Commander Resources Ltd. reported the results of its 2023 drill program at the Burn Copper and Gold porphyry project located 100 km north of Smithers, British Columbia. Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada Inc. is earning into the Burn Property and vested at 75% interest during this program. The 2023 program comprised 10 drill holes totaling 4,403 m and tested a wide-spaced variety of targets across a 6 km region.

The Burn Property, which covers 17,675 ha was initially acquired directly by Commander in 2018 to cover prominent gossans exposed along ridges. It is located within the Babine Porphyry belt 70 km north of two past producing mines at Bell and Granisle. There is no record of previous geophysical surveys or drilling.

Previous 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 follow-up reconnaissance program of stream sediment sampling, soil and rock sampling, and geological mapping identified four alteration zones of which the largest is referred to as the Central Copper zone. The Central Copper zone, first drilled in 2022 (4 holes, 1513 m), was the focus of the 2023 drill program and is underlain by numerous phases of feldspar-biotite-hornblende ("BFP") porphyry dykes and stocks exhibiting alteration from chlorite to chlorite-magnetite, and moderate quartz-sericite-pyrite ("phyllic") to intense phyllic with local quartz veinlets.

Drill Hole B-05 and B-06 Holes B-05 and B-06 were drilled at the highest elevation on the property on a large alpine plateau. The target was a prominent circular magnetic high feature. Both holes encountered highly altered intrusive and volcanic rocks with lesser amounts of sediments until passing into massive hornfels sediments near the base of the hole.

Alteration is dominated by sericite and iron carbonate and is accompanied by pyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite with trace amounts of chalcopyrite. Drill Hole B-07 Hole B-07 was collared 120 m west of 2022 hole B-02 and was drilled on section beneath it. Unlike hole B-02, the hole encountered mostly black, weak to moderate sericite altered fossiliferous mudstone and local sections of mixed polylithic mudstone and volcanic breccias.

Pyrite is pervasive as fine disseminations, thin veined stockworks and local planar 1 cm thick veins. Gold was elevated throughout with the best 2-metre interval returning 5.18 g/t gold at 308 metres downhole. Drill Hole B-08 and B-09 Holes B-08, B-09 and B-01 are drilled on the same section with hole B-09 drilled southerly towards hole B-01.

All holes have encountered variably altered biotite feldspar porphyry, feldspar porphyry and k-feldspar porphyry with sulphides dominated by pyrite and chalcopyrite. Copper values in hole B-08 are low except for the bottom 100 metres where values increase with a high value of 18 metres grading 0.05% copper starting at 370.0 m. Hole B-09 returned 0.06% copper over 232.8 m starting at 5.7 metres including a 12-metre interval at 98 m grading 0.22% Cu and 0.13 g/t gold. In both holes, intrusive rocks carried rare 3 cm sericite altered and quartz stockwork veined xenoliths.

Drill Hole B-10 Hole B-10 was collared 200 metres southeast of hole B-01 and drilled to the northeast. It encountered an upper copper-rich interval hosted by biotite felspar porphyry, an intermediate interval dominated by felspar porphyry with minor copper and a lower end of hole copper-rich interval. The upper interval returned 140 metres grading 0.08% Cu and 0.04 g/t gold starting at 12 metres and the lower interval returned 114 metres starting at 364 metres grading 0.06% Cu and 0.03 g/t gold.

Future Work Drill program data compilation is ongoing. Final clay alteration mineral data is being processed and combined with geological and assay data will aid the planning for follow up drilling. Initial conclusions suggest that the Central Copper one may be the upper levels of a deeper porphyry centre.

The Western Gold Zone is unconstrained and is open in all directions.