Bell Copper Stakes Big Sandy Porphyry Copper Prospect in Arizona
July 20, 2020
News Release
Bell Copper Corporation - TSX.V Symbol: BCU
Bell Copper Stakes Big Sandy Porphyry Copper Prospect in Arizona
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Bell Copper Corporation (TSX-V: BCU) (“Bell Copper” or the “Company”) reports that
it has acquired through staking the BIG SANDY project, a large, truncated porphyry copper-molybdenum
prospect located in northwestern Arizona, approximately 30 kilometers from the Company’s Perseverance
Project. The Big Sandy project comprises approximately 1400 hectares of mineral tenures, including 128
federal lode mining claims and 3 State of Arizona Mineral Exploration Permits.
Highlights
Bell acquires Porphyry Copper project located 30 km from it ’s Perseverance Porphyry Copper
project and on trend with other producing porphyry systems
Initial field work identifies multiple copper occurrences including exotic copper
Fanglomerate clasts carrying chrysocolla and chalcocite (supergene copper minerals) found across
a distance of 1250 meters on the Company’s claims.
Quantec Geoscience mobilized to perform project wide Magnetotelluric survey
Exploration Concept
Bell Copper began exploring the Big Sandy area in 2009, after geologic success in discovering what was
believed to be the faulted top of the Wheeler Wash porphyry copper-molybdenum system, 30 kilometers
to the north at the Company’s Perseverance project.
Extrapolation southward along the controlling Hualapai Fault suggested that the known Laramide -age
Diamond Joe porphyry copper system would also ha ve a faulted-off top, lying east of Diamond Joe out in
the Big Sandy Valley. No copper occurrences had been previously reported in any government databases
from the area, but upon field investigation by the Company, several surficial occurrences have now been
discovered. The Company believes that the unusual copper occurrences are linked to a shallowly covered
porphyry copper deposit.
Nearby porphyry systems in the same Laramide belt include Bagdad 50 kilometers to the southeast,
Mineral Park 65 kilometers to the northwest, and the Company’s Perseverance JV with Cordoba Minerals,
30 kilometers to the north.
Exotic Copper and Copper Fanglomerate
Copper minerals found at Big Sandy by the Company are hosted in geologically recent terrace gravels of
the Big Sandy River, in young faults that have recently conducted groundwater up to the surface, and as
clasts in an extensive fanglomerate formation. Black manganese -copper oxide deposits crop out on the
property in young terrace deposits of the Big San dy River, demonstrating the recent discharge of metal -
rich, acidic groundwater from the target area. This exotic copper deposit is expected to lie down
hydrologic gradient from a concealed copper -molybdenum porphyry system, analogous to the “Exotica”
copper deposit below the Chuquicamata porphyry in Chile.
Neotocite cementing young terrace gravel along the Big Sandy River Neotocite
Additionally, fanglomerate clasts carrying chrysocolla and chalcocite (supergene copper minerals) have
been found across a distance of 1250 meters on the Company’s claims. Many varieties of veins and
alteration types typical of porphyry copper deposits (e.g. “A -veins” and “D-veins” of Gustafson and Hunt,
1975), have been found in the fanglomerate formation cropping out over an area measuring 1250 meters
by 800 meters. Heavy mineral associations in the fanglomerate are identical to those from outcropping
Laramide rocks of the Diamond Joe porphyry copper system, located 12 kilometers to the west-southwest.
The coarse grain size and angularity of clasts in the fanglomerate suggest that the formation was mainly
transported to its current location en masse by structural mov ement (i.e. faulting), rather than by
sedimentary transport. This implies that the underlying bedrock target may be grossly intact.
fanglomerate clasts carrying chrysocolla and chalcocite (supergene copper minerals) are present across a distance of 1250 meters
*Mineralization shown is from selected intervals, and not necessarily representative or indicative of the mineralization hosted on
the Big Sandy property
Exploration Activities
In order to understand the distribution of electrically conductive rocks that might indicate the presence of
copper porphyry-related sulfide mineralization and hydrolytic alteration beneath the fanglomerate at Big
Sandy, Bell has contracted Quantec Geoscience Limite d to perform a property -wide Sp artan
magnetotelluric (MT) survey. Quantec has mobilized and will be performing the survey imminently.
Samples collected from exotic copper and iron mineralization have been sent to the lab for geochemical
analysis. Assays are anticipated in the coming weeks
Tim Marsh, Bell’s President and CEO, and a Qualified Person as defined by NI43 -101, said, “The Big Sandy
project focuses on the faulted -off top of a 25 -square-kilometer Laramide porphyry system located along
the Bagdad -Perseverance-Mineral Park trend. The abundance of intensely veined and altered
fanglomerate clasts carrying chalcocite and chry socolla, exotic black copper oxide cementing some of the
youngest Big Sandy River terrace gravels, and exotic red hematite staining in valley-filling gravels spanning
an area 6 kilometers by 4 kilometers, provide indications of the scale and potential mine ralization in this
grassroots exploration play. With our land position established and Quantec’s Sparton MT survey
underway, the Big Sandy project gives Bell an independent path toward rapid discovery while Cordoba
Minerals continues to advance our exciti ng Perseverance copper porphyry project. We intend to drill any
significant conductive targets at Big Sandy as soon as possible.”
About Bell Copper
Bell Copper is a mineral exploration company focused on the identification, exploration and discovery of
large copper deposits located in Arizona. Bell Copper is exploring its 100% owned Big Sandy Porphyry
Copper Project and the Perseverance Porphyry Copper Project which is under a Joint Venture - Earn In.
Qualified Person
The technical content of this release has been reviewed and approved by Timothy Marsh, PhD, PEng., the
Company’s CEO and President. No mineral resource has yet been identified on the Big Sandy Project.
There is no certainty that the present exploration ef fort will result in the identification of a mineral
resource or that any mineral resource that might be discovered will prove to be economically recoverable.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of
Bell Copper Corporation
"Timothy Marsh"
Timothy Marsh, President, CEO & Director
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