,041Total in respect of the Exploration Agreement$83,934$35,091


(1) Includes $69,825 for services provided by Wayne J. Roberts as Vice-President, Exploration.



No amounts have been set aside or accrued by the Registrant during fiscal 2003 to provide for pension, retirement or similar benefits for directors or senior management of the Company pursuant to any plan provided for or contributed to by the Registrant.  Except as discussed in "Options to Purchase Securities From Registrant", the Registrant has no material bonus or profit sharing plans pursuant to which cash or non-cash compensation is or may be paid to the Company's directors, senior management or employees.



The Registrant has no plans or arrangements in respect of remuneration received or that may be received by executive officers of the Registrant in fiscal 2002 to compensate such officers in the event of termination of employment (as a result of resignation, retirement, change of control) or a change of responsibilities following a change of control, where the value of such compensation exceeds $60,000 U.S. per executive officer.



No director or executive officer of the Registrant received other compensation in excess of the lesser of $25,000 U.S. or 10% of such officer's cash compensation as reported in the above table and all directors and executive officers as a group

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did not receive other compensation which exceeded $25,000 U.S. times the number of persons in the group or 10% of the compensation reported in the table set forth above.



C)

BOARD PRACTICES



The Board of Directors of the Registrant is divided into three classes, designated as Class I, Class II, and Class III, to provide for a rotation of the terms of office for the directors on the Board of Directors.  Directors are, except for those directors initially classified as Class I or II directors, appointed for three-year terms and placed in Class I, II or III as determined by the Board of Directors.  The expiry of the term of a director is determined by the Class in which he is placed at the time of his election or appointment, with the term of all directors in one Class expiring at the end of the appropriate annual general meeting.  Accordingly, at each annual general meeting, directors to replace those directors whose terms have expired are to be elected to hold office until the third succeeding  annual general meeting, unless they resign sooner or cease to be directors in accordance with the Registrants Articles.  Any director whose term expires will be eligible for re-election. The Company's last annual general meeting was held on June 27, 2002and the next meeting will be held within 13 months of that date as specified in the Registrant's Articles.  The Registrant's executive officers are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.  Currently, the directors are classified as follows, and have their terms of office expire accordingly.



The following sets out the name of each Director and the expiry of their term:



DirectorlassDate Began Serving as a DirectorExpiry DateJohn S. BrockIII1990Annual General Meeting in the year 2004Wayne J. RobertsIII1990Annual General Meeting in the year 2004R. E. Gordon DavisII1994Annual General Meeting in the year 2006Lawrence PageI1989Annual General Meeting in the year 2005C. Douglas ProctorI1996Annual General Meeting in the year 2005




The following sets out the name of the senior management (executive officers) and the term of their position:

OfficersOfficershipSinceExpiry DateJohn S. BrockPresident
Chief Executive Officer1990
1990At the discretion of the Board of DirectorsWayne J. RobertsVice-President, Exploration1990At the discretion of the Board of DirectorsJeannine P. M. WebbChief Financial Officer
Corporate Secretary1995
1997At the discretion of the Board of Directors




Service Contracts

The Companys administrative and exploration requirements are being provided by Badger & Co. Management Corp (Badger & Co.), a private company owned 40% by John S. Brock and 30% each by Wayne J. Roberts and Jeannine P. M. Webb.  Under the Badger & Co. administrative services arrangement, the Company is charged for the cost of corporate and administrative wages of Badger & Co. employees incurred by Badger & Co. on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up, as well as office facilities and operations expenses incurred by Badger & Co.s on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up. Under the Badger & Co. exploration services arrangement, the Company is charged for the cost of exploration and field wages of Badger & Co. employees incurred by Badger & Co.s on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up, and exploration project management fees charged by Badger & Co. calculated at 8% of all exploration costs incurred by the Company.



Audit Committee

The Companys Audit Committee is composed of unrelated Directors.  The Audit Committee members of the Company at May 7, 2004  are Lawrence Page, R. E. Gordon Davis and C. Douglas Proctor.  The committee is responsible for reviewing the Companys financial reporting procedures, internal controls, and the performance of the Companys external auditors.  The committee is also responsible fore reviewing the annual financial statements prior to their approval by the Board of Directors.



Compensation Committee

The Company does not have a Compensation Committee.

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D)

EMPLOYEES



The Company has no employees.  Services for the year 2003 were provided by 3 management personnel located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.



E)

SHARE OWNERSHIP



At May 1, 2004, directors and senior management of the Company beneficially owned directly or indirectly or exercised control or discretion over Common Shares of the Registrant as follows:



NamePositionShares% of Shares OutstandingJohn S. BrockPresident, Chief Executive Officer and Director935,416(1)3.29%Wayne J. RobertsVice-President, Exploration and Director122,8600.43%Lawrence PageDirectorNil0.00%R.E. Gordon DavisDirector250,0000.87%C. Douglas ProctorDirectorNil0.00%Jeannine P.M. WebbChief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary1,0000.00%




(1)

The 935,416 Common Shares include 854,806 Common Shares held by John S. Brock Limited, a British Columbia company owned by John S. Brock as to 70% and Wayne J. Roberts as to 30%.





Options to Purchase Securities from the Registrant



Stock Options

At December 31, 2003, stock options to purchase up to 1,415,000 Common Shares from the Registrant had been granted to directors, officers, members of senior management of the Company or of Badger & Co. on the terms and conditions acceptable to the regulatory authorities in Canada.



The Registrant also has a stock option plan (the Plan) that was approved by the Registrants shareholders at its Annual General Meeting held on May 7, 1997 and amended at its Annual General Meeting held on May 12, 2000, and further amended at its Annual General Meeting held on June 27, 2002, , and is administered by the Registrants board of directors.  Under the terms of the Plan, at December 31, 2003, the aggregate number of Common Shares issuable under the Plan is 2,000,000 Common shares, provided that stock options in favor of any one individual may not exceed 5% of the issued and outstanding Common shares.  No stock option granted under the Plan is transferable by the optionee other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, and each stock option is exercisable during the lifetime of the optionee and only by such optionee.  The exercise price of the stock options shall be the closing price of the Common Shares on the TSX on the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the option is granted.  The term of each stock option shall not exceed 5 years from the date of grant.  Under the policies of the TSX, upon the Registrants adoption of the Plan, stock options may thereafter only be granted under the Plan.



The names and titles of the directors, officers and senior management of the Registrant to whom outstanding stock options have been granted and the number of Common Shares subject to such stock options are set forth below as at December 31, 2003 and May 7, 2004  The exercise price of the stock options is stated in Canadian dollars.



OptioneeNumberExercise Price ($)Date of GrantExpiry DateJohn S. Brock560,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Lawrence Page75,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08R. E. Gordon Davis75,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Douglas Proctor75,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Wayne J. Roberts430,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/08Jeannine P. M. Webb200,0000.15Jan. 3/03Jan. 3/081,415,000




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Share Purchase Warrants

At December 31, 2003, warrants allowing for the purchase of up to 8,655,500 Common shares were outstanding as follows:





Exercise Price ($)Number of WarrantsNumber of SharesExpiry DatePrivate Placement0.151,500,0001,500,000May 22/04Private Placement0.154,050,0002,025,000June 18/04Private Placement0.351,080,0001,080,000June 18/04Private Placement0.30820,000820,000Dec. 13/04Private Placement0.10973,000486,500Sept. 15/04Property0.20200,000200,000Sept. 20/04Private Placement0.141,624,0001,624,000Oct. 12/04Property0.20100,000100,000Oct. 22/04Private Placement0.15820,000820,000Dec 22/0511,167,0008,655,500




At May 7, 2004, warrants allowing for the purchase of up to 8,240,250 Common shares were outstanding as follows:





Exercise Price ($)Number of WarrantsNumber of SharesExpiry DatePrivate Placement0.151,500,0001,500,000May 22/04Private Placement0.154,039,5002,019,750June 18/04Private Placement0.351,080,0001,080,000June 18/04Private Placement0.30410,000410,000Dec. 13/04Private Placement0.10973,000486,500Sept. 15/04Property0.20200,000200,000Sept. 20/04Private Placement0.141,624,0001,624,000Oct. 12/04Property0.20100,000100,000Oct. 22/04Private Placement0.15820,000820,000Dec 22/0510,746,5008,240,250












ITEM VII

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS



A)

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS



The Company is not owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by another corporation or by any foreign government.

At May 7, 2004, there were no persons or company who beneficially owned directly or indirectly or exercised control or discretion over Common Shares carrying more than 5% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding Common Shares of the Company.



The information as to shares beneficially owned, not being within the knowledge of the Company, has been furnished by the respective individuals.  The Companys major shareholders do not have different voting rights.  There are no arrangements known to the Company which may at a subsequent date result in a change n control of the Company.





B)

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS



Except as described below and as noted earlier herein, no executive officer or senior management of the Registrant, nor any spouse, relative, associate or affiliate of the foregoing persons, has any interest in any material transactions which occurred during the Company's last three fiscal years and involved the Registrant or any of its subsidiaries; or any presently proposed

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transaction involving the Registrant or any of its subsidiaries.  Except as noted below, during the last three years and through the date of this Annual Report, no senior management or director, nor any associate thereof, was or is indebted to the Registrant or any of its subsidiaries.



Services Provided by Badger & Co. Management Corp.

Effective April 1, 2001, the Registrant entered into an administrative services agreement (the "Badger Administrative Agreement") with Badger & Co., a British Columbia company owned by John S. Brock (40%), Wayne J. Roberts (30%), and Jeannine P. M. Webb (30%) directors and/or officers of the Registrant.  Badger & Co. received from the Registrant its pro rata share of corporate and administrative wages of Badger & Co. employees incurred by Badger & Co. on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up, as well as office facilities and operations expenses incurred by Badger & Co. on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up.



Effective April 1, 2001, the Registrant entered into an exploration management agreement (the "Badger Exploration Agreement") with Badger & Co. pursuant to which Badger & Co. would implement exploration programs on certain properties of the Company.  Under the Badger Exploration Agreement, the Company was charged for the cost of exploration and field wages of Badger & Co. employees incurred by Badger & Co. on behalf of the Company at Badger & Co.s cost plus a 10% mark-up, and exploration project management fees charged by Badger & Co. calculated at 8% of all exploration costs.



During 2003, the Company was charged, by Badger & Co., $91,675 (2002: $65,767, 2001: $32,976) for cost of operations and administration, $154,082 (2002: $141,700, 2001: $63,273) for professional services and $140,729 (2002: $53,207, 2001: $8,835) for exploration salaries and wages and project management fees.  The increases relate to the time required to assess market conditions towards the negotiation of agreements with third parties and the relinquishment of properties, and  arrange for financings.



Indebtedness to Company of Directors and Senior Management

No directors or senior management of the Company are indebted to the Company or have been indebted to the Company since the beginning of the last completed financial year of the Company.







ITEM VIII

FINANCIAL INFORMATION



A)

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION



This Annual Report contains the consolidated financial statements for the Company for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 which contain an Auditors Report dated April 14, 2004, Consolidated Balance Sheets as at December 31, 2003 and 2002, Consolidated Statements of Loss and Deficit, Consolidated Statements of Deferred Exploration and Mineral Property Expenditures, and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, and Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.



Indebtedness to Company of Directors and Senior Management

No directors or senior management of the Company are indebted to the Company or have been indebted to the Company since the beginning of the last completed financial year of the Company.



Legal or Arbitration Proceedings

As of the date hereof, the Company is not party to any active or pending legal proceedings initiated by it and, to the best of its knowledge, the Company is not subject to any active or pending legal proceedings or claims against it or any of its properties.  However, from time to time, the Company may become subject to claims and litigation generally associated with any business venture.  In addition, the operations of the Company are subject to risks of accident and injury, possible violations of environmental and other regulations, and claims associated with the risks of exploration operations in foreign areas some of which cannot be covered by insurance or other risk reduction strategies.  Since the Registrant is a Canadian corporation and the officers, directors and certain of the persons involved with the Company as professional advisors are resident in Canada, it may be difficult to effect service within the United States upon such persons or to realize on any judgment by a court of the United States which is predicated on civil liabilities under the 1933 Act.  The Registrant's Canadian counsel have advised that there is doubt as to the enforceability in Canada, either in original actions or through enforcement of United States judgments, of liabilities predicated solely upon violations of the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

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Dividend Distribution Policy

The Registrant has not paid any cash dividends on its Common Stock and has no present intention of paying any dividends.  The current policy of the Registrant is to retain earnings, if any, for use in operations and in the development of its business.  The future dividend policy of the Registrant will be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.





