Placer Dome SUPPL Supplemental materials (foreign)

Filed pursuant to General Instruction II.L. of Form F-10;
File No. 333-113870

No securities regulatory authority has expressed an opinion about these securities and it is an offense to claim otherwise.

This prospectus supplement, together with the base shelf prospectus to which it relates dated April 14, 2004 and each document deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, constitutes a public offering of these securities only in those jurisdictions where they may be lawfully offered for sale and therein only by persons permitted to sell such securities.

Prospectus Supplement No. 4 dated August 1, 2004 to Short Form Base Shelf Prospectus dated April 14, 2004, as previously supplemented on May 18, 2004, June 1, 2004 and July 1, 2004

US$230,000,000

2.75% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR DEBENTURES DUE 2023

Interest payable on April 15 and October 15

     Pursuant to the multijurisdictional disclosure system adopted by the Canadian securities regulatory authorities and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), we filed a short form base shelf prospectus (the “prospectus”), dated April 14, 2004, with the British Columbia Securities Commission (the “BCSC”), and a registration statement on Form F-10 containing the prospectus with the SEC. The prospectus may be used by the selling securityholders named therein in connection with resales of our 2.75% Convertible Senior Debentures due 2023 (the “debentures”) and the common shares issuable upon the conversion of the debentures (the “underlying shares”).

     The holders of the debentures and the underlying shares (together, the “registrable securities”) are entitled to the benefits of a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), dated as of October 10, 2003, among us and Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated, as representatives of the initial purchasers of the debentures. Under the Registration Rights Agreement, any holder of registrable securities wishing to sell registrable securities pursuant to the prospectus must deliver a Notice and Questionnaire to us (each holder who has delivered a Notice and Questionnaire to us is referred to herein as an “electing holder”). Under the Registration Rights Agreement, we have agreed to file with the BCSC and the SEC the documents required to include in the prospectus the registrable securities held by electing holders.

     We are filing this prospectus supplement to include in the prospectus the registrable securities of electing holders who have signed, completed and delivered to us a Notice and Questionnaire since July 1, 2004.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

     This section amends and replaces the section in the prospectus entitled “Documents Incorporated by Reference”.

     We are “incorporating by reference” into the prospectus information we file with the BCSC, which means we are disclosing important information to you by referring you to those documents. The following documents filed by us with the BCSC are incorporated by reference into, and form an integral part of, the prospectus:

(1)	Annual Information Form, dated February 26, 2004, including 2003 Consolidated Annual Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, with respect thereto, both prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. “2003 Consolidated Financial Statements” means our 2003 consolidated financial statements, and the related notes thereto, as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and for the three-year period ended December 31, 2003, together with the auditors’ report thereon.
(2)	Consolidated annual financial statements, and the related notes thereto, as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and for the three-year period ended December 31, 2003, together with the auditors’ report thereon, prepared in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles (“2003 Canadian GAAP Consolidated Financial Statements”).
(3)	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, with respect to the 2003 Canadian GAAP Consolidated Financial Statements, prepared in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles.
(4)	Material change report, dated March 5, 2004, announcing that our board of directors has adopted a shareholders’ rights plan to replace the existing shareholders’ rights plan, which expired at the termination of our 2004 annual and special meeting of shareholders, held on May 5, 2004.
(5)	Material change report, dated March 22, 2004, announcing that Jay K. Taylor, our President and Chief Executive Officer, has advised our board of directors that he will be retiring from those offices on September 30, 2004.
(6)	Unaudited consolidated financial statements as at June 30, 2004 and for the six months ended June 30, 2004 and 2003, and the related notes thereto, prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations relating thereto.

     Any document of the type referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding confidential material change reports) after the date of the prospectus and prior to expiration of the effectiveness of the registration statement containing the prospectus is deemed to be incorporated by reference into the prospectus.

