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23
January 2008
News release
Flagstaff
Property, WA - Preliminary QEMSCAN Analysis Received
Kent
Exploration Inc (�the Company�) reports the receipt of preliminary test
results from barite samples submitted to SGS Minerals Lakefield Research
Center (SGS) for QEMSCAN analysis.
The
analysis was conducted to determine the optimum liberation characteristics
of the barite in the historic estimated 1,300,000 ton deposit* outlined by
CE Minerals during its 19,290 foot, 1981-1982 drill program.
The
Company conducted a 1,231 foot diamond drill program in the late fall of
2007 targeting the approximate locations where CE Minerals identified high
grade gold mineralization and took approximately 40 tons of a planned, up
to 1,000 ton, barite bulk sample.
The
entire cores of diamond drill holes DDH07-1 and 07-3 were submitted to the
ALS Chemex laboratory in Sparks, Nevada, for assay for
gold/silver/lead/zinc and barite. Core from DDH07-7 and 8 was
submitted for assay the week of January 14, 2008 and the core from
DDH07-10 and 07-11 is yet to be submitted. Assays are pending.
Upon
receipt of the final report and subject to the recommendations of SGS, the
Company plans to ship a portion of the barite bulk sample taken during the
2007 drill program to Metso Minerals in Milwaukee for further testing to
determine the optimum combination of crushing, grinding, and separation
equipment necessary for economic processing of the barite to API
specifications as a weighting agent in oil and gas well drilling.
In
a November 2007 publication (Miller, USGS, 2007), The US Geological
Survey reports that 2006 consumption of barite in the US was approximately
3,200,000 tons. US domestic production in 2006 accounted for 540,000
tons at an average price of US$39 f.o.b. mine, with the balance of
approximately 2,700,000 tons being imported.
*The
Company advises the estimate of the barite deposit is taken from reports
that are of a historic nature. The Company has not performed sufficient
work to confirm the estimate and as such the estimate is not NI-43-101-
and should not be relied upon.
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Kent Exploration
Inc is a junior exploration company that has a 100% interest in a mining
lease option on a gold/silver/barite prospect in eastern Washington state,
is earning a 100% interest in the Rosebud property, a gold/silver prospect
in northern Arizona, and has earned a 50% interest in the Ivanhoe Creek
property, a Midas-style target containing a bentonite deposit in Nevada�s
Carlin Trend.
This News
Release has been prepared on behalf of the Kent Exploration Inc Board of
Directors, which accepts full responsibility for its contents.
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
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