Benton Intersects Multiple Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Zones at Kingurutik Nickel Project and Commences Drilling in Timmins
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 10/19/10 -- Benton Resources Corp. ('Benton' or 'the Company') (TSX VENTURE: BTC) is pleased to announce the Company has received assay results from the recently completed drill program on the Kingurutik Lake Nickel project located approximately 60 kilometers north of the world class Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt deposit. The project is a joint venture between Benton and Teck Resources Limited ('Teck'). Teck did not contribute to the current program and as a result will incur dilution of its interest which was 50% prior to the program. The amount of dilution will be calculated once the final program expenditures have been approved. Several of the drill targets tested intersected magmatic sulphide mineralization that returned significant amounts of nickel, copper, and cobalt values that suggests further work is warranted to evaluate the size of these mineralized zones. Of particular interest are the results from the A Zone area that was tested with a single drill hole (KL10-11). This hole intersected multiple intervals of semi-massive sulphide with several sections grading better than 1% nickel and 1% copper. Follow-up work is currently being planned for early spring to explore and delineate the significant mineralization.
A table of significant results are as follows:
Hole Number Location From (m) To (m) Width (m) Ni (%) Cu (%) Co (%)
KL10-01 P Zone 3.75 9.30 5.55 0.29 0.31 0.05
including 4.75 5.40 0.65 0.68 0.62 0.10
including 9.00 9.30 0.30 0.63 0.28 0.10
KL10-02 P Zone 15.80 16.40 0.60 0.60 0.26 0.09
and 24.25 24.55 0.30 0.52 0.40 0.08
and 28.95 29.75 0.80 0.48 0.49 0.08
and 36.50 36.90 0.40 0.32 0.76 0.06
and 164.19 164.64 0.45 0.40 0.68 0.06
KL10-03 P Zone 6.00 6.40 0.40 0.34 0.54 0.08
and 11.90 12.90 1.00 0.46 0.48 0.07
and 26.40 27.10 0.70 0.59 0.38 0.09
and 31.10 34.00 2.90 0.51 0.40 0.08
including 32.90 34.00 1.10 0.80 0.47 0.01
and 111.80 129.00 10.20 0.49 0.54 0.08
including 122.40 129.00 6.60 0.52 0.53 0.08
including 126.50 128.00 1.50 0.73 0.28 0.01
KL10-04 Black Beard - nsa
KL10-05 Black Beard 20.60 22.00 1.40 0.20 0.44 0.04
KL10-06 Black Beard 86.10 87.20 1.10 0.18 0.23 0.04
KL10-07 Red Beard 86.30 86.70 0.40 0.20 0.35 0.05
KL10-08 Red Beard 58.20 58.60 0.40 0.13 0.23 0.03
KL10-09 Bull South -nsa
KL10-10 Bull North - nsa
KL10-11 A Zone 12.70 13.40 0.70 1.27 1.21 0.08
and 18.40 22.80 4.40 0.85 0.71 0.09
including 18.40 19.20 0.80 1.26 0.58 0.08
including 19.20 20.10 0.90 1.47 0.48 0.09
including 21.10 22.80 1.70 0.83 1.13 0.06
including 21.10 21.80 0.70 0.06 1.20 0.01
including 21.80 22.80 1.00 1.37 1.08 0.09
KL10-12 D Grid 29.50 30.70 1.20 0.32 0.18 0.03
Benton would like to thank the government of Newfoundland and Labrador for financial support of this project through the Junior Exploration Assistance program, part of the provincial Mineral Incentive Program.
Benton also wishes to announce that it has initiated drilling on the Deloro property, located 900 meters west of the past producing Delnite gold mine in Timmins, Ontario. A 1,500 meter drill program will test at depth, the south zone mineralization previously intersected in the December, 2009 and January, 2010 drilling programs. The South Zone is located approximately 500 meters south of the Delnite mine horizon. Mineralization consists of brecciated quartz-tourmaline veins hosted with pyrite rich sericitized mafic volcanic rocks. Significant results from previous drilling by Benton on the south zone include 8.57 gpt (grams per tonne) Au (gold) over 3.5 meters (hole DH09-12), 5.32 gpt Au over 1.0 meters (hole DH10-14) and 3.02 gpt Au over 1.5 meters (hole DH10-27) (see January 26, 2010 news release).
Benton is a Canadian based junior with multiple joint ventures and a diversified property portfolio in Gold, Nickel, Copper, and Platinum group elements. The company currently has approximately $8 million in cash, owns 38.7 million shares and 19.1 million warrants in Coro Mining Corp (TSX: COP), holds 1.56 million shares in Marathon PGM Corp (TSX: MAR), holds 1.6 million shares in Puget Ventures (TSX VENTURE: PVS), holds 825,000 Bell Copper Corp (TSX VENTURE: BCU) and retains a 2% Net Smelter Royalty on the northern portion of the Marathon PGM deposit. The company is also in the process spinning out its 100% Bermuda property to it share holders into a new company to be named Coldwell Copper Corp.
Clinton Barr (P.Geo.), V.P. Exploration for Benton Resources Corp., is the qualified person responsible for this release.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Benton Resources Corp.
Stephen Stares, President
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Stephen Stares
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