Western Copper Corporation (TSX:WRN) today announced that the company was awarded the 2009 Robert E. Leckie award for the major reclamation program carried out on old abandoned workings at its Casino Project.

The press release is quoted as saying:

Western Copper's world class Casino Project is located 300 km northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon and has a NI 43-101 compliant reserve of 8 million oz of gold, 4.4 billion lb of copper, and 475 million lb of molybdenum, contained in approximately 1 billion tonnes of ore.

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