Vancouver, BC – Coast Copper Corp. (“Coast Copper” or the “Company”; TSX-V: COCO) is pleased to report high-grade silver assays from rock and soil samples collected from a 2 square kilometer (“km2”)area on its recently acquired 15 km2 Sweeney property (“Sweeney” or the “Property”) located approximately 135 kilometer (“km”) southwest of the town of Houston in the Central Interior of British Columbia (“BC”). Sweeney is road accessible, centrally located in the Huckleberry Mine Camp and is 7 km north-northwest of the past producing Huckleberry Mine, 3 km west of Huckleberry Mines Ltd.’s Whiting Creek deposit and 8 km southeast of the Berg Deposit owned by Surge Copper Corp¹.

The Property includes the past-producing, epithermal vein-hosted, high-grade silver-lead-zinc-gold (“Ag-Pb-Zn-Au”) Emerald Mine that ceased small scale production in 1968. The last recorded exploration work on the project occurred in 2012 and included a modest trenching along trend and a shallow diamond drill program perpendicular to the trend of the Miya Vein and demonstrated shallow, high-grade Ag-Pb-Zn-Au and copper (“Cu”) over widths of 1-3 meters (“m”) (drill intercept, not true width) located within approximately 300 m of the footprint of the Emerald Mine [see Coast Copper news release of September 3, 2024]. No systematic or modern exploration program appears to have been undertaken outside an area of 1 km2 around the Emerald Mine, possibly due to previous snow and ice cover.

Glacial retreat over recent years has improved overall ground access including newly accessible areas located to the north and northwest of historically identified mineral occurrences. Coast Copper completed initial work on the Property in early September which included the collection of 47 rock and 34 soil samples (see Tables 1 and 2 and Figure 1 for selected results). Assay results indicate that the main Ag-Pb-Zn trend (“Main Trend”) may now extend for over 1.5 km. Coast Copper is also pleased to report identification of a new target area (“Northwest Ridge”) with high-grade Ag, Pb, Zn and Cu values in soil samples.

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