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Benton samples 68 m of 1.09 g/t PPG at Area 41

2006-09-19 10:49 ET - News Release

Mr. Stephen Stares reports

BENTON (BTC) DISCOVERS LARGE ZONES OF PLATINUM, PALLADIUM AND GOLD AND NEW COPPER-NICKEL ZONE

Benton Resources Corp. is providing an update on its trenching program at the west end of the Bermuda project, located 20 kilometres northwest of the town of Marathon, Ont.

Surface trenching has been carried out intermittently over a strike length of approximately three kilometres near Sally and Wullie Lake and results received to date are very positive. Channel sampling at Area 41, located between the Sally and Wullie Lake deposits, has uncovered large zones of platinum-palladium-gold (TPM) grading up to 1.09 grams per tonne TPM (0.09 gram per tonne gold, 0.29 gram per tonne platinum, 0.71 gram per tonne palladium) with 0.17 per cent copper over 68 metres. The interval includes numerous one-metre samples grading better than five grams per tonne TPM. The company is extremely pleased with the results as they show similar grades and widths to that of the Marathon deposit located 15 kilometres to the southeast, which has a 2.1-million-ounce-TPM resource (Marathon PGM PR Feb. 2, 2006). This new discovery may represent a second large PGE and copper deposit discovered in the Coldwell complex.

In addition to the new PGE zones, the company has discovered a significant new copper-nickel-cobalt zone grading 1.08 per cent copper, 0.36 per cent nickel and 0.09 per cent cobalt with 0.44 gram per tonne TPM over seven metres, including 1.81 per cent copper, 0.6 per cent nickel 0.12 per cent cobalt and 0.64 grams per tonne TPM over three metres. This new base-metal zone may represent the highest copper-nickel-cobalt that has been obtained from the Coldwell complex and the company is continuing to evaluate this important new discovery. As the company waits for further assay results from the trenching program, line cutting, geological mapping and a ground magnetic survey are under way. A diamond drill program in this newly discovered mineralized area is scheduled to begin before the end of the year. Assay results will be released as they are received and maps of the channel sampling will be posted on the company's website after compilation of the results.

Clinton Barr (PGeo), vice-president, exploration, for Benton Resources Corp., is the qualified person responsible for this release.