Benton Resources Inc.

THUNDER BAY, ON, Feb. 22, 2013 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce an update for the ongoing exploration program at their Elizabeth Anne project. A combined aeromagnetic and radiometric survey has been completed over the project area by Precision GeoSurveys Inc. of Vancouver, Canada that included 650 line-kilometres at 50 metre spacing. Ongoing surface sampling has [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Feb. 15, 2013 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed its disposition of 348,053 shares of Stillwater Mining Company (NYSE: SWC) ("Stillwater") for net cash proceeds of $5,022,050 USD.  The Company now has approximately $10 million in cash along with $3.02 million in remaining equity positions (based on February 14, 2013 [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Feb. 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the ongoing exploration program has outlined extensive and significant gold (Au) and silver (Ag) mineralization in multiple areas at the Elizabeth Anne gold-silver project. Most encouraging is a new mineralized area west of the Central Zone termed the Rascal Showing where previous selective grab [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Jan. 30, 2013 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement  with Gold Royalties Corporation (TSXV: GRO) ("Gold Royalties") whereby Gold Royalties will purchase Benton's 1% net smelter return royalty interest (the "NSR Royalty") on the Bermuda Project located near Marathon, Ontario (the "Transaction"). Benton will [...]

TSX-V:  BEXTHUNDER BAY, ON, Jan. 10, 2013 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the discovery of several new high grade gold and silver showings at the Elizabeth Anne Gold Project. To date the company has completed and received results from a total of 562 surface grab and chip samples over a large area measuring approximately 40 square kilometres. The results are [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Nov. 16, 2012 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") announces that the Company has received assay results from the newly identified PW Zone where re-sampling of two historical holes drilled in 1979 has confirmed the presence of bulk tonnage type gold grades and thicknesses in these drill holes.  The two holes were drilled approximately 150 meters apart and show good [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Nov. 2, 2012 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton Resources") and Benton Capital Corp. (TSXV: BTC) ("Benton Capital" and formerly Benton Resources Corp.) announce their guidance regarding the allocation of shareholders' respective adjusted cost base ("ACB") for Canadian income tax purposes in connection with its previously completed spin-out transaction by way of a plan of arrangement (the [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Oct. 26, 2012 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company recently discovered several high grade zones of gold mineralization on its Turtlepond project.  The project is located approximately 23 km southeast of Dryden, Ontario and 20 km south of Treasury Metals' Goliath gold deposit.  Multiple old shafts and pits were sunk in the [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Oct. 24, 2012 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: 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 of such [...]

THUNDER BAY, ON, Oct. 12, 2012 /CNW/ - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the results from the second phase drill program at the Elizabeth Anne gold property located approximately 19km west of the Mountain Pass rare earth mine in San Bernardino County, California.  The Company completed a total of 2873 metres of drilling in 8 holes to follow up on previously announced [...]