RE: Benton Shareholders Screwed Again by Professio
BENTON CAPITAL PROVIDES CORPORATE UPDATE
3250 Hwy 130
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TSX-V: BTC
September 5, 2012
Thunder Bay, Ontario: Benton Capital Corp. (TSXV: BTC) is pleased to announce the following corporate update for its shareholders.
Benton Capital Corp. ("Benton" or the "Company") holds approximately 57.87 million shares in Coro Mining Corp. ("Coro") (TSX: COP) which constitutes approximately 41.84% of Coro’s issued capital. Coro is a Vancouver based copper exploration company with early stage and advanced projects located in South America.
Based on its holdings of Coro, the shares of Benton currently trade at a significant discount relative to the capitalized value of Coro’s issued shares. Accordingly management of the Company would like to provide a summary of both Coro’s and the Company’s assets and near term plans:
1. Benton market capitalization of approximately $7.6 million based on a
.10 trading price per share;
2. Current value of Coro holdings (57.8 million shares) of approximately $17.4 million based on current trading price of Coro;
3. Coro’s Berta project located near large producers with excellent infrastructure;
4. Approximately $730,000 cash in Benton’s treasury with an extremely low burn rate;
5. Coro currently completing a resource estimate on its Berta copper project in Chile;
6. Coro currently drilling on new high potential copper prospect at El Inca project in Chile;
7. Coro currently negotiating EIS approval for San Jorge copper/gold deposit in Argentina;
8. Benton currently planning work program to advance the Goodchild Copper-Nickel-PGM project located 5km NE of Stillwater Mining’s Marathon Copper-PGM deposit currently being permitted for production
Stephen Stares, Company President and CEO commented "We are frustrated that the Company is trading at such a large discount to its net asset value but we believe long time shareholders will be rewarded as Coro advances their excellent property portfolio in Chile and Argentina, the Company advances its Goodchild property in Ontario and continues to evaluate other opportunities to enhance shareholder value.
In addition Benton has granted 2.025 million stock options exercisable at
.15 for a period of 5 years to officers, directors, employees and consultants of the Company.
Clinton Barr (P.Geo.), V.P. Exploration for Benton Capital Corp., is the qualified person responsible for this release.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Benton Capital Corp.,
"Stephen Stares" Stephen Stares, President
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