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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, 2006</B>
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>Registration
No.&nbsp;333-</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CANYON RESOURCES CORPORATION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B><BR>
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>84-0800747</B><BR>
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>14142 Denver West Parkway, Suite&nbsp;250</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Denver, Colorado</B><BR>
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan</B><BR>
(Full title of the Plan)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top">Copy to:</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>James K. B. Hesketh<BR>
President and Chief Executive Officer<BR>
14142 Denver West Parkway, Suite&nbsp;250<BR>
Golden, Colorado 80401<BR>
(303)&nbsp;278-8464</B>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Paul Hilton, Esq.<BR>
Richard J. Mattera, Esq.<BR>
Hogan &#038; Hartson L.L.P.<BR>
One Tabor Center, Suite&nbsp;1500<BR>
1200 Seventeenth Street<BR>
Denver, Colorado 80202<BR>
(303)&nbsp;899-7300</B></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></DIV>

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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock, $0.01 par value</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">5,050,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">540</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;),
this registration statement covers, in addition to the number of shares of common stock shown
above, an indeterminate number of shares of common stock that, by reason of certain events
specified in the plan (e.g., anti-dilution adjustments), may become subject to such plan.</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c)
and 457(h) under the Securities Act on the basis of the average of the high and low prices
reported for the Registrant&#146;s common stock as reported on the
American Stock Exchange on July
11, 2006.</TD>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#000"> PART I</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#001">Item&nbsp;1. Plan Information*</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#002">Item&nbsp;2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information*</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#003"> PART II</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#005">Item&nbsp;4. Description of Securities</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#006">Item&nbsp;5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#007">Item&nbsp;6. Indemnification of Officers and Directors</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#008">Item&nbsp;7. Exemption from Registration Claimed</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#009">Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#010">Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#011">SIGNATURES</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#012"> EXHIBIT INDEX</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="d37429exv5w1.htm">Opinion and Consent of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="d37429exv23w1.htm">Consent of Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="d37429exv23w2.htm">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="d37429exv23w3.htm">Consent of Chlumsky, Armbrust & Meyer</A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART I</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</B></DIV>

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    <TD>The documents containing the information specified in Part&nbsp;I will be sent or
given to participants in the Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive
Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;) as specified by Rule&nbsp;428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. According
to the Note to Part&nbsp;I of Form S-8, such documents will not be filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) either as part of this registration
statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule&nbsp;424 under the
Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference pursuant to
Item&nbsp;3 of Part&nbsp;II of this registration statement, taken together, constitute the
prospectus as required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following documents and all other documents subsequently filed with the Commission by
Canyon Resources Corporation (the &#147;Registrant&#148;) pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment that indicates that all the shares of common stock offered hereby have
been sold or that deregisters all such shares of common stock then remaining unsold, are hereby
incorporated herein by reference to be a part of this registration statement from the date of
filing of such documents:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The Registrant&#146;s latest annual report filed on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended
December&nbsp;31, 2005, filed with the Commission on March&nbsp;27, 2006 (File No.&nbsp;001-11887);
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;The Registrant&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for our fiscal quarter ended March&nbsp;31,
2006, filed with the Commission on May&nbsp;8, 2006;
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;The
Registrant&#146;s Current Reports on Forms 8-K and 8-K/A filed with the SEC on January&nbsp;6, 2006,
January&nbsp;26, 2006, February&nbsp;6, 2006, February&nbsp;23, 2006,
May&nbsp;19, 2006, June&nbsp;5, 2006, June&nbsp;12, 2006,
 June&nbsp;26, 2006, July 7, 2006 and July 12, 2006;
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(d)&nbsp;The Registrant&#146;s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule&nbsp;14A filed with the Commission on
April&nbsp;28, 2006;
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(e)&nbsp;the description of the Registrant&#146;s common stock as set forth in the Registrant&#146;s
Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on August&nbsp;6, 1996 (File No.
001-11887).
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition, any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained
in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded
shall not be deemed to constitute a part of this registration statement, except as so modified or
superseded.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Not applicable.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the &#147;DGCL&#148;) provides as follows:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right
of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee
or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director,
officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or
proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be
in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person&#146;s conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a
plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the
person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, or suit by or in the
right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the act that the person is
or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the
request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such
action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be
made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to
be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court
in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly
and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other
court shall deem proper.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;To the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in
subsections (a)&nbsp;and (b)&nbsp;of this section, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such
person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees) actually and reasonably
incurred by such person in connection therewith.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(d)&nbsp;Any indemnification under subsections (a)&nbsp;and (b)&nbsp;of this section (unless ordered by a
court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a
determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is
proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth
in subsections (a)&nbsp;and (b)&nbsp;of this section. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a
person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (1)&nbsp;by majority vote of
directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum,
or (2)&nbsp;by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though
less than a quorum, or (3)&nbsp;if there are no such directors or if such directors so direct, by
independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (4)&nbsp;by the stockholders.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(e)&nbsp;Expenses (including attorney&#146;s fees) incurred by an officer or director in defending any
civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the
corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of
an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall
ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as
authorized in this section. Such expenses (including attorney&#146;s fees) incurred by former directors
</DIV>