B)

SIGNIFICANT CHANGES



There have been no significant changes from January 1 to May 7, 2004.





ITEM IX

THE OFFER AND LISTING



A)

PRICE RANGE AND VOLUME OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK



The following table sets forth the price ranges of the Registrants shares on the Vancouver Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Canadian Venture Exchange for each of the most current five years, each of the quarters for the most current two years and each of the most current six months, after taking into effect the consolidation of the Registrants capital on a ten (10) old shares for one (1) new share basis on December 5, 2001:

For each of the most current five years:

|Year | High  | Low  
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|2003 | $0.17 | $0.08
|2002 | $0.40 | $0.09
|2001 | $0.40 | $0.10
|2000 | $1.10 | $0.40
|1999 | $1.80 | $0.35
|1998 | $5.10 | $0.30



For each of the quarters for the most current two years:

|Quarter                   | High  | Low  
|------------------------- | ----- | -----
|October to December, 2003 | $0.15 | $0.09
|July to September, 2003   | $0.17 | $0.08
|April to June, 2003       | $0.12 | $0.08
|January to March, 2003    | $0.17 | $0.10
|October to December, 2002 | $0.17 | $0.09
|July to September, 2002   | $0.26 | $0.13
|April to June, 2002       | $0.40 | $0.25
|January to March, 2002    | $0.29 | $0.13
|October to December, 2001 | $0.40 | $0.18
|July to September, 2001   | $0.40 | $0.10
|April to June, 2001       | $0.50 | $0.20
|January to March,2001     | $0.70 | $0.30



For each of most current six months:

|Month          | High   | Low   
|-------------- | ------ | ------
|April, 2004    | $0.09  | $0.07 
|March, 2004    | $0.115 | $0.08 
|February, 2004 | $0.13  | $0.11 
|January, 2004  | $0.14  | $0.105
|December, 2003 | $0.15  | $0.11 
|November, 2003 | $0.14  | $0.10 



B)

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide

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any information under this section.



C)

MARKETS



The Registrant's Common Shares commenced trading on the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) (now the TSX Venture Exchange) of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada under the symbol "CXP" and CUSIP No. 664903 50 7 on December 5, 2001.  The Registrants transferable non-flow-through share purchase warrants commenced trading on the TSX Venture Exchange of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada under the symbol "CXP-WT" and CUSIP No. 135660 11 6 on June 18, 2002.  The Registrant's Common Shares traded on The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) in Ontario, Canada from April 18, 1997 to September 11, 2000, on the Canadian Venture Exchange ("CDNX") in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada under the symbol "NCW" from December 8, 2000 to December 4, 2001, and on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) in British Columbia, Canada from November 18, 1987 to December 31, 1997.  The Registrants Common Shares were suspended from trading on the TSE effective September 11, 2000 for failure to meet minimum listing requirements through those facilities.  The Registrant applied and was granted trading privileges on the CDNX to commence trading on December 8, 2000.  The Company has no current plans to seek a listing on any U. S. exchange or on NASDAQ.



D)

SELLING SHAREHOLDERS



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.



E)

DILUTION



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.



F)

EXPENSES OF THE ISSUE



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.





ITEM X

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION





A)

SHARE CAPITAL



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.



B)

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION



The information called for by this item is contained in an Exhibit to the Companys Registration Statement on form 20F filed with the Commission on October 21, 1996 and Exhibits filed herewith.  In particular:

1.

The Companys Memorandum and Articles are on file with the Office of the British Columbia Registrar of Companies under Certificate of Incorporation No. 322353.  Under the provisions of the Company Act (BC), the Company has the power and capacity of a natural person of full capacity except that it does not have the capacity to operate a railway as a common carrier nor to operate as a club.  There are no further restrictions in the Companys memorandum, on the business that the Company can carry on nor on the powers the Company can exercise.

2.

Part 15 of the Companys articles sets out the circumstances whereby a director must not vote on a proposal, arrangement or contract in which the director is materially interested, article 12.2 sets out the directors powers to determine their compensation, Part 8 of the Companys articles outlines the Companys borrowing powers exercisable by the directors and article 12.3 sets out that no shares are required to be held for directors qualification.

3.

The Companys common shares rank equally as to dividend rights, voting rights (even though the Companys directors stand for re-election at staggered intervals), rights to share in the Companys profits and liquidation rights.  The Companys common shares are not, under the Companys memorandum and articles, subject to redemption or sinking fund provisions, liability to further capital calls, nor any provisions discriminating against any existing or prospective

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holder of such shares as a result of such shareholder owning a substantial number of shares.

4.

In accordance with the Company Act (BC) and Part 6 of the Companys articles, a special resolution is required to change the rights of holders of the Companys common shares.  A special resolution is:

(a)

a resolution passed by a majority of not less than 3⁄4 of the votes cast by those members of a company who, being entitled to do so, vote in person or by proxy at a general meeting of the company

i)

of which notice as the articles provide and not being less than 21 days notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution, has been duly given, or

ii)

if every member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting agrees, at a meeting of which less than 21 days notice has been given, or

(a)

a resolution consented to in writing by every member of a company who would have been entitled to vote in person or by proxy at a general meeting of the company , and a resolution so consented to is deemed to be a special resolution passed at a general meeting of the company.

1.

Part 9 of the Companys articles together with applicable corporate and securities laws contain the conditions governing the manner in which annual and extraordinary general meetings of shareholders are called including Advance Notice for Election of Directors and Notice of Meeting/Proxy Solicitation requirements.  Part 10 of the Companys articles deals with proceedings at such meetings including quorum requirements.

2.

To the Companys knowledge, there are no limitations on the rights to own securities.

3.

There are no provisions of the Companys memorandum or articles that would have an effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of the Company and that would operate only with respect to a merger, acquisition or corporate restructuring involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

4.

There are no bylaw provisions governing the ownership threshold above which shareholder ownership must be disclosed.

5.

There are no conditions imposed by the memorandum and articles of the Company governing changes in the capital of the Company that are more stringent than is required by law.





C)

MATERIAL CONTRACTS



During 2001, the Company and Teck Cominco entered into the Teck Cominco Agreement, whereby Teck Cominco is a strategic partner in the Companys CEEx Program.  The Company's CEEx Program will incur mineral exploration expenses qualifying as CEE as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada) on mineral properties. The CEEx Program is structured so that CEE funds will be expended on activities on selected mineral properties in consideration for the Company having the right to initially earn majority interests in those properties. The program is being directed towards a number of properties and a range of mineral commodities.  The CEEx Program operates under the direction of the Advisory Committee comprised of two representatives each from Teck Cominco and the Company.   The CEEx Program is dependent on the Companys acquisition of mineral properties on which a program of mineral exploration is warranted. Under the direction of the Advisory Committee mineral properties may be sourced by the Company from Teck Cominco or third parties.  Acquisition criteria places emphasis on the building of a portfolio of properties.  Approximately 70% of the portfolio is intended to contain properties sufficiently advanced to warrant immediate diamond drilling, approximately 20% of the portfolio is intended to contain properties that require additional exploration to develop drill targets and approximately 10% of the portfolio is intended to contain properties that are considered as early stage exploration projects.  Metal commodities of choice include: precious metals (gold, silver), base metals (copper and zinc), diamonds and industrial minerals (including tantalum and rare-earths).  Properties are intended to be acquired by way of option agreements whereby the Company may elect to earn an initial majority interest in a property by making scheduled exploration expenditures that qualify as CEE.





D)

EXCHANGE CONTROLS



There are no governmental laws, decrees or regulations in Canada that restrict the export or import of capital or that affect the remittance of dividends, interest or other payments to non- resident holders of the Registrants securities.  However, any such remittance to a resident of the United States may be subject to a withholding tax pursuant to the reciprocal tax treaty between Canada and the Unites States.  For further information concerning such withholding tax see Item X Taxation below.



There are no limitations under the laws of Canada, the Province of British Columbia, or in the charter or other constituent documents of the Registrant with respect to the right of non-resident or foreign owners to hold and/or vote shares of the Registrants common stock.  However, the Investment Canada Act(the Act) enacted on June 20, 1985, as amended, requires the prior notification and, in certain cases, advance review and approval by the Government of Canada of the

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acquisition by a non-Canadian of control of a Canadian business, all as defined in the Act.  For the purposes of the Act, Control can be acquired through the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets used in the Canadian business or the direct or indirect acquisition of interests in an entity that carries on a Canadian business, or which controls the entity which carries on the Canadian business.  Under the Act, control of a corporation, is deemed to be acquired through the acquisition of a majority of the voting shares of a corporation, and is presumed to be acquired where more than one-third, but less than a majority, of the voting shares of a corporation are acquired, unless it can be established that the corporation is not controlled in fact through the ownership of voting shares.  Other rules apply with respect to the acquisition of non-corporate entities.



Investments requiring review and approval include direct acquisitions of Canadian businesses with assets with a gross book value of Cdn. $5,000,000 or more; indirect acquisitions of Canadian businesses with assets of Cdn. $50,000,000 or more; and indirect acquisitions of Canadian businesses where the value of assets of the entity or entities carrying on business in Canada, control of which is indirectly being acquired, is greater than Cdn. $5,000,000 and represents greater than 50% of the total value of the assets of all the entities, control of which is being acquired.



Pursuant to the World Trade Organization Agreement Implementation Act, the Act was amended to provide that the value of the business acquisition threshold (the Threshold) above described is increased from those levels outlined where the acquisition is by a World Trade Organization Investor or by a non-Canadian other than a World Trade Organization Investor where the Canadian business that is the subject of the investment is immediately before the investment controlled by a World Trade Organization Investor.  The Threshold is to be determined yearly in accordance with a formula set forth in the Act.  For 1997, for example, the Threshold was determined to be Cdn. $172,000,000.



A World Trade Organization Investor includes an individual, other than a Canadian, who is a national of a World Trade Organization Member, or who has the right of permanent residence in relation to that World Trade Organization Member.



Different provisions and considerations apply with respect to investment to acquire control of a Canadian business that, as defined in the Act or regulations:



1.

Engages in production of uranium and owns an interest in producing uranium property in Canada;

2.

Provides financial services;

3.

Provides transportation services;

4.

Is a cultural business.



If an investment is reviewable, an application for review in the form prescribed by regulation is normally required to be filed with the Ministry of Industry, Director of Investment prior to the investment taking place and the investment may not be consummated until the review has been completed and ministerial approval obtained.  Applications for review concerning indirect acquisitions may be filed up to 30 days after the investment is consummated.  Applications concerning reviewable investments in culturally sensitive and other specified activities referred to in the preceding paragraph are required upon receipt of a notice for review.  There is, moreover, provision for the Minister (a person designated as such under the Act) to permit an investment to be consummated prior to completion of review if he is satisfied that delay would cause undue hardship to the acquirer or jeopardize the operation of the Canadian business that is being acquired.



E)

TAXATION



The discussions summarize the material tax considerations relevant to an investment in shares by individuals and corporations who, for income tax purposes, are resident in the U.S. for purposes of the Convention (as hereinafter defined) and are not resident in Canada, who hold shares as a capital asset, and who do not use or hold the shares in carrying on a business through a permanent establishment in Canada or in connection with a fixed base in Canada (collectively, unconnected U.S. Shareholders or Holders).  The tax consequences of an investment in the shares by investors who are not Unconnected U.S. Shareholders may differ substantially from the tax consequences discussed herein.  The discussion of U.S. tax considerations is addressed only to Unconnected U.S. Shareholders whose functional currency within the meaning of section 985 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as mended (the Code), is the U.S. dollar, and to U.S. citizens who are not residents in the U.S. for purposes of the Convention, but who otherwise meet the definition of Unconnected U.S. Shareholders.  Furthermore, the discussion of U.S. tax considerations does not address the tax treatment of Unconnected U.S. Shareholders that own, or are deemed for U.S. federal income tax purposes to own, 10% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of voting stock of the Registrant.  The discussion of Canadian tax considerations does not address the tax treatment of a trust, company, organization or other arrangement that is a resident of the U.S. and that is generally exempt from U.S. tax.

