Yearly Archives: 2024

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, ON, August 21, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) 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…

BENTON RESOURCES INC. ANNOUNCES C$3,600,300 “BEST EFFORTS” PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF FLOW-THROUGH UNITS”  

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED Thunder Bay, ON, July 17, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Haywood Securities Inc. (“Haywood”), as lead agent and sole bookrunner, on its own behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of agents (together with Haywood, the “Agents”) pursuant to which the Agents have agreed…

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, ON, July 17, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) 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 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, ON, July 3, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) is pleased to announce that it’s 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…

Benton Advised that Killick Lithium Project Announces Academic Research Partnership with Research Grants Awarded Totaling $1.32 Million over 3 years

Thunder Bay, ON, June 19, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) 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…

Benton Cuts Massive Sulphides in First Two Holes Expanding The Great Burnt Copper Deposit and Exposes Excellent Copper Mineralization in Trenching At South Pond 15km North

Thunder Bay, ON, June 05, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) is pleased to announce that it’s Phase 3 diamond drill program is well underway at the Great Burnt Deposit. Field crews have also started exploration trenching at South Pond located, 15 km to the north. Additionally, regional prospecting and soil geochemical sampling have been…

Benton Mobilizes Crews to Commence Regional Exploration and Prepares for Phase 3 Drill Program at Great Burnt Copper-Gold Project, Newfoundland

Thunder Bay, ON, May 16, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) is pleased to announce that it has mobilized a field crew to open the Great Burnt camp and commence regional prospecting and soil geochemical sampling.  In addition, Benton has executed a minimum 3,000 m drill contract with a local company, MCL Drilling…

Benton Executes Agreements to Secure Additional Strategic Land Packages at the Great Burnt Copper-Gold Project in Newfoundland and Provides Update

Thunder Bay, ON, May 2, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) is pleased to announce that it has entered into two separate agreements to acquire a 100% interest in six strategic mineral licences (the “Property”) encompassing 52 claim units that are adjacent to or within Benton’s current claim block at the…

Benton Drills 7.25% Cu over 4.50 m including 18.65% Cu over 1.10 m at Great Burnt Copper Deposit; Appoints Alan King as Advisor to the Company and Provides Update

Thunder Bay, ON, April 17, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (“Benton” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BEX) is pleased to announce that it has received further high-grade copper results from the Great Burnt Copper Deposit in Newfoundland further delineating the high-grade copper core. In addition, the Company’s ongoing efforts and interpretation of the recently completed down-hole geophysical program have…

Benton Files for Exchange Approval for Non-Brokered Private Placement Financing 

Thunder Bay, ON, April 12, 2024 – Benton Resources Inc. (‘Benton’ or ‘the Company’) (TSX-V: BEX) announces that it has filed documents with the TSX Venture Exchange seeking final approval for its recently announced non-brokered private placement of flow-through and non-flow through units (the “Private Placement”) (see Benton PR dated April 3, 2024). On receipt of…