In October 2009, Benton Resources entered into an Option Agreement with Deloro Mining and Smelting to option 100% interest in two mining patents and one mining claim located 5 km southeast of the city if Timmins along the prolific Dome-Aunor-Delnite mine trend. The property is situated 900 meters west and on strike of the 930,000 ounce past producing Delnite Mine and is host to at least three separate bands of quartz-ankerite veining hosted within a package of strong carbonate altered and sheared mafic volcanic rocks containing pyrite and trace chalcopyrite.
Records indicate that the property has not been worked since the late 1930’s and there is no record of any diamond drilling on the claims. Known historic work includes the sinking of a 125 foot shaft on the south quartz vein system and trenching and pitting of quartz veins on the south and Hennessey (central) vein systems. Reports dated 1913 (Dobbs) and 1939 (B.S.W. Buffam) report grab samples from the south zone returning up to 0.75 ounces per ton (opt) gold (Au) over an average thickness of 4 feet from the south zone and values of up to 2.3 opt Au from the Hennessey zone. A third quartz vein system hosted within a strong carbonate altered shear zone cuts through the northern part of the property and is believed to represent the west extension of the Aunor-Delnite mine trend. Although there is no recorded work on this zone within the claims, a hole drilled immediately east of the east claim boundary of ME43 returned 0.085 opt Au over 40 feet including 0.26 opt Au over 5 feet and 0.16 opt Au over 5 feet (drill hole #5, Jasper Porcupine Mines, 1939).
Benton’s Phase I drill program intersected 8.57gpt Au over 3.5 metres including 11.86 gpt over 2.5 metres from hole D09-12, the western most and deepest hole drilled to date. The drill program has focused on drilling stratigraphic holes on 50 metre spaced lines, starting at the east property boundary (L508E) and working westwards, testing for mineralized structures along the south vein horizon. Of particular interest is the fact that the best results received have come from the most westerly and deepest hole (D09-12) drilled to date (L506+00E at approximately 100 metres below surface). Gold mineralization occurs within a distinct quartz breccia hosted within a zone of heavy pyrite and strong sericite altered mafic volcanic rocks. Benton is currently designing a Phase II drill program to test the more northern portion of the property. Drilling will commence late in the winter, or early spring 2010.
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