THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 11/18/14 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent to Option/Joint Venture with Metals Creek Resources Corp. ("MEK") whereby Benton can earn up to a 70% interest in MEK–s 100%-owned Staghorn Gold Property in Newfoundland.To earn an initial 60% interest, Benton must make cash payments of $50,000, issue a total of 500,000 Bent
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 11/06/14 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company–s joint venture partner (the "Partner") has recently completed a 2,950km VTEMplus electro magnetics (EM) and magnetics (Mag) airborne survey at the Mealy Lake property in Labrador of which 1254km covered Benton–s land position. Preliminary data suggests multiple strong and moderate EM conductors have be
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 11/05/14 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has now received all results from drilling on the Cape Ray Project. The Company completed 3051.6m of diamond drilling in 17 exploratory holes. While most drill holes were designed to test for new gold mineralization outside the known resources, two holes PB14-393 and 394 were successful in confirming the continuity of gold
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 10/06/14 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of intent ("LOI") with Nordmin Engineering Ltd. ("Nordmin") to advance towards production four of the six gold deposits at the Company–s Cape Ray project located in southwest Newfoundland, should the economic viability of the project be determined. The 04, 41, 51 and Windowglas
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 10/03/14 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has made the final payment of 1.5 million common shares to Tenacity Gold Mining Company Ltd. which completes the terms of the agreement to acquire a 100% interest in four mining claims encompassing the 04, 41, Isles Aux Mort and Big Pond Gold deposits (see Benton PR dated October 8, 2013). These claims are in addition to th
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 09/18/14 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that drilling has confirmed the potential for discovering additional gold resources on its 100% owned Cape Ray gold project located in southwest Newfoundland along the Cape Ray fault. Results from the recent diamond drill program have significantly increased the potential of the PW zone which has returned grades of gold and silver
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 12/03/13 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the results of the first phase of metallurgical test work on the 51 Zone gold deposit located on the Cape Ray property in southwest Newfoundland.In August 2013, the Company collected a 150 kilogram mini bulk sample from a trench over the 51 deposit and contracted Met-Solve Laboratories in Langley, B.C. to complete the metallurgical
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 10/11/13 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has received the first batch of soil geochemical and prospecting results from ongoing exploration on the Cape Ray Project. To date the exploration surveys have been quite effective in delineating anomalous zones of mineralization and have identified a distinct 600m long by 150m wide gold-lead-zinc-silver geochemica
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 10/09/13 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has staked an additional 108 claim units contiguous to the Cape Ray project bringing the total land holding to 657 claim units (16,425 hectares). These new claim units encompass several areas of highly prospective ground proximal to the Cape Ray deposits and where historical drilling intersected highly anomalous va
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 10/08/13 — Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an option agreement with Tenacity Gold Mining Company Ltd. to purchase a 100% interest in four mining claims which encompasses the 04, 41, Isle Aux Mort and the Big Pond gold deposits located in southwest Newfoundland. Benton will, subject to regulatory approval, pay $400,000 and issue 1.5 million