     Any statement contained in the prospectus or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of the prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in the prospectus or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference into the prospectus modifies and supersedes that statement. The modifying or superseding statement need not state that it has modified or superseded a prior statement or include any other information set forth in the document that it modifies or supersedes. The making of a modifying or superseding statement will not be deemed an admission for any purposes that the modified or superseded statement, when made, constituted a misrepresentation, an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact that is required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances in which it was made. Any statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute part of the prospectus.

     We will provide, without charge, to each person to whom a copy of the prospectus has been delivered, upon the written or oral request of such person, a copy of any or all of the documents referred to above which have been or may be incorporated by reference into the prospectus. Requests for such copies should be directed to the Secretary, Placer Dome Inc., P.O. Box 49330, Bentall Postal Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V7X 1P1, telephone (604) 682-7082.

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SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS

     The following table lists all electing holders as of the date of this prospectus supplement, based upon the information given to us by those electing holders.

Name of Selling Securityholder	Principal Amount of Notes Beneficially Owned That May Be Sold (US$)
1976 Distribution Trust FBO A.R. Lauder/Zinterhofer		10,000
2000 Revocable Trust FBO A.R. Lauder/Zinterhofer		10,000
Advisory Convertible Arbitrage Fund (I) L.P.		1,200,000
Aftra Health Fund		110,000
Alcon Laboratories		557,000
Alexandra Global Master Fund Ltd.		5,000,000
Allstate Insurance Company		1,000,000
Allstate Life Insurance Company		1,500,000
American Investors Life Insurance Co.		200,000
Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company		495,000
AmerUS Life Insurance Co.		5,200,000
Arapahoe County Colorado		69,000
Arkansas PERS		1,320,000
Arlington County Employees Retirement System		1,150,000
Asante Health Systems		143,000
Attorney’s Title Insurance Fund		65,000
Bankers Life Insurance Company of New York		100,000
Beamtenversicherungskasse des Kantons Zurich		5,300,000
Bernische Lehrerversicherungkasse		1,100,000
British Virgin Islands Social Security Board		126,000
City and County of San Francisco Retirement System		2,129,000
City of New Orleans		293,000
City University of New York		217,000
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.		2,683,000
Convertible Securities Fund		65,000
CNH CA Master Account, LP		500,000
DB Equity Opportunities Master Portfolio		400,000
DBAG London		100,000
DaimlerChrysler Corp. Emp. #1 Pension Plan dtd 4/1/89		5,185,000
Defined Benefit Plan of Zeneca AG Products Holdings, Inc.		120,000
Delaware Public Employees Retirement System		2,235,000
Delta Airlines Master Trust		440,000
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.		3,530,000
DKR Saturn Event Driven Holding Fund Ltd.		2,000,000
DKR Saturn Special Situations Holding Fund Ltd.		2,000,000
DKR SoundShore Strategic Holding Fund Ltd.		4,000,000
Dodeca Fund, L.P.		850,000
Duke Endowment		340,000
Family Service Life Insurance Co.		100,000
Franklin and Marshall College		295,000
Froley Revy Investment Convertible Security Fund		110,000
Gemini Sammelstiftung zur Forderung der Personalvorsorge		280,000

