Benton cuts copper at Bermuda (July 11, 2005)

Vancouver — Newly listed Benton Resources (BTC-V) reports thick intersections of copper at its Bermuda property, near Marathon, Ont.

Two drill holes intersected 57 metres of 0.36% copper and 65 metres of 0.67% copper in a basal peridotite. Sulphides in the mineralization increase at depth, grading from disseminated to semi-massive net-textured. Anomalous platinum group metals (PGMs) were also observed, as were cobalt and silver.

“This is the first time a peridotite has been seen in the Coldwell,” says Benton President Stephen Stares. “Nowhere else in the complex have we found net-textured sulphides carrying significant copper, PGMs and silver.”

The Bermuda project is near Marathon PGM‘s (MAR-V) Marathon project, on the eastern border of the of the Coldwell complex. That deposit has a measured and indicated resource of 23 million tonnes grading 1.4 grams palladium and 0.3 gram platinum per tonne, plus 0.4% copper.

Benton plans to carry out 5,000 metres of drilling to redefine the Sally Lake deposit and test the Skipper Lake and Bamoos zones.

As well, the company recently acquired a uranium project in the Nipigon Basin and a copper-nickel project in central Newfoundland.

With 13.5 million shares outstanding, Benton has a $3.8-million market capitalization.