Copper Fox Announces 2023 Year-End Operating and Financial Results
COPPER FOX ANNOUNCES 2023 YEAR-END OPERATING AND FINANCIAL RESULTS
Calgary, Alberta – February 7, 2024. Copper Fox Metals Inc. (“Copper Fox” or the “Company”) (TSX V:
CUU – OTCQX: CPFXF) is pleased to announce that its audited annual consolidated October 31, 2023,
financial statements have been filed on SEDAR+.
All the Company’s subsidiaries are wholly owned.
For the year ended October 31, 2023, Copper Fox had a net loss of $1,114,512 (October 31, 2023 –
$1,290,966) which equated to $0.00 loss per share (October 31, 2022 - $0.00 loss per share).
During the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company incurred $915,190 in expenditures toward
furthering the development of its Schaft Creek and Van Dyke copper projects as well as exploration of
its Eaglehead, Sombrero Butte and Mineral Mountain copper projects. Copies of the financial
statements, notes, and related management discussion and analysis may be obtained on SEDAR+ at
sedarplus.ca, the Company’s web site at www.copperfoxmetals.com or by contacting the Company
directly. All references to planned activities and technical information contained in this news release
have been previously announced by way of news releases. All amounts are expressed in Canadian
dollars unless otherwise stated.
Elmer B. Stewart, President and CEO of Copper Fox, stated, “2023 was a pivotal year with the
completion of the Mineral Resource Estimate at Eaglehead and the completion of the C$17.2 million,
geotechnical, and metallurgical program at Schaft Creek, this is the largest program and budget on the
project since inception of the Schaft Creek Joint Venture. The Mineral Resource Estimate at Eaglehead
significantly increased Copper Fox’s metal balance and demonstrated the potential of this project to
become a significant porphyry deposit and supply of copper in the future. Other achievements in 2023
included mitigation of several operational issues that would significantly impact copper production at
Van Dyke and advancing Mineral Mountain to the drilling stage.
"As we enter 2024, the results from the 2023 Schaft Creek program are being processed and we
await delivery of these results as well as notification of Teck Resource Limited’s (“Teck”) 2024 Schaft
Creek program and budget, this is expected to be received by the end of February. At Van Dyke, the
current drillhole rehabilitation and geotechnical work is progressing and is expected to be completed
in April, at which time the next phase of activities would be planned. The Company is in the
process of obtaining a permit to conduct a maiden drill program at Mineral Mountain and an
extension of the existing Mines Act permit to conduct an “infill” drilling program at Eaglehead.”
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2023 Q4 Highlights
• At Schaft Creek, the Schaft Creek Joint Venture (“SCJV”) completed the field portion of the 2023
program. The C$17.2 million budget is the largest budget since the formation of the SCJV and,
pursuant to the terms of the SCJV agreement, was fully funded by Teck. The field portion of the
2023 program included geotechnical drilling, wildlife, aquatic and archeological surveys,
community engagement and is progressing with a comprehensive metallurgical testwork
program.
• Completion of a Mineral Resource Estimate (“MRE”) on the Eaglehead project reported for the
first time an Indicated resource along with the Inferred resources. The details of the MRE are
set out in a news release dated August 31, 2023.
• Advanced the Mineral Mountain project to the drilling stage. The 2023 geophysical program
outlined a large positive chargeability/resistivity anomaly underlying the porphyry “footprint”.
The geophysical signature a t Mineral Mountain is like that at other oxidized porphyry copper
deposits in Arizona.
• At Van Dyke, the mineral so lubility/mineralogical testwork indicated a high degree of
oxidization, rapid leaching rates for the copper minerals and low acid consum ing gangue and
host rock mineralogy. The work also indicated low potential to generate carbon d ioxide gas
and the precipitation of gypsum during leaching operations ; two ope rational issue s that
significantly impact copper production. The drillhole rehabilitation program and geotechnical
study is currently in progress and expected to be completed by the end of April 2024.
• At Sombrero Butte, the hyperspectral survey identified several areas of interpreted argillic and
siliceous alterations, known mineralized breccia pipes (including the breccia pipes exhibiting
advanced a rgillic alteration) and a sign ificant number of anomalies int erpreted to represent
breccia pipes. Ground checking of the se anomalies is expected to be completed by the end of
March 2024.
Subsequent to the Year Ended
• Activities completed after year-end include an update as well as detailing plans for its Van Dyke
project, the analytical results for the Schaft Creek 2023 geotechnical drilling program and an
update on activities and the hyperspectral survey at Sombrero Butte.