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<DIV style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">
<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if
any, as the corporation deems appropriate.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(f)&nbsp;The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the
other subsections of this section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those
seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote
of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person&#146;s
official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(g)&nbsp;A corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person
who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at
the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such
person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person&#146;s status as
such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such
liability under this section.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(h)&nbsp;For purposes of this section, references to &#147;the corporation&#148; shall include, in addition
to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a
constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued,
would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents,
so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as director,
officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this section with respect to the resulting or
surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its
separate existence had continued.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i)&nbsp;For purposes of this section, references to &#147;other enterprises&#148; shall include employee
benefit plans; references to &#147;fines&#148; shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with
respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to &#147;serving at the request of the corporation&#148;
shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation which
imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect
to any employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good
faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and
beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner &#147;not opposed to
the best interests of the corporation&#148; as referred to in this section.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(j)&nbsp;The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this
section shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who
has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(k)&nbsp;The Court of Chancery is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine
all actions for advancement of expenses or indemnification brought under this Section or under any
bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise. The Court of
Chancery may summarily determine a corporation&#146;s obligation to advance expenses (including
attorney&#146;s fees).
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Article&nbsp;VI of the Registrant&#146;s Bylaws provides as follows:
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The corporation, to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware and by the common law of the State of Delaware, shall indemnify each person who is or
was an officer, director or employee of the corporation acting in his capacity as such and may
indemnify each person who is or was an agent of the corporation acting in his capacity as such. The
indemnification rights provided by this Article&nbsp;VI are deemed a contract between the corporation
and its officers, directors, and employees, and any repeal or modification of those rights will not
affect any right of such persons to be indemnified against claims relating to events occurring
prior to such repeal or modification. To assure indemnification under this Article&nbsp;VI of all such
persons who are or were &#147;fiduciaries&#148; of an employee benefit plan governed by the Act of Congress
entitled &#147;Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,&#148; as amended from time to time, Section
145 of said statute shall, for the purposes hereof, be interpreted as follows: &#147;other enterprise&#148;
shall be deemed to include an employee benefit plan; the Corporation shall be deemed to have
requested a person to serve on an employee benefit plan where the
</DIV>

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<DIV style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">
<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">performance by such person of his duties to the corporation also imposes duties on, or
otherwise involves services by, such person to the plan or participants or beneficiaries of the
plan; excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan pursuant to said
Act of Congress shall be deemed &#147;fines&#148;; and action taken or omitted by a person with respect to an
employee benefit plan in the performance of such person&#146;s duties for a purpose reasonably believed
by such person to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan shall be
deemed to be for a purpose which is not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Article&nbsp;9 of the Registrant&#146;s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides as
follows:
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No director of the corporation shall be liable to the corporation or its stockholders for
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i)&nbsp;for any
breach of the director&#146;s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii)&nbsp;for acts or
omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the
law, (iii)&nbsp;for paying dividends or approving a stock purchase or redemption which is illegal or
otherwise impermissible or prohibited under the Delaware General Corporate Law, or (iv)&nbsp;for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The effect of the foregoing provisions is to permit, under certain circumstances, indemnification
of the Company&#146;s officers and directors for civil and criminal liability, such as negligence gross
negligence, and breach of duty, so long as such person acted in good faith in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and which he
reasonably believed to be lawful.
</DIV>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.</B>
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Not applicable.
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits.</B>
</DIV>

