ASHBURTON VENTURES INC. (TSXV:ABR) provided an update on its summer exploration program at the Deep Creek Project, located 112 kilometres north of Elko, Nevada.

The press release is quoted as saying:

In addition to the summer drill program, the Company also conducted a reconnaissance exercise on a vein system, now referred to as the ‘Upper Vein’, located roughly 450 metres east of the Range Front Structure, with assays returning the following highlights to date: 94.3 g/t gold from a 2.37 kilogram vein chip sample, with visible gold present; 56.3 g/t gold from a 3.19 kilogram vein chip sample, ten metres further along the vein strike, with visible gold present; 40.1 g/t gold from a 2.10 kilogram vein chip sample, with visible gold present, as reported in the Company’s news release dated September 15, 2010, 9.79, 7.03, and 2.91 g/t gold sampled on an additional three samples with no visible gold noted.

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