Copper MountainCopper Mountain starts 10,000m drill program at Cu mine Thursday May 11 2017 - News Release COPPER MOUNTAIN ANNOUNCES INITIATION OF EXPLORATION DIAMOND DRILL PROGRAM AT THE MINE Copper Mountain Mining Corp. has started a 10,000-metre exploration drilling program at the Copper Mountain mine. The 2017 program is targeting to further extend pit 2 to the west and to follow up on the pre-2012 drilling that intersected significant mineralization below pit 2. Previous drilling by the company in the pit 2 eastern zone intersected a 128-metre interval grading 1.01 per cent copper and 0.25 gram per tonne gold (including 39 metres grading 2.33 per cent Cu and 0.38 gram per tonne Au), beginning approximately 90 metres below the current pit bottom in hole 10SD-64. In addition, hole No. 10SD-68 intersected a 173-metre interval grading 0.43 per cent Cu and 0.15 gram per tonne Au, while hole No. 12P2-19 intersected a 123-metre interval grading 0.52 per cent Cu and 0.27 gram per tonne Au. The exploration drilling is designed to better determine the trend and continuity for high-grade mineralization at depth under pit 2. With the strengthening of the commodity price over the last year and the mine's improved financial position, the company has allocated modest proceeds to an exploration drilling program at the mine site. The company's focus is to follow up on prior drilling successes to expand the open pit to the west and further test the continuity of higher-grade mineralization at depth