Kent Exploration Inc. TSX VENTURE: KEX

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 29, 2008) - Kent Exploration Inc (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:KEX) reports it has applied to Saskatchewan Energy and Resources for Coal Disposition Permits on an additional 37,120 hectares of ground northwest of Hudson Bay. Of these applications, 8,448 ha lie approximately 25km northwest of the Goldsource "Pasquia Hills" claim groups.

The Company has now filed and fully paid for 180 Coal Disposition Permit Applications totaling 140,032 ha (approximately 1,400.32 square kilometers or 539 square miles). The Company has received comfort letters on applications totaling 18,432 ha, with the balance of the applications pending with Saskatchewan Energy and Resources. All the applications have been made in accordance with all the rules and regulations set forth by the government of Saskatchewan's permitting office and are subject to final approval.

Goldsource, which made the original coal discovery in Saskatchewan, reports that its Pasquia drill hole BD08-02 was drilled approximately 3.0 kilometers to the northwest of initial discovery hole BD08-03 and encountered a coal intercept of 23.2 meters between 81.6 meters and 104.8 meters. Goldsource hole BD08-04, located approximately 2.5 kilometers south of BD08-01, intersected approximately 8.3 meters of carbonaceous mudstone, minor coal seams and sand partings at the base of the overburden from 28.0 meters to 36.3 meters.

Kent Exploration Inc is a junior exploration company that has a 100% interest in a mining lease option on the Flagstaff Mountain property, a gold/silver/zinc/barite prospect in eastern Washington state, is earning a 100% interest in the Rosebud property, a gold/silver prospect in northern Arizona, has earned 50% of a 100% interest in the mining lease option on the Ivanhoe Creek property, a Midas-style gold/silver target and 50% of a 100% interest in the Ivanhoe Creek placer claims, covering a bentonite deposit in Nevada's Carlin Trend, and has a 100% option on the Silver Hills property, a silver/ lead/ zinc prospect in south-eastern British Columbia.

This News Release has been prepared on behalf of the Kent Exploration Inc Board of Directors, which accepts full responsibility for its contents. The contents of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Marvin A. Mitchell, P. Eng., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument NI 43-101.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Graeme O'Neill, President

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