Benton Resources and Pacific North West
Thunder Bay, Ontario: Benton Resources Corp. (“Benton” or the “Company”, BTC:TSX-V) and Pacific North West Capital Corp. (“PFN”) are pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the Heenan Property’s Hussey-Aube gold zone which is part of the Benton-PFN joint venture in the Swayze Greenstone Belt, southwest of Timmins, Ontario. Gold mineralization was first discovered by prospectors J. Hussey and A. Aube in 1997 and has not seen any exploration activity until the Swayze JV optioned the Heenan claim block in late 2007. As part of the 2008 work program designed to evaluate the nickel potential of the joint venture area, prospecting by Benton over the Heenan zone returned assays grading from <2 grams per tonne up to 6.4 grams per tonne gold over a 400 meter strike length. The zone is hosted within albitized and carbonated altered metavolcanic rocks having trace to 10% fine grained disseminated sulphides and is coincident with a distinct 600 meter-long induced polarization chargeability and resistivity anomaly. A drill has been mobilized to the property and approximately 500 meters of drilling in three shallow drill holes will test the subsurface continuity of the gold mineralization.
Results of the drilling will be released as they are received and compiled.
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”
Stephen Stares, President
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