Benton Resources Corp ("Benton" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:BTC) is pleased
to provide an exploration update on its various projects and exploration plans
for the up coming 2010 field season. 


On the Kingurutik Lake Nickel project located approximately 60 kilometers north
of the world class Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt deposit, the company will
commence a diamond drilling program in early July to follow up on two previous
years of systematic exploration work completed by Teck Resources Corp. ("Teck"),
including airborne electromagnetic and magnetic surveys, mapping, prospecting,
sampling and UTEM geophysical surveys. This work identified several high
priority EM anomalies associated with large gossanous zones returning high-grade
copper and nickel values with grades of up to 6.8% copper and 1.7% nickel. Based
on this data, the Company has designed a 12 hole, 3,000 meter diamond drilling
program to test six separate target areas outlined by Teck including the P Zone,
Red Beard, Bull, Black Beard, and both A and D Grids. 


Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc., a 100% owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto ("Rio
Tinto") has notified the Company that an exploration program has commenced on
the Company's South Sibley property. The work program including mapping,
prospecting and geophysical surveying will search for high grade Copper - Nickel
and PGM zones within the Mid-continent rift geological system. Deposits such as
Magma Metals Limited's Thunder Bay North deposit and Rio Tinto's Eagle and
Tamarack deposits have been discovered in similar settings. A diamond drill
program will be planned based on the data collected from the current season's
exploration data.


On the Company's 100% owned Saganaga gold property located 100 kms west of
Thunder Bay, exploration work including trenching, channel sampling, geochemical
sampling, prospecting and mapping has commenced on several newly discovered gold
zones located throughout the property. These discoveries (CC and CK zones)
consist of quartz stockwork systems that measure 10-20 meters in width and have
been traced for several hundred meters along strike. Surface grab samples from
these zones have returned anomalous grades of gold and silver ranging from trace
amounts up to 16 gpt gold and 300 gpt silver. In addition, further work
including drilling and structural mapping will be completed on the Star and
North Star zones. 


On the Golden Harp Joint Venture, the Company has commenced line cutting to be
followed up by geophysics and mapping on various targets outside the known Cook,
MC and Crocker gold zones. A diamond drilling program is planned for later in
the year to follow up on the known targets and to test various new targets on
the property.


Results of the phase 3 drilling program on the Deloro project, located in
Timmins, Ontario have now been received. The recent drilling program tested the
north zone, which represents the western extension of the Delnite Mine horizon.
Almost all of the drill holes encountered anomalous gold mineralization
associated with carbonate altered mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks and
quartz-carbonate-tourmaline veins. Results of the drilling are as follows:




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Hole               FROM       TO    CORE WIDTH   Au gpt
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D10-28              no significant results             
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D10-29              no significant results             
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D10-30            83.00    84.00          1.00    0.842
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D10-31           218.00   224.00          6.00    0.575
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         incl.   219.00   220.00          1.00    1.291
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           and   243.00   244.00          1.00    1.188
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           and   259.30   264.50          5.20    1.033
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         incl.   262.00   263.00          1.00    3.310
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D10-32           195.00   200.00          5.00    0.511
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         incl.   195.00   196.00          1.00    1.720
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           and   270.00   274.00          4.00    1.242
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           and   333.50   336.50          3.00    0.768
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D10-33     and   183.50   186.50          3.00    2.247
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         incl.   185.00   186.50          1.50    4.200
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           and   224.00   228.00          4.00    0.651
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         incl.   227.00   228.00          1.00    2.110
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Follow-up work including further testing of the newly discovered south zone,
where previous drilling by the Company intersected up to 8.57 g/t au over 3.5
meters will be completed later this summer.


Benton is a Canadian based junior mining company with multiple joint ventures
and a diversified property portfolio in Gold, Nickel, Copper, and Platinum group
elements. The company currently has approximately $9 million in cash, owns 38.7
million shares and 19.1 million warrant in Coro Mining Corp (TSX:COP), holds 1.5
million shares in Marathon PGM Corp (TSX:MAR), holds 1.5 million shares in Puget
Ventures (TSX VENTURE:PVS), holds 815,000 Bell Copper Corp (TSX VENTURE:BCU) and
retains a 2% Net Smelter Royalty on the northern portion of the Marathon PGM
deposit. The company is also in the process spinning out its 100% Bermuda
property to it share holders into a new company to be named Coldwell Copper
Corp.


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, President

Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform act of 1995. Investors
are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties.