Excelsior Mining Announces Receipt of Permit Amendment for Well Stimulation at the Gunnison Copper Mine
NEWS RELEASE
Excelsior Mining Announces Receipt of Permit Amendment for Well Stimulation at the
Gunnison Copper Mine
April 24th, 2023
Excelsior Mining Corp. (TSX: MIN) (FSE: 3XS) (OTCQB: EXMGF) ("Excelsior" or the “Company”)
is pleased to announce that the United States Environmental Protection Agency has issued an
amendment to the Class III Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Area Permit, that will allow for well
stimulation to occur at the Gunnison Copper Project, located in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona.
Well stimulation has the potential to fundamentally change the performance of the wellfield, and eliminate
or reduce the need for the raffinate neutralization plant. Excelsior intends to proceed to field trials in early
H2 of 2023. Excelsior will submit the well stimulation work plans required by the permit and schedule the
necessary contractors in the near term.
Well stimulation is primarily intended to inflate (open-up) the pre-existing mineralized facture network in
the wellfield to help gas bubbles escape. It can enlarge pre-existing channels and flow paths, increase
pore space and make it possible for solution to move more readily from injection to recovery well. Doing
so should improve connectivity between these wells, improve flow rates, sweep efficiency and copper
production. Previously Excelsior commissioned a leading engineering and environmental consulting firm
to undertake well stimulation modelling on a selection of wells within the current wellfield. The model
showed that well stimulation successfully inflated pre-existing fractures over significant volumes around
the central well within the 5-spot pattern.
The amended permit will be effective on May 26th, 2023.
ABOUT EXCELSIOR MINING
Excelsior “The Copper Solution Company ” is a mineral exploration and production company that owns
and operates the Gunnison Copper Project in Cochise County, Arizona. The project is a low cost,
environmentally friendly in-situ recovery copper extraction project that is permitted to 125 million pounds
per year of copper cathode production. Excelsior also owns the past producing Johnson Camp Mine and
a portfolio of exploration projects, including the Peabody Sill and the Strong and Harris deposits.
For more information on Excelsior, please visit our website at www.excelsiormining.com.
For further information regarding this press release, please contact:
Excelsior Mining Corp.
Concord Place, Suite 300, 2999 North 44th Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85018.
Shawn Westcott
T: 604.365.6681
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www.excelsiormining.com
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking information" concerning anticipated developments and events that may
occur in the future. Forward looking information contained in this news release includes, but is not limited to,
statements with respect to: (i) the potential of well stimulation to improve performance of the Company’s mineral
projects; (ii) the details of future well stimulation trials, including the expected timeline, and (iii) future production
and production capacity from the Company’s mineral projects.
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objectives, assumptions, intentions or statements about future events or performance. Forward-looking information
contained in this news release is based on certain factors and assumptions regarding, among other things, the
amended permit will not be appealed, work plans will be approved in a timely manner, the availability of financing
to implement the Company’s operational plans, the estimation of mineral resources and mineral reserves, the
realization of resource and reserve estimates, expectations and anticipated impact of the COVID-19 outbreak,
copper and other metal prices, the timing and amount of future development expenditures, the estimation of initial
and sustaining capital requirements, the estimation of labour and operating costs (including the price of acid), the
availability of labour, material and acid supply, receipt of and compliance with necessary regulatory approvals and
permits, the estimation of insurance coverage, and assumptions with respect to currency fluctuations, environmental
risks, title disputes or claims, and other similar matters. While the Company considers these assumptions to be
reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove to be incorrect.
Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause
the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such factors include risks
inherent in the construction and operation of mineral deposits, including risks relating to changes in project
parameters as plans continue to be redefined including the possibility that mining operations may not be sustained
at the Gunnison Copper Project, risks relating to an appeal of the permit amendment that delays its effectiveness,
risks related to the delay in approval of work plans, variations in mineral resources and reserves, grade or recovery
rates, risks relating to the ability to access infrastructure, risks relating to changes in copper and other commodity
prices and the worldwide demand for and supply of copper and related products, risks related to increased
competition in the market for copper and related products, risks related to current global financial conditions, risks
related to current global financial conditions and the impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, uncertainties
inherent in the estimation of mineral resources, access and supply risks, risks related to the ability to access acid
supply on commercially reasonable terms, reliance on key personnel, operational risks inherent in the conduct of
mining activities, including the risk of accidents, labour disputes, increases in capital and operating costs and the
risk of delays or increased costs that might be encountered during the construction or mining process, regulatory
risks including the risk that permits may not be obtained in a timely fashion or at all, financing, capitalization and
liquidity risks, risks related to disputes concerning property titles and interests, environmental risks and the
additional risks identified in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s reports and filings with applicable Canadian
securities regulators.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results
to differ materially from those described in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause
actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place
undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information is made as of the date of this news
release. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not undertake any obligation to
publicly update or revise any forward-looking information.