THUNDER BAY, ON -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/04/2006 -- Benton Resources Corp. (TSX-V: BTC) (the "Company") is pleased to provide more results from this summer's trenching program at the west end of the Bermuda project, located 20 km northwest of the town of Marathon, Ontario.

Surface trenching has been carried out intermittently over a strike length of approximately 3 km near Sally and Wullie Lake. Benton recently released favorable results from several new zones, including assays from Trench O on the new zone named Area 41, which returned grades of 1.09 gpt Pt+Pd+Au (Platinum+Palladium+Gold) and 0.17% copper over 68 metres from channel sampling. Several 1 metres samples graded better than 5 gpt Pt+Pd+Au. Benton has now received additional results from Area 41 that further support the continuity of the zone. Results from Trench R, located 700 meters to the east of Trench O, included 1.9 gpt Pt+Pd+Au and 0.15% Cu over 13 metres with higher grades of 4.33 gpt Pt+Pd+Au over 4.0 metres and 10.08 gpt Pt+Pd+Au over 1.0 metres. The zone has now been traced through sporadic trenching over a 1.1 km strike length.

Benton's management believes these results continue to support the fact that the very large Coldwell Complex may host several sizeable platinum group element and base metal deposits, including the Marathon deposit located 15 km to the southeast which currently has a 2.1 million ounce Pt+Pd+Au resource (MAR PR March 29, 2006). Benton controls approximately 17 km strike length in the Coldwell Complex and exploration completed to date has identified multiple showings of platinum, palladium, gold, copper, nickel and cobalt intermittently along the entire strike length of the property.

The Company is currently negotiating with a diamond drill contractor to begin a drilling campaign as soon as the drill is available. The drill program will be designed to test these new PGE zones over a three kilometre strike length as well as to test the newly discovered copper-nickel-cobalt zone which returned channel samples grading 1.08% copper, 0.36% nickel and 0.09% cobalt and 0.44gpt Pt+Pd+Au over 7 metres, and including 1.81% copper, 0.60% nickel, 0.12% cobalt and 0.64 gpt Pt+Pd+Au over 3 metres. This new copper-nickel-cobalt zone may represent the highest base metal grades that have been obtained from the Coldwell Complex. Results and maps of the channel sampling will be posted on the Company's web site.

The Company would also like to invite investors to view a video presentation produced by Business Television which covers Benton. The presentation is available on the home page of the Company's web site at www.bentonresources.ca and is posted under Corporate Video.

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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