Cascadero Grants Gold Fields an Option to Acquire a 75% Interest in the Marble Mountain Gold Prospect in Sudbury, Ontario for...

Cascadero Copper (TSX VENTURE:CCD) has granted Gold Fields Sudbury Exploration
Corp. (Gold Fields), a member of the Gold Fields Limited group of companies, a
series of options to earn up to a 75% interest in the Marble Mountain gold
prospect (the Property) in Sudbury Ontario. Gold Fields may earn an initial 65%
interest by sole funding C$600,000 in expenditure and making a series of cash
payments totaling C$700,000 by January 14, 2014.


Gold Fields may then increase its interest to 75% by sole funding the completion
of a feasibility study in relation to any deposit in respect of the Property or
contributing C$20,000,000 in expenditure in excess of that associated with the
65% Option, whichever comes first.


Marble Mountain is a high-sulphide gold prospect marked by an auriferous gossan.
Marble mountain is located about 55 kilometres north of Sudbury in Parkin
Township, Ontario. The Property has good road access. Samples taken by Cascadero
geologists assayed high-gold values in pyritic sediments with relatively
low-silver and base metal values. Silica is the dominant alteration and
silicified sedimentary units that are also calcium carbonate altered yield the
highest-grade gold.


In January 2011, Cascadero entered into an Option Agreement to acquire a 100%
interest in the Marble Mountain prospect (the Brady Option), which consists of
66 contiguous units that are in good standing. The Brady Option agreement
provides for cash, share issuances and a work commitment over a four-year term.
The Property is subject to a net smelter return royalty (the "NSR"), 50% of
which can be purchased for cash. Cascadero is obliged to maintain the Brady
Option in good standing as long as Gold Fields has its exclusive right to the
Property.


Cascadero has spent approximately C$260,000 on the property to date, which
includes geochemistry and IP/Res/Mag geophysics.


Gold Fields Toodoggone Exploration Corporation (GFTEC) and Cascadero Copper
Corporation (Cascadero) are also parties to a document entitled 'Option and
Joint Venture Exploration Agreement - Toodoggone Property  dated March 2, 2009,
whereby Cascadero granted GFTEC a series of options to earn up to a 75% interest
in the Toodoggone Project by sole funding $5,000,000 in expenditure to earn a
51% interest in the Project. Gold Fields may then increase its interest to 75%
by sole funding the completion of a feasibility study in relation to any deposit
in respect of the Property or contributing C$15,000,000 in expenditure in excess
of that associated with the 51% Option. The GFTEC option is in its second year.
To date, Gold Fields incurred approx. C$4 million of exploration expenditure.
The Toodoggone Project is located in north central British Columbia and adjoins
the Kemess Mine property now controlled by AuRico Gold to its north.


Gold Fields is also a shareholder of Cascadero Copper.

ABOUT CASCADERO COPPER

Cascadero Copper is an integrated prospecting and mineral exploration business.
The Company has offices in North Vancouver, BC, Sudbury, Ontario and Salta City
in the province of Salta, Republic of Argentina. The Company generates, acquires
and explores mineral properties. Exploration is currently active in Ontario and
Argentina.


The Company has several copper-gold porphyry prospects in the Toodoggone Project
in north central British Columbia, which adjoins the Kemess Mine property now
controlled by AuRico Gold. Cascadero holds a 100% in the Toodoggone Project. The
Company holds a 100% interest in 17 volcanic and intrusive hosted gold
properties in the Sudbury, Swayze and Timmins camps of Ontario and holds a 50%
interest in SESA Holdings LLC (Nevada), which holds a 100% interest in Salta
Exploraciones SA. Salta has a large high-quality property portfolio organized
into 14 project areas consisting of 226,000 hectares in north western Argentina.


Cascadero's commodity focus is gold, silver and base metals, which are hosted in
large-scale mineral bulk mineable open pit systems.


In 2011 and 2012, Cascadero and Salta plan to initiate development drilling on
Las Burras, a new Cu-Mo-Au porphyry discovery, twin historic holes and drill
several new core holes on the Pancho Arias Cu-Mo-(Au) deposit and drill test
Incahuasi an undrilled large-scale Cu-Mo-Au porphyry prospect with excellent
geochemistry and a compelling geophysical anomaly. There is an undrilled
sediment hosted gold and silver-rich mineral system peripheral to Pancho Arias
and Incahuasi porphyry.