Canyon Closes Option Agreement to Acquire Bootleg Lake GOLD Property
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CANYON CLOSES OPTION AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE BOOTLEG LAKE GOLD PROPERTY
VANCOUVER, BC, May 31, 2017.
Canyon Copper Corp. (“Canyon”) (TSX-V: CNC) is pleased to announce that the TSX Venture Exchange (the
“Exchange”) has closed the option agreement (“Option Agreement”) with New Moon Minerals Corp. (“New
Moon”), a private company, whereby Canyon can earn up to a 75% interest i n the Bootleg Lake Gold Property
(the “Property” or “Bootleg Lake”). Canyon paid $5,000 on the signing of the agreement and is now paying an
additional $5,000 and issuing 2 50,000 common shares to New Moon on the Exchange acceptance. The future
obligations under the Option Agreement are set forth in Canyon’s news release dated May 11, 2017.
The Property is located near Creighton, Saskatchewan, Canada, five kilometres southwest of the city of Flin
Flon, Manitoba.
Bootleg Lake Exploration by New Moon Minerals Corp.
Canyon has begun the compilation of the existing data on the Bootleg Lake gold property, including work
conducted by New Moon, which carried out multiple geophysical surveys and two diamond drilling prog rams
since purchasing the Bootleg Lake property in 2010. In 2013 and 2014 New Moon carried two drilling programs
totaling 1,055.2 metres in 8 diamond drill holes on two different targets.
In 2013, New Moon carried out a HLEM survey on the west side of Bo otleg Lake that confirmed historical
conductors previously surveyed by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting in the 1950s. Later in 2013, Koop
Geotechnical Services of Flin Flon, MB (“Koop”) was contracted to carry out a deep -penetrating TDEM survey
over historical Spectrem anomalies across the centre of the property. In 2014, a new TDEM survey by Koop was
carried out to test VTEM anomalies noted from the re -interpretation of a 2007 survey by HudBay Minerals
(“HBM”), which outlined the Bootleg North and Bootleg South conductors.
The first drill program totaling 219.2 metres in 4 diamond drill holes was designed to verify the geology, gold
mineralization and assay results of selected historical drill holes in the vicinity of the Rio mine portal. The
highlights of the 2013 drilling are below.
The Rio deposit is characterize d as Mesothermal gold mineralization along the Rio Fault corridor, particularly in
close proximity to the granodioritic Boot Lake pluton immediately to the south. Gold mineralization occurs within
zones greater than 10 metres with multiple quartz carbonat e veins, stringers and quartz flooding within locally
brecciated mafic to intermediate metavolcanic rocks.
New Moon Minerals Corp. 2013 - Rio Deposit Drill Program
DDH From To Length Gold
Metres Metres Metres g/t
NM 01-13 13.7 15.0 1.3 2.44
including 14.0 14.3 0.3 5.13
NM 01-13 16.3 16.6 0.3 10.20
NM 01-13 17.3 17.7 0.4 1.98
NM 01-13 23.3 23.6 0.3 5.54
NM 01-13 27.0 27.5 0.5 8.02
NM 02-13 12.0 13.0 1.0 1.80
NM 02-13 24.0 24.5 0.5 2.04
NM 02-13 34.0 34.5 0.5 12.00
NM 02-13 35.0 36.0 1.0 1.46
NM 04-13 6.0 7.0 1.0 1.55
NM 04-13 8.5 9.5 1.0 3.20
Data from : ASSESSMENT REPORT on the WINTER 2013 DIAMOND DRILLING
PROGRAM, CREIGHTON PROPERTY DOUGLAS, BOOTLEG, PHANTOM AND
WEKACH LAKE AREAS LARONGE MINING DISTRICT FLIN FLON AREA,
SASKATCHEWAN NTS 63K/12 NW UTM 312710 E / 6066935 N (NAD83 Z14) by NEW
MOON MINERALS CORPORATION by David S. Hunt P. Geo., Clark Geological
Consulting Inc., Thunder Bay, May 29, 2013.
In 2014 New Moon carried out a second four drill hole program totaling 836 metres to test the geophysical target
Bootleg North conductor for Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (“VMS”) mineralization similar to that found in the
nearby Flin Flon camp.
A borehole pulse -EM survey was carried out afte r the third drill hole, NM -07-14 was completed. This survey
indicated an off -hole conductor above and to the south of the intersection in this hole, therefore a fourth drill
hole, NM-08-14, was designed to test this anomaly. Highlights of this drilling are shown in the table below.
New Moon Minerals Corp. 2014 - Bootleg North Drill Program
DDH From To Length Gold Silver Copper
Metres Metres Metres g/t g/t %
NM 05-14 165.78 166.25 0.47 0.33 2.21 0.55
NM 06-14 173.45 174.91 1.46 1.16 3.77 0.36
NM 07-14 158.69 160.17 1.48 3.95 18.98 0.70
Including 159.42 159.86 0.44 10.99 45.45 1.67
NM 07-14 205.5 206.28 0.78 47.97 26.47 0.02
including 206.09 206.28 0.19 100.00 16.00 0.01
NM 08-14 195.81 198.55 2.74 6.02 62.66 0.78
Including 195.81 196.61 0.8 16.14 23.27 2.04
Data source – ASSESSMENT REPORT ON THE 2014 DIAMOND DRILLING PROGRAM, CREIGHTON
PROPERTY DOUGLAS, BOOTLEG, PHANTOM AND WEKACH LAKE AREAS LARONGE MINING
DISTRICT CREIGHTON, SASKATCHEWAN, by NEW MOON MINERALS CORPORATION by Anthony
Spooner, P. Geo., Flin Flon, MB, August 31, 2016.
Exploration plans for Bootleg Lake Gold Property
Geological data compilation including GIS and 3D modeling of the Bootleg Lake Property is now underway.
From this work an exploration plan including surface mapping & sampling, geophysics and drilling will be
designed.
Qualified Person
Andrew Gracie PhD PGeo is the Company's designated Qualified Person within the meaning of National
Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
“Stephen Wallace”
CANYON COPPER CORP.
Stephen Wallace, President, CEO and Director
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forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to the following, limited operating history, proposed explorat ion and/or
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