Bell Copper Keeps Drilling Copper in Porphyry at Big Sandy
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March 3, 2022
News Release
Bell Copper Corporation
Bell Copper Keeps Drilling Copper in Porphyry at Big Sandy
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Bell Copper Corporation (TSXV:BCU) (OTCQB:BCUFF)(“Bell Copper” or the
“Company”) reports that it continues drilling copper sulfide mineralization hosted by quartz porphyry at
its Big Sandy project. Big Sandy is a large, truncated porphyry copper -molybdenum target located in
northwestern Arizona, approximately 30 kilometers south of the Company’s Perseverance Project.
Highlights
• BS-3 is now cutting chalcopyrite-pyrite-molybdenite mineralization.
• Disseminated chalcocite mineralization began at an inclined depth of 1302 meters and extended
beyond 1589 meters.
• Geological logging, sawing, and sampling of the chalco pyrite-bearing interval from 1776-1919
meters are underway.
• Samples have been submitted for assay to a depth of 1776 meters.
Drill hole BS-3
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 magneto -telluric survey ( refer to news release dated October 6, 2020 ),
passed out of gravel and into pervasively sericitized quartz porphyry at an inclined depth of 1192 meters.
Disseminated chalcocite (copper sulfide) and pyrite w ere first encountered at an inclined depth of 1303
meters, immediately beneath leached capping. Refer to news release dated February 2, 2022). Chalcocite
was commonly observed to approximately 1500 meters, and then faded to trace amounts below 1589
meters. Drillhole BS-3 is currently cutting chalcopyrite -pyrite-molybdenite mineralization in pervasively
sericitized quartz porphyry at an inclined depth of 1919 meters.
Core samples have been submitted to t he laboratory for all BS -3 core bet ween 1293 meters and 1776
meters. Geological logging, sawing, and sampling of porphyry carrying tennantite and chalcopyrite to the
current bottom of the hole at 1919 meters are underway.
Drilling of BS-3 will continue until either the core becomes unmi neralized or the drill lacks the power to
advance the hole further. Drilling of BS -3A, a 500 -meter offset to BS -3 drilled from the same pad, will
begin immediately thereafter.
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Figure D. Core sample from BS-3 showing
chalcopyrite-pyrite-quartz-molybdenite mineralization
in sericitized porphyry near 1900 meters depth.
Figure A, B, and C. Core box photos representative of the last 300 meters of mineralization between 1500m and 1800m in BS-3.
Tim Marsh, Bell’s President and CEO, and a
Qualified Person as defined by NI43 -101,
said,
“BS-3 is gradually entering the chalcopyrite-
molybdenite zone at the heart of this
porphyry system. The homogeneity of
sericite-pyrite alteration over hundreds of
meters of core now in the box speaks to the
strength and size of the Big Sandy system. It
is likely that we will be able to complete
multiple 500-meter step-out holes from this
same drill pad, and also test the concept of a
thick chalcocite blanket overlying the
inferred heart of the porphyry system from a
new drill pad 900 meters south of the BS -3
pad.”
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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 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
For further information please contact the Company
Tel: 1 800 418 8250
Email: [email protected]
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