Benton Continues to Deliver High-Grade Gold Results at Great Burnt, Including 31.35 g/t from New Surface Sampling
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 8, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received the high-grade gold results up to 31.35g/t (grams per ton) from surface prospecting located just a few hundred meters northwest from the Great Burnt Copper Deposit (Figures 1 and 2, Table 1). This new mineralization may represent the northern extension of the previously announced NGB Target (see news release dated September 10,...
2025-10-08 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Resumes Drilling at the Great Burnt Project and South Pond Gold Zone
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 1, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has recommenced drilling at the Great Burnt Project. To date, four holes have been completed with the fifth hole currently underway. Benton has identified multiple high-priority drill targets on the project (see Company news release dated September 9, 2025) and plans to test several of these targets in this current drill campaign. Core for the...
2025-10-01 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Closes $1.836 Million in First Tranche of Private Placement Financing
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 29, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company"), further to its September 17, 2025 and September 23, 2025 news releases, is pleased to announce that it has received conditional approval for its $2.4 million private placement financing (the "Financing"). Further, the Company announces that it has closed a first tranche of the financing, issuing 33,372,910 $0.055 units (the "Units"), for aggregate gross proceeds of...
2025-09-29 5:00 PM EDT
Benton Increases Private Placement to $2,400,000 and Files for Conditional Approval
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 23, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that due to strong investor demand it has increased its non-brokered private placement, previously announced on September 17, 2025 (the "Financing") to up to 43,636,364 $0.055 units ("Units"), for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $2.4 million. Further the Company has filed documents with the TSX Venture Exchange seeking Conditional Approval to...
2025-09-23 1:21 PM EDT
Benton Arranges $1.7M Private Placement with Plans to Resume Drilling at Great Burnt
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 17, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has arranged, subject to TSX-V approval, a non-brokered private placement financing (the "Financing") on a best-efforts basis for gross proceeds of up to $1.7M. The Company intends to issue up to 30,909,091 units at a price of $0.055 per unit, each unit consisting of one common share of the Company and one common share purchase warrant,...
2025-09-17 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Expands Gold Horizon to 2.7 km and Targets New Drill Area at Great Burnt
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 10, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has identified a high-priority drill target located 10 km south of the Great Burnt Copper Deposit ("SGB Target Area") (see Figures 1 & 2). In addition, a full geological compilation of the South Pond Deposit has been completed, outlining a continuous gold-bearing horizon over 2.4 km (see gold longitudinal section in Figure 3)....
2025-09-10 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Stakes Strategic Land at Its Dominion Lake Project with Base Metal Results in Historical Drilling
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 14, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has acquired, via staking, 3 licences totalling 61 claim units. One license totalling 9 units encompasses 3 widely spaced historical drill holes which intercepted highly anomalous and significant copper and zinc values located approximately 1,500 m southwest of the Daniel's Pond VMS deposit, and just 600 m west-southwest from Benton's...
2025-08-14 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Resources Acquires Strategic Claims Directly Along Strike from Equinox Gold's Valentine Gold Mine in Central Newfoundland
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 13, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has staked four licences totaling 108 claim units directly along strike from Equinox Gold's Valentine Gold Mine, located in Central Newfoundland, Canada. The Company has also, subject to regulatory approval, executed a purchase agreement (the "Agreement") with Quest Inc. ("Quest"), an arm's-length private company, for two licences encompassing...
2025-08-13 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Completes 5th Purchase Agreement and Stakes Additional Strategic Land at Its Dominion Lake Project and Continues Soil Sampling Program at Great Burnt
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 25, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company will acquire 2 mineral licences encompassing 46 units (the "Property") by making a one-time payment to arm's-length vendors (the "Vendors") of $10,000 and 300,000 common shares of the Company for a 100% interest in the Property subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval. The Vendors will retain a 2% NSR (net smelter royalty), whereby...
2025-07-25 11:53 AM EDT
Benton Discovers Multiple Areas of Massive Sulphides and Gold Showings on Its Newly Acquired Dominion Project, Options Additional Ground and Starts Large Soil Sampling Program on Southern Great Burnt
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 8, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has discovered additional new areas containing gold values from grab samples returning < 5 ppm up to 10.8 g/t Au (gold), along with multiple occurrences of massive sulphides in local float and bedrock with high anomalous gold up to 0.63 g/t Au (see Figure 1). These new findings indicate an elevated precious metal endowment in the massive...
