Bell Copper completes drill hole K-5 at KabbaBell Copper completes drill hole K-5 at Kabba
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Tuesday March 10 2009 - News Release
Mr. Brian Leeners reports
BELL COPPER CORPORATION: KABBA DRILLING UPDATE
Bell Copper Corp. has completed the first drill hole in the current drill program at its Kabba project, Mohave county, Arizona. Drill hole K-5 was completed to a depth of 351 metres, penetrating weakly altered, foliated granodiorite cut by numerous sheeted limonite-ankerite veinlets carrying strongly anomalous (as determined on site by Niton XRF) arsenic, zinc, and manganese beneath 218 metres of volcanic cover rocks. Weak copper enrichment was noted near the bottom of the hole associated with disseminated residual pyrite. The association of arsenic, zinc and manganese in these veinlets is characteristic of the outer mineralized shell of porphyry copper systems. The degree of hydrothermal alteration in drill hole K-5 was weaker than that in K-4, the company's previous drill hole, completed in 2007, at a site 1.2 kilometres to the west. Quartz-molybdenite veinlets and abundant porphyritic dikes that were seen in K-4 were not seen in K-5, suggesting that K-4 is more proximal to the sought-after porphyry copper system.
Integration of the new drill information from K-5 with data from nearby outcrops and data from drill hole K-4 leads the company to a permitted drill site one kilometre south of drill hole K-5 and 1.5 kilometres southeast of drill hole K-4 for the next drill test. This drill site is situated along the west-northwesterly trending projection of wide alteration bands exposed in outcrop one kilometre to the east-southeast, where sericitically altered quartz porphyry plugs are associated with patchy jarosite, and veinlets carrying elevated arsenic, copper, molybdenum and selenium. Scheelite (calcium tungstate) is also most abundant in this outcrop area.
The purpose of the current drilling program is to detect beneath shallow cover (zero to 200 metres) the decapitated top of a major porphyry copper-molybdenum system. The faulted root in the footwall of this system shows strong quartz vein stockworks, orthoclase flooding and greisenous sericite alteration across 15 square kilometres of Laramide-age quartz monzonite porphyry and surrounding wallrocks. Drilling by the company in 2007 (hole K-4) intersected over 900 metres of sericitic alteration in what is believed to be the western edge of the faulted hangingwall of this porphyry system beneath 100 metres of cover. Diamond drilling in the present program will involve the completion of at least two more drill holes to depths of 700 to 800 metres centred about 1.5 kilometres southeast of hole K-4. The drill holes will test the central part of the hangingwall target on roughly one-kilometre centres. The program is expected to be completed in about seven more weeks.
For more information on drilling at the Kabba project, please visit the company's website.
No mineral resource has been identified by the company on the Kabba project. There is no certainty that the exploration work being conducted in this drilling program will result in the identification of rocks that might eventually become a mineral resource.
The qualified person for the Kabba drill program and this news release is Dr. Timothy Marsh, PhD, PEng, the company's vice-president of exploration.