Canyon Copper Appoints Mr. Cole McFarland as Director

Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Canyon Copper Corp. (the
'Company' or 'Canyon Copper') (OTCBB: CYOO) is pleased to announce
that Mr. Cole McFarland has agreed to join the Board of Directors of
Canyon Copper. Mr. McFarland is a senior Mining Executive who has
worked in the mining industry for over 40 years. He obtained a degree
in Mining Engineering at Washington State University; and later
undertook graduate studies in Geology at McGill University following
two years in the U.S. Air Force at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage,
Alaska. He joined Placer Development in 1957 as an Exploration
Engineer and spent the next 38 years with the Placer Group of
Companies in various operating, managerial and senior executive
positions; which involved the exploration, development and operation
of mines in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Philippines. Following
the merger between Placer Development and the Dome and Campbell-Red
Lake Mines in 1987 to form Placer Dome Inc., Mr. McFarland was
appointed President and CEO of Placer Dome U.S until retirement in
1995. He was responsible for the operation and growth of three gold
properties in the United States, including Cortez Gold Mines and
initial development of the world class Pipeline Deposit; also during
his watch, Placer Dome U.S. acquired the Donlin Creek Gold deposit
in Alaska. He joined the Board of Bema Gold Corporation in 1998 and
the Board of Nova Gold Resources in 2001. He retired from the Bema
Board and joined the Kinross Gold Corporation Board in April 2007
following the acquisition of Bema Gold by Kinross.

About Canyon Copper

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Canyon Copper Corp.'s New York Canyon Property is located in the
New York Canyon area of the Santa Fe Mining District, Mineral County,
Nevada. The project hosts oxide and sulphide copper bearing
mineralization outlined by historical operators. The most advanced of
these zones is the Longshot Ridge copper oxide deposit. This zone has
not been completely outlined and remains partially open. The Copper
Queen mineralized zone is located approximately three Kilometres west
of Longshot Ridge and hosts copper and molybdenum sulphide
mineralization. Several additional mineralized areas identified
throughout the New York Canyon property have yet to be explored.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

"Anthony Harvey"

CANYON COPPER CORP. Anthony R. Harvey, Chairman and CEO

This Press Release may contain, in addition to historical
information, forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section
27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking
statements are identified by their use of terms and phases such as
"believe," "expect," "plan," "anticipate" and similar expressions
identifying forward-looking statements. Investors should not rely on
forward-looking statements because they are subject to a variety of
risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the Company's expectations, and the
Company expressly does not undertake any duty to update
forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not
limited to the following, the Company's ability to obtain additional
financing, geological, mechanical or difficulties affecting the
Company's planned geological work programs, uncertainty of estimates
of mineralized material and other factors which may cause the actual
results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

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