Commander Resources Ltd. reported that it has begun an initial 1,000 meter drill program at its Burn Copper and Gold porphyry project in British Columbia (the "Burn Property"). Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada Inc. ("Freeport") is earning into the Burn Property and Commander is the operator of the project. In addition, Commander has expanded the Burn Property through an option agreement with private tenure holders allowing Commander to acquire a 100% interest in two claims totaling 127 hectares ("ha"). The Burn Property, which covers 17,675 ha property, is located
100 km north of Smithers, British Columbia and was acquired directly by Commander in 2018 to cover prominent gossans exposed along ridges. 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 magne tic survey (200 m spaced flight lines) which has outlined two prominent circular magnetic rings and several linear magnetic highs that coincide with stocks and dykes of Eocene age. A property-wide sampling program of stream sediment sampling, soil and rock sampling, and geological mapping has identified four alteration zones of which the largest is referred to as the Central zone. The Central zone, the focus of this year's drill program, is underlain by numerous phases of feldspar-biotite- hornblende monzonite and quartz monzonite dykes and stocks exhibiting alteration from chlorite to chlorite-magnetite, and moderate quartz-sericite-pyrite (QSP) to intense QSP with local quartz veinlets. In one location, angular boulders of K-feldspar-biotite-magnetite altered feldspar-biotite porphyry monzonite with sheeted and stockwork magnetite-quartz veins with K-feldspar haloes was discovered. Reconnaissance soil sampling in the Central zone has identified several anomalous Au-Cu and Mo areas including one discrete region on the west side where three samples over a distance of 300 m returned 500 ppb Au to 3900 ppb Au. Silt sampling from one of the north flowing creeks draining the Main zone returned anomalous Cu-Mo- Au throughout.