THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug 6, 2014) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") would like to announce that its joint venture partner Platinum Group Metals Ltd. ("PTM") has commenced a VTEM geophysical airborne survey on the Mealy Lake Copper-Nickel-PGM property located in southwestern Labrador. Completion and interpretation of the airborne survey and ground follow up of any [...]
Benton is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on its 100% owned Cape Ray Gold Project. Cabo Drilling of Springdale, NL is contracted for the current drill program where a 17 hole, 2000 metre program will test various targets including the west extension of the 51 Deposit, new geophysical, gold-in-soil, and bedrock showings west of the 51 Deposit area and the east and west strike extension of the PW Zone. The [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 1, 2014) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") would like to update its shareholders on the current status of the Cape Ray Project. Due to severe weather conditions encountered in the Port aux Basques region this past winter the Company temporarily delayed its winter drill campaign until conditions improve. It is anticipated that the diamond drill [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Mar 12, 2014) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has regained a 100% interest in the Onion Lake copper-nickel-PGE project located 30km north of Thunder Bay Ontario. The project was under option to Glory Resources Limited ("Glory"), an Australian-based junior currently being acquired by [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2014) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has awarded Cabo Drilling of Springdale, NL the contract for the upcoming diamond drill program which is scheduled to start within a week on the Cape Ray Gold project. The 2,000 metre drill program is designed to test various targets which includes the immediate extension [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan 21, 2014) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") announces that it will hold its Annual General and Special Meeting on Wednesday March 19, 2014 at 10:00 a.m at its head office in Rosslyn, Ontario. The Company further announces that 2,770,000 incentive stock options with an exercise price of $0.10 were granted to various officers, directors and [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec 9, 2013) - A Correction from Source is issued with respect to the release issued earlier today at 10:26 AM ET. In the first paragraph, "Great Atlantic Resources Corp." has been changed to "Hunan Nonferrous Corp.", and the corrected release follows. Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has acquired by staking a 100 [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec 9, 2013) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has acquired by staking a 100% interest in 28 claim units located 2.5km NE of the Beaver Brook Antimony mine and 64 claim units 9km to the SW of the Mine. These new claims cover the favorable stratigraphy that hosts the Beaver Brook antimony deposit in central Newfoundland [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec 4, 2013) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") announces that the Company has applied for regulatory approval for a Normal Course Issuer Bid (the "Bid") to purchase, through the facilities of the TSX Venture Exchange, up to 5,000,000 shares of its issued and outstanding common shares. The actual number of shares that may be purchased and the timing [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec 3, 2013) - 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 [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct 11, 2013) - 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 [...]
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct 9, 2013) - 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 [...]