Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 31, 2024) - Bell Copper Corporation (TSXV: BCU) (OTCQB: BCUFF) ("Bell Copper" or the "Company") reports that it has temporarily suspended diamond drilling operations on hole BS-4 at the Company's 100% owned Big Sandy porphyry copper project. Continuation of the hole is planned once additional funding is secured. The Company is currently discussing opportunities for strategic investments with a number of major copper producers in order to fund further drilling. The project involves the exploration of a large, truncated porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit located in northwestern Arizona, approximately 30 kilometers from the Company's Perseverance project.

The maximum depth achieved in hole BS-4 of 1372 meters did not fully penetrate post-mineral gravels due to setbacks occurring with stuck drill tooling. No bedrock has yet been encountered in BS-4, but encouraging mineralized gravel clasts including chalcocite, native copper, and native silver have been observed.

The Company's drilling of BS-4 follows up on the previous drill hole, BS-3 which had an intersection of 200 meters of chalcocite-bearing porphyry (see June 7, 2022 news release). Drillhole BS-3 cut 200 meters from 1302 meters to 1502 meters grading 0.42 percent copper (8.4 lbsCu/st) and 2.4 grams of silver per tonne as supergene chalcocite hosted in strongly pyritic, sericitized porphyry.
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