Bell Copper Corporation reported that it has drilled a supergene chalcocite (copper sulfide) deposit 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. BS-3 is now cutting chalcocite-pyrite mineralization in pervasively sericitized quartz porphyry cut by pyrite and quartz +/-molybdenite veinlets at an inclined depth of 1589 meters.

Disseminated chalcocite mineralization began at an inclined depth of 1,303 meters beneath 111 meters of hematitic leached capping. The 179-meter chalcocite-bearing interval from 1293-1472m has been sampled and shipped to the laboratory for copper assaying. Geological logging, sawing, and sampling of the chalcocite-bearing interval from 1472-1589 meters is underway.

Drilling of BS-3 continues, and is encountering sparse but increasing quantities of disseminated chalcopyrite, which is variably coated by chalcocite.