<DIV align="center">
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    <TD width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="90%">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Exhibit No.</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Description of Exhibit</B></TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
(filed as Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K (File No.
001-11887) on June&nbsp;12, 2006, and incorporated by reference).</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Hogan &#038; Hartson L.L.P. with respect to the legality
of the common stock registered hereby.</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner &#038; Hottman PC, Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.3
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Chlumsky, Armbrust &#038; Meyer, Independent Mining
Engineer, with respect to the Registrant.</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.4
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Hogan &#038; Hartson L.L.P. (contained in its opinion
filed herewith as Exhibit&nbsp;5.1).</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">24.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this
registration statement).</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings.</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The Registrant hereby undertakes:
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 3%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sale are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 6%">(i)&nbsp;To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act;
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 6%">(ii)&nbsp;To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in
the information set forth in the registration statement;
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 6%">(iii)&nbsp;To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously
disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such
information in the registration statement;
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%"><I>Provided, however</I>, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not
apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission
by the Registrant pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that
are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">(2)&nbsp;That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <I>bona fide</I>
offering thereof.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">(3)&nbsp;To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(b)&nbsp;The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant
to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in
this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial <I>bona fide </I>offering thereof.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(c)&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of
the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than for the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid
by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of
any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person
in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a
court of competent jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed by the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
</DIV>

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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Golden,
State of Colorado on this 13th&nbsp;day of July, 2006.
</DIV>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left">CANYON RESOURCES CORPORATION.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">By:</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ James K. B. Hesketh</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">James K. B. Hesketh</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap>President and Chief Executive Officer</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints James K. B. Hesketh, David P. Suleski, and Richard J. Mattera, and each of them, his true
and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
sign, execute and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or
regulatory authority), for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, this registration
statement on Form S-8 (including all amendments thereto) with all exhibits and any and all
documents required to be filed with respect thereto, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents and each of them, full power and authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as
fully to all intents and purposes as he himself might or could do if personally present, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration
statement on Form S-8 has been signed on by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated:
</DIV>
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    <TD width="30%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS"><B>Signature</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS"><B>Capacity in Which Signed</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS"><B>Date</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ James K. B. Hesketh
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">President and Chief Executive Officer and</FONT>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>

<TD align="center" valign="top">July
13, 2006</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">James K. B. Hesketh </FONT>
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Director (Principal Executive Officer)</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ David P. Suleski
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Vice President and Chief Financial Officer</FONT>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>

<TD align="center" valign="top">July
13, 2006</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">David P. Suleski</FONT>
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">(Principal Financial Officer and Principal</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Accounting Officer)</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">

<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Richard H. De Voto
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Director</FONT>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>

<TD align="center" valign="top">July
13, 2006</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Richard H. De Voto</FONT></DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">

<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Leland O. Erdahl
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Director</FONT>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>

<TD align="center" valign="top">July
13, 2006</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Leland O. Erdahl</FONT></DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">

<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ David K. Fagin
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Director </FONT>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>

<TD align="center" valign="top">July
13, 2006</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">David K. Fagin</FONT></DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">

<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Ronald D. Parker
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Director </FONT>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>