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This discussion does not address all of the income tax consequences that may be applicable to any particular Holder subject to special treatment under the U.S. federal income tax law or to any particular Holder in light of such Holders particular facts and circumstances.  Some Holders, including tax-exempt entities, banks, insurance companies and persons who hold the shares as part of a synthetic security, conversion transaction or straddle or hedging transactions may be subject to special and/or different rules not discussed below.  Statements of legal conclusion of U.S. tax considerations as to the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and disposition of the shares by Unconnected U.S. Shareholders do not purport to be a complete analysis or listing of all possible tax considerations.  The discussion of U.S. tax considerations is based upon the provisions of the Code, and of published administrative practices of the Internal Revenue Service and judicial decisions, all of which are subject to change possibly with retroactive effect.  Statements of legal conclusions of Canadian tax considerations as to the material Canadian federal income tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and disposition of the shares by Unconnected U.S. Shareholders do not purport to be a complete analysis or listing of all possible tax consequences.  The discussion of Canadian tax considerations is based upon the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the Tax Act), the Convention between Canada and the U.S. of America with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, as amended from time to time (the Convention), and our understanding of published administrative practices of Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (formerly, Revenue Canada) and judicial decisions, all of which are subject to change.  The discussion does not take into account the tax laws of the various provinces or territories of Canada or the tax laws of the various state and local jurisdictions in the U.S.



This discussion is not intended to be nor should it be construed as legal or tax advice to any particular investor.  Therefore, prospective investors should consult their own tax advisors with respect to the tax consequences of an investment in the shares.



U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations

Unconnected U.S. Shareholders generally will treat the gross amount of distributions paid by the Registrant, including the amount of any Canadian tax withheld, as foreign source dividend income for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the extent of our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as computed for U.S. federal income tax purposes.  Distributions in excess of that amount will reduce an Unconnected U.S. Shareholders tax basis in the shares, but not below zero, and the remainder, if any, will be treated as taxable capital gain.  In general, in computing its U.S. federal income tax liability, an Unconnected U.S. Shareholder may elect for each taxable year whether to claim a deduction or, subject to the limitations described below, a credit for Canadian taxes withheld from dividends paid on its shares.  If the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder elects to claim a credit for such Canadian taxes, the election will be binding for all foreign taxes paid or accrued by the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder for such taxable year.  The Code applies various limitations on the amount of the foreign tax credit that may be available to a U.S. taxpayer based upon the segregation of foreign source income into separate categories, or baskets, of income.  For purposes of applying the foreign tax credit limitation, dividends are generally included in the passive income basket or the financial services income basket if received by a financial services entity.  The amount of credit that may be claimed with respect to the basket of income to which the dividend is allocated, and to which the foreign taxes are attributable, generally may not exceed the same proportion of the U.S. tax on worldwide taxable income, before applying the foreign tax credit as the U.S. holders foreign source taxable income allocable to such basket bears to such U.S. holders entire taxable income.  The foreign tax credit is disallowed for dividends on stock unless a minimum holding period requirement is satisfied and additional limitations may restrict the ability of some individuals to claim the foreign tax credit.  Accordingly, investors should consult their own tax advisors with respect to the potential consequences to them of the foreign tax credit limitations.  Dividends paid by the Registrant generally will constitute portfolio income for purposes of the limitation on the use of passive activity losses by investors and investment income for purposes of the limitation on investors investment interest expense.  Dividends paid by the Registrant will not be eligible for the dividends received deduction generally allowed with respect to dividends paid by U.S. corporations under Section 243 of the Code, but may be eligible for the dividends received deduction which may be claimed by 10% corporate shareholders under Section 245 of the Code.



For U.S. federal income tax purposes, the amount of any distributions made on shares to an Unconnected U.S. Shareholder in Canadian dollars will equal the U.S. dollar value of the Canadian dollars calculated by reference to the appropriate exchange rate in effect on the date of receipt of the distribution, regardless of whether the Canadian dollars are actually converted into U.S. dollars upon receipt.  Unconnected U.S. Shareholders should consult their own tax advisors regarding the treatment of foreign currency gain or loss, if any, on any Canadian dollars which are converted into U.S. dollars subsequent to receipt by the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder.



The sale of shares generally will result in the recognition of gain or loss to the Holder in an amount equal to the difference

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between the amount realized and the Holders adjusted basis in the shares.  Provided the Holder is not considered a dealer in the shares sold, gain or loss upon the sale of shares will generally be capital gain or loss.



Capital losses are deductible to the extent of capital gains.  Individual taxpayers may deduct excess capital losses up to $3,000 a year, $1,500 in the case of a married individual filing separately, from ordinary income.  Non-corporate taxpayers may carry forward unused capital losses indefinitely.  Unused capital losses of a corporation may be carried back three years and carried forward five years.



In the case of individuals, net capital gain from the disposition of property held for investment is excluded from investment income for purposes of computing the limitation on the deduction for investment interest applicable.  An individual may, however, elect to include such net capital gain in investment income if such taxpayer reduces the amount of its net capital gain that is otherwise eligible for preferential capital gains tax treatment by such amount.  In that event, such investment income would be taxable at ordinary income rates.



For any taxable year of the Registrant, if at least 75% of our gross income is passive income, as defined in the Code, or if at least 50% of our assets, by average fair market value, or, prior to fiscal year 1998, possibly by adjusted tax basis, are assets that produce or are held for the production of passive income, the Registrant will be a passive foreign investment company (PFIC).  If the Registrant is a PFIC for any taxable year during which an Unconnected U.S. Shareholder owns any shares, the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder will be subject to special U.S. federal income tax rules, set forth in Sections 1291 to 1298 of the Code, with respect to all of such Unconnected U.S. Shareholders shares.  If the Registrant were treated as a PFIC at any time during an Unconnected U.S. Shareholders holding period for shares, such Unconnected U.S. Shareholder generally would be subject to additional tax as well as interest charges with respect to the deferral of tax for the period during which such shares were held.  Any such additional tax and interest charges would apply upon the disposition of shares or the receipt of dividends.  Additionally, any gain realized on the disposition of shares would be treated as ordinary income or taxable at ordinary income rates rather than as capital gain or taxable at capital gains rates, and the tax basis of the shares held by an Unconnected U.S. Shareholder generally would not be stepped up to fair market value at death.  Under some circumstances, shareholders of a PFIC may elect to be taxed currently on their pro rata shares of PFIC income and capital gain or, in accordance with recently enacted legislation, report income currently on a mark to market basis with respect to their shares of stock in the PFIC.



The Registrant does not believe that it is likely to be a PFIC in the current or future taxable years; however, because the PFIC determination is made annually on the basis of facts and circumstances that may be beyond its control and because the principles and methodology for determining the fair market values of its assets are unclear, there can be no assurance that the Registrant will not be a PFIC for such years.  Special rules not described herein will also apply if the Registrant becomes a controlled foreign corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.  The Registrant would be treated as a controlled foreign corporation if U.S. Shareholders were to own, actually or constructively, more than 50% of the total combined voting power or total value of the Registrant.  For this purpose, the term U.S. Shareholder means a U.S. person who owns, actually or constructively, ten percent or more of the total combined voting power of the Registrant.  In light of the ownership requirements necessary for our productions to constitute Canadian-content productions and for the Registrant to claim Canadian tax benefits, it is not anticipated that the Registrant will become a controlled foreign corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.



U.S. Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

Under U.S. treasury regulations that are generally effective with respect to payments made after December 31, 2000 (the new withholding Regulations), the proceeds of a sale of shares through a U.S. or U.S. related broker will be subject to U.S. information reporting and may be subject to the 30% (for tax year 2002) U.S. backup withholding requirements.  Unconnected U.S. Shareholders generally can avoid the imposition of U.S. non-resident withholding tax by reporting their taxpayer identification number on an Internal Revenue Service Form W-9.  Non-U.S. shareholders generally can avoid the imposition of U.S. backup withholding tax by providing to their broker or paying agent a duly completed Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 BEN.  Any amounts withheld under the backup/non-resident withholding rules will be allowed as a refund or a credit against the shareholders U.S. Federal income tax, provided the required information is furnished to the Internal Revenue Service.



Dividends paid in the U.S. on the shares to Unconnected U.S. Shareholders or to non-U.S. shareholders through a U.S. or U.S. related person may be subject to the 30% (for tax year 2002) U.S. backup/non-resident withholding tax unless certification requirements are satisfied.



The New Withholding Regulations consolidate and modify the pre-2001 certification requirements and means by which a

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holder may claim exemption from U.S. federal income tax withholding and provide presumptions regarding the status of holders when payments to the holders cannot be reliably associated with appropriate documentation provided to the payor.  All holders should consult their tax advisors regarding the application of the New Withholding Regulations.



Canadian Tax Considerations

Dividends paid or credited, or that the Registrant deems to pay or credit, on the shares to Unconnected U.S. Shareholders will be subject to Canadian withholding tax.  Under the Convention, the maximum rate of withholding tax on dividends paid or credited on the shares is 15% if the beneficial owner of such dividends is an Unconnected U.S. Shareholder.  However, that rate is reduced to 5% under the Convention if the beneficial owner of such dividends is an Unconnected U.S. Shareholder that is a corporation that owns at least 10% of the voting stock of the Registrant.



An Unconnected U.S. Shareholder will not be subject to tax in Canada on any capital gain realized upon a disposition or deemed disposition of the shares, provided that the shares do not constitute taxable Canadian property of the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder within the meaning of the Tax Act.  The shares will not generally constitute taxable Canadian property of the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder unless, at any time in the five-year period that ends at the time of the disposition, the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder, either alone or together with persons with whom the Unconnected U.S. Shareholder did not deal at arms length, owned, had an interest in or the right to acquire 25% or more of the issued shares or any series or class of our capital stock.  Even if the shares are taxable Canadian property, under the Convention, gains derived by an Unconnected U.S. Shareholder would generally not be taxable in Canada unless the value of the shares is derived principally from real property situated in Canada.  The Registrant believe that the value of our shares is not currently principally derived, directly, or indirectly, from real property situated in Canada and do not expect this to change in the foreseeable future.



Canada does not currently impose any estate taxes or succession duties.



F)

DIVIDENDS AND PAYING AGENTS



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.



G)

STATEMENTS BY EXPERTS



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.



H)

DOCUMENTS ON DISPLAY



Any documents referred to in this document may be inspected at the head office of the Company, #1205  675 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6B 1N2 during normal business hours.



I)

SUBSIDIARY INFORMATION



There is no information relating to the Registrants subsidiaries which must be provided in Canada and which is not otherwise called for by the body of generally accepted accounting principles used in preparing the consolidated financial statements.





ITEM XI

QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK



The Company is in the business of mineral exploration.  Metals prices and foreign exchange rates may fluctuate widely from time to time.  The Company has not entered into market instruments for trading or other purposes.  The Company has limited exposure to such risk at the present time.



ITEM XII

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES OTHER THAN EQUITY SECURITIES



This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.

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PART II



ITEM XIII

DEFAULTS, DIVIDENDS, ARREARS AND DELINQUENCIES

There has not been a material default in the payment of principal, interest, a sinking fund or purchase fund installment, or any other material default not cured within thirty days, relating to indebtedness of the Company.  There are no payments of dividend by the Registrant in arrears, nor has there been any other material delinquency relating to any class of preference shares of the Registrant.





ITEM XIV

MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS AND USE OF PROCEEDS



Material modification to the rights of security holders

There have been no material modifications to the rights of security holders during the most current fiscal year.



Use of proceeds

This Form 20F is being filed as an Annual Report under the Exchange Act and, as such, there is no requirement to provide any information under this section.



ITEM XV

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES



Evaluation and disclosure controls and procedures

Under the supervision and with the participation of the Companys management, including the Companys Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, the Company evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of its disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) as of a date (the Evaluation Date) being December 31, 2003.  Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of the Evaluation Date, the Companys disclosure controls and procedures were effective in timely alerting them to the material information relating to the Company (or the Companys consolidated subsidiaries) required to be included in the Companys periodic SEC filings.



Changes in internal controls

There were no significant changes made in the Companys internal controls or, to the Companys knowledge, in other factors that could significantly affect these controls subsequent to the date of their evaluation.



