Copper Road Resources Inc. announced that the 2023 drill program has commenced at the highly-pro prospective JR Zone at its Copper Road Project in Batchewana Bay, Ontario. The current drill campaign is designed to demonstrate that the JR Zone hosts a shallow mineralized porphyry and high-grade breccia in the centre of the Company's district-scale land package that hosts two past-producing copper mines. There have been very few new shallow copper discoveries in Tier-1 jurisdictions in the past decade.

Given the potential large scale of the JR Zone, Copper Road is poised to unlock significant value for shareholders, and look forward to the results from the summer program. The Company is currently drilling the following priority targets at the JR Zone: J-P-23-01: the hole will test the Jogran porphyry at depth proximal to historical DDHs from 1964: JDH-13 (5 to 152 m: 147 m @ 0.27% Cu, 0.068% MoS2, 0.53% Cu Eq) and JDH-16 (5 to 170 m: 165m @ 0.23% Cu, 0.054% MoS2, 0.,43% Cu Eq), neither of which were assayed for potential by-product metals (e.g. Au, Ag, Re, W). JR Zone Gradient IP: Additional drill holes have been engineered to follow-up on the new targets, such as the J2 "Roof Zone" and the Richards NW chargeability anomaly, as well as follow-up on visual results of mineralization in the first two proposed holes (J-P-23-01 and R-P-23-01) with step-outs.

Note: Assumptions used in USD for the copper equivalent calculation were metal prices of $3.60/lb Copper, $52.00/kg Molybdenum, and recovery is assumed to be 100% as no metallurgical test data is available. The following equation was used to calculate copper equivalence: CuEq = Copper (%) + (Molybdenum (%) x 6.551898) (Mo% = MoS2 x 0.6).