Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 25, 2019) - Bell Copper Corporation (TSXV: BCU) ("Bell Copper" or the "Company") reports that core drilling has recommenced on drillhole K-20 at the Perseverance porphyry copper project, located in northwestern Arizona, USA.
As previously reported January 21, 2019, drillhole K-20 encountered more than 700 meters of anomalous copper minerals, comprising chalcopyrite, bornite, and chalcocite beginning at a depth of approximately 300 meters. In the lower part of K-20, the drill core became increasingly potassically altered with more frequent veins and quartz-molybdenite stringers, hydrothermal magnetite veins, and secondary biotite alteration. This information suggests that K-20 has approached the higher temperature region of the porphyry system. Based on the perceived proximity to the target, K-20 is being advanced.
Bell and the Joint Venture partner Cordoba Minerals Corp. (TSX-V:CDB; OTCQX:CDBMF) believe that hypogene enrichment may extend to shallower depths. Evidence of this includes: presence of advanced argillic alteration and quartz sericite alteration in drill holes west of K-20, and bornite and chalcocite rimming chalcopyrite near the bottom of K-20. Further to this, a downhole acoustic televiewer survey will be performed to assist in the evaluation of potential wedging and directional drilling at shallower depths from K-20.
About Bell Copper
Bell Copper is a mineral exploration company focused on the identification, exploration and discovery of large copper deposits located in a region responsible for 10% of the world's copper production: Arizona.
Perseverance Porphyry Copper Project
A primary focus for Bell Copper is the ongoing exploration and development at the Perseverance Porphyry Copper Project near Kingman, AZ, where we are pursuing the faulted-off top of a major porphyry copper system, the bottom of which is exposed in the foothills 8+ km west of the Company's property. The Perseverance project is under a Joint Venture with Cordoba Minerals Corp. (TSXV: CDB) (OTCQX: CDBMF).
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 Perseverance 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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