ITEM XVI

AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT



Audit Committee Financial Expert

The Registrant has an Audit Committee established by the Board of Directors. The members of the Audit Committee are C. Douglas Proctor, C.A., R.E. Gordon Davis, P. Eng., and Wayne J. Roberts, P. Geo. The Board has determined that Mr. Proctor is an audit committee financial expert, as that term is defined in Form 20-F.  The Board has further determined that Mr. Proctor is "independent" as that term is defined under New York Stock Exchange Rule 303A.02(a).



Code of Ethics

The Registrant does not have a formal Code of Ethics.  The Registrant operates in compliance with regulations as applied by the TSX, the British Columbia Securities Commission, the Alberta Securities Commission, the Manitoba Securities Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.



Principal Accountant Fees and Services

For the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, the Registrant was invoiced by PWC, the Company's independent auditors, for audit fees, audit-related fees, tax fees and all other fees as set for below:



|               | Year Ended December 31, 2003 | Year Ended December 31, 2002
|-------------- | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------
|Audit Fees (1) | $24,000                      | $17,500                     
|Tax Fees       | $7,250                       | $500                        

|Total | $31,250 | $18,000
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(1)

"Audit Fees" represent fees for the audit of the Company's annual financial statements, review of the Company's interim financial statements and review in connection with the Company's statutory and regulatory filings









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The Audit Committee has adopted procedures requiring Audit Committee review and approval in advance of all particular engagements for services to be provided by PWC.  Consitent with applicable laws, the procedures permit limited amounts of services, other than audit, review and attest services, to be approved by one or more members of the Audit Committee pursuant to authority delegated by the Audit Committee, provided the Audit Committee is informed of each particular service.   All of the engagements and fees for the year ended December 31, 2003 were approved by the Audit Committee.  The Audit Committee reviews with PWC whether the non-audit services to be provided are compatible with maintaining the auditors' independence.  The Board has determined that, beginning with January 1, 2004, fees paid to the independent auditors for non-audit related services in any year will not exceed the fees paid for audit services during the year.  Permissible non-audit services will be limited to fees for tax services, accounting assistance or audits in connection with acquisitions, and other services specifically related to accounting or audit matters such as registration statements filings or private placements or public offerings.



PART III





ITEM XVII

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS



See the Financial Statements and Exhibits listed in Item XIX hereof and filed as part of this Annual Report.



These financial statements were prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP and are expressed in Canadian dollars.  Such financial statements have been reconciled to U.S. GAAP (see note 10 therein).  For a history of exchange rates in effect for Canadian dollars as against U.S. dollars, see Item III - Key Information, Selected Financial Data  Exchange Rate Data.



ITEM XVIII

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS



Not applicable.

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ITEM XIX

EXHIBITS



Financial Statements

(i)

Managements Responsibility to Financial Reporting

(ii)

Auditors Report dated April 14, 2004

(iii)

Consolidated Balance Sheets as at December 31, 2003 and 2002

(iv)

Consolidated Statements of Loss and Deficit for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001

(v)

Consolidated Statements of Deferred Exploration and Mineral Property Expenditures for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001

(vi)

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001

(vii)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 Financial Statements Schedules are omitted because they are not applicable, not required or because the required information is included in the consolidated financial statement or notes thereto filed within.



|1.1   | * | Certificate of Incorporation of Progressive Minerals Ltd., dated February 24, 1987                                                                                                                  
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|1.2   | * | Certificate of Name Change to change corporate name to Northern Crown Mines Ltd. ("Registrant"), dated February 10, 1989                                                                            
|1.2.1 | * | Altered Memorandum as filed on June 18, 1997                                                                                                                                                        
|1.2.2 | * | Altered Memorandum as filed on August 23, 2000                                                                                                                                                      
|1.3   | * | Restated Articles of Registrant, as filed on May 4, 1990                                                                                                                                            
|1.3.1 | * | Amendment to Restated Articles of Registrant as filed on July 21, 1998                                                                                                                              
|1.3.2 | * | Amendment to Restated Articles of Registrant as filed on July 21, 1998                                                                                                                              
|2.1   | * | Warrant Transfer Agency Agreement between Registrant and Montreal Trust Company of Canada with respect to B Warrants, dated January 15, 1996                                                        
|2.2   | * | Amending Warrant Transfer Agency Agreement between Registrant and Montreal Trust Company of Canada with respect to B Warrants, dated January 31, 1996                                               
|2.3   | * | Agent's Warrant (Non-Transferable) for Purchase of Shares between Registrant and Canaccord Capital Corporation, dated January 15, 1996.                                                             
|2.4   | * | Form of Stock Option with respect to Common Shares without par value                                                                                                                                
|2.5   | * | Special Warrant Indenture between the Registrant and Montreal Trust Company of Canada dated as of November 28, 1996                                                                                 
|2.6   | * | Warrant Indenture between the Registrant and Montreal Trust Company of Canada dated as of November 28, 1996                                                                                         
|2.7   | * | Escrow and Custodial Agreement among Montreal Trust Company of Canada, Newcrest Capital, Inc., CIBC Wood Gundy Securities, Inc., and First Marathon Securities Limited dated as of November 28, 1996
|2.8   | * | Agent's Special Warrants to Acquire Agent's Warrants of Northern
Crown Mines Ltd. dated as of November 28, 1996                                                                                     
|2.9   | * | Agent's Compensation Warrants to Purchase Shares of Northern Crown Mines Ltd. dated as of November 28, 1996                                                                                         
|2.10  | * | Agency Agreement dated as of November 28, 1996                                                                                                                                                      
|3.1   | * | Administrative Services Agreement between Registrant and John S. Brock, dated January 1, 1996                                                                                                       
|3.2   | * | Exploration Program Management Agreement between John S. Brock Limited and Registrant, dated January 1, 1996                                                                                        
|3.3   | * | Letter of Understanding to Mr. Roy A. Martin from Registrant, dated June 3, 1991                                                                                                                    
|3.4   | * | Engagement Agreement among Registrant, Mr. Don Cross and Ms. Francine Quevillon, dated January 17, 1992                                                                                             

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|3.5    | * | Declaration of Concession (Zamora), dated February 23, 1995 (in Spanish)                                                                                                                                                                                                        
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|3.6    | * | Declaration of Concession (Alcaraz), dated February 16, 1995 (in Spanish)                                                                                                                                                                                                       
|3.7    | * | Declaration of Concession (Ruiz), dated February 16, 1995 (in Spanish)                                                                                                                                                                                                          
|3.8    | * | Engagement Agreement between Registrant and Mr. Peter Risby, dated April 16, 1996                                                                                                                                                                                               
|3.9    | * | Option To Purchase Agreement between Registrant and Pan Atlantic Group Holdings Inc., dated March 25, 1996                                                                                                                                                                      
|3.10   | * | Agreement for Exploration and Unilateral Promise To Sell Agreement between Minera Campanillas, S.A. de C.V. and Minera Sierra Pacifico, S.A. de C.V., dated July 10, 1992, as amended December 15, 1993 (amendment in Spanish and English; underlying agreement in Spanish only)
|3.10.1 | * | Amending agreement between Minera Campanillas, S.A. de C.V. and Minera Tatemas, S.A. de C.V., dated July 14, 1997                                                                                                                                                               
|3.10.2 | * | Amending agreement between Minera Campanillas, S.A. de C.V. and Minera Tatemas, S.A. de C.V., dated September 29, 1998                                                                                                                                                          
|3.11   | * | Option Agreement between Minera Sierra Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. and Desarrollos Mineros Del Pacifico, S.A. de C.V., dated as of October 20, 1993, as amended by correspondence dated January 15, 1995, December 6, 1994, November 30, 1994 and September 15, 1994.                
|3.11.1 | * | Option Agreement amendment between Minera Sierra Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. and Desarrollos Mineros Del Pacifico, S.A. de C.V., dated April 15, 1998 and March 15, 1999                                                                                                             
|3.12   | * | Agreement with respect to the acquisition of the Mariposa Properties by the Company (for exploration and development) among certain individuals, Pan Atlantic Group Holdings Inc. and Northern Crown Mines Ltd. dated October 25, 1996.                                         
|3.12.1 | * | Agreement with respect to the settlement of debt for the acquisition of the Mariposa Properties by the Company (for exploration and development) among certain individuals, Pan Atlantic Group Holdings Inc. and Northern Crown Mines Ltd. dated January 17, 1997.              
|3.13   | * | Exploration Services and Program Management Agreement between the Registrant and John S. Brock Limited dated January 1, 1997.                                                                                                                                                   
|3.14   | * | Administrative Services Agreement with John S. Brock Limited dated January 1, 1997.                                                                                                                                                                                             
|3.15   | * | Corporate Development Services letter Agreement with Rescom Consultants Ltd. dated April 1, 1997                                                                                                                                                                                
|3.16   | * | Stock Option Plan effective May 7, 1997.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|3.17   | * | Minera Tatemas incorporation document (in Spanish) dated February 13, 1997.                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|3.18   | * | Northern Crown Mines Ltd. Shareholders Rights Plan dated March 20, 1998.                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|3.19   | * | Minera Reina Isabel incorporation document (in Spanish) dated December 15, 1999.                                                                                                                                                                                                
|3.20   | * | Supplementary agreement (in Spanish) with respect to the sale of the shares of Minera Sierra Pacifico, dated December 3, 1999.                                                                                                                                                  
|3.21   | * | Option agreement (in Spanish) with respect to the sale of the shares of Minera Sierra Pacifico, dated November 10, 1999.                                                                                                                                                        
|3.22   | * | Sale of shares of Minera Sierra Pacifico agreement (in Spanish), dated November 10, 1999.                                                                                                                                                                                       
|3.23   | * | Exploration and option agreement between Minera Reina Isabel and Meridian, dated December 29, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                             
|3.24   | * | Exploration and option purchase agreement between Minera Tatemas and Meridian, dated December 29, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                         
|3.25   | * | Form of Stock Option agreement with respect to Common Shares without par value                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|3.26   | * | Funding and participation agreement with Teck Cominco dated December 4, 2001                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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|3.27 | * | Amendment to the Funding and participation agreement with Teck Cominco dated February 20, 2002                                                                                                
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|3.28 | * | Amendment to the Funding and participation agreement with Teck Cominco dated April 30, 2002                                                                                                   
|3.29 | * | Amendment to the Funding and participation agreement with Teck Cominco September 15, 2002                                                                                                     
|3.30 | * | Yukon Olympic property Assignment and assumption agreement between Western Prospector Group Ltd., Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. and Copper Ridge Exploration Inc. dated September 20, 2002
|3.31 | * | VMS property Assignment and assumption agreement between Western Prospector Group Ltd., Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. and Fayz Yacoub dated October 22, 2002                              
|3.32 | * | Big Bulk property agreement dated August 15, 2002                                                                                                                                             
|3.33 | * | Amos Property Option Agreement with Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. dated June 5, 2002                                                                                                            
|3.34 | * | Hemlo West and Amos properties agreement with Teck Cominco dated March 5, 2002                                                                                                                
|3.35 | * | Certificate of Name Change to change corporate name to Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. ("Registrant"), dated August 14, 2002                                                                
|3.36 |   | Atikokan West Property Option Agreement with Teck Cominco dated January 19, 2004                                                                                                              
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*Previously filed

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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS



page

|Managements Responsibility to Financial Reporting dated April 14, 2004                                                                | F-2      
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|Auditors Report dated April 14, 2004                                                                                                  | F-3      
|Consolidated Balance Sheets as at December 31, 2003 and 2002                                                                           | F-4      
|Consolidated Statements of Loss and Deficit for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001                                       | F-5      
|Consolidated Statements of Deferred Exploration and Mineral Property Expenditures for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 | F-6      
|Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001                                             | F-7      
|Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001                                    | F-8 to 24







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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)



Consolidated
Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001

(expressed
in Canadian dollars)





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April
14, 2004







Management's
Responsibility for Financial Reporting





The
accompanying consolidated financial statements of the company have been prepared
by management in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting
principles, and contain estimates based on management's judgement. Management
maintains an appropriate system of internal controls to provide reasonable
assurance that transactions are authorized, assets safeguarded, and proper
records maintained.



