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Bell Copper Stakes Big Sandy Porphyry Copper Prospect in Arizona
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 20, 2020) -  Bell Copper Corporation...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Bell Copper Stakes Big Sandy Porphyry Copper Prospect in ArizonaVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 20, 2020) -  Bell Copper Corporation (TSXV: BCU) (\"Bell Copper\" or the \"Company\") reports that it has acquired through staking the BIG SANDY project, a large, truncated porphyry copper-molybdenum prospect located in northwestern Arizona, approximately 30 kilometers from the Company's Perseverance Project. The Big Sandy project comprises approximately 1400 hectares of mineral tenures, including 128 federal lode mining claims and 3 State of Arizona Mineral Exploration Permits.HighlightsBell acquires Porphyry Copper project located 30 km from it's Perseverance Porphyry Copper project and on trend with other producing porphyry systemsInitial field work identifies multiple copper occurrences including exotic copperFanglomerate clasts carrying chrysocolla and chalcocite (supergene copper minerals) found across a distance of 1250 meters on the Company's claims.Quantec Geoscience mobilized to perform project wide Magnetotelluric surveyExploration Concept Bell Copper began exploring the Big Sandy area in 2009, after geologic success in discovering what was believed to be the faulted top of the Wheeler Wash porphyry copper-molybdenum system, 30 kilometers to the north at the Company's Perseverance project. Extrapolation southward along the controlling Hualapai Fault suggested that the known Laramide-age Diamond Joe porphyry copper system would also have a faulted-off top, lying east of Diamond Joe out in the Big Sandy Valley. No copper occurrences had been previously reported in any government databases from the area, but upon field investigation by the Company, several surficial occurrences have now been discovered. The Company believes that the unusual copper occurrences are linked to a shallowly covered porphyry copper deposit. Nearby porphyry systems in the same Laramide belt include Bagdad 50 kilometers to the southeast, Mineral Park 65 kilometers to the northwest, and the Company's Perseverance JV with Cordoba Minerals, 30 kilometers to the north.Exotic Copper and Copper FanglomerateCopper minerals found at Big Sandy by the Company are hosted in geologically recent terrace gravels of the Big Sandy River, in young faults that have recently conducted groundwater up to the surface, and as clasts in an extensive f...