Superior Copper Acquires the Palmer Gold Property

Superior Copper Corporation (TSX VENTURE:SPC) has entered into an agreement to acquire the Palmer Gold Property located in Palmer Township near Batchawana Bay, approximately 70 kilometres north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Superior Copper will acquire a 100% interest in the project by issuing 180,000 shares to the vendors. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval.

The Palmer Gold Property covers 1 unpatented mineral claim of 144 hectares and is adjacent to the recently acquired Glenrock Property. The property is located in the Batchawana Greenstone Belt of the Archean Superior Province near the margin of the Proterozoic Southern Province.

The Palmer Gold Prospect was explored by Getty Mines Ltd. in 1984 and Astwood Park Resources in 1988. The prospect consists of a gold-bearing quartz-sulphide zone occurring in a chert-magnetite iron formation adjacent to a northwest trending fault that has offset the iron formation by about 150 metre with a right lateral movement. Historical grab samples have gold grades ranging from 0.39 oz/ton up to 1.9 oz/ton. A 1.4 metre channel sample of pyritized magnetite graded 0.06 oz/ton Au.

The technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed by Delio Tortosa, P. Geo. who is a "Qualified Person" under National Instrument 43-101. The historical results presented here have not been verified, and are given for information purposes only.

Superior Copper Corporation

Superior Copper Corporation is a Canadian-based exploration company focused on base and precious metal exploration. The Company's primary objective is to target highly prospective and underexplored mineral properties, particularly copper, in order to meet the increasing global demand. The Company has two key exploration projects; the Batchawana Copper Project and the Rivière Doré Project in Quebec.

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