KEX Bayhorse Silver, Inc.

Kent Exploration Inc. (the "Company" or "Kent") (TSX VENTURE:KEX) reports that
operations have commenced at its fully permitted Barite Mine at Flagstaff
Mountain, Northport, Steven's County, WA.


To date, initial processing of the approximately 30,000 tons of barite
stockpiled during mining conducted by CE Minerals during their approximately
four years of operations, that ceased in 1984 due to market conditions, has been
completed. Two benches have been cleared ready for blasting, and blasting of
bench #5 was conducted this morning. Secondary processing and upgrading of the
barite to a specific gravity (SG) of 4.1 for delivery at the mine gate to Albar
Industrial Minerals, ("Albar") of Northport, WA, is now underway. The Company
has an Agreement with Albar to provide a minimum 20,000 tons per annum of 4.1
specific gravity ("SG) barite at the mine gate. The current price for delivery
at the mine gate is approximately US$52/ton.


The Company is permitted to mine up to 100,000 tons of barite per annum.
Additional to this, the Company has received expressions of interest to purchase
up to 10,000 tons of waste rock this year from the property for use in local
construction operations.


CE Minerals, the prior mine operator, conducted approximately 19,000 + feet of
rotary air blast drill holes during delineation of the barite deposit and
estimated in their published reports that there was a historic resource of
approximately 1,950,000 tons containing approximately 67% of 4.2 SG barite (CE
Minerals 1982), for approximately 1,300,000 tons of contained barite, of which
they reportedly mined approximately 85,000 tons. The Company obtained
substantially all of the historic mine data, including a layered physical model
of the deposit, survey maps, drill hole data, assays, doctoral theses etc, prior
to performing approximately 1,300 feet of HQ diamond drill holes through the
barite that substantially confirmed the reported historic grade and extent of
the barite deposit.


The Company advises that the mine was permitted based upon the historic data in
the Company's possession and prior BLM approval as an operating mine, a
feasibility study has not been conducted and there is no certainty the proposed
operations will be economically viable. Additionally, a qualified person has not
done sufficient work to classify the historical estimate as a current mineral
resource and the issuer is not treating the historic mineral resource as a
current mineral resource and the historical estimate should not be relied upon.


Operations at the mine are conducted on behalf of the Company by North Columbia
Enterprises of Northport, WA, a company experienced in this type of operation,
and quality control is conducted by Mr. Ronald Singh, P. Eng, formerly of
Mountain Minerals and geologist J Roger Olsen, M.Sc., both of whom have been
involved in barite mining and processing operations for approximately 20 years.


President and CEO Graeme O'Neill, says, "We are very pleased that the Company
has reached the significant milestone of having a permitted mine, and any
positive cash flow will assist us in funding ongoing exploration on our New
Zealand gold projects, the Silver Hill project in British Columbia, and in
reducing share dilution. In the short time the Company has been trading, we have
now established an operating mine and provided a 25% share dividend to our
shareholders, through the spin-off and listing of Archean Star Resources Inc.,
now trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ASP."


Kent Exploration Inc. is a junior exploration company that has acquired the
Alexander River, Paparoa and Lyell gold projects in the highly prolific Reefton
gold field in New Zealand and has an approximate 35% interest in, and is the
controlling shareholder of, Archean Star Resources Inc, ("Archean") which is
listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ASP. Archean's wholly owned
subsidiary, Archean Star Resources Australia, Pty, Ltd, ("ASRA") has an Option
Agreement, subject to a 75% back in right, to earn 100% of Teck's interest in
Chalice Gold Mines Limited's Gnaweeda Gold Project in West Australia.


The Company has an option to earn a 100% interest in the Silver Hills property,
a silver/ lead/ zinc prospect in south-eastern British Columbia, The Company has
a 100% interest in Coal Prospecting Permits covering approximately 92,000 ha in
east-central Saskatchewan; a 100% interest in a mining lease option on the
Flagstaff Mountain property, a barite-gold-silver-zinc- property in eastern
Washington state, having a fully permitted mine which is approved to produce up
to 100,000 tons of barite per year, and a 100% interest in the mining lease
option on the Ivanhoe Creek property, a Midas-style gold/silver target in
Nevada's Carlin Trend, and 50% of a 100% interest in the Ivanhoe Creek placer
claims covering a bentonite deposit.


This News Release has been prepared on behalf of the Kent Exploration Inc. Board
of Directors, which accepts full responsibility for its contents. The content of
this release has been reviewed and approved by Dr. Clay Conway, Ph.D. P.Geol, a
Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument NI-43-101.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Graeme O'Neill, President

Forward-Looking Statement:

Some of the statements in this news release contain forward-looking information
that involves inherent risk and uncertainty affecting the business of Kent
Exploration Inc. Actual results may differ materially from those currently
anticipated in such statements.

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