<TD align="center" valign="top">July
13, 2006</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Ronald D. Parker</FONT></DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
(filed as Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K (File No.
001-11887) on June&nbsp;12, 2006, and incorporated by reference).</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Hogan &#038; Hartson L.L.P. with respect to the legality
of the common stock registered hereby.</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner &#038; Hottman PC, Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Chlumsky, Armbrust &#038; Meyer, Independent Mining
Engineer, with respect to the Registrant.</TD>
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filed herewith as Exhibit&nbsp;5.1).</TD>
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Table of Contents
As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, 2006
Registration
No. 333-
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CANYON RESOURCES CORPORATION
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
84-0800747
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
14142 Denver West Parkway, Suite 250
Denver, Colorado
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
80401
(Zip Code)
Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the Plan)
Copy to:
James K. B. Hesketh
President and Chief Executive Officer
14142 Denver West Parkway, Suite 250
Golden, Colorado 80401
(303) 278-8464
Paul Hilton, Esq.
Richard J. Mattera, Esq.
Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
One Tabor Center, Suite 1500
1200 Seventeenth Street
Denver, Colorado 80202
(303) 899-7300
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Amount
Proposed maximum
Proposed maximum
Amount of
Title of securities
to be
offering price
aggregate offering
registration
to be registered
Registered (1)
per share (2)
price (2)
fee (2)
Common Stock, $0.01 par value
5,000,000
$
1.01
$
5,050,000
$
540
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"),
this registration statement covers, in addition to the number of shares of common stock shown
above, an indeterminate number of shares of common stock that, by reason of certain events
specified in the plan (e.g., anti-dilution adjustments), may become subject to such plan.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c)
and 457(h) under the Securities Act on the basis of the average of the high and low prices
reported for the Registrant's common stock as reported on the
American Stock Exchange on July
11, 2006.
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PART I
Item 1. Plan Information*
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information*
PART II
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Item 4. Description of Securities
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Item 6. Indemnification of Officers and Directors
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Item 8. Exhibits
Item 9. Undertakings
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
Opinion and Consent of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
Consent of Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Consent of Chlumsky, Armbrust & Meyer
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information.*
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*
*
The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be sent or
given to participants in the Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive
Plan (the "Plan") as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. According
to the Note to Part I of Form S-8, such documents will not be filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as part of this registration
statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the
Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference pursuant to
Item 3 of Part II of this registration statement, taken together, constitute the
prospectus as required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents and all other documents subsequently filed with the Commission by
Canyon Resources Corporation (the "Registrant") pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment that indicates that all the shares of common stock offered hereby have
been sold or that deregisters all such shares of common stock then remaining unsold, are hereby
incorporated herein by reference to be a part of this registration statement from the date of
filing of such documents:
(a) The Registrant's latest annual report filed on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended
December 31, 2005, filed with the Commission on March 27, 2006 (File No. 001-11887);
(b) The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for our fiscal quarter ended March 31,
2006, filed with the Commission on May 8, 2006;
(c) The
Registrant's Current Reports on Forms 8-K and 8-K/A filed with the SEC on January 6, 2006,
January 26, 2006, February 6, 2006, February 23, 2006,
May 19, 2006, June 5, 2006, June 12, 2006,
 June 26, 2006, July 7, 2006 and July 12, 2006;
(d) The Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on
April 28, 2006;
(e) the description of the Registrant's common stock as set forth in the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on August 6, 1996 (File No.
001-11887).
In addition, any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained
in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded
shall not be deemed to constitute a part of this registration statement, except as so modified or
superseded.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
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Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Officers and Directors.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") provides as follows:
(a) A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right
of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee
or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director,
officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or
proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be
in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person's conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a
plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the
person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
(b) A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, or suit by or in the
right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the act that the person is
or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the
request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such
action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be
made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to
be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court
in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly
and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other
court shall deem proper.
(c) To the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in
subsections (a) and (b) of this section, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such
person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably
incurred by such person in connection therewith.
(d) Any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of this section (unless ordered by a
court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a
determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is
proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth
in subsections (a) and (b) of this section. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a
person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (1) by majority vote of
directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum,
or (2) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though
less than a quorum, or (3) if there are no such directors or if such directors so direct, by
independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (4) by the stockholders.
(e) Expenses (including attorney's fees) incurred by an officer or director in defending any
civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the
corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of
an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall
ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as
authorized in this section. Such expenses (including attorney's fees) incurred by former directors
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and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if
any, as the corporation deems appropriate.
(f) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the
other subsections of this section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those
seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote
of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person's
official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.
(g) A corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person
who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at
the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such
person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person's status as
such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such
liability under this section.
(h) For purposes of this section, references to "the corporation" shall include, in addition
