Copper Fox launches maiden drill program at Mineral Mountain Porphyry Copper Project, Arizona

Copper Fox Metals Inc. [TSXV: CUU; OTCQX: CPFXF; FSE: HPU] and its wholly owned subsidiary, Desert Fox Mineral Mountain Co., reported that drilling operations have commenced on its 100%-owned Mineral Mountain porphyry copper project, Arizona.

The Mineral Mountain project is located on a prolific northeast trending porphyry copper belt approximately 25 km southwest from Rio Tinto and BHP’s giant Resolution porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit and approximately 20km northeast of the Florence porphyry copper deposit.

The diamond drilling program is designed to drill test at depth the large area of copper-molybdenum mineralization and alteration exposed at surface and the equally large, open ended positive chargeability body at depth. A brief description of the porphyry copper target to be tested is set out below.

Porphyry Copper Target: Copper and molybdenum mineralization occurs over an area of approximately 4,500 metres long up to 2,000 metres wide and is underlain by an open-ended, northeast trending positive chargeability anomaly (>14mrad) measuring approximately 3,200m by 1,200m.

The copper mineralization is hosted in Laramide age, potassic, propylitic and phyllic altered porphyritic and non-porphyritic quartz monzonites and biotite granodiorites, typical host rocks for porphyry copper deposits in Arizona.

Copper mineralization contains enhanced gold concentrations, several Laramide age porphyry copper deposits in Arizona contain enhanced gold concentrations.

The copper mineralization contains a significant amount of chalcocite, a copper sulfide mineral that results from weathering/oxidization/supergene cycles and is typically observed in Laramide age porphyry copper deposits in Arizona.

Elmer B. Stewart, President, and CEO of Copper Fox, stated, “Copper Fox is excited to test this large, high-quality porphyry copper target that exhibits the mineralization, alteration, host rocks, and geophysical signatures typically observed at other porphyry copper deposit in Arizona. The size of the porphyry footprint and its location on a northeast trending porphyry copper belt that hosts some of the largest porphyry copper deposit in Arizona is an indication of the porphyry potential of the Mineral Mountain project.”

The objective of the 2025 drilling program is to drill test the depth extent of the porphyry style copper-molybdenum mineralization and alteration exposed on surface and determine the cause of the underlying, equally large open-ended chargeability anomaly.

The drilling program calls for up to 2,000 metres of drilling in four locations as specified in the drilling permit. Copper Fox has designed a flexible drilling program to consider the possibility of extending the length of a drillhole depending on observations in drill core based on the factors such as presence and abundance of copper mineralization, veining, and associated alteration patterns.

While this could result in extending the depth of a drillhole there is a possibility that the planned drilling could result in less than the four drillholes being completed.

Copper Fox, and its wholly owned subsidiaries being Northern Fox Copper Inc. and Desert Fox Copper Inc., assets are the 25% interest in the Schaft Creek Joint Venture with Teck Resources on the Schaft Creek copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project, the 100%-owned Eaglehead polymetallic porphyry copper project each located in northwestern British Columbia, and the 100% ownerships of the Van Dyke ISCR project, and the Mineral Mountain and Sombrero Butte porphyry copper exploration projects all located in Arizona.