GNT Gentor Resources Inc

Gentor Resources and its Turkish partner the Besler Group announce assay results from the final 12 holes of their initial 19 diamond drill hole program at the Hacimeter VMS Project near Erzurum, eastern Turkey. These results confirm the presence of a stacked massive sulphide VMS system adjacent to previously discovered and drilled stringer VMS mineralisation at Hacimeter. Further core assay highlighted results include:

GA-H8 -  5.30 metres at 1.33% Cu, 0.42g/t Au from 153.70 metres depth

GA-H9 -  4.70 metres at 1.93% Cu, 0.24g/t Au from 96.20 metres depth

GA-H11 -  3.60 metres at 1.80% Cu from 142.50 metres depth

GA-H12 -  3.80 metres at 4.24%Cu, 3.20% Zn and 2.67g/t Au from 29.80 metres depth

GA-H15 -  2.90 metres at 3.94% Zn, 0.32g/t Au from 147.90 metres depth

GA-H16 -  6.15 metres at 1.22% Cu, 3.60g/t Au from 24.75 metres depth.

Several newly intersected shallow, high-grade sulphide zones indicate potential mineralisation extensions to the south and east.  Of particular interest are the elevated zinc and gold grades in some drilled intervals.

TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Gentor Resources Inc. ("Gentor" or the "Company") (TSX-V - "GNT" & OTCQB - "GNTOF") and its partner the Besler Group have finalised the drilling results from their successful first phase program at the Hacimeter VMS Project, in eastern Turkey. The results from the first seven holes of this program including all drill hole location data were reported in Gentor's press release dated August 28, 2012.  For details see the Company's website: www.gentorresources.com

The results from the first seven holes provided good confirmation of the integrity of the earlier Besler shallow drilling in the northern areas shown in Figure 1, whilst the remainder of the holes reported in this press release targeted faulted geophysical extensions at depth to both the south east and south west.  The best drill intercepts were related to geophysical anomalies from both IP and shallow TEM and were related to massive sulphide, proximal stringer mineralisation, plus peripheral semi-massive sulphide and stringer mineralisation.

The drill pattern was designed to test the main anomalous area on approximately 50 metre centres.  Geologically the drilling identified a stacked, sub-horizontal copper-zinc-gold massive sulphide and stringer zone system that has been down-faulted by a minimum of 100 metres from both the northern block mineralisation and the southern gossanous zone mineralisation (Long Section A-A' as Figure 2 and orthogonal Cross Section B-B' as Figure 3).  The system is hosted by altered pillow and massive basalts.  Mineralisation comprises two horizons of massive sulphide approximately 20 metres apart centred on GA-H8, which grade laterally into pyritic semi-massive sulphide (best shown on the oblique Long Section C-C' in Figure 4). In the upper horizon stringer mineralisation is dominant, whilst the lower horizon contains more massive sulphide with zinc and gold associated with the copper.

One of the more impressive copper-gold massive sulphide zones occurs down dip in GA-H12 below a gossan that exhibits combined trench results of 7.0 metres at 5.5g/t Au and 44.8g/t Ag within a related elevated copper-zinc-arsenic XRF soil geochemical zone that extends for several hundred metres along an up-faulted block along the southern part of the prospect. This massive sulphide target is limited at depth due to faulting on the north side but is open along strike.

A further shallow high-grade massive sulphide zone intersected in GA-H16 within the southern block is open in three directions and is likely to be an eastern strike extension of the deeper southern block massive sulphide system.

In summary, this successful drilling program has clearly outlined significant high-grade massive sulphide extensions to the shallow stringer-type VMS system initially discovered at Hacimeter by Besler in 2010-2011.  Further drilling is required to extend the defined mineralised zones and to better correlate the various block faulted segments.

Table 1.  Summary of Significant Intersections - September 2012