Carube Copper Corp. announced that Stephen Hughes, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, will be taking a temporary leave of absence from his management role due to personal health issues, effective immediately. Steve will return to the business as and when he is able to resume full time duties.

Mr. Tony Manini, Chairman of the Board, will assume the role of Executive Chairman to drive the ongoing development of the Company and its projects, supported by Jeff Ackert, VP - Business Development and newly appointed Chief Consulting Geologist, Dr. Stuart Smith. Tony has worked closely with Steve and Jeff over the past two years and is intimately familiar with the Carube business and its projects. Carube is very pleased to have secured the services of Dr. Stuart Smith in the position of Chief Consulting Geologist for their newly acquired Jasperoide project in Southern Peru.

He has 30 years of global exploration experience spanning global project generation to mine geology with a successful track record of brownfield and greenfield discovery. Of particular relevance to Carube's Jasperoide project, Dr. Smith has extensive experience evaluating and exploring Peru for giant porphyry-skarn copper-gold systems and is particularly excited by the potential at Jasperoide.