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17
July 2008
News release
MINING Permit APPLICATION ON FLAGSTAFF,
WA, PROPERTY
Kent
Exploration Inc (the ?Company?) reports it has applied to the U.S. Bureau of
Land Management for a permit to commence open pit barite mining operations on
its 100% optioned Flagstaff
gold/silver/barite property.
The
Flagstaff property, located in Washington state approximately 15 miles south
of Rossland, BC, has ready access to both road and rail facilities and was
the subject of prior barite mining operations (CE Minerals, 1981-1984) during
which approximately 85,000 tons of barite was reportedly mined. During
a 1981 drill program, which also intersected high grade gold and silver
mineralization, CE Minerals defined an historic deposit which they estimated
at 1,300,000 tons of 4.2 specific gravity (SG) barite.
The Company advises that the estimate provided is of a historic
nature, is not NI-43-101-compliant and should not be relied upon.
The
Company is in possession of all of CE?s original 19,250 foot drill program
data delineating the barite deposit. This material includes drill logs,
barite intersection assay data, tonnage calculations, drill sections and
plans, a contour map showing the developed barite thickness, as well as a
complete physical deposit model. The Company conducted a limited diamond
drill program in the fall of 2007, the results of which substantially
compared with the CE original data. The deposit, which has been stripped and
benched ready for mining, is accessible by good forest service roads.
On 11
May 2008, the Company completed the first stage crushing and
separation testing of a 20 ton bulk sample at the Metso Minerals crush test
center in Milwaukee, WI.
Representative samples from the test that were submitted to Metsolve Labs, Burnaby,
BC, indicated that 4.2 SG barite
can be achieved through standard dry crushing and dry and wet separation
methods.
Subject
to financing and BLM approval, the Company plans to set up a pilot processing
plant at the mine site using both standard dry crushing equipment and
separation methods used in gravel pit operations and wet separation
methods to determine whether the estimated 40,000 to 50,000 tons of barite
that has previously been blasted, mined, and stockpiled on the
property, can be economically separated into a 4.2 SG product for sale.
In a
November 2006 report, the U.S. Geological Survey reported that companies
producing 4.2 SG barite received an average of US$39 ton at the mine gate,
and that of the approximately 3.3 million tons of barite being used in North
America in 2006, 2.75 million tons was imported.
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Kent
Exploration Inc is a junior exploration company that has a 100% interest in a
mining lease option on the Flagstaff Mountain property, a
gold/silver/zinc/barite prospect in eastern Washington state, is earning a
100% interest in the Rosebud property, a gold/silver prospect in northern
Arizona, has earned 50% of a 100% interest in the
mining lease option on the Ivanhoe Creek property, a Midas-style gold/silver
target and 50% of a 100% interest in the Ivanhoe Creek placer claims,
covering a bentonite deposit in Nevada?s Carlin Trend, and has a 100% option
on the Silver Hills property, a silver/ lead/ zinc prospect in south-eastern
British Columbia.
This
News Release has been prepared on behalf of the Kent Exploration Inc Board of
Directors, which accepts full responsibility for its contents. The
contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Marvin A.
Mitchell, P. Eng., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument NI
43-101.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Graeme
O'Neill"
Graeme
O?Neill, President
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does
not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release
#619 ? 744 W. Hastings
Street, Vancouver, B.
C. ? V6C 1A5
Phone: (604) 684-3394, Toll Free: 1(866)399-6539, Fax:
1(888)282-7763
www.kent-exploration.com
Important
Information:
This release
includes certain statements that are "forward-looking statements".
All statements in this release, other than statements of historical
facts that address future exploration, development and production activities,
and other circumstances, events and developments that the Company expects,
are forward-looking statements. Although management believes the
expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future
performance, and actual results, events and developments may differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The occurrence
of certain risk factors, the probability of which is unknown, may also affect
actual results, events and developments expected by the Company.
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