The
Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has met with the company's
independent auditors to review the scope and results of the annual audit and to
review the consolidated financial statements and related financial reporting
matters prior to submitting the consolidated financial statements to the Board
for approval.



The
company's independent auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, are appointed by
the shareholders to conduct an audit in accordance with generally accepted
auditing standards in Canada and the United States, and their report follows.









(signed)
Jeannine P.M. Webb

(signed)
John S. Brock



Jeannine
P.M. Webb

John
S. Brock

Chief
Financial Officer

President



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Auditors'
Report



To
the Shareholders of

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.



We
have audited the consolidated balance sheets of Canadian Empire Exploration
Corp. as at December 31, 2003 and 2002 and the consolidated statements of
loss and deficit, deferred exploration and mineral property expenditures and
cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001. These financial
statements are the responsibility of the company's management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on
our audits.



We
conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards in
Canada and the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform
an audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are
free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An
audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial
statement presentation.



In
our opinion, these consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all
material respects, the financial position of the company as at December 31, 2003
and 2002 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years
ended
December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 in accordance with Canadian generally accepted
accounting principles.





(signed)
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP



Chartered
Accountants

Vancouver,
Canada

April
14, 2004

Comments
by the Auditors for U.S. Readers on Canada-U.S. Reporting Conflict



In
the United States, reporting standards for auditors require the addition of an
explanatory paragraph (following the opinion paragraph) when the financial
statements are affected by significant conditions and events that cast
substantial doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern,
such as those described in note 1 to the consolidated financial statements. In
the United States, reporting standards for auditors also require the addition of
an explanatory paragraph (following the opinion paragraph) when there is a
change in accounting principles that has a material effect on the comparability
of the Company's financial statements, such as the change described in note 4
to the financial statements. Our report to the shareholders dated April 14, 2004
is expressed in accordance with Canadian reporting standards which do not permit
a reference to such events and conditions in the auditors' report when these
are adequately disclosed in the financial statements.





(signed)
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP



Chartered
Accountants

Vancouver,
Canada

April
14, 2004

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Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.

|(an exploration stage company)                       |            |              |             
|---------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------ | ------------
|Consolidated Balance Sheets                          |            |              |             
|As at December 31, 2003 and 2002                     |            |              |             
|                                                    
|(expressed in Canadian dollars)                      |            |              |             
|                                                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            | 2003         | 2002        
|                                                     |            | $            | $           
|Assets                                               |            |              |             
|                                                     |            |              |             
|Current assets                                       |            |              |             
|Cash and cash equivalents (note
      1)             |            | 1,067,042    | 729,735     
|Accounts receivable                                  |            | 9,278        | 69,570      
|                                                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            | 1,076,320    | 799,305     
|Reclamation deposits(note
      3)                   |            | 9,600        | -           
|Resource assets(notes
      4 and 10(a))             |            | -            | 1,008,652   
|                                                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            | 1,085,920    | 1,807,957   
|                                                     |            |              |             
|Liabilities                                          |            |              |             
|Current liabilities                                  |            |              |             
|Accounts payable and accrued
      liabilities       |            | 192,802      | 155,584     
|Due to management company (note
      6)             |            | 46,394       | 30,623      
|                                                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            | 239,196      | 186,207     
|                                                     |            |              |             
|Shareholders' Equity                                 |            |              |             
|                                                     |            |              |             
|Capital stock(note
      5)                          |            |              |             
|Authorized                                           |            |              |             
|250,000,000 common
      shares without par value    |            |             
|Issued                                               |            |              |             
|28,474,086 common
      shares (2002 - 15,841,086)   | 21,257,464 | 19,835,320  
|Special warrants(note
      5)                       |            | -            | 246,000     
|Stock options and warrants(note
      5)             |            | 145,509      | -           
|Contributed surplus                                  |            | 64,784       | 64,784      
|Deficit                                              |            | (20,621,033) | (18,524,354)
|                                                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            | 846,724      | 1,621,750   
|                                                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            | 1,085,920    | 1,807,957   
|                                                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            |              |             
|Nature of operations and going
      concern(note 1) |            |             
|                                                     |            |              |             
|Subsequent events(note
      10)                     |            |              |             
|                                                     |            |              |             
|Approved by the Board of Directors                   |            |              |             
|                                                     |            |              |             



The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these consolidated financial statements.



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Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.

|(an exploration stage company)                             |            |            |            | 
|---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | 
|Consolidated Statements of Loss and
      Deficit          |            |            |            | 
|For the years ended December 31, 2003,
      2002 and 2001 |            |            |            | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|(expressed in Canadian dollars)                            |            |            |            | 
|                                                           | 2003       | 2002       | 2001       | 
|                                                           | $          | $          | $          | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|Administration expenses                                    |            |            |            | 
|Audit and related services                                 | 35,458     | 14,887     | 20,000     | 
|Bank charges                                               | 1,178      | 1,070      | 758        | 
|Tax penalty on flow-through
      shares renounced         | 14,309     | -          | -          | 
|Consulting                                                 | 7,250      | 14,805     | 2,450      | 
|Depreciation                                               | -          | -          | 58         | 
|Insurance                                                  | 2,873      | 2,369      | 2,084      | 
|Interest on promissory note
      (note 6)                 | 412        | -          | 4,013      | 
|Legal                                                      | 16,046     | 78,474     | 91,166     | 
|Loss on foreign exchange                                   | 2,475      | 173        | 1,298      | 
|Office operations and facilities                           | 58,745     | 67,350     | 113,309    | 
|Salaries and wages                                         | 67,521     | 71,206     | 49,614     | 
|Shareholder communication                                  | 44,201     | 136,145    | 455        | 
|Stock option compensation                                  | 145,509    | -          | -          | 
|Transfer agent and filing fees                             | 43,064     | 45,206     | 28,729     | 
|Travel                                                     | -          | 1,151      | 9,416      | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|                                                           | 439,041    | 432,836    | 323,350    | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|Other expenses (income)                                    |            |            |            | 
|Interest income                                            | (9,144)    | (4,650)    | (3,087)    | 
|Expenses recovered                                         | (1,337)    | -          | -          | 
|Write-off of account receivable
      (note 4)             | -          | 199,672    | -          | 
|Write-off of exploration
      expenditures (note 4)       | 1,475,505  | 349,104    | 18,612     | 
|Write-off of property
      acquisition costs (note 4)     | 113,814    | -          | 91         | 
|General exploration expenditures                           | 78,800     | 45,647     | 49,633     | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|                                                           | 1,657,638  | 589,773    | 65,249     | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|Loss for the year                                          | 2,096,679  | 1,022,609  | 388,599    | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|Deficit - Beginning of year                                | 18,524,354 | 17,501,745 | 17,113,146 | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|Deficit - End of year                                      | 20,621,033 | 18,524,354 | 17,501,745 | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|Basic and diluted loss per common
      share              | 0.12       | 0.12       | 0.11       | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 
|Weighted average number of common
      shares             |            |            |            | 
|outstanding                                                | 17,964,336 | 8,657,892  | 3,531,045  | 
|                                                           |            |            |            | 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these consolidated financial statements.





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Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.

(an exploration
stage company)

Consolidated
Statements of Deferred Exploration and Mineral Property Expenditures

|For the years ended December 31, 2003,
      2002 and 2001     |             |           |           | 
|-------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|(expressed in Canadian dollars)                                |             |           |           | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|                                                               | 2003        | 2002      | 2001      | 
|                                                               | $           | $         | $         | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|Exploration and mineral property
      expenditures            |             |           |           | 
|Accommodation                                                  | 32,260      | 38,458    | 926       | 
|Assay and geochemical analysis                                 | 12,918      | 29,305    | -         | 
|Consulting                                                     | 31,563      | 92,265    | 9,291     | 
|Depreciation                                                   | -           | 2,236     | 838       | 
|Drilling                                                       | 110,483     | 581,627   | -         | 
|Environmental and permitting                                   | -           | 100       | 905       | 
|Expediting                                                     | 6,422       | 7,032     | 2,007     | 
|Field supplies                                                 | 9,421       | 15,772    | 64        | 
|Fuel                                                           | 14,810      | 9,965     | -         | 
|Maps, printing and drafting                                    | 5,053       | 4,900     | 1,370     | 
|Project management fees                                        | 52,041      | 27,053    | 4,538     | 
|Property acquisition costs                                     | 22,555      | 91,159    | 5,091     | 
|Salaries and wages                                             | 212,663     | 201,904   | 43,144    | 
|Surveys                                                        | 48,302      | 92,627    | -         | 
|Transportation                                                 | 100,976     | 209,000   | 162       | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|                                                               | 659,467     | 1,403,403 | 68,336    | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|Consideration received relating
      to the sale of Guadalupe | -           | -         | (657,051) | 
|Write-off of exploration
      expenditures                    | (1,475,505) | (349,104) | (18,612)  | 
|Write-off of property
      acquisition costs                  | (113,814)   | -         | (91)      | 
|General exploration expenditures                               | (78,800)    | (45,647)  | (49,633)  | 
|Reclassification (note 4)                                      | -           | -         | (199,672) | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|                                                               | (1,668,119) | (394,751) | (925,059) | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|Increase (decrease) in exploration and
      mineral           |             |           |           | 
|property
      expenditures                                    | (1,008,652) | 1,008,652 | (856,723) | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|Balance - Beginning of year                                    | 1,008,652   | -         | 856,723   | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 
|Balance - End of year(note
      4)                            | -           | 1,008,652 | -         | 
|                                                               |             |           |           | 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these consolidated financial statements.



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Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.

|(an exploration stage company)                             |             |             |           | 
|---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- | 
|Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows                      |             |             |           | 
|For the years ended December 31, 2003,
      2002 and 2001 |             |             |           | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|(expressed in Canadian dollars)                            |             |             |           | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|                                                           | 2003        | 2002        | 2001      | 
|                                                           | $           | $           | $         | 
|Cash flows from operating
      activities                 |             |             |           | 
|Loss for the year                                          | (2,096,679) | (1,022,609) | (388,599) | 
|Items not
      affecting cash                             |             |             |           | 
|Depreciation                                               | -           | -           | 58        | 
|Write-off
      of account receivable                      | -           | 199,672     | -         | 
|Stock
      option compensation                            | 145,509     | -           | -         | 
|Write-off
      of exploration expenditures                | 1,475,505   | 349,104     | 18,612    | 
|Write-off
      of property acquisition costs              | 113,814     | -           | 91        | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|                                                           | (361,851)   | (473,833)   | (369,838) | 
|Changes in non-cash working
      capital items            |             |             |           | 
|(Increase)
      decrease in accounts receivable           | 60,292      | (60,444)    | (2,795)   | 
|Increase
      (decrease) in current liabilities           | 52,989      | (25,940)    | (373,928) | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|                                                           | (248,570)   | (560,217)   | (746,561) | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|Cash flows from financing
      activities                 |             |             |           | 
|Issue of common shares                                     | 1,266,000   | 2,315,000   | 117,000   | 
|Special warrants                                           | -           | 246,000     | -         | 
|Share issue costs                                          | (89,856)    | (362,765)   | (1,934)   | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|                                                           | 1,176,144   | 2,198,235   | 115,066   | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|Cash flows from investing
      activities                 |             |             |           | 
|Property acquisition costs                                 | (22,555)    | (13,159)    | -         | 
|Deposit for reclamation bonds                              | (9,600)     | -           | -         | 
|Exploration expenditures - net
      of depreciation       | (558,112)   | (949,361)   | (17,865)  | 
|Sale of Guadalupe property (note
      4)                  | -           | -           | 657,051   | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|                                                           | (590,267)   | (962,520)   | 639,186   | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|Increase in cash and cash
      equivalents                | 337,307     | 675,498     | 7,691     | 
|Cash and cash equivalents -
      Beginning of year        | 729,735     | 54,237      | 46,546    | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|Cash and cash equivalents -
      End of year(note 1)      | 1,067,042   | 729,735     | 54,237    | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|Supplemental cash flow
      information                   |             |             |           | 
|Non-cash operating and
      financing activities          |             |             |           | 
|Issue of shares for share issue
      costs                | 6,300       | 60,000      | -         | 
|Issue of shares for mineral
      property costs           | -           | 393,000     | -         | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 
|                                                           | -           | 393,000     | -         | 
|                                                           |             |             |           | 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of
these consolidated financial statements.



