Bell Copper Drills Strong Leached Cap in Porphyry at Big Sandy
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January 5, 2022
News Release
Bell Copper Corporation
Bell Copper Drills Strong Leached Cap in Porphyry at Big Sandy
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Bell Copper Corporation (TSXV:BCU )(OTCQB:BCUFF)(“Bell Copper” or the
“Company”) reports that it has drilled a strongly altered and veined hematitic leached capping hosted by
quartz porphyry at its Big Sandy project. Big Sandy is a large, truncated porphyry copper -molybdenum
target locate d in northwestern Arizona, approximately 30 kilometers south of the Company’s
Perseverance Project.
Highlights
The Drill is now cutting hematitic leached capping hosted by intensely sericitized quartz
porphyry, cut by quartz veinlets at an inclined depth of 1284 meters.
Leached capping began immediately beneath the gravel at an inclined depth of 1192 meters
with continuous, strong, seal-brown hematite vein fillings, quartz veinlets, hydrothermal breccia
and pervasive sericitic alteration in quartz porphyry.
Core drilling at BS-3 has resumed
Drilling and Analysis
Drillhole BS -3, which was oriented to test a 2400 meter by 2100 meter area of high electrical
conductivity that was detected in an earlier magnetotelluric survey (refer to news release dated October
6, 2020 ), entered the mineralized quartz porphyry beginning at an inclined depth of 1192 meters,
immediately beneath cemented gravel cover rocks. The true thickness of the gravel layers penetrated
by BS-3 at an oblique angle is estimated to be 860 meters.
BS-3 encountered strongly altered and veined hematitic leached capping , consisting of seal -brown-
colored, earthy-textured hematite filling fractures and pervading the strongly sericitized groundmass of
the quartz porphyry host rock. Stockwork-style to sheeted-style quartz veinlets and sericite -enveloped
“D-veins” constitute a significant volume of the core, along with minor amounts of hydrothermal and
structural breccia. To date, a 92 -meter interval of this type of rock has be en cut in BS -3, extending to
the current bottom of the hole at a depth of 1284 meters. Drilling at BS -3 was suspended over the
Christmas holiday and has now resumed.
Oriented core collected near the base of the gravel cover shows that at BS -3 the porphyr y system is
tilted about 45 degrees from its orientation before faulting. This tilt suggests that any supergene copper
blanket that might underlie the hematitic leached capping in BS -3 can be targeted at shallower depth in
the direction of drillhole BS -1, located 1200 meters to the east. A 2 -meter interval of chalcocite
supergene enrichment underlying hematitic leached capping was cut at a depth of 936 meters in BS -1,
suggesting continuity of supergene leaching and porphyry -related alteration across a dis tance of 1200
meters. The intervening ground showed anomalously high electrical conductivity in the August 2020
magnetotelluric survey. A future drillhole is now contemplated to test that shallower target.
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Pictures are representative of the 92 meters of leach capping drilled to date at BS-3
Tim Marsh, Bell’s President and CEO, and a Qualified Person as defined by NI43-101, said,
“BS-3 finished 2021 in a 90 -meter interval of intensely hematitic, quartz -veined, sericitized quartz
porphyry. It is exactly what we wanted to see as the first bedrock under gravel cover. All but the bottom
30 meters of the hole are now cased off and protected behind steel. We look forward to revealing what
happens at the upcoming o xidation boundary, where any copper oxide and supergene copper sulfide
minerals would tend to accumulate.”
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 a nd 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 effort 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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