Canyon Copper Corp. announced that Mr. David Jenkins, P.Geo. and Mr. John Kerr, P.Eng. have accepted invitations to join the newly created Canyon Copper Advisory Board which will assist the company's management in the evaluation and development of the Moonlight and New York Canyon Projects. In late 2012, the company plans to drill test oxide mineralization that was identified to the north and northeast of the Longshot Ridge deposit. Two other areas of oxide copper occur in the north central part of the claims, the Buffington Springs and the Powerline Showings. These have yet to be assessed but have potential as additional sources of oxide copper. Historically, high grade oxide copper was hand mined from these two areas for direct shipment. The company also announced that it has started permitting for a shallow reverse drill program at the Moonlight copper oxide deposit in order to establish a resource estimate of the oxide mineralization in a manner compliant with NI 43-101 regulations. The drill program is planned for early summer 2012 and will be greatly facilitated by the network of new logging roads in the area. In support of this work the old drill core, in storage in nearby Crescent Mills, will be re-logged to confirm the limits of the oxide mineralization. As previously disclosed, the Moonlight copper oxide deposit represents a significant target for Canyon's exploration and in a 1972 internal report for American Exploration and Mining Company ("Amex"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Placer Dome, C. Gillette, a mining engineer employee of Amex, reported a historical oxide "resource" of 12.2 million tons of "ore" at an average grade of 0.54% Cu at a cutoff grade of 0.25% Cu, overlain by 10.8 million tons of "waste". This "waste" was so characterized because of a lack of assaying of the top 3 - 9.1 meters (10 - 30 feet) of the drill holes. Sheffield recovered more than 0.25% copper from virtually all the near surface material when drilling adjacent to holes where Amex had drilled and reported 6m (20 feet) of overburden. This suggests a target size for the oxide resource could be larger than the preliminary Amex estimate. The historical "ore" cited above is mentioned for historical purposes only and uses terminology not compliant with current reporting standards. The reliability of these historical estimates is unknown but considered relevant by Canyon as it represents a significant target for future exploration work by Canyon. The qualified person has not made any attempt to re-classify the estimates accordingly to current NI 43-101 standards of disclosure or the CIM definitions. Canyon is not treating this estimate as current mineral resources or mineral reserves as defined in NI 43-101. Historical "ores" are not equivalent to mineral reserves or resources as they are not supported by at least a feasibility study.