Benton Stakes Strategic Land at Its Dominion Lake Project with Base Metal Results in Historical Drilling
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 newly discovered Rickirb gold zone. Historical drill hole HRP-08-01 intercepted
1.5 m
grading
1.02% Cu
(copper)
, 1.83 Zn%
(zinc) and
10.5 g/t Ag
(silver) starting at a shallow depth of 48.3
m and is wide open for further drilling (Royal Roads Corporation 2008 Assessment Report,
Newfoundland Department of Industry, Energy and Technology Geofile Number 12A/1491). The second
licence totaling 24 units and the third licence totalling 28 units possess excellent geology with little
historical work completed with the third licence being located less than 600 m northwest of the Bobby's
Pond VMS deposit.
On November 28, 2024, June 5, 2025, and July 8, 2025, the Company reported the discovery of multiple
new areas containing gold along with multiple occurrences of massive sulphide in local float and
bedrock.
The
New
Zone -
10.8 g/t Au
(gold), (see Figure 1).
Rickirb
Gold Zone
- grab samples up to
6.41 g/t
Au
The
Trinity Base Metal
Zone
(see Company news release dated June 5, 2025) - surface
samples returning assays up to
14.6% Zn
,
1.31% Pb
(lead),
2.53% Cu
and
68.7
g/t Ag
and
0.17
g/t Au
.
The Company is currently awaiting further gold and base metal results from its ongoing mapping and
prospecting campaigns. In addition, permits have been received to conduct trenching work to expose
any new zones and areas of interest for mapping and channel sampling in preparation for drilling later in
the season.
The Company acquired the Dominion Lake Project in 2024 after a large parcel of land became available
for staking and has since assembled a substantial and highly prospective land position.
Figure 1: Regional Compilation and Mineral Occurrence Map
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QP
Stephen House (P.Geo.), Vice President of Exploration for Benton Resources Inc., the 'Qualified Person'
under National Instrument 43-101, has approved the scientific and technical disclosure in this news
release and prepared or supervised its preparation.
QA/QC Protocols
Core and rock samples, including standards, blanks and duplicates, are submitted to Eastern Analytical
Ltd., Springdale, Newfoundland for preparation and analysis. All samples were acquired by saw-cut
(channels/drill core) with one-half submitted for assay and one-half retained for reference, or hand (rocks)
and delivered, by Benton personnel, in sealed bags, to the Springdale lab of Eastern Analytical, which is
an accredited assay lab that conforms to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025. Samples are analyzed
using Eastern's Au (Fire assay) @ 30g + ICP-34 method that delivers a 34-element package utilizing a
200 mg subsample totally dissolved in four acids and analyzed by ICP-OES analytical technique.
Overlimits are analysed with Eastern's atomic absorption method, using a 0.200 g to 2.00 g of sample,
digested with three acids. All reported assays are uncut. Eastern Analytical Ltd. achieved ISO 17025
accreditation in February 2014 (for more details on the scope of accreditation visit the CALA website).
Grab samples are selective in nature and may not represent the average mineralization of a bedrock
exposure.
About Benton Resources Inc.
Benton Resources is a well-financed mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange
under the symbol BEX. Benton has a diversified, highly prospective property portfolio and holds large
equity positions in other mining companies that are advancing high-quality assets. Whenever possible,
BEX retains net smelter return (NSR) royalties with potential long-term cash flow.
Benton is focused on advancing its high-grade Copper-Gold Great Burnt Project in central
Newfoundland, which has a Mineral Resource estimate of 667,000 tonnes @ 3.21% Cu Indicated and
482,000 @ 2.35% Cu Inferred. The Project has an excellent geological setting covering 25km of strike
and boasts six known Cu-Au-Ag zones over 15km that are all open for expansion. Further potential for
discovery is excellent given the extensive number of untested geophysical targets and Cu-Au soil
anomalies. Phase 1 and 2 drill programs returned impressive results including 25.42 m of 5.51% Cu,
including 9.78 m of 8.31% Cu, and 1.00 m of 12.70% Cu.
Drilling at the South Pond Gold Zone,
approximately 7.5 km north of the Great Burnt Copper-Gold Zone, has confirmed a robust gold-
mineralized system over 2.5 km with results of 74.20 m of 1.43g/t Au and 43.75 m of 1.62g/t Au and is
open for expansion in all directions.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Benton Resources Inc.,
"Stephen Stares"
Stephen Stares, President
Parties interested in seeking more information about properties available for option can contact Mr.
Stares at the number below.
For further information, please contact:
Stephen Stares, President & CEO
Phone:
807-474-9020
Email:
Nick Konkin, Investor Relations
Phone
: 647-249-9298 ext. 322
:
Website:
www.bentonresources.ca
Twitter:
@BentonResources
Facebook:
@BentonResourcesBEX
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