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Market: TSX
Sector: General Mining
EPIC: III
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Imperial Metals Corp
www.imperialmetals.com

Imperial Metals Corporation's key properties are the Mount Polley open pit copper/gold producing mine in central British Columbia, the Huckleberry open pit copper/molybdenum producing mine in northern British Columbia, the development stage Red Chris property in northern British Columbia, and the exploration stage Sterling gold property in southwest Nevada.

Imperial Metals extends Huckleberry Copper Mine life to 2011

29th Jun 2009, 7:30 pm
 Imperial Metals extends Huckleberry Copper Mine life to 2011
Copper producer, Imperial Metals Corporation (TSX: III) said that the Huckleberry Mine would be extended into th Saddle Zone resource which will provide mill feed for the milling operations to the end of 2011.  Imperial Metals Corp holds a 50% interest in the mine, with the remaining 50% held by a consortium of Japanese stakeholders, including Mitsubishi Materials Corp.

The Saddle Zone resource, located between the Main Zone pit and the Main Zone Extension pit, has a "high potential to provide additional extensions to the mine life depending on the copper price," Imperial added.

Annual estimated copper production will be 40 million pounds per year.

The Huckleberry property consists of a mining lease covering approximately 1,911 hectares, and 34 mineral claims encompassing approximately 16,307 hectares.

Production in 2008 totaled 6 million tonnes ore milled producing 37.2 million lbs copper and over 3,000 oz gold, 245,000 oz silver and 188,000 lbs molybdenum.

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