CANYON COPPER ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION OF DIRECTOR

OTCBB: CNYC

VANCOUVER, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Canyon Copper Corp. (the "Corporation") (OTCBB:CNYC) announced today that Milton Datsopoulos resigned as a member of the Corporation's Board of Directors.  Mr. Datsopoulos resigned for personal reasons.  There was no disagreement between Mr. Datsopoulos and the Corporation regarding any matters relating to the Corporation's operations, policies or practices.

About Canyon Copper

The Corporation's New York Canyon Property is located in the New York Canyon area of the Santa Fe Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada. The project hosts oxide and sulphide copper bearing mineralization outlined by historical operators. The most advanced of these zones is the Longshot Ridge copper oxide deposit. This zone has not been completely outlined and remains partially open. The Copper Queen mineralized zone is located approximately three kilometres west of Longshot Ridge and hosts copper and molybdenum sulphide mineralization. Several additional mineralized areas identified throughout the New York Canyon property have yet to be explored.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

"Anthony Harvey"

CANYON COPPER CORP.
Anthony Harvey, Chairman and CEO

This News Release may contain, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phases such as "believe," "expect," "plan," "anticipate" and similar expressions identifying forward-looking statements. Investors should not rely on forward-looking statements because they are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Corporation's expectations, and expressly does not undertake any duty to update forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to the following, the Corporation's ability to obtain additional financing, geological, mechanical or difficulties affecting the Corporation's planned geological work programs, uncertainty of estimates of mineralized material and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Corporation to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

SOURCE Canyon Copper Corp.

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