Benton Resources is pleased to provide an exploration update on the Bedivere Gold Project located in northwestern Ontario. Highlights from the previously released (see Benton PR dated August 31, 2017) initial 14 hole diamond drill program included 1.5 gpt Au over 14.0m that included a higher grade interval of 6.43gpt over 2.0m in hole BED-17-001, 37.3gpt Au over 1.0m in BED-17-003 where visible native gold was noted in [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to announce that it has received additional results from the recently completed 14-hole diamond drill program at their Bedivere Gold Project located in northwestern Ontario. Highlights from hole BED-17-013 include 0.8gpt Gold over 23.0m including 3.09gpt Au over 4.0m and 11.2gpt Au over 1.0m as well as a lower zone of 4.04gpt over 1.0m. The first drill campaign demonstrates the gold-bearing [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to announce that it has received further results from the recently completed 14-hole diamond drill program at the Bedivere Gold Project located in northwestern Ontario. Highlights from the most recent results include 1.26 gpt Au over 18.4.0m including 6.59gpt Au over 2.7m and 8.9gpt Au over 1.9m in BED-17-005. The Company continues to be encouraged by these results which demonstrate that the [...]
Metals Creek Resources and Benton Resources are pleased to announce that they have been advised by Quadro Resources of the conditional acceptance of its reactivation from the NEX board to the TSX Venture Exchange and the conditional acceptance of the option to acquire a 100% interest of and Metals Creek and Benton's Staghorn property, located in Newfoundland and an assignment of Benton's and Metal Creek's rights to [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to announce that it has completed 14 diamond drill holes on the Bedivere Gold Project located in northwestern Ontario. Results for the first four drill holes have been received and exhibit encouraging results for the early stage Traxxin gold discovery. Highlights from the first results include 1.5 gpt Au over 14.0m (metres) including 3.63gpt over 4.0m in BED-17-001 and 37.3gpt Au over 1.0m in [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to announce that a diamond drill program has commenced at their Bedivere gold project, located in Northwestern Ontario within the Marmion batholith. This initial drill program will consist of approximately 800-1200m in 10-12 holes designed to test approximately 1000m of the gold-bearing structure as well as electromagnetic ("EM") conductive responses delineated by an airborne geophysical survey [...]
Benton Resources is pleased to provide an update on the Company's planned summer exploration season. Benton has been notified by its Cape Ray partner, Nordmin Engineering that Nordmin has elected not to complete the necessary milestones required in the agreement to earn a 30% interest in the Cape Ray project and as a result will form a 80% Benton and 20% Nordmin joint venture and will return operatorship of the project to [...]
Metals Creek Resources and Benton Resources are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement with Quadro Resources whereby Quadro will be provided with the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Company and Benton's Staghorn property, located in Newfoundland, and all rights to their newly optioned Rose Gold property (the Rose Gold property is contiguous with the northern border of the Staghorn property [...]
Benton Resources and Metals Creek Resources are pleased to announce that they have jointly executed a letter of intent with a Newfoundland prospector pursuant to which Metals Creek and Benton have been granted the option to acquire a 100% interest (50% each) in 22 claim units located in the Victoria Lake area, Central Newfoundland. Under the Agreement, Benton and Metals Creek will make staged payments to the Vendor [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Apr 4, 2017) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") has received updated clarification from its joint venture partner Nordmin Engineering Ltd. ("Nordmin") regarding the preliminary economic assessment ("PEA") announced March 31, 2017. Nordmin reports that during the independent review process, an error in the interpretation of the 2017 potential [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Apr 3, 2017) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that exploration work at the Bedivere gold project is progressing well as the company prepares for diamond drilling anticipated to start early this field season. Work to date includes baseline establishment, soil sampling, trail creation and limited mechanical trenching has been [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Mar 31, 2017) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") has received updated numbers from its joint venture partner Nordmin Engineering Ltd. ("Nordmin") regarding the preliminary economic assessment ("PEA") announced February 9, 2017. Nordmin reports that during the independent review process, an error in the interpretation of the 2017 resource block model [...]