Mr. Timothy Marsh reports

DRILLING UPDATE FROM BELL COPPER'S BIG SANDY PORPHYRY COPPER PROJECT IN ARIZONA, USA

Bell Copper Corp. has drilled hole BS-4 to a depth of 1,200 metres (4,000 feet) on the company's 100-per-cent-owned Big Sandy porphyry copper project. The project is targeting a large, truncated porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in northwestern Arizona:

• Big Sandy drill hole BS-4 wedging through casing at 1,200 metres following drilling challenges;
• BS-4 targets porphyry bedrock at 1,280 metres (4,200 feet);
• BS-4 collared 900 metres from BS-3, which cut 200 metres of chalcocite-bearing porphyry.

The company continues to advance drill hole BS-4 at the Big Sandy porphyry. Hole BS-4 is following up on the previous drill hole, BS-3, which had an intersection of 200 metres of chalcocite-bearing porphyry (see June 7, 2022, news). BS-4 is being drilled approximately 900 metres from the previous BS-3 drill site. The hole is currently cased to a depth of 1,200 metres (4,000 feet), and efforts are under way to wedge through casing to test bedrock at an estimated depth of 1,280 metres (4,200 feet). Drilling challenges have slowed the progress of the hole. Gravel that has been drilled in the lower part of BS-4 contained scattered occurrences of native copper, sparse native silver and angular chalcocite-bearing clasts. Once the BS-4 stepout test of the chalcocite blanket drilled in BS-3 is completed, the upper cased interval of BS-4 will be used to deflect additional penetrations of any chalcocite interval seen in BS-4.

About Bell Copper Corp.

Bell Copper is a mineral exploration company focused on the identification, exploration and discovery of large copper deposits located in Arizona. Bell Copper is exploring its 100-per-cent-owned Big Sandy porphyry copper project and the Perseverance porphyry copper project, which is under a joint venture earn-in.

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The technical content of this release has been reviewed and approved by Timothy Marsh, PhD, PEng, the company's chief executive officer and president. No mineral resource has yet been identified on the Big Sandy 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.

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