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Benton Completes Trenching and Sampling at Bolton Bay and Continues Work at the GNP Project, Newfoundland
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 8, 2018) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV:BEX) ("B...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Benton Completes Trenching and Sampling at Bolton Bay and Continues Work at the GNP Project, NewfoundlandThunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 8, 2018) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV:BEX) (\"Benton\" or \"the Company\") is pleased to announce the completion of trenching and channel sampling on its recently acquired Bolton Bay project (see PR dated April 13, 2018). The Bolton Bay project is located 120km west of Thunder Bay and is contiguous to Benton's Bark Lake project under option to Rio Tinto. 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 prospective zones. Over 137 samples were channel cut and submitted for assay.The property has the potential to host gold as well as copper-nickel-platinum-palladium mineralization. Recent work has identified mafic-ultramafic intrusive rock units that bear similarities to the copper-nickel-platinum-palladium-rich boulders found on the Bark Lake property. Historical work completed on the property identified quartz-rich, mineralized zones over 9km across the property, which included the following highlights:East Zone — 13g/t Au (grab samples)West Zone — 4.46g/t Au over 7m (historic drilling)Zones 1 &2 — 11.6g/t Au (grab samples)Clear Lake East — 17.21g/t Au (grab samples)1925 showing — 15.47g/t Au (grab samples)Island Zone — 3.57g/t Au (grab samples)Recent logging in the area has provided excellent access to the mineralized zones which historically were only accessible by water or air. Stripping and channel sampling had been recommended in many previous reports but access had prevented the work from being completed. In addition, Benton would like to announce that it has completed an initial prospecting and mapping program on both its GNP black shale gold project and the Cape Eagle project, both located in the Northern Peninsula area of Newfoundland. Interestingly, the Company has identified black shale with pyrite nodules over a large area on the GNP block but to date has only had moderate success with weakly anomalous gold values ranging from trace to 239ppb. Benