UPDATE: Capstone Upgrades Copper Mineral Resource Classification in Footwall Zone at Cozamin Mine; Shares Rose 3% Thursday

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Capstone Mining Corp. (CS.TO) has touched a day high $2.54 after it announced the results of an updated National Instrument 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate for the Mala Noche Footwall Zone at the Cozamin Mine in Zacatecas, Mexico. Drilling in the MNFWZ since the last resource update in February of 2012 has converted 92 million pounds of copper from the Inferred category to the Indicated category. This reflects drilling that was completed in the latter half of 2011 and most of 2012 that was not included in the last estimate. At a US$35 net smelter return cut-off grade, the Cozamin Mine's total Measured and Indicated mineral resources at December 31, 2012, including adjustments for mining, were 430 million pounds of copper.

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