Carube Copper Extends Private Placement Closing Date

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 11, 2018) - Carube Copper Corp. (TSXV: CUC) (the "Company") announces today that the Company has applied for and received consent from the TSX Venture Exchange to extend the closing date for its private placement financing until February 14, 2018. The Company may close the private placement in one or more tranches prior to that time. As announced in a news release dated December 1, 2017, the Company intends to raise an aggregate of $1,200,000 by way of a non-brokered private placement of up to 20,000,000 Units of the Company ("Units") at a price of $0.06 per Unit (the "Offering"). Each Unit will be comprised of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Common Share") and one half of one Common Share purchase warrant (each whole such warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant shall be exercisable into one Common Share at a price of $0.10 per Common Share for a period of two years from the closing date of the Offering. Finders who source funds may earn a cash commission of up to 6% of the gross proceeds raised by such finder and may receive warrants ("Finder Warrants") entitling the finder to purchase that number of Units at $0.06 per Unit equal to 6% of the number of Units sold by such finder.

About Carube Copper

Carube Copper is focused on the exploration and development of copper and gold projects in Jamaica and Canada. In Jamaica, Carube Copper holds a 100% interest in 11 licenses totalling 535 square kilometres. In Canada, it holds a 100% interest in three porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum properties totalling 492 square kilometres within the Tertiary-aged Cascade Magmatic Arc in southwestern British Columbia. Carube is currently focused on its Bellas Gate Project in Jamaica where it has discovered widespread copper mineralization over a six and a half kilometre by four kilometre corridor indicating the presence of a very large system with the potential to host multiple copper-gold porphyries. The results to date have identified 17 target areas including the Connors porphyry where recent drill intercepts demonstrate excellent copper and gold mineralization.

Contacts

Jeff Ackert, President and CEO • 1-613-839-3258 • jackert@carubecopper.com

John McNeice. CFO • 1-613-692-7704 • jmcneice@carubecopper.com

www.carubecopper.com

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DISCLAIMER & FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This news release includes certain "forward-looking statements" which are not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, and by their very nature involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Although these statements are based on currently available information, Carube Copper Corp. provides no assurance that actual results will meet management's expectations. Factors which cause results to differ materially are set out in the Company's documents filed on SEDAR. Undue reliance should not be placed on "forward looking statements".

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