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 chalcopyrite-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 were 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 the laboratory for all BS-3 core between 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 unmineralized 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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