Directorship Appointment

For immediate release 16th January 2008

                         COPPER RESOURCES CORPORATION                          

                           Directorship Appointment                            

The Board of Copper Resources Corporation (AIM: CRC.L) (the "Company") is
pleased to announce that on 15th January 2008, the Company appointed Mr. Robert
Fischer to the Board of Directors.

Mr Fischer joins the Board as an independent non-executive director. He holds
an engineering degree from the Free University of Brussels Solvay Business
School.

Save as disclosed below, there is nothing further to disclose in relation to
the appointment of Mr Fischer under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM
Rules:

Full name: Robert Fischer

Previous names: None

Age: 56

In addition to his directorship of the Company, Mr Fischer is, or has been, a
director or partner of the following companies or partnerships, in the previous
five years:

Current directorships/partnerships

Mar Invest SA

Industrial Bags Nigeria ltd

Alison Fisheries Nigeria ltd

Domaine De La Hetraie SA

Past directorships/partnerships

Bakaert Composits

Mar Products SA

Mr Fischer was a director of Mar Products SA, which was placed into voluntary
liquidation in 2003.

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