Properties

Kabba

Recent Project Developments

Geochemical map emphasizing the clustering of samples having high molybdenum-copper-nickel-arsenic (Mo-Cu-Ni-As) values. These values cluster more strongly to the west, within and beyond quartz porphyry intrusions. Drillhole K-6 lies immediately west and northwest of the map area.

Beginning in late fall of 2005, the Company performed an extensive series of geophysical surveys at the Kabba project. These surveys provided further indications of a buried Mo-Cu porphyry at the Kabba project. A summary of these surveys follows:

• Fall 2005 - Aeromagnetic survey - showed favourable large magnetic low in the target position.
• Summer 2006 - Induced Polarization (IP) geophysical survey. This survey failed to reach through cover rocks (dry gravel) down to depth of bedrock target.
• Fall 2006 - Natural Source Audio Magneto-Telluric (NSAMT) geophysical survey. Initial survey showed a body in the target area at an estimated depth of 400 meters having similar electrical properties to the outcropping, faulted roots of the deposit. Follow-up survey on a parallel line confirmed the existence and position of the body.
• Fall 2006 - Gravity geophysical surveying completed. Interpretation of the data yielded a depth-to-target estimate of 400 meters or less.
• Spring 2007 - Seismic reflection survey was completed by Zonge Engineering. They believe this survey has confirmed the general west-dipping nature of the covered target block and the general geometry of the master fault that bisects the porphyry system.
• Spring/Summer 2008 - Bell Copper performed an extensive series of detailed work programs including further mapping and geochemistry. Integration of this new surface data with diamond drill data has confirmed the Company's proposition that the target at Kabba is a large Molybdenum/Copper Porphyry system at a potentially shallow depth.
• Spring 2009 - Bell Copper initiated the Phase II drill program at the Kabba property.

The information from these geophysical surveys was utilized in the Phase I deep drilling program targeted at a down-faulted, copper-molybdenum porphyry system. This initial drill program consisted of four diamond holes drilled to an average depth of approximately 900 metres for a total of 3630 meters.

All four drillholes showed geological indications of proximity to a porphyry copper-molybdenum system such as sericitic or potassic alteration or sulfide mineralization. The drillholes were spread over an area of 1.3 kilometers by 3.3 kilometers, reflecting the large size of the target and the large magnitude of horizontal slip on the Hualapai fault, the principal fault that has decapitated the porphyry Cu-Mo system.

Bell is now currently in the midst of our second drill program at Kabba. The drilling of K5 and K6 have been completed and K7 is underway. Drill hole K-6 was terminated at a depth of 754 meters after cutting multiple geological features believed to be associated with the periphery of the decapitated top of the Kabba porphyry system. These features included weak disseminated chalcopyrite, two sericitically altered quartz monzonite porphyry sills, a thick leached capping comprising abundant arsenic-rich goethite and hematite veinlets after primary ankerite, locally strongly anomalous copper, molybdenum, lead, and zinc and common scheelite and fluorite veinlets. Drillhole K-6 added new strong evidence that these types of features are present in widely separated areas and are therefore most likely part of a single large covered porphyry system.

The dimensions of the 3 kilometer by 5 kilometer target are represented by a similar area of surface alteration within what seems to be the target Porphyry's pre-faulted root zone located on surface to the west of the property. The Kabba target has geological and structural similarities to some of the larger known productive porphyries, including: Bingham Canyon, El Teniente and Resolution.