Highland Copper Company Inc. Appoints Luc Lessard to the Board of Directors

Highland Copper Company Inc. is a Canada-based copper development company. The Company is focused on exploring and developing copper projects in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the United States of America (USA). It is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties. Its principal assets include the 100% owned Copperwood copper project (the Copperwood Project) and the White Pine North copper project (the White Pine North Project). The Copperwood Project is located in Gogebic County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States of America within the Porcupine Mountains copper district and about 23 kilometers (km) to the town of Wakefield and approximately 40 km to the town of Ironwood, both in Gogebic County. The White Pine copper deposit is located in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the south side of Lake Superior. Regionally, White Pine lies on the south flank of the Midcontinent Rift System, a 2,500 km long structure of Precambrian age.