Benton Intersects Wide Interval of Massive Sulphide at Great Burnt Main Zone and Makes New Discovery in North Stringer Area, Mobilizes Down Hole and Surface EM Crews
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 3, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it continues to build on the high-grade copper mineralization present within the Great Burnt Main Zone ("GBMZ"). The Company recently completed drill hole GB-25-60, it's second drill hole from west to east, testing an area of the GBMZ believed to be lower-grade based on historical drilling, and continuing the hole eastward to hit the Footwall Zone....
2025-03-03 7:30 AM EST
Benton Expands Great Burnt Main Zone to 950 m Down Plunge and Tests Numerous Other Targets
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 13, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has successfully expanded the Great Burnt Main Zone (GBMZ) down plunge to 950 m in strike length. Recent drilling confirms this expansion down plunge including drill hole GB-25-53, a 100 m step out from GB-23-45, that intersected 7.2 m of heavy stringer and semi-massive copper mineralization. Management believes the zone may be plunging...
2025-02-13 7:30 AM EST
Benton Intersects 22.0 m Grading 7.47% Copper Including 8.0 m Grading 11.93% Copper and Confirms Footwall Zone at Great Burnt
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 20, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received additional impressive Copper (Cu) results from the Great Burnt Main Zone and confirms mineralization in a parallel Footwall Zone. The Company was targeting the potential of a parallel conductor that was recently identified through the completion of a down hole geophysical survey. Given the location of this strong footwall...
2025-01-20 7:30 AM EST
Benton Provides Update and Reminds Shareholders of January 20th Record Date for Vinland Lithium
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 16, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to provide its shareholders with a full corporate update as it embarks on an exciting year in 2025. Summary: Company AGM will be held on March 6, 2025 to approve among other things, the spinout of approximately 2 million shares of Vinland Lithium Inc. pro-rata to shareholders of record of the Company as of January 20, 2025; The Company continues to build on its...
2025-01-16 7:30 AM EST
Benton Receives Best Gold Assay Results to Date at the South Pond Gold-Copper Zone
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 6, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received its best gold results to date at the South Pond Gold-Copper Zone ("SPGCZ") within the Company's Great Burnt Lake project in Newfoundland. These new results continue to demonstrate the robust potential of the SPGCZ structure identified through surface exploration and drilling which now spans approximately 3.0 km and remains wide...
2025-01-06 7:30 AM EST
Benton Closes $1.026 Million Non-Brokered Flow-Through Financing
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 30, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, further to its December 18, 2024 news release, it has closed its non-brokered private placement financing pursuant to an arrangement with Wealth Creation Preservation & Donation Inc. ("WCPD"). The Company has issued 9,326,571 Charity Flow-through Units ("FT Unit") at $0.11 per FT Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,025,923 (the "Private...
2024-12-30 7:30 AM EST
Benton Intersects 21.1 m Massive Sulphide at Great Burnt Main Zone and Cuts 12.3 m Stringer Mineralization in Footwall Zone
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 17, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed a drill hole at the Great Burnt Main Deposit to test a parallel conductor interpreted to be a footwall zone located approximately 150 m to the east of the main deposit. All samples have been submitted to the lab, and assays are pending for this drill hole. Given the location of the footwall conductor, the Company planned a...
2024-12-17 8:51 AM EST
Benton Recommences Drilling at Great Burnt Copper Deposit, Extends South Pond Gold-Copper Zone to 2.3 km, and Discovers New Sulphide Zone 1 km South of South Pond
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 10, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce
2024-12-10 7:30 AM EST
Benton Discovers New Gold Horizon 21 km North-Northeast of Calibre's Marathon Deposit and Options Additional Ground
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 28, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has made a new gold discovery on its 100%-owned Dominion Lake Gold-Base Metal Project ("Dominion Lake"). The Company acquired Dominion Lake last year after a large parcel of land became available for staking within the northern Tulks Volcanic Belt of the Victoria Lake Supergroup, highly favorable geological terrain with demonstrated...
2024-11-28 7:30 AM EST
Benton Identifies Deep Electro-Magnetic Anomaly on the Great Burnt Copper Deposit and Continues to Intersect Significant Gold in Drilling at South Pond
Deep geophysical conductor identified which could substantially expand the Great Burnt Copper deposit to 1.1 km in length; Excellent intercepts of gold at South Pond Area over 1.7 km with many results outstanding for Gold which could extend the zone to 2.3 km in length which remains open north and south; Copper grades up to 3.48% with 2.21g/t Au over 0.90 m at South Pond Copper Zone along with high grade zones of 3.00 m grading 6.42g/t Au including 1.00 m of 15.72g/t Au with base metals...
2024-11-26 7:30 AM EST
Benton Resources Inc. to Seek Shareholders Approval to Spin-out Shares of Vinland Lithium Inc.
