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Kabba K-9 drilling update
Kabba K-9 drilling update
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n Aug. 11, 2010 (Canada NewsWire Group) -- \n\n \n \n \nTR.cnwUnderlinedCell TD {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid\n}\nTR.cnwDoubleUnderlinedCell TD {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px double\n}\nTR.cnwBoldUnderlinedCell TD {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px solid\n}\nTD.cnwUnderlinedCell {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid\n}\nTD.cnwDoubleUnderlinedCell {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px double\n}\nTD.cnwBoldUnderlinedCell {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px solid\n}\n\nTSX-V Symbol: BCU\n\nVANCOUVER, Aug. 11 /CNW Telbec/ - Bell Copper Corporation ("Bell Copper" or the "Company") (TSX-V Symbol: BCU) is pleased to announce that Major Drilling of Salt Lake City, Utah has been engaged to advance drillhole K-9 at the Company's Kabba project in Mohave County, Arizona. Major Drilling is now on the drill site, mobilizing a truck-mounted LF-230 diamond drill capable of advancing the hole to a depth of 2000 meters. Brown Drilling of Kingman, Arizona, the principal drilling contractor on the Kabba project over the past 18 months, will provide support for Major's drilling operation. Brown's local experience in precollar drillhole construction and water well development is expected to continue to benefit the Company's advancement of the Kabba project.\nDrillhole K-9 has achieved a total depth to date of 1065 meters. Prior attempts to deepen K-9 have resulted in lost equipment in the hole that prevented the hole from being advanced further. Major Drilling has been charged with diverting K-9 past the lost equipment and completing K-9 to a depth that will assess the potential of the Kabba target. Major will initiate the advancement of K-9 at about 760 meters in strongly sericitized diatreme breccia carrying about five percent disseminated pyrite and weak disseminated sphalerite (zinc sulfide). The drillhole has been in strongly altered diatreme breccia and dacite porphyry of suspected Laramide age after passing out of late Tertiary gravel and volcanic rocks at a depth of 534 meters. A downhole radial IP survey conducted in the drillhole from a depth of about 670 meters showed a strong offhole chargeability feature that is probably part of the same body of pyritic mineralization encountered in the drillhole.\nThe drillhole is testing the hypothetical geometrical center of the decapitated top of the Kabba porphyry system. The geolog...