Canyon Copper Corp. acquires Copper Queen Patents; Longshot Ridge samples in process

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VANCOUVER, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Canyon Copper Corp. ("Canyon Copper") (TSX-V: CNC) (OTCBB: CNYC) is pleased to announce that it has acquired three of the patented claims included in its New York Canyon Project. The patented claims, being Copper Queen 1, Copper Queen 2 and Mildred, form a contiguous block of approximately 57 acres over the Copper Queen mine workings, including 2 shafts. One of the shafts has an estimated depth of 75 feet, which is now caved, and the second shaft to the south, which was once well shored, had a depth of 224 feet and has substantial dump of mineralized material and waste rock adjacent to it.

A brief report by James Fredie indicated that the mineralization in this dump area included oxide and sulphide copper and some powellite, a mixture of calcium molybdate and calcium tungstate. Dump material included Luning Limestone, iron stained quartz porphry and contact zone rocks believed to be skarn rock that was originally Luning limestone. A more recent report by M. Brady (December 1997) shows that drilling by Conoco was very widely spaced for investigation of the very irregular geometry of skarn mineralization and was apparently geared to defining more consistent porphyry style mineralization in a bulk tonnage configuration. M. Brady's report identifies an area on the north side of the Copper Queen patents as having good potential for developing such a target.

Drill sample pulps from the 2006 drill campaign on the Longshot Ridge oxide deposit were delivered to a Sparks Nevada laboratory in August, 2011 and Canyon Copper is still waiting for the last batch of these samples. The samples were not included in the Canyon Copper NI 43-101 resource estimate for Longshot Ridge because they failed the quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) requirements of management. They are from drill holes that were mainly outlining the oxide deposit or infilling gaps in the original drill pattern, and will be included in a revised resource estimate when they have been audited for QA/QC and incorporated in the data base.

Qualified Person
Benjamin Ainsworth, P. Eng, BC, with Licence #8648 and the President of Canyon Copper, is a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the contents of this news release.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

"Benjamin Ainsworth"

CANYON COPPER CORP.
Benjamin Ainsworth, President

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SOURCE Canyon Copper Corp.