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 25, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") announces that it has filed Management Proxy Materials under its profile on sedarplus.ca for its annual and special meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting"). The Meeting is currently set to be held January 8, 2025 in Vancouver, BC although the actual date is likely to change as a result of the Canadian postal strike. At the Meeting Benton shareholders will be asked to...
2024-11-25 7:30 AM EST
Benton Continues to Drill Wide Intervals of Significant Gold at South Pond Extending Strike Length 600 m South
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 31, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has extended the South Pond Gold Zone ("SPGZ"), contained within the Company's Great Burnt Copper-Gold project, in south-central Newfoundland 600 m to the south with significant intercepts including, 1.48g/t gold (Au) over 24.00 m, incl 3.09g/t Au over 2.00 m in SP-24-09. Hole SP-24-10 cut two zones which returned 1.04g/t Au over 20.00 m,...
2024-10-31 8:00 AM EDT
Benton Drilling Intersects Wide Zones of Significant Gold at South Pond Including 74.20 m of 1.43g/t Au and 43.75 m of 1.62g/t Au
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 17, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the South Pond Gold Zone ("SPGZ") in south-central Newfoundland has been substantially expanded based on the initial results received from the first four holes from the previously announced drilling program. The results will successfully expand the extents of the SPGZ, which remains open in all directions and include significant drill...
2024-10-17 8:00 AM EDT
Benton Encouraged By Clean Air Metals Latest Drill Results and Advancement Plans; Provides Great Burnt Update and Grants Options
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 16, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") was very encouraged by recent drill recent results and advancement plans of Clean Air Metals Inc. ("Clean Air"). Benton still holds approximately 24.6 million shares of Clean Air and also retains a 0.5% net smelter return royalty from production on the Escape Lake Deposit and a 0.5% net smelter return royalty from production on any mineral claims comprising the Thunder...
2024-09-16 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Expands The Great Burnt Copper Deposit Down Plunge Through Recent Drilling Results from Phase 3 Exploration
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 27, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received results from the phase three drill program (see Table 1) at the Great Burnt project in Newfoundland. These latest results continue to show that the Great Burnt Deposit is continuous down plunge and along strike to the south, adding substantially to the deposit at depth. Drill hole GB-24-45 cut 12.30 meters of 1.72 % Cu and 5.55...
2024-08-27 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Stakes Strategic Land at Great Burnt and Provides Exploration Update - Channel Sample Assays 3.79 g/t Gold, 0.68% Copper & 4.10 g/t Silver Over 5.10 m at South Pond
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 21, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has acquired by staking, a 100% interest in 8 claim units covering the southern favourable geological extension located approximately 1.2 km to the south of the Great Burnt Copper Deposit. Recent mapping and prospecting have identified multiple quartz stockwork and veins containing galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite near a previously...
2024-08-21 7:30 AM EDT
Benton Closes Private Placement of Flow-Through Units
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 16, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") announces that, further to its July 17, 2024 news release, it has closed its brokered flow-through private placement financing for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,146,411.75 (the "Financing"). Haywood Securities Inc. acted as lead agent and sole bookrunner, together with a syndicate of agents including Red Cloud Securities Inc. and Canaccord Genuity Corp. (collectively, the...
2024-08-16 10:02 AM EDT
Benton Advises Homeland Nickel That It Has Completed Earn-In for 70% Interest in Great Burnt; Releases Further Phase 3 Drill Results That Continue To Expand The Great Burnt Copper Deposit Down Plunge
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 17, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has advised Homeland Nickel Inc. ("Homeland") (formerly Spruce Ridge Resources Ltd.) that it has now fulfilled its required $2.5 million in exploration expenditures pursuant to the option agreement dated September 20, 2023, between the companies resulting in Benton vesting its 70% ownership interest in the Great Burnt Copper project in...
2024-07-17 8:00 AM EDT
Benton Continues to Expand the Great Burnt Copper Deposit, Discovers New Copper-Gold Zone and Identifies New 2 km Long Gold In Soil Anomaly
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 3, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its Phase 3 diamond drill program continues to intercept massive sulphide, expanding the deposit approximately 150 m down plunge and along strike to the south at the Great Burnt Deposit. The Company has now completed 3,840 m in 10 holes with 7 of the 10 holes intersecting massive sulphide. The Company has also received preliminary gold assays for...
2024-07-03 8:00 AM EDT
Benton Advised That Killick Lithium Project Announces Academic Research Partnership with Research Grants Awarded Totaling $1.32 Million over 3 Years
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 19, 2024) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to report that the Killick Lithium Property, jointly owned by the Company, Sokoman Minerals Corp. ("Sokoman"), and Piedmont Lithium Inc. ("Piedmont") through Vinland Lithium Inc., will be collaborating in a total of $1.322 million in NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) grants to conduct research studies on the Killick Lithium...
2024-06-19 8:00 AM EDT