Commander Resources Ltd. report that it has completed its inaugural drill program at its Burn Copper and Gold porphyry project in British Columbia. Commander completed four drill holes totaling 1,513 metres (m) from three drill sites, 513 m more than the initial planned program of 1,000 m. The Burn Property, which covers 17,675 hectares (ha), is located 100 kilometres (km) north of Smithers, British Columbia and was acquired by Commander in 2018 to cover prominent gossans exposed along ridges. The Burn Property is located within the Babine Porphyry belt 70 km north of two past producing mines at Bell and Granisle.

Initial work at Burn in 2018 identified widespread phyllic-style alteration with trace amounts of chalcopyrite. There is no record of previous geophysical surveys or drilling. Past work by Commander, funded by Freeport, included a property wide airborne magnetic survey which has outlined two prominent circular magnetic rings and several linear magnetic highs that coincide with stocks and dykes of Eocene age.

A property-wide sampling program of stream sediment sampling, soil and rock sampling, and geological mapping has identified four alteration zones of which is referred to as the Central zone. The Central zone, the focus of this year's drill program, is underlain by numerous phases of feldspar-biotite-hornblende porphyry dykes and stocks exhibiting alteration from chlorite to chlorite-magnetite, and moderate quartz-sericite-pyrite (QSP) to intense QSP with local quartz veinlets. All core has been logged and sampled and submitted for analysis with final results expected in December.

Initial 1,513 metre drill program completed at Commander's Burn Property. Area tested includes an exposed, quartz-magnetite stockwork zone, a chargeability (induced polarization) anomaly and a zone of elevated gold in soils. Target comprises a Babine-style porphyry copper-gold deposit.