Western Copper and Gold Corp.

Western Copper and Gold is pleased to provide an update on the activities underway to bring the Casino project closer to production. Initial engineering activities required before starting the feasibility study are currently underway. It is expected that the feasibility study will commence in early 2012 and is on track to be completed by the end of 2012.

In June 2011, James Mooney, a cultural resource specialist with Ecofor Consulting Limited, made an exciting discovery while leading a team doing heritage impact assessment work for Western Copper and Gold. On the proposed Freegold Road Extension to the Casino copper-gold-molybdenum deposit, one of his team members unearthed a Chinese coin minted between 1667 and 1671. The coin adds to the body of evidence that the [...]

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX SmallCap and Global Mining Indices: Shareholders of Western Copper Corporation approved on October 3, 2011, the Plan of Arrangement whereby the company will spin out certain copper interests to shareholders. For every 2 shares of Western Copper held, shareholders will receive 1 share of a new company named Copper North Mining Corp. and 1 share of a new [...]

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX SmallCap and Global Mining Indices: Shareholders of Western Copper Corporation approved on October 3, 2011, the Plan of Arrangement whereby the company will spin out certain copper interests to shareholders. For every 2 shares of Western Copper held, shareholders will receive 1 share of a new company named Copper North Mining Corp. and 1 share of a new [...]

Western Copper and Gold is pleased to announce the spin-out of Copper North Mining Corp. and NorthIsle Copper and Gold and the re-naming of Western Copper from Western Copper Corporation to Western Copper and Gold have been completed. Copper North and NorthIsle have also received conditional listing approval from the TSX Venture Exchange.

Western Copper is pleased to announce that the Supreme Court of British Columbia has granted the final order approving the previously announced plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act under which Western Copper will spin-out its Carmacks project in the Yukon Territory and its Redstone project in the Northwest Territories indirectly to Copper North Mining Corp., spin-out its Island Copper project in [...]

Western Copper is pleased to announce its shareholders have voted 38,613,048 shares in favour of approving the spin-out of Copper North Mining Corp. and NorthIsle Copper and Gold Inc. at a special meeting of shareholders held today in Vancouver. The transaction will include the transfer of Western Copper's 100% interest in the Carmacks Copper Project and the Redstone Project, along with $2 million, to Copper North, and [...]

Western Copper is pleased to announce that further to the Company's News Release dated August 19, 2011, it has mailed a detailed Information Circular describing the business to be conducted at a special meeting of shareholders to be held October 3, 2011 with respect to the spin-out of certain assets of the Company into two new companies: Copper North Mining Corp. and NorthIsle Copper and Gold Inc. by plan of arrangement [...]

Western Copper is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated June 23, 2011, the Company has entered into an arrangement agreement dated August 18, with certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries including Copper North Mining Corp and NorthIsle Copper and Gold Inc, both of which were incorporated for the purposes of the Agreement, to give effect to the spin-out transaction announced on June 23, 2011.

Western Copper is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, August 15th. This occasion is to celebrate Western Copper Corporation being listed on the NYSE Amex. The Company began trading on the NYSE Amex on February 9, 2011 under the ticker symbol "WRN".