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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)



1

Nature
of operations and going concern

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp. (the company) is in the business of acquiring and
exploring mineral properties.

The
company has not yet determined whether its properties contain mineral deposits
that are economically recoverable. All of the company's mineral property
interests are currently located in Canada. The recoverability of the amounts
shown for resource assets is dependent upon the existence of economically
recoverable mineral deposits, the ability of the company to obtain the necessary
financing to complete the exploration and development of its properties, and
upon future profitable production or proceeds from the disposition of the
properties.

As
at December 31, 2003, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $1,067,042,
of which $927,891 is restricted to flow-through expenditures on Canadian mineral
properties. As at December 31, 2003, the company has an unrestricted
working capital deficit of $90,767.

The
company's ability to continue operations is dependent on management's
ability to secure additional financing. Management is actively pursuing such
additional sources of financing, and while it has been successful in doing so in
the past, there can be no assurance it will be able to do so in the future.
Because of this uncertainty, there is substantial doubt about the ability of the
company to continue as a going concern.

These
consolidated financial statements do not include the adjustments that would be
necessary should the company be unable to continue as a going concern. Such
adjustments could be material.



2

Significant
accounting policies

Accounting
principles

These
consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles (GAAP) applicable in Canada. Except as disclosed
in note 9, these consolidated financial statements conform in all material
respects with U.S. GAAP.

Principles
of consolidation

These
consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the company and its
fully integrated foreign subsidiaries, Minera Reina Isabel, S.A. de C.V. (Minera
Reina) and Minera Tatemas, S.A. de C.V. (Minera Tatemas), which were
incorporated to carry out mineral exploration and development programs in
Mexico.

(1)







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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







Use
of estimates

The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles in Canada requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements,
and the reported amounts of expenditures during the reporting period. Actual
results could differ from those reported.

Cash
and cash equivalents

Cash
and cash equivalents includes cash and short-term deposits maturing within 90
days of the original date of acquisition.

Resource
assets

The
company records its interests in mineral properties at cost less option payments
received and other recoveries. Exploration expenditures relating to these
interests are capitalized until the properties to which they relate are placed
into production, sold or allowed to lapse. These expenditures will be amortized
over the estimated useful life of the property using the units-of-production
method over proven and probable reserves following commencement of production,
or written off if the mineral properties or projects are sold or allowed to
lapse. General exploration expenditures are expensed as incurred.

On
a quarterly basis, senior management reviews the carrying value of deferred
mineral property acquisition and exploration expenditures to assess whether
there has been any impairment in value. In the event that mineral deposits are
determined to be insufficient to recover the carrying value of any property, the
carrying value will be written down or written off, as appropriate.

Although
management has taken steps to verify title to mineral properties in which it has
an interest, in accordance with industry standards for the current stage of
exploration of such properties, these procedures do not guarantee the company's
title. Property title may be subject to unregistered prior agreements and be in
non-compliance with regulatory requirements.

Mineral
property option agreements

Option
payments are made at the discretion of the optionee and, accordingly, are
accounted for when received. Option payments received will be treated as a
reduction of the carrying value of the related mineral property and deferred
costs until the company's costs are recovered. Option payments received in
excess of costs incurred will be credited to income.

(2)







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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







Income
taxes

Future
income tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the differences
between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and those reported in the
financial statements. The future tax assets or liabilities are calculated using
substantively enacted tax rates and laws that are expected to be in effect in
the periods in which the future income tax assets or liabilities are expected to
be settled or realized. Future tax assets are recognized to the extent that they
are considered more likely than not to be realized.

Translation
of foreign currencies

Monetary
assets and liabilities are translated at the exchange rates in effect at the
balance sheet date and non-monetary assets and liabilities at the exchange rates
in effect at the time of acquisition or issue. Income and expenses are
translated at rates approximating exchange rates in effect at the time of the
transactions. Exchange gains and losses arising on translation are included in
loss for the year.

Loss
per common share

Loss
per common share is calculated using the weighted average number of common
shares issued and outstanding during each year. The effect of exercise of share
options and warrants would be anti-dilutive.

During
the year ended December 31, 2001, the company consolidated its outstanding
common shares such that every 10 shares outstanding were replaced by one new
common share.

Stock-based
compensation

Effective
January 1, 2003, the company elected to apply the fair value method of
accounting for stock options granted to directors, officers and employees on a
prospective basis in accordance with the recommendations of the CICA.
Accordingly, the fair value of all stock options granted is recorded as a charge
to administration expenses and a credit to shareholders' equity. Consideration
received on exercise of stock options is credited to capital stock.

Financial
instruments

Cash
and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and due to
management company are valued at their carrying amounts which are reasonable
estimates of fair value due to the relatively short period to maturity.

(3)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







3

Reclamation
deposit

At
December 31, 2003, $9,600 was pledged to the British Columbia Ministry of Energy
and Mines as security for reclamation costs of the Big Bulk property. The funds
were returned to the company on January 12, 2004.

4

Resource
assets

|                    |  |                                                       |  |                                                       |  | 2003          |  | 2002         
|------------------- |  | ----------------------------------------------------- |  | ----------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------- |  | -------------
|                    |  |                                                       |  |                                                       |  |               |  |              
|                    |  | Property
      acquisition
      expenditures
      $ |  | Deferred
      exploration
      expenditures
      $ |  | Total
      $ |  | Total
      $
|                    |  |                                                       |  |                                                       |  |               |  |              
|Hemlo
      West    |  | -                                                     |  | -                                                     |  | -             |  | 276,195      
|Amos                |  | -                                                     |  | -                                                     |  | -             |  | 333,024      
|Yukon
      Olympic |  | -                                                     |  | -                                                     |  | -             |  | 242,340      
|Big
      Bulk      |  | -                                                     |  | -                                                     |  | -             |  | 131,617      
|VMS                 |  | -                                                     |  | -                                                     |  | -             |  | 25,476       
|                    |  |                                                       |  |                                                       |  |               |  |              
|                    |  | -                                                     |  | -                                                     |  | -             |  | 1,008,652    



a)

Hemlo
West property

During
2002, the company entered into an agreement with Teck Cominco Limited (Teck
Cominco) to acquire the rights to earn an interest in the Hemlo West property,
subject to back-in rights by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendor's net
profits interest. The company may earn an initial 80% interest by spending
$2 million on exploration by December 31, 2005 ($280,285 spent by
December 31, 2003). Upon completion of the minimum in exploration
expenditures, a joint venture will be formed with the company holding 80% and
Teck Cominco holding 20%. In order to maintain its 80% interest in the joint
venture, the company is required to fund additional exploration to the
completion of a pre-feasibility study. Teck Cominco would then have a one-time
election to back-in for a 60.8% interest in the project by funding a minimum of
200% of the company's prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.
The company would then have a 39.2% interest in the property and the option to
either fund its share of production financing or negotiate with Teck Cominco for
a carried interest through to production. Subsequent to year-end, the company
relinquished its interest in the property and accordingly wrote off deferred
exploration expenditures of $280,285 as at December 31, 2003.

(4)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







b)

Amos
property

During
2002, in connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement (note 5(c)) the company
acquired the rights to earn an interest in the Amos property, subject to back-in
rights by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendor's net profits interest. The
company could earn an initial 80% interest by spending $2 million on
exploration by December 31, 2005 ($328,206 spent by December 31,
2003). The terms of the agreement are identical to those as described for the
Hemlo West property. During 2002, the company entered into an agreement with an
optionee whereby the optionee could acquire up to 50% of the company's
interest in the property, by exercising three options by way of staged
exploration expenditures totalling $2 million by September 30, 2003.

The
optionee had the right to convert its investment in the project into common
shares of the company at a predetermined conversion rate (840,000 common shares
issued to December 31, 2003 at a market value of $315,000). Prior to
December 31, 2002, the optionee relinquished the right to the property back to
the company, and during 2003, the company relinquished its right to the property
and wrote off $7,959 of property acquisition costs and $328,206 of deferred
exploration expenditures.

c)

Yukon
Olympic property

During
2002, the company entered into agreement to acquire a 51% interest in the Yukon
Olympic property by making staged exploration expenditures totalling
$1.5 million ($334,624 spent by December 31, 2003) and issuing 900,000
common shares in stages prior to December 31, 2005 (300,000 common shares
issued prior to December 31, 2003). A joint venture will then be formed with the
company holding 51% and the vendor holding 49% through to completion of a
preliminary feasibility study. Under the terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement,
Teck Cominco will have the right to earn a 51% interest in the property by
incurring 200% of the company's prior exploration expenditures and completing
a final feasibility study. Should Teck Cominco earn the 51%, the company would
then hold 25% and the vendor 24%. In connection with the Yukon Olympic property,
a finder's fee of 200,000 common shares was paid to Western Prospector Group
Ltd. (Western Prospector), a party related by virtue of common management. The
vendor has the right to earn a 100% interest in the property subject to a 1.5%
NSR. Subsequent to the year-end, the company relinquished its interest in the
property and accordingly wrote off $82,020 of property acquisition costs and
$334,624 of deferred exploration expenditures as at December 31, 2003.

d)

Big
Bulk property

During
2002, in connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement, the company acquired the
rights to earn an interest in the Big Bulk property, subject to back-in rights
by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendor's net profits interest. The company
may earn an initial 80% interest by spending $800,000 on exploration by
December 31, 2005 ($523,969 spent by December 31, 2003). Under the
terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement, Teck Cominco will have the right to earn a
51% interest in the property by incurring 200% of prior exploration expenditures
and completing a final feasibility study. Should Teck Cominco earn the 51%, the
company would then hold 25% and the vendor 24%. Subsequent to year-end, the

(5)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)





company
relinquished its interest in the property and accordingly wrote off $400 of
property acquisition costs and $523,969 of deferred exploration expenditures as
at December 31, 2003.

e)

VMS
property

During
2002, the company entered into an agreement to acquire a 100 % interest in
the VMS property by making staged payments of $35,000 ($5,000 paid to
December 31, 2003) and issuing 200,000 common shares in stages prior to
December 31, 2005 (50,000 common shares issued to December 31, 2003). A
joint venture would then be formed with the company holding 51% and the vendor
holding 49% through to completion of a preliminary feasibility study, and the
vendor retaining a 1.5% NSR. Under the terms of the Teck Cominco Agreement, Teck
Cominco would have the right to earn a 51% interest in the property by incurring
200% of prior exploration expenditures and completing a final feasibility study.
Should Teck Cominco earn the 51%, the company would then hold 25% and the vendor
24%. In connection with the VMS property, a finder's fee of 100,000 common
shares and reimbursement of costs of $5,000 were paid to Western Prospector.
Western Prospector had the right to reacquire a 1% NSR held by an underlying
vendor for $1 million.

During
2003, the company relinquished its right to the property and wrote off $23,435
of property acquisition costs and $7,959 of deferred exploration expenditures.

f)

Meridian
property

During
2002, in connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement (note 5(c)) the company
acquired the rights to earn an interest in the Meridian property, subject to
back-in rights by Teck Cominco and an underlying vendor's net profits
interest. The company could earn an initial 80% interest by spending $800,000 on
exploration by December 31, 2005 ($346,866 spent by December 31,
2002). During 2002, the company relinquished its rights to the Meridian property
and wrote off $346,866 in exploration expenditures. During 2003, the company
wrote off an additional $462 of deferred exploration expenditures.

g)

During
2003, the company wrote off amounts relating to other properties of $78,800
(2002 - $45,647).

h)

Guadalupe
property

During
the year ended December 31, 2001, the company entered into agreements
whereby the company assigned its rights to the Guadalupe property in
consideration for the optionor paying the company US$390,000, settling payables
of US$50,000 ($76,222) on the company's behalf in 2000 and making future
option payments directly to the underlying vendors.

During
2001, the optionor paid US$390,000 in cash to the company and subsequently
terminated the agreements. This effectively returned the right to the Guadalupe
property to the company, which subsequently relinquished the options to the
underlying vendors and wrote off the remaining value of property.

(6)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







During
2001, the company received reimbursement of US$26,247 from the Government of
Mexico for value-added tax paid by the company's Mexican subsidiaries in prior
years. The remaining value-added tax balance of $199,672 was reclassified to
accounts receivable. During 2002, the company determined that it was not
financially practicable to continue pursuing collection of the amount, and
accordingly, the remaining balance of $199,672 was written off.