Elmer B. Stewart, MSc, P.Geo, President of Copper Fox, is the Company’s non-independent, nominated
Qualified P erson pursuant to National Instrument 43 -101, Standards for Di sclosure for Mineral
Projects, and has reviewed and approves the scientific and technical information disclosed i n this news
release.
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Selected Financial Results
3 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 3 Months Ended
October 31, 2023 July 31, 2023 April 30, 2023 January 31, 2023
Loss before taxes $ 232,117 $ 348,787 $ 254,018 $ 279,590
Net loss 232,117 348,787 254,018 279,590
Comprehensive (gain) / loss (602,417) 870,509 (43,966) 563,026
Comprehensive loss per share,
basic and diluted
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
3 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 3 Months Ended
October 31, 2022 July 31, 2022 April 30, 2022 January 31, 2022
Loss before taxes $ 461,137 $ 277,827 $ 363,283 $ 248,719
Net loss 401,137 277,827 363,283 248,719
Comprehensive (gain) / loss (668,062) 832,007 (116,314) 140,436
Comprehensive loss per share,
basic and diluted
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Liquidity
As at October 31, 2022, the Company’s cash position was $1,368,852 (October 31, 2022- $132,192) and as of the
date of this News Release the Company’s cash position is $912,900.
About Copper Fox
Copper Fox is a Tier 1 Canadian r esource company focused on copper exploration and de velopment in Canada
and th e United States. The principal assets of Copper Fox and its wholly owned Ca nadian and United States
subsidiaries, being Northern Fox Copper Inc. and Desert Fox Copper Inc., are the 25% interest in the Schaft Creek
Joint Venture with Teck Resources Limited on the Schaft Creek copper -gold-molybdenum-silver project located
in northwestern British Columbia and a 100% ownership of the Van Dyke oxide copper project located in Miami,
Arizona. For more information on Copper Fox’s other m ineral properties and inve stments visit the Company’s
website at www.copperfoxmetals.com.
For additional information please contact Lynn Ball at 1-844-464-2820, [email protected]
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Elmer B. Stewart
President and Chief Executive Officer
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Pro vider (as that term is defined i n the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy o r accuracy of this
release.
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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and forward-looking information within the meaning of the
Canadian securities laws (collectively, “forward-looking information”). Forward-looking information is generally identifiable
by use of the words “believes,” “may,” “plans,” “will,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “budgets”, “could”, “estimates”, “expects”,
“forecasts”, “projects” and similar e xpressions, and the negative of such expressions. Forward-looking information in this
news release include statements regarding; Eaglehead MRE increasing copper inventories and the potential to be a future
copper supplier; completion of a comprehensive metallurgical program at Schaft Creek; mitigating operational issues at Van
Dyke; obtaining a permit for a maiden drill program at Mineral Mountain; extending the permit for an ‘infill’ drill program at
Eaglehead; and the hyperspectral survey at Sombrero Butte identifying several areas of alterations.
In connection with the forward-looking information contained in this news release, Copper Fox and its subsidiaries have
made numerous assumptions regarding, among other things: the geological, financial, and economic advice that Copper Fox
has received is reliable and is based upon practices and methodologies which are consistent with industry standards; and
the stability of economic and market conditions. While Copper Fox considers these assumptions to be reasonable, these
assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies.
Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause Copper Fox’s actual results, performance, or
achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the
forward-looking information contained herein. Known risk factors include, among others: the metallurgical testwork on the
Schaft Creek project may not be completed as planned or at all; drillhole rehabilitation and geotechnical work at Van Dyke
may not be completed as planned or at all; the maiden drilling program at Mineral Mountain may not be completed as
planned or at all; the ‘infill’ drilling program at Eaglehead may not be completed as planned or at all; the ground checking of
the Sombrero Butte anomalies may not be completed as planned or at all; the overall economy may deteriorate;
uncertainty as to the availability and terms of future financing; copper prices and demand may fluctuate; currency
exchange rates may fluctuate; conditions in the financial markets may deteriorate; and uncertainty as to timely availability
of permits and other governmental approvals.
A more complete discussion of the risks and uncertainties facing Copper Fox is disclosed in Copper Fox's continuous
disclosure filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedarplus.ca. All forward-looking information
herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and Copper Fox disclaims any obligation to revise or update
any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking
information contained herein to reflect future results, events, or developments, except as required by law.