Sombrero Butte Project Mapping Highlights Additional Features

CALGARY - Copper Fox Metals Inc. and its owned subsidiary, Desert Fox Sombrero Butte Co. reported on mapping activities at its Sombrero Butte project located in the historic Bunker Hill Mining District, Arizona. The Sombrero Butte project is located approximately 2 kilometers (km) south of the Copper Creek porphyry copper deposit. The current program is focused on Target #2, a large near surface chargeability body located in the center of the property.

A large NNE trending Limonite zone, characterized by intense limonite staining, quartz-limonite veining, and limonite-stained, intensely clay altered breccia pipes. Contained within the Limonite zone, in addition to the clay altered breccia pipes, are several broad zones of intense clay (in places limonite stained) development. The degree of clay development is gradational and ranges from 10% to 100%.

Localized areas of disseminated chalcopyrite/pyrite mineralization occur primarily in the Glory Hole volcanics and in a porphyritic phase of the Copper Creek granodiorite. The zones of sulphide mineralization occur towards the periphery of the Limonite zone. Sporadic zones of tourmaline and epidote alteration and hydrothermal magnetite veining in outcrops. Field checking of some of the SWIR anomalies identified by the 2023 Hyperspectral Survey resulted in the location of 79 additional extensively oxidized breccia pipes exhibiting pervasive limonite staining, quartz-limonite veining, and in places trace chrysocolla.

Elmer B. Stewart, President & CEO, said, "The mapping program has highlighted several additional geological and alteration features in common with the Copper Creek porphyry copper deposit. The data suggests the center of a buried porphyry system is located to the northeast; and is overlain by limonitic Glory Hole volcanics that is interpreted to represent the oxidized portion of the pyrite shell commonly associated with a Laramide age porphyry copper deposit in Arizona. The location of the tourmaline and epidote alteration around the periphery of interpreted location of the porphyry system is consistent with the geological model for the Copper Creek porphyry deposit. While these results are encouraging, additional fieldwork is required to gain more certainty on the current interpretation. The results of the mapping program form the basis for planning a deep penetrating geophysical survey to define the size of the chargeability anomalies underlying Target #1 and Target #2.”