5

Capital
stock

Authorized

250,000,000
common shares without par value



Issued
and outstanding

|                                             |  | Number
      of
      shares |  | Amount
      $
|-------------------------------------------- |  | ---------------------------- |  | --------------
|                                             |  |                              |  |               
|December
      31, 2000                      |  | 35,294,203                   |  | 17,375,019    
|10:1
      consolidation on December 5, 2001 |  | (31,764,783)                 |  | -             
|                                             |  |                              |  |               
|For
      cash                               |  |                              |  |               
|Private
      placement                      |  | 390,000                      |  | 117,000       
|Less:
       Share issue costs               |  | -                            |  | (1,934)       
|                                             |  |                              |  |               
|December
      31, 2001                      |  | 3,919,420                    |  | 17,490,085    
|For
      cash                               |  |                              |  |               
|Private
      placements                     |  | 4,441,666                    |  | 578,000       
|Public
      offering                        |  | 5,400,000                    |  | 1,620,000     
|Warrants                                     |  | 390,000                      |  | 117,000       
|For
      share issue costs                  |  | 200,000                      |  | 60,000        
|For
      mineral properties                 |  | 1,490,000                    |  | 393,000       
|Less:
       Share issue costs               |  | -                            |  | (422,765)     
|                                             |  |                              |  |               
|December
      31, 2002                      |  | 15,841,086                   |  | 19,835,320    
|For
      cash                               |  |                              |  |               
|Private
      placement                      |  | 11,750,000                   |  | 1,266,000     
|On
      conversion of special warrants      |  | 820,000                      |  | 246,000       
|For
      share issue costs                  |  | 63,000                       |  | 6,300         
|Less:
       Share issue costs               |  | -                            |  | (96,156)      
|                                             |  |                              |  |               
|December
      31, 2003                      |  | 28,474,086                   |  | 21,257,464    



(7)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







a)

During
2003:

i)

In
connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement (note 5(c)), the company issued
820,000 special warrants for funds in the amount of $246,000 received in 2002.
The special warrants were converted during 2003 and the company issued 820,000
units, with each unit comprising one common share in the capital of the company
and one share purchase warrant entitling the holder to acquire one common share
in the capital of the company at $0.30 per share until June 30, 2004.

ii)

In
connection with private placements, the company issued shares and warrants as
follows:

| |  | Number
      of
      flow-
      through
      shares |  | Number
      of non-flow-
      through
      shares |  | Total
      shares |  | Price
      per share
      $ |  | Total
      $ |  | Number
      of non-flow-
      through
      warrants
| |  | ------------------------------------------------------ |  | ---------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------------ |  | ----------------------------- |  | ------------- |  | ------------------------------------------------------
| |  |                                                        |  |                                                      |  |                    |  |                               |  |               |  |                                                       
| |  | 6,244,000                                              |  | 2,186,000                                            |  | 8,430,000          |  | 0.10                          |  | 843,000       |  | 2,186,000                                             
| |  | 2,500,000                                              |  | -                                                    |  | 2,500,000          |  | 0.12                          |  | 300,000       |  | -                                                     
| |  | -                                                      |  | 820,000                                              |  | 820,000            |  | 0.15                          |  | 123,000       |  | 820,000                                               
| |  |                                                        |  |                                                      |  |                    |  |                               |  |               |  |                                                       
| |  | 8,744,000                                              |  | 3,006,000                                            |  | 11,750,000         |  |                               |  | 1,266,000     |  | 3,006,000                                             



In
respect of the above private placements, the company also issued to agents who
introduced arm's-length purchasers to the company 63,000 units, each unit
comprising one common share and one share purchase warrant, with two share
purchase warrants entitling the holder to acquire one common share at $0.10 per
share until September 14, 2004, and 348,000 warrants, each warrant entitling the
holder to acquire one common share at $0.14 per share until October 12, 2004. At
December 31, 2003, all of the warrants remained unexercised.

iii)

In
connection with financing completed in 2002, the company amended the terms of
warrants as follows:

- the
    expiry date of 1,500,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,500,000
    shares at $0.15 per share was extended from May 23, 2003 to May 22, 2004.
- the
    expiry date of 1,080,000 agents' warrants allowing for the purchase of
    1,080,000 shares at $0.35 per share was extended from June 18, 2003 to June
    18, 2004.
- the
    exercise price of 4,050,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of 2,025,000
    shares was amended from $0.35 per share to $0.15 per share and the expiry
    date was extended from June 18, 2003 to June 18, 2004.

(8)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







iv)

In
connection with incentive stock options granted during 2003, the company valued
such options at $145,509 and credited that amount to stock options and warrants.

b)

During
2002

i)

In
connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement (note 5(c)), the company issued
390,000 shares at $0.30 per share on the exercise of warrants.

ii)

In
connection with financings, the company issued shares and warrants as follows:

| |  | Number
      of
      shares |  | Number
      of
      warrants |  | Price
      per
      share
      $ |  | Total
      $
| |  | ---------------------------- |  | ------------------------------ |  | ----------------------------------- |  | -------------
| |  |                              |  |                                |  |                                     |  |              
| |  | 1,500,000                    |  | 1,500,000                      |  | 0.15                                |  | 225,000      
| |  | 5,400,000                    |  | 7,830,000                      |  | 0.35                                |  | 1,620,000    
| |  | 2,941,666                    |  | 278,333                        |  | 0.12                                |  | 353,000      
| |  |                              |  |                                |  |                                     |  |              
| |  | 9,841,666                    |  | 9,608,333                      |  |                                     |  | 2,198,000    



In
respect of the public offering, the company issued 4,050,000 flow-through units,
comprising one flow-through share and one flow-through share purchase warrant.
Each two flow-through share purchase warrants entitle the holder to purchase one
share of the company at $0.35 per share. The company also issued 1,350,000
non-flow-through units, comprising one non-flow-through share and two
non-flow-through share purchase warrants. Each two non-flow-through share
purchase warrants entitle the holder to purchase one share of the company at
$0.35 per share. In addition, the company issued 1,080,000 non-flow-through
agents' warrants, each one entitling the holder to purchase one share of the
company for $0.35 per share.

During
2003, 2,985,903 warrants allowing for the purchase of 1,635,903 shares expired
unexercised, and at December 31, 2003, all of the remaining warrants remained
unexercised.

(9)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







iii)

In
connection with property agreements (note 4), the company issued shares as
follows

|                    |  | Number
      of shares |  | Total
      value
      $
|------------------- |  | ---------------------- |  | -------------------------
|                    |  |                        |  |                          
|VMS                 |  | 150,000                |  | 18,000                   
|Yukon
      Olympic |  | 500,000                |  | 60,000                   
|Amos                |  | 840,000                |  | 315,000                  
|                    |  |                        |  |                          
|                    |  | 1,490,000              |  | 393,000                  



The
company also issued a total of 300,000 warrants allowing for the purchase of
200,000 shares at $0.20 per share until September 20, 2004 and 100,000 shares at
$0.20 per share until October 22, 2004. At December 31, 2003, all of the
warrants remained unexercised.

iv)

The
company received $246,000 for 820,000 special warrants allowing for the purchase
of 820,000 units convertible until October 16, 2003, for no further
consideration, into one share and one underlying share purchase warrant
exercisable into one share at $0.30 per share for a period of one year from the
exercise of the special warrant. The special warrants were issued in 2003
(note 5(a)).

c)

During
2001:

i)

The
company entered into an agreement, as amended, with Teck Cominco (the Teck
Cominco Agreement). In connection with this agreement, the company issued to
Teck Cominco 390,000 units at $0.30 per unit. Each unit comprised one common
share and one $0.30 share purchase warrant expiring on July 8, 2002.
Exercise of the warrants would allow Teck Cominco to maintain participation
rights in certain future exploration projects of the company by subscribing to
special warrants in an amount up to $246,000 on or before October 15, 2002.
The warrants were exercised during 2002.

ii)

The
company consolidated its capital stock as to 10 old common shares for one new
common share.

Stock
options

The
company has established a stock option plan whereby the company may from time to
time grant up to a total of 2,000,000 options to directors, officers and
employees. The maximum term of any option is five years. The exercise price of
an option is not less than the closing price on the TSX Venture Exchange on the
last trading day preceding the grant date.

(10)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







Stock-based
compensation

Effective
January 1, 2003, the company elected to apply the fair value method of
accounting for stock options granted to directors, officers and employees on a
prospective basis in accordance with the recommendations of the CICA.
Accordingly, the fair value of all stock options granted is recorded as a charge
to administration expenses and a credit to shareholders' equity.

A
summary of the status of the company's options as at December 31, 2003 and
2002, and changes during the years then ended, is set out below:



The
1,680,000 options outstanding at December 31, 2003 expire on January 3, 2008.

2003
      
      2002Weighted
      
      Weightedaverage
      
      averageNumber of
      exercise
      Number of
      exerciseshares
      price
      shares
      price$
      
      $Outstanding
        - Beginning ofyear
      200,000
      0.36
      125,000
      1.92Granted
      1,680,000
      0.15
      200,000
      0.36Expired
      (200,000)
      0.36
      (125,000)
      1.92Outstanding
        and exercisable -End
        of year
      1,680,000
      0.15
      200,000
      0.36The 1,680,000
        options outstanding at December 31, 2003 expire on January 3, 2008.




(11)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







Stock
option pro forma information

Effective
January 1, 2002, the company adopted the new accounting standard for stock-based
compensation. As permitted under the standard, for income statement purposes,
the company elected in 2002 not to follow the fair value-based method of
accounting for share options granted to employees and directors. Had the company
followed the fair value method of accounting, the company would have recorded a
compensation expense of $54,000 in 2002 in respect of the 200,000 options it
granted to its employees and directors. Pro forma earnings information
determined under the fair value method of accounting for stock options is as
follows:

|                                              |  | 2002
      $ |  | 
|--------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ |  | 
|                                              |  |              |  | 
|Loss
      for the year                       |  |              |  | 
|As
      reported                             |  | 1,022,609    |  | 
|Compensation
      expense                    |  | 54,000       |  | 
|                                              |  |              |  | 
|Pro
      forma loss                          |  | 1,076,609    |  | 
|                                              |  |              |  | 
|Basic
      and diluted loss per common share |  |              |  | 
|As
      reported                             |  | 0.12         |  | 
|Pro
      forma                               |  | 0.12         |  | 



The
fair value of stock options was estimated at the grant date based on the Black-Scholes
option pricing model, using the following assumptions for 2003 and 2002:

|Expected
      dividend yield         |  | nil                |  | 
|------------------------------------- |  | ------------------ |  | 
|Average
      risk-free interest rate |  | 3.25
      to 4.9% |  | 
|Expected
      life                   |  | 5.0
      years    |  | 
|Expected
      volatility             |  | 94%
      to 171%  |  | 



Option
pricing models require the input of highly subjective assumptions including the
expected price volatility. Changes in the subjective input assumptions can
materially affect the fair value estimate, and therefore, the existing models do
not necessarily provide a reliable measure of the fair value of the company's
stock options.