2025-07-08 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Drilling Delivers Further High-Grade Copper at Great Burnt and Intersects New Multiple Copper and Gold Horizons East of Main Zone
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 20, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received further high-grade results on the Great Burnt Main Zone (GBMZ), Footwall Zone (FW) and North Stringer Zone (NSZ). Highlights include DDH GB-25-65, drilled from West to East, was designed as an infill hole to test the GBMZ and intersect the FW, located 100-150 m east of the GBMZ. Both zones were successfully intersected, cutting...
2025-06-20 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Substantially Increases Land Position at Newly Acquired Dominion Project 21 km North-Northeast of Calibre's Marathon Mine with Second Purchase Agreement
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 13, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a second purchase agreement, subject to regulatory approval, to substantially increase its land position in the Tulks Volcanic Belt of the Victoria Lake Supergroup, which is a highly favorable geological terrain with demonstrated potential for hosting both Volcanogenic Massive Sulphides and Gold mineralization. The Company signed a...
2025-06-13 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Discovers High-Grade Massive Sulphide and Gold at Dominion Lake, Expands Project near Calibre's Marathon Mine
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 5, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that in the first 15 days of prospecting and mapping, it has made several significant new gold and base metal discoveries in bedrock at the Company's Dominion Lake project located in Newfoundland. One new discovery ("Trinity Zone"), located 3.5 km SSE of the Daniel's Pond VMS Deposit, has returned grab samples assaying from trace up to 14.60% Zn (zinc),...
2025-06-05 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Makes New Gold Discovery of 2.15g/t Over 7.70 m including 5.46g/t over 2.75 m and Cuts Several Zones of Copper-Rich Semi-Massive and Massive Sulphides at Great Burnt Main Zone and Footwall Zone
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 3, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has made a significant new gold discovery approximately 150 metres ("m") north of the Great Burnt Copper deposit in drill hole GB-25-63. Early assay results for gold returned 2.15 g/t over 7.70 m, including 5.46 g/t over 2.75 m and this section of core also contains visible chalcopyrite (copper) with assays for base metals forthcoming. The...
2025-06-03 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Resumes Drilling at Great Burnt and Plans Expansion of the Surface Deep Electro Magnetic Survey a Further 1 km to the Northern Claim Boundary at South Pond
Thunder bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 5, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has recommenced diamond drilling at its Great Burnt Copper Gold project. Hole GB-25-61 is underway and will test 50 m below the recently announced new discovery under the North Stringer Zone ("NSZ") in Hole GB-25-59. This hole encountered two zones, with the upper zone returning 0.69% Cu over 14.40 m, including 1.09% Cu over 3.00 m. The lower zone...
2025-05-05 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Resources Inc. Updates Vinland Shares Spin-Out
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 28, 2025) - Further to its April 25, 2025 news release, Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") announces that the Company's planned spin-out of approximately half of its shares of Vinland Lithium Inc has been completed. Accounts holding at least 5,000 Benton shares will see approximately 50 Vinland shares credited for each 5,000 Benton shares owned with the credit effective Wednesday April 30, 2025. Details of the spin-out...
2025-04-28 2:24 PM EDT
Benton Resources Inc. Completes Vinland Shares Spin-Out
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 25, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") announces that the Company's planned spin-out of approximately half of its shares of Vinland Lithium Inc has been completed. Accounts holding at least 5,000 Benton shares will see approximately 50 Vinland shares credited for each 5,000 Benton shares owned with the credit effective Wednesday April 30, 2025. Details of the spin-out are contained in the Company's February 4,...
2025-04-25 8:45 AM EDT
Benton Identifies Large, Deep Conductive Electro Magnetic Plates Associated with Known Mineralized Zones at South Pond
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 22, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed approximately 70% of a planned 5 km-long surface Pulse Electromagnetic ("EM") survey along the northern portion of the South Pond trend on the Great Burnt Property. Interpretation of the data collected to date has identified several new, extensive conductive plates, along with large conductive plates directly associated with known...
2025-04-22 8:00 AM EDT
Benton Resources Inc. Spins-out Shares of Vinland Lithium Inc.
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 21, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") announces that at its annual shareholder meeting held March 21, 2025 Benton shareholders approved a special resolution (two-thirds of votes cast) to reorganize Benton's share capital to facilitate a spin-out to shareholders of approximately 2 million of Benton's 4 million common shares of Vinland Lithium Inc. ("Vinland"). Vinland holds the Killick lithium project and is...
2025-04-21 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Intersects 5.97% Copper over 14.70 m at Great Burnt Main Zone and Discovers New Copper-Gold Zones 200 m North
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 2, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to ann
2025-04-02 7:30 AM EDT