October 5, 2010, VANCOUVER, B.C. – ASHBURTON VENTURES INC. (ABR-TSX:V) (ARB-FRANKFURT)  (“Ashburton” or the "Company”) is pleased to provide an update on its summer exploration program at the Deep Creek Project, located 112 kilometres north of Elko, Nevada.  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

The Upper Vein

The Upper Vein is hosted in carbonate, phyllite, and slate units of the Proterozoic McCoy Creek Group. The results of the reconnaissance exercise during the summer program, which produced the initial rock grab sample  of 40.1 g/t gold as noted above, has lead the Company to now focus extra efforts on the Upper Vein .  Sampling is still ongoing and the Company has deployed two additional geologists to carry out the increased sampling program. 

Subsequent investigation of t he Upper Vein has shown it to be striking north-northwest with an apparent measured length of 400 metres and widths of up to 0.6 metres in some exposures, although the vein is not continuously exposed. 

The majority of samples assayed to date are from the northern area and cover only approximately 10% of the total length of the Upper Vein.  Results are pending from samples currently at the lab having been taken from both ends of the Upper Vein as well as a 1.5 meter channel sample of the McCoy Creek Group perpendicular to the Upper Vein.

A summary of samples reported and pending to date is provided below:

Further sampling of the Upper Vein area is underway to better define the distribution of gold in both the veins and country rock.  Investors should note that sampling in the Upper Vein area has been undertaken to with care to collect unbiased representative samples, but samples containing coarse gold should be considered to have an inherent nugget effect.

President Mike England states “We are extremely encouraged by these results and continue to believe that the Deep Creek Project is worthy of our increased attention and efforts.  While we continue to review the data recently acquired from Newmont (see news release dated September 7, 2010), it appears that we should now consider both the Upper Vein and the Range Front Structure in planning our future work programs.  We now have a very exciting sampling program underway on the Upper Vein and are optimistically awaiting results from the samples which are currently pending at the lab. ”

The Range Front Structure

The other part of the summer exploration program was the five-hole drilling program along the Range Front Structure, which has been completed for a total of 740 metres.  The core from this drilling program has been submitted to ALS Chemex Laboratories, North Vancouver, for assay and approximately half of the assay results have been received and reported in the Company’s news release dated September 15, 2010.  Drilling on the Range Front Structure was undertaken to confirm historical drilling in which a historical resource of 70,000 ounces of gold in 1.1 million tons, and a historical reserve of 477,000 ounces in 7.5 million tons was estimated.  Both the reserve and resource estimates are historical, and a qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify either the historical reserve or the historical resource estimate as current mineral resources, therefore these historical reserves should not be relied on and do not have currently demonstrated economic viability.  The partial assays for drill core received to date suggest that the gold mineralization within the Range Front S tructure is at approximately the same meterage intervals, with similar grades, as the historical data.

All rock and drill core samples are being prepared and analyzed for gold by ALS Chemex Laboratories, North Vancouver,  British Columbia, using the fire assay protocols AU-AA24, Au-AA25, and Au-GRA22 that provide detection ranges of 0.005-10, 0.01-100 and 0.05-1000 ppm gold, respectively.

The technical contents of this release were approved by Ashburton director and qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Dr. Tom McCandless, P.Geo.

Ashburton Ventures is a junior exploration company actively seeking mineral opportunities for the benefit of all its stakeholders. For more information visit the Company’s website located at www.ashburtonventures.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Michael England, President

For further information contact:

Telephone: (604) 683-3995

Forward-Looking Statement:
Some statements in this news release contain forward-looking information that involves inherent risk and uncertainty affecting the business of Ashburton Ventures Inc. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.