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Name of Selling Securityholder	Principal Amount of Notes Beneficially Owned That May Be Sold (US$)
Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System		939,000
GLG Global Convertible Fund		8,000,000
GLG Global Convertible UCITS Fund		3,000,000
GLG Market Neutral Fund		17,000,000
Grady Hospital Foundation		192,000
Guardian Life Insurance Co.		5,300,000
Guardian Pension Trust		600,000
Hamburger Pensionkasse von 1905 VvaG		115,000
Independence Blue Cross		572,000
Indianapolis Life Insurance Co.		16,875,000
Inflective Convertible Opportunity Fund I, L.P.		30,000
Innovest Finanzdienstle		1,685,000
Jeffries Umbrella Fund Global Convertible Bonds		1,880,000
Jeffries Umbrella Fund US Convertible Bonds		200,000
JMG Capital Partners LP		29,200,000
JMG Triton Offshore Fund, Ltd.		30,450,000
JP Morgan Securities Inc.		563,000
LDG Limited		78,000
Lexington Vantage Fund		8,000
Lighthouse Multi-Strategy Master Fund Ltd.		150,000
Louisiana CCRF		150,000
MLQA Convertible Securities Arbitrage Ltd		10,000,000
McMahan Securities Co. L.P.		840,000
Mainstay Convertible Fund		2,290,000
Mainstay VP Convertible Fund		1,230,000
Managed Assets Trust		50,000
Maystone Continuum Master Fund Ltd.		4,250,000
Mellon HBU Master Convertible Arbitrage Fund LP		400,000
Mellon HBU Master Multi-Strategy Fund LP		100,000
Merrill Lynch Insurance Group		461,000
Mint Hite Fund LP		100,000
Morgan Stanley Allocator Fund		370,000
Morgan Stanley Convertible Securities Trust		1,350,000
Municipal Employees		344,000
National Benefit Life Insurance Company		6,000
Nations Convertible Securities Fund		8,435,000
New Orleans Firefighters Pension/Relief Fund		195,000
New York Life Insurance Company (Post 82)		2,460,000
New York Life Insurance Company (Pre 82)		1,130,000
New York Life Separate Account #7		40,000
Nicholas Applegate Capital Management Investment Grade Convertible		20,000
Nisswa Master Fund Ltd.		450,000
Occidental Petroleum Corporation		387,000
Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation		249,000
Pacific Life Insurance Company		250,000
Pensionkasse der Antalis AG		70,000
Pensionkasse der Ems-Chemie AG		90,000
Pensionkasse der Ems-Dottikon AG		140,000
Pensionkasse der Lonza AG		200,000
Pensionkasse der Rockwell Automation AG		90,000
Pensionkasse Pluss-Staufer AG		80,000
Pensionkasse Vantico		140,000
Personalfursorgestiftung der Gebaudeversicherung des Kantons Bern		290,000

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Name of Selling Securityholder	Principal Amount of Notes Beneficially Owned That May Be Sold (US$)
Personalvorsorge der PV Promea		240,000
Pioneer High Yield Fund		55,850,000
Pioneer High Yield VCT Portfolio		250,000
Pioneer U.S. High Yield Corp. Bond Sub Fund		1,250,000
Policeman and Fireman Retirement System of the City of Detroit		730,000
Primerica Life Insurance Company		56,000
Pro-mutual		1,077,000
Prudential Insurance Co. of America		15,000
Pyramid Equity Strategies Fund		100,000
Quest Global Convertible Master Fund Ltd.		1,350,000
Recon Arbitrage Master Fund, Ltd.		3,000,000
SC Cowen Securities Corp.		2,000,000
Sphinx Fund		53,000
Standard Fire Insurance Company		106,000
State Employees’ Retirement Fund of the State of Delaware		1,290,000
State of Florida Division of Treasury		950,000
State of Maryland Retirement Agency		4,616,000
State of Oregon/Equity		4,125,000
State Street Bank Custodian for GE Pension Fund		2,595,000
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America		2,500,000
The Grable Foundation		120,000
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (Swanbird & Co. nominee)		1,500,000
TQA Master Fund Ltd.		768,000
TQA Master Plus Fund Ltd.		702,000
Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America		144,000
The Travelers Indemnity Company		106,000
The Travelers Insurance Company – Life		392,000
The Travelers Insurance Company – Separate Account TLAC		11,000
The Travelers Life and Annuity Company		29,000
Travelers Series Trust Convertible Bond Portfolio		100,000
Triborough Partners International Ltd.		4,620,000
Triborough Partners LLC		1,980,000
Trustmark Insurance		489,000
United Overseas Bank (USD)		20,000
United Overseas Bank (SGD)		55,000
Universal Investment Gesellschaft MBH		1,350,000
Van Kampen Harbour Fund		1,900,000
Victus Capital, LP		2,000,000
Xavex — Convertible Arbitrage 7 Fund		150,000
Zeneca Holdings Pension Fund		290,000
Zurich Institutional Benchmarks Master Fund, Ltd.		162,000

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