to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a
constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued,
would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents,
so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as director,
officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this section with respect to the resulting or
surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its
separate existence had continued.
(i) For purposes of this section, references to "other enterprises" shall include employee
benefit plans; references to "fines" shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with
respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to "serving at the request of the corporation"
shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation which
imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect
to any employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good
faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and
beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner "not opposed to
the best interests of the corporation" as referred to in this section.
(j) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this
section shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who
has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
(k) The Court of Chancery is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine
all actions for advancement of expenses or indemnification brought under this Section or under any
bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise. The Court of
Chancery may summarily determine a corporation's obligation to advance expenses (including
attorney's fees).
Article VI of the Registrant's Bylaws provides as follows:
The corporation, to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware and by the common law of the State of Delaware, shall indemnify each person who is or
was an officer, director or employee of the corporation acting in his capacity as such and may
indemnify each person who is or was an agent of the corporation acting in his capacity as such. The
indemnification rights provided by this Article VI are deemed a contract between the corporation
and its officers, directors, and employees, and any repeal or modification of those rights will not
affect any right of such persons to be indemnified against claims relating to events occurring
prior to such repeal or modification. To assure indemnification under this Article VI of all such
persons who are or were "fiduciaries" of an employee benefit plan governed by the Act of Congress
entitled "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974," as amended from time to time, Section
145 of said statute shall, for the purposes hereof, be interpreted as follows: "other enterprise"
shall be deemed to include an employee benefit plan; the Corporation shall be deemed to have
requested a person to serve on an employee benefit plan where the
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performance by such person of his duties to the corporation also imposes duties on, or
otherwise involves services by, such person to the plan or participants or beneficiaries of the
plan; excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan pursuant to said
Act of Congress shall be deemed "fines"; and action taken or omitted by a person with respect to an
employee benefit plan in the performance of such person's duties for a purpose reasonably believed
by such person to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan shall be
deemed to be for a purpose which is not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.
Article 9 of the Registrant's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides as
follows:
No director of the corporation shall be liable to the corporation or its stockholders for
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any
breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or
omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the
law, (iii) for paying dividends or approving a stock purchase or redemption which is illegal or
otherwise impermissible or prohibited under the Delaware General Corporate Law, or (iv) for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
The effect of the foregoing provisions is to permit, under certain circumstances, indemnification
of the Company's officers and directors for civil and criminal liability, such as negligence gross
negligence, and breach of duty, so long as such person acted in good faith in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and which he
reasonably believed to be lawful.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
4.1
Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
(filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K (File No.
001-11887) on June 12, 2006, and incorporated by reference).
5.1
Opinion of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. with respect to the legality
of the common stock registered hereby.
23.1
Consent of Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC, Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.
23.3
Consent of Chlumsky, Armbrust & Meyer, Independent Mining
Engineer, with respect to the Registrant.
23.4
Consent of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (contained in its opinion
filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this
registration statement).
Item 9. Undertakings.
(a) The Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sale are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
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(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in
the information set forth in the registration statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously
disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such
information in the registration statement;
Provided, however
, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not
apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission
by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that
are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant
to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in
this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of
the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than for the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid
by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of
any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person
in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a
court of competent jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed by the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Golden,
State of Colorado on this 13th day of July, 2006.
CANYON RESOURCES CORPORATION.
By:
/s/ James K. B. Hesketh
James K. B. Hesketh
President and Chief Executive Officer
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints James K. B. Hesketh, David P. Suleski, and Richard J. Mattera, and each of them, his true
and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
sign, execute and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or
regulatory authority), for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, this registration
statement on Form S-8 (including all amendments thereto) with all exhibits and any and all
documents required to be filed with respect thereto, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents and each of them, full power and authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing
necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as
fully to all intents and purposes as he himself might or could do if personally present, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration
statement on Form S-8 has been signed on by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated:
Signature
Capacity in Which Signed
Date
/s/ James K. B. Hesketh
President and Chief Executive Officer and
July
13, 2006
James K. B. Hesketh
Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ David P. Suleski
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
July
13, 2006
David P. Suleski
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal
Accounting Officer)
/s/ Richard H. De Voto
Director
July
13, 2006
Richard H. De Voto
/s/ Leland O. Erdahl
Director
July
13, 2006
Leland O. Erdahl
/s/ David K. Fagin
Director
July
13, 2006
David K. Fagin
/s/ Ronald D. Parker
Director
July
13, 2006
Ronald D. Parker
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
4.1
Canyon Resources Corporation 2006 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
(filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K (File No.
001-11887) on June 12, 2006, and incorporated by reference).
5.1
Opinion of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. with respect to the legality
of the common stock registered hereby.
23.1
Consent of Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC, Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm, with respect to the Registrant.
23.3
Consent of Chlumsky, Armbrust & Meyer, Independent Mining
Engineer, with respect to the Registrant.
23.4
Consent of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (contained in its opinion
filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this
registration statement).
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