WESTERN COPPER CORPORATION

Western Copper announce assay results from the completed exploration program at the Casino Project in the Yukon Territory, Canada. The assay results indicate a significant expansion of the known area of mineralization. Only one hole in the 39-hole exploration program, CAS-035, to the west of the deposit and outside of the currently defined pit, did not return intercepts of mineralization above the resource cut-off grade (0.3% CuEq). Highlights includes from Hole CAS-021 returned 9.85% zinc, 0.13% lead, 6.40 g/t silver, and 0.03 g/t gold over 16.75 meters and in hole CAS-025 intersected 0.518% molybdenum, 0.33% copper, 0.15 g/t gold, and 2.3 g/t silver over 9.5 meters.