Canyon Copper Corp. announced that the company’s founding director, Benjamin (‘Ben’) Ainsworth passed away on April 25, 2017 at the age of 76. Ben joined Placer Development Limited ("Placer") in 1965 and worked there for 21 years, holding assignments throughout Canada, and later in Chile. From 1968 to 1978, his principal area of work related to the research and application of geochemistry for mineral exploration.