Published: August 4, 2020 |

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Bell Copper Corporation 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.

“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 chrysocolla, 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 mineralization in this grassroots exploration play,” said Tim Marsh, Bell’s president and CEO.

“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 exciting Perseverance copper porphyry project. We intend to drill any significant conductive targets at Big Sandy as soon as possible,” added Marsh.

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 have 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.

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 Limited to perform a property-wide Spartan 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..

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 percent owned Big Sandy Porphyry Copper Project and the Perseverance Porphyry Copper Project which is under a joint venture - earn In.

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