11:44 AM EST - Canyon Copper Corp. : announced that it has entered into an assignment agreement with Metamin Enterprises Inc., a company controlled by Benjamin Ainsworth, Canyon's President, Secretary and director, and Metamin Enterprises USA Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Assignor, to acquire the former Placer Dome Moonlight Project, a bulk tonnage porphyry copper, gold, silver property. It is located on the Northern end of the very productive Walker Lane Porphyry Trend that includes major past producers such as the Yerrington Mine in Nevada and properties like Canyon's New York Canyon Project, south of Hawthorne, Nevada. Canyon Copper Corp.
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