Rockcliff Increases Non-Brokered Private Placement

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug. 11, 2016) - Rockcliff Copper Corporation ("Rockcliff" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RCU) today announced that the Company's Offering for gross proceeds of $1,750,000 announced in its press release issued July 22, 2016 is over-subscribed and the Company is increasing the Offering to 28,571,429 units at a price of $0.07 per unit for gross proceeds of up to $2,000,000 (the "Offering"). The Offering is expected to close early next week.

About Rockcliff Copper Corporation

Rockcliff is a Canadian resource exploration company focused on discovery and resource expansion of its high-quality mineral properties at its Snow Lake Project in central Manitoba, totalling in excess of 35,000 hectares. The Project includes two (2) high grade VMS copper-gold rich NI 43-101 Resources (the Talbot Deposit and the Rail Deposit), one (1) historic high grade VMS copper deposit (the Lon Deposit), a net smelter return royalty on the Tower Property which hosts the high grade T-1 Copper Deposit, numerous properties with untested geophysical anomalies and several additional properties with VMS potential (Freebeth, Dickstone North and Tramping). Rockcliff also owns a zinc-silver rich NI 43-101 Resource (the Shihan Deposit) in Ontario and a royalty on two gold properties in Colombia, South America.

Rockcliff is well funded with approximately $1.5M currently in its treasury and no debt.

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