VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – January 19, 2012 – Copper Creek Gold Corp. (“Copper Creek” or the “Company”; TSX VENTURE: CPV) is pleased to announce that the Company will soon commence a core drilling program on its Santa Lucia gold-silver project located 200 kilometres southeast of Hermosillo in Sonora, Mexico. Copper Creek may earn a 60% interest in Santa Lucia from Kootenay Gold Inc. (KTN-V) by spending $2,000,000.00 in exploration and making modest cash and share payments to Kootenay over a 4 year period. It is anticipated that drilling will begin in the second week of February, 2012.

The drill program will focus on testing a 4km long area where gold and silver values have been noted in multiple, en echelon quartz veins and stock-works. The veining is contained in a package of highly silicified crystal-lithic tuff which is often 200m wide. This package of rocks has a geophysical signature, seen in both IP and CS-AMT geophysical surveys, which can be followed for the entire 4km long strike length. Past drilling on the property, principally done by Cominco Ltd. in the mid 1990s, did not attain vertical depths deeper than 145m from surface. The Company has determined that past drilling was too shallow to intersect the boiling zone of this property’s epithermal system, and has targeted depths of 200 –
250m from surface as opportune depths to encounter the source of surface gold and silver values.
A total of 2000 to 2500 meters of drilling are planned in six holes in three separate, highly prospective areas: The La Fortuna Zone, the Central Zone and the South Zone.
“I’m very excited to be part of this phase of exploration at Santa Lucia,” said Kristian Whitehead, VP Exploration. “The size potential for the project is extraordinary; if we can determine the depth of boiling in this extensive system where markedly higher gold and silver grades are predicted to be encountered we will then be able to quickly apply this knowledge and rapidly add ounces to the property”.
The Santa Lucia property is in the heart of Mexico’s Sierra Madre gold and silver belt. In the area, the following large gold and silver mines are operated by these companies: