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Benton Resources Corp. Provides Exploration Update
Benton Resources Corp. Provides Exploration Update
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nBenton Resources Corp. Provides Exploration Update\n\n\n Jun. 4, 2009 (TheNewswire.ca) -- Benton Resources Corp (BTC: TSX.V, \"Benton\" or \"the Company\") is pleased to release to following updates on the Company's projects.Benton and Golden Harp Resources Inc. (TSXV:GHR) have started the first phase of exploration on the Block A option ground located 30 km west of Gowganda, Ontario. A seven hole, 1625 meter drill program has recently been completed to verify historical gold mineralization as well as test the down dip and southeast strike extension of the Cook Zone. The Cook Zone, first discovered in the 1930's, is hosted within silicified and carbonate altered mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks that have been intruded by altered felsic porphyry dykes. The zone has been subject to several past diamond drilling campaigns that have intersected significant gold mineralization from several sub-parallel zones. Some of the better down hole drill intersections include 54.2 gpt Au (gram per tonne gold) over 4.0m (metres) in hole B-04 and 5.71 gpt Au over 4.6m in hole B-06 drilled in 1952 by Bessey Mining Syndicate; 5.4 gpt Au over 7.6m (hole T-14) drilled in 1953 by Tenendo Mining; 10.6 gpt Au over 3.1m (hole ORC-01) drilled by Orcana in the 1980's; and 2.7 gpt Au over 13m (KC-12) drilled by KRL Resources in 1995. In addition to the diamond drill program, a 41 km grid has been established and ground geophysics, mapping, soil sampling and prospecting are planned. The new grid extends southeast from the Cook Zone through to the MC Zone discovered by Golden Harp in 2008. The MC Zone, located 1.3 km east southeast of the Cook Zone, is hosted in a thick package of pyritic, green carbonate, albite and hematite altered ultramafic and mafic volcanic rocks. To date five holes have tested the MC Zone over a strike length of 220m. All holes intersected widespread anomalous gold mineralization with some of the better down hole mineralized intervals returning 44.0m of 0.89 gpt Au (including 2.0m of 4.01 gpt Au) from hole GH-025 and 9.0m of 3.6 gpt Au (including 2.0m grading 14.29 gpt Au) from hole GH-019. The results of the current exploration program will be followed up by a second phase diamond drill program as soon as the data is finalized and compiled.In the Thunder Bay area, Benton has recently staked approximately 127 square km of land adj...