Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has collected 120 lake sediment samples which have now been submitted for analysis at Activation Laboratories in Thunder Bay, ON. The survey was completed on Slate Lake and designed to delineate the source of the 107 gold grains in a glacial till sample collected by the Geological Survey of [...]
Benton Resources Inc. today announced that it has engaged CHF Capital Markets , a highly-regarded Canadian investor relations and capital markets firm. Stephen Stares, President and CEO of Benton, commented: "We are delighted to be working with Cathy and her team at CHF. Considering Benton's recent developments as well as near-term planned [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received final assay results for the Phase I drill program carried out at the Panama Project in the Red Lake mining district. Highlights: Each hole returned anomalous gold values. Drilling has identified an extensive, 5+ metre quartz flooded shear zone containing variable amounts of pyrite [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that Benton has received assays for the first 5 of 7 drill holes completed on the Panama Zone in the Red Lake Mining district. Each hole exhibits anomalous gold values over significant thickness and is consistent with the results of historical work. Benton's drilling has identified an extensive, 5+ metre [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to provide an update that diamond drilling is well underway on the Panama Lake Gold project in the Red Lake Mining district located approximately 50km along strike from Great Bear Resources Ltd.'s 2018 gold discovery where drilling is ongoing. To date, the Company has completed five of seven planned drill holes [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it successfully held its Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders on January 11, 2019 . At the Meeting, the election of Stephen Stares, Michael Stares, William Harper and John Sullivan as directors of the Company was approved by an overwhelming majority of shareholders who voted. All other [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received the final payment of 500,000 shares from Sokoman Iron Corp. pursuant to an option to purchase agreement for the Alder East gold project located in Central Newfoundland . In accordance with the option agreement, Benton may also receive further future payments should various defined [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a option to purchase agreement with Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc. whereby RTEC will have the right to earn a 100% interest in Benton's Baril Lake claims located approximately 5km west of Benton's Bark Lake project which is currently under option to RTEC . Pursuant to the [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has commenced diamond drilling on its Bolton Bay gold project located in northwestern Ontario. The program will consist of approximately 400m and is designed to test several areas on the project including two holes that will target the projected down plunge mineralization envelope of the [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has substantially increased the size of it 100%-owned Panama Lake gold project in the Red Lake mining district to 365 claim cells which now covers approximately 7446 hectares. The Panama Lake project is located 55km northeast of the town of Ear Falls and is accessible by road. The new staking [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that during recent prospecting the Company has made a new discovery on the Panama Lake Gold project. A total of 24 samples were collected across the project area, six of which show promising results in a previously underexplored area. Five samples collected from an altered and silicified sedimentary iron [...]
Benton Resources Inc. is pleased to announce encouraging results from its recently completed trenching program on the Bolton Bay project located 100km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Company completed a total of 8 mechanically-stripped areas over a 3.5km strike length in locations of previously known gold mineralization and newly identified [...]