Benton Resources Inc. 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 newly discovered Rickirb [...]
Benton Resources Inc. 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 with Quest Inc. , an arm's-length private company, for two licences encompassing 33 claim units, bringing its total Victoria Lake land [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company will acquire 2 mineral licences encompassing 46 units by making a one-time payment to arm's-length 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 , whereby Benton can buy back one-half for $1 million at anytime. No finders' fees were paid [...]
Benton Resources 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, along with multiple occurrences of massive sulphides in local float and bedrock with high anomalous gold up to 0.63 g/t Au. These new findings indicate an elevated precious metal endowment in the massive sulphides similar to other massive sulphide [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to announce that it has received further high-grade results on the Great Burnt Main Zone, Footwall Zone and North Stringer Zone. 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 several sections of massive sulphide in the GBMZ [...]
Benton Resources 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 purchase agreement with an [...]
Benton Resources Inc. 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, has returned grab samples assaying from trace up to 14.60% Zn, 2.53% Cu, 68.70 g/t Ag 1.31% Pb, and 0.17 g/t Au. Follow-up work will recommence this week on this [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to announce that it has made a significant new gold discovery approximately 150 metres 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 with assays for base metals forthcoming. The Company is pleased with this new intercept of [...]
Benton Resources 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 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 returned 0.80% Cu over 15.00 m [...]
Further to its April 25, 2025 news release, Benton Resources announces that the Company's planned spin-out of approximately half of its shares of Vinland Lithium 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 [...]
Benton Resources 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 Feb 4, 2025 Management Information Circular [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to announce that it has completed approximately 70% of a planned 5 km-long surface Pulse Electromagnetic 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 mineralized zones at surface [...]