Excelsior Mining Receives Approval for New Leach Pad at Johnson Camp Mine
NEWS RELEASE
Excelsior Mining Receives Approval for New Leach Pad at Johnson Camp Mine
January 23rd, 2023
Excelsior Mining Corp. (TSX: MIN) (FSE: 3XS) (OTCQB: EXMGF) ("Excelsior" or the “Company”)
is pleased to announce that it has received approval from Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) for a new leach pad at its Johnson Camp Mine (JCM) facility. The Aquifer Protection Permit
(APP) for Johnson Camp has been amended to include the construction and operation of a heap leach
pad to produce copper from the legacy open pits at Johnson Camp in Cochise County, Arizona.
“Excelsior appreciates the groundwater protection team at ADEQ for their dedication to the protection of
Arizona’s groundwater and their guidance through the process. The amended APP is a key piece for
Excelsior to continue developing its JCM project after the successful drilling program of 2022. The
permit approval is also welcomed in the context of the recently announced collaboration with an
industry leader in the emerging sulfide heap leach technology. We are excited for the potential that
Johnson Camp brings to Excelsior to complement our growing mining camp in Southern Arizona, one
of the best jurisdictions in the world for mining the critical materials required for our ever-changing
world,” states Robert Winton, SVP Operations.
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
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,
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statements with respect to: (i) the intention to deploy sulfide leaching technology at the Johnson Camp mine and
other Excelsior copper projects, and future production therefrom; and (ii) details of future operational plans.
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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
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 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.