Cordoba 51% Earn-in Completed, 2026 Perseverance Arizona Porphyry Exploration Program Announced

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 8, 2026) - Bell Copper Corporation (TSXV: BCU) (OTCQB: BCUFF) ("Bell Copper" or the "Company") reports that the Company and its joint venture partner, Cordoba Minerals Corp. (TSXV: CDB) (OTCQB: CBDMF) ("Cordoba"), have approved a 2026 exploration program of 1,700m of drilling at the Perseverance Copper Project in Arizona, USA. Cordoba is also confirming today that its earn-in at the Perseverance Copper Project has ended without Cordoba earning an additional interest, meaning the Project is a 51/49 joint venture with Bell Copper.

• Cordoba completes 51% earn-in of Bell's Perseverance Porphyry Copper Project, Arizona

JV approves 2026 US$ 1.7 million, 1700-meter drilling program for supergene copper

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The Perseverance Copper Project is located in Arizona's Copper Triangle, a Tier 1 jurisdiction with major copper deposits and mines. The Project is located 50 miles north northwest of Freeport McMoRan's Bagdad Copper Mine, approximately 19 miles southeast of Kingman, Arizona, and 150 miles northwest of Phoenix, with a land package comprising more than 19,000 acres.

Figure 1: Location of the Perseverance Copper Project, Arizona

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2026 Exploration Program at Perseverance tests Potential for Supergene Enrichment at Depth

The 2026 exploration program will seek to deepen 3 existing drill holes (originally drilled by Rio Tinto) to new depths:

• K-23: Current ending depth 590m, deepening 500m to 1,100m total depth

• K-19: Current ending depth 420m, deepening 700m to 1,100m total depth

• K-13: Current ending depth 424m, deepening 500m to 900m total depth

Hole K-23 originally drilled through young valley fill gravels and into a thick basalt layer and terminated in a hematite-stained leached cap.

Hole K-19 also drilled through alluvial cover and hit Laramide age granite porphyry at 250m, heavily stained by hematite and goethite indicative of a leached cap. The hole was terminated at 420m in hydrothermal breccia with pyrite and sphalerite in granodiorite porphyry. An induced polarization survey performed by Quantec Geophysics in 2017 for Rio Tinto (who held an option on the property from Bell Copper), shows strong chargeability indicative of sulphide mineralization immediately below where the hole was terminated.

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