Commander Resources Ltd. reported that it will follow-up its successful inaugural drill program at the Burn Copper and Gold porphyry project (the "Burn Property" or "Burn") with 4,000 metres ("m") of drilling scheduled to begin on July 15, 2023. The Burn Project is located 100 km north of Smithers, British Columbia. Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada Inc. ("Freeport") is earning up to a 75% interest in the Burn Property and Commander is the operator.

Commander completed an inaugural drill test of the project comprised of four drill holes totaling 1,513 m from three drill sites in October 2022. Highlights: Burn represents a new greenfields porphyry copper and gold discovery. 4,000 metre fully funded drill program to begin July 15th.

Targeting a large 9 km2 partially exposed porphyry system drill tested for the first time in 2022. Successful drilling in 2022 discovered a central porphyry zone in Hole BU22-01 that returned 50 metres @ 0.24% CuEq and a separate gold-rich zone in hole BU22-02 that returned 83.5 metres grading 1.08 g/t Au. Targets to be tested comprise step outs from 2022 holes and drilling of widespread magnetic and soil geochemical targets.

The Burn Property, which covers 17,675 ha was acquired directly by Commander in 2018 to cover prominent gossans exposed along ridges and has seen limited historical exploration. The 2022 program was the first time the property has been drilled. The Burn Property is located within the Babine Porphyry belt 70 km north of two past producing mines at Bell and Granisle.

Initial work at Burn in 2018 identified widespread phyllic-style alteration with trace amounts of chalcopyrite. There is no record of previous geophysical surveys or drilling. Past work by Commander, funded by Freeport, included a property wide airborne magnetic survey which outlined two prominent circular magnetic rings and several linear magnetic highs that coincide with stocks and dykes of Eocene age.

A property-wide program of stream sediment sampling, soil and rock sampling, and geological mapping outlined four alteration zones of which the largest is referred to as the Central zone, the focus of the current drill program. It is underlain by numerous phases of feldspar-biotite-hornblende porphyry dykes and stocks exhibiting alteration from chlorite to chlorite-magnetite, and moderate quartz-sericite-pyrite (QSP) to intense QSP with local quartz veinlets.