(12)







---

Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







Warrants

The
changes in warrants outstanding are as follows:

|                                                  |  |                                            |  | 2003                                                      |  |                                            |  | 2002                                                     
|------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------------------------------------ |  | --------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------------------------------------ |  | ---------------------------------------------------------
|                                                  |  |                                            |  |                                                           |  |                                            |  |                                                          
|                                                  |  | Number
      of warrants
      outstanding |  | Weighted
      average
      exercise
      price
      $ |  | Number
      of warrants
      outstanding |  | Weighted
      average
      exercise
      price
      $
|                                                  |  |                                            |  |                                                           |  |                                            |  |                                                          
|Outstanding
      -
      Beginning
      of year |  | 9,915,903                                  |  | 0.26                                                      |  | 397,570                                    |  | 0.31                                                     
|                                                  |  |                                            |  |                                                           |  |                                            |  |                                                          
|Issued                                            |  | 4,237,000                                  |  | 0.17                                                      |  | 9,908,333                                  |  | 0.26                                                     
|Exercised                                         |  | -                                          |  | -                                                         |  | (390,000)                                  |  | 0.30                                                     
|Expired                                           |  | (2,985,903)                                |  | 0.31                                                      |  | -                                          |  | -                                                        
|                                                  |  |                                            |  |                                                           |  |                                            |  |                                                          
|Outstanding
      -
      End
      of year       |  | 11,167,000                                 |  | 0.19                                                      |  | 9,915,903                                  |  | 0.26                                                     



Warrants
outstanding and exercisable at December 31, 2003 are as follows
(note 10(b)):

| |  | Exercise
      price
      $ |  | Number
      of
      warrants |  | Number
      of
      shares |  | Expiry
      date       
| |  | ---------------------------- |  | ------------------------------ |  | ---------------------------- |  | ------------------------
| |  |                              |  |                                |  |                              |  |                         
| |  | 0.15                         |  | 1,500,000                      |  | 1,500,000                    |  | May
      22, 2004      
| |  | 0.15                         |  | 4,050,000                      |  | 2,025,000                    |  | June
      18, 2004     
| |  | 0.35                         |  | 1,080,000                      |  | 1,080,000                    |  | June
      18, 2004     
| |  | 0.30                         |  | 820,000                        |  | 820,000                      |  | June
      30, 2004     
| |  | 0.10                         |  | 973,000                        |  | 486,500                      |  | September
      15, 2004
| |  | 0.20                         |  | 200,000                        |  | 200,000                      |  | September
      20, 2004
| |  | 0.14                         |  | 1,624,000                      |  | 1,624,000                    |  | October
      12, 2004  
| |  | 0.20                         |  | 100,000                        |  | 100,000                      |  | October
      22, 2004  
| |  | 0.15                         |  | 820,000                        |  | 820,000                      |  | December
      22, 2005 
| |  |                              |  |                                |  |                              |  |                         
| |  |                              |  | 11,167,000                     |  | 8,655,500                    |  |                         



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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







6   Related
party transactions

John
S. Brock Limited

- Until
    March 31, 2001, the company had management agreements with John S. Brock
    Limited, a company owned by John S. Brock, the CEO and President of the
    company and Wayne J. Roberts, the Vice-President, Exploration of the
    company.
- Under
    the above agreements, the company paid $26,815 in the year ended December
    31, 2001. There were no payments made under these agreements in 2002 and
    2003.
- During
    2001, under a promissory note bearing interest at 8% per annum, the company
    repaid the balance of principal and interest of $380,260 to John S. Brock
    Limited.
- During
    2003, the company was advanced $30,000 by John S Brock Limited and was
    charged interest in the amount of $412. During 2003, the interest was paid,
    and the principal was repaid in 2004.

Badger
& Co. Management Corp.

- Effective
    April 1, 2001, the company entered into management agreements with Badger
    & Co. Management Corp., a company owned by John S. Brock,
    Wayne J. Roberts and Jeannine P.M. Webb, Chief Financial Officer and
    Corporate Secretary of the company.
- Under
    the management agreements with Badger & Co. Management Corp., the
    company paid the following in the year ended December 31, 2003:

i)

Cost
of operations and administration, charged at cost plus a 10% mark-up, totalling
$91,675 (2002 - $65,767; 2001 - $32,976).

ii)

Fees
for professional services provided at per diem rates, totalling $154,082 (2002 -
$141,700; 2001 - $63,273).

iii)

Exploration
salaries and wages charged at cost plus a 10% mark-up and project management
fees calculated at 8% of all exploration costs, totalling $140,729 (2002 -
$53,207; 2001 - $8,835).

- Amounts
    payable under the agreements at December 31, 2003 totalled $46,394 (2002 -
    $30,623). There are no stated terms of repayment.

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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)









7

Income
taxes

A
reconciliation of the combined Canadian federal and provincial income taxes at
statutory rates and the company's effective income tax expense is as follows:

|                                             |  | 2003
      $ |  | 2002
      $ |  | 2001
      $
|-------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ |  | ------------ |  | ------------
|                                             |  |              |  |              |  |             
|Income
      tax recovery at statutory rates |  | (788,771)    |  | (388,062)    |  | (173,393)   
|Increase
      in taxes from                 |  |              |  |              |  |             
|Writedown
      of resource assets           |  | 627,546      |  | 156,400      |  | 30,492      
|Benefit
      of losses not recognized       |  | 161,225      |  | 231,662      |  | 142,901     
|                                             |  |              |  |              |  |             
|                                             |  | -            |  | -            |  | -           



The
components of future tax assets are as follows:

|                                      |  | 2003
      $ |  | 2002
      $
|------------------------------------- |  | ------------ |  | ------------
|                                      |  |              |  |             
|Resource
      assets                 |  | 493,000      |  | 98,000      
|Capital
      loss carry-forward      |  | 1,298,000    |  | 1,811,000   
|Non-capital
      loss carry-forwards |  | 1,912,000    |  | 1,339,000   
|                                      |  |              |  |             
|                                      |  | 3,703,000    |  | 3,248,000   
|Less:
       Valuation allowance      |  | (3,703,000)  |  | (3,248,000) 
|                                      |  |              |  |             
|Future
      income tax asset         |  | -            |  | -           



At
December 31, 2003, the company had approximately $3,452,000 of losses available
for carry-forward. The loss carry-forwards can be offset against income for
Canadian income tax purposes in future years and expire as follows:

|     |  | $         |  | 
|---- |  | --------- |  | 
|     |  |           |  | 
|2004 |  | 852,000   |  | 
|2005 |  | 543,000   |  | 
|2006 |  | 511,000   |  | 
|2007 |  | 408,000   |  | 
|2008 |  | 263,000   |  | 
|2009 |  | 489,000   |  | 
|2010 |  | 386,000   |  | 
|     |  |           |  | 
|     |  | 3,452,000 |  | 



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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







8

Shareholder
rights plan

The
company has in place a shareholder rights plan (the Plan) which is designed to
encourage the fair treatment of the company's shareholders in connection with
any take-over offer and, in particular, any unsolicited take-over bid for the
company.

Pursuant
to the Plan, rights have been created and attached to the common shares of the
company. If a person (the Bidder) acquires 20% or more of the outstanding voting
shares of the company without complying with the Plan, each right, other than
the rights held by the Bidder, will entitle the shareholder, other than the
Bidder, to purchase for $30, common shares of the company having a market value
of $60.



9

Differences
between Canadian and U.S. generally accepted accounting principles

The
company's consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles in Canada. The material
measurement differences between GAAP in Canada and the United States that would
have an effect on these financial statements are as follows:

a)

Accounting
for stock-based compensation

For
U.S. GAAP purposes, the company has prospectively adopted the fair value based
method of accounting for stock based compensation in accordance with FAS 148.
This resulted in no differences between Canadian and U.S. GAAP.

b)

Mineral
property exploration expenditures

For
U.S. GAAP purposes, the company expenses as incurred exploration expenditures
relating to unproven mineral properties.

c)

If
these consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with U.S.
GAAP, the impact on the consolidated balance sheets would be as follows:

|                                            |  | 2003
      $ |  | 2002
      $
|------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ |  | ------------
|                                            |  |              |  |             
|Resource
      assets - under Canadian GAAP |  | -            |  | 1,008,652   
|Exploration
      expenditures              |  | -            |  | (1,008,652) 
|                                            |  |              |  |             
|Resource
      assets - under U.S. GAAP     |  | -            |  | -           
|                                            |  |              |  |             
|Deficit
      - under Canadian GAAP         |  | (20,621,033) |  | (18,524,354)
|Exploration
      expenditures              |  | -            |  | (1,008,652) 
|                                            |  |              |  |             

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Canadian
Empire Exploration Corp.

(an
exploration stage company)

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements

December
31, 2003, 2002 and 2001



(expressed
in Canadian dollars)







|Deficit
      - under U.S. GAAP |  | (20,621,033) |  | (19,533,006)
|------------------------------- |  | ------------ |  | ------------

In
addition, the impact on the consolidated statements of loss would be as follows:

|                                                    |  | 2003
      $ |  | 2002
      $ |  | 2001
      $
|--------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ |  | ------------ |  | ------------
|                                                    |  |              |  |              |  |             
|Loss
      for the year - under
      Canadian GAAP |  | (2,096,679)  |  | (1,022,609)  |  | (388,599)   
|Exploration
      expenditures - net of write-downs |  | 1,008,652    |  | (1,008,652)  |  | -           
|                                                    |  |              |  |              |  |             
|Loss
      for the year - under
      U.S. GAAP     |  | (1,088,027)  |  | (2,031,261)  |  | (388,599)   
|                                                    |  |              |  |              |  |             
|Loss
      per common share - under
      U.S. GAAP |  | (0.06)       |  | (0.23)       |  | (0.11)      



d)

New
Accounting Pronouncements

The
CICA has issued CICA 3063, "Impairment of Long-Lived Assets," which is
effective for years beginning on or after April 1, 2003. This statement
establishes standards for recognition, measurement and disclosure of the
impairment of non-monetary long-lived assets, including property, plant and
equipment. The company does not expect that the implementation of this new
standard will have a material impact on its consolidated financial position or
the results of its operations.



10

Subsequent
events

a)

On
January 19, 2004, in connection with the Teck Cominco Agreement, the company
entered into an agreement to acquire an 80% interest in the Atikokan West
property in Ontario, in consideration for making staged exploration expenditures
in the aggregate of $1,000,000 by December 31, 2008 and then maintaining that
interest by funding ongoing exploration through pre-feasibility, after which
Teck Cominco may back-in for a 60.8% interest by funding a minimum of 200% of
the company's prior expenditures and completing a feasibility study.

b)

From
January 1 to April 14, 2004, company issued a total of 415,250 shares on the
exercise of 420,500 warrants for total consideration of $123,700.







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SIGNATURE



Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and has fully caused this Annual Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.





CANADIAN EMPIRE EXPLORATION CORP.







By:        
John S. Brock

John S. Brock, President









By:     
Jeannine P. M. Webb

Jeannine P.M. Webb, Secretary





DATED:  May 7, 2004





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CERTIFICATIONS

CERTIFICATION





I, John S. Brock, certify that:



1.

I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.;



2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;



3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the company as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;



4.

The companys other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) [omitted pursuant to Transition Period provisions at Section III of Release 34-47986 of the Securities and Exchange Commission entitled Managements Reports on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports] for the company and have:



(a)

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;



(b)

[omitted pursuant to Transition Period provisions at Section III of Release 34-47986 of the Securities and Exchange Commission entitled Managements Reports on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports];



(c)

Evaluated the effectiveness of the companys disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and



(d)

Disclosed in this report any change in the companys internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the companys internal control over financial reporting; and



5.

The companys other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the companys auditors and the audit committee of the companys board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):



(a)

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the companys ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and



(b)

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the companys internal control over financial reporting.



"John S. Brock"

John S. Brock

Chief Executive Officer

May 7, 2004

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CERTIFICATION





I, Jeannine P M Webb, certify that:



1.

I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of Canadian Empire Exploration Corp.;



2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;



3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the company as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;



4.

The companys other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) [omitted pursuant to Transition Period provisions at Section III of Release 34-47986 of the Securities and Exchange Commission entitled Managements Reports on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports] for the company and have:



(a)

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;



(b)

[omitted pursuant to Transition Period provisions at Section III of Release 34-47986 of the Securities and Exchange Commission entitled Managements Reports on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports];



(c)

Evaluated the effectiveness of the companys disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and



(d)

Disclosed in this report any change in the companys internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the companys internal control over financial reporting; and



5.

The companys other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the companys auditors and the audit committee of the companys board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):



(a)

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the companys ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and



(b)

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the companys internal control over financial reporting.



Jeannine P. M. Webb

Jeannine P. M. Webb,

Chief Financial Officer
May 7, 2004







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CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. §1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
§906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the annual report on Form 20-F of Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. ("Company") for the year ending December 31, 2003 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the "Report"), John S. Brock, as Chief Executive Officer and Jeannine P. M. Webb as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, hereby certify, to the best of their respective knowledge, that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of § 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.

John S. Brock

John S. Brock,
Chief Executive Officer

May 7, 2004







Jeannine P. M. Webb

Jeannine P. M. Webb,

Chief Financial Officer
May 7, 2004

This certification accompanies this Report pursuant to §906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and shall not be deemed filed by the Company for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.



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