Bell Copper Corporation reported 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. 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, 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. 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.