WESTERN COPPER CORPORATION

Western Copper Corporation announce that preliminary results from a Quantec Titan 24 deep penetration geophysical survey at its wholly owned Casino Project, located in the Yukon, have identified several zones of potential mineralization outside of the historical mineralization limits. The recent drill hole, CAS-014, confirms copper mineralization outside of the currently proposed pit and suggests there is potential to expand the Casino resource. Western Copper’s previously announced 10,000 meter drilling program to convert 200 million tonnes of inferred material to measured and indicated has been modified to include drilling of targets identified by the Quantec Survey. The Casino Project has NI 43-101 compliant proven & probable reserves of 4.4 billion lb of copper, 8 million oz of gold and 475 million lb of molybdenum, contained in approximately 1 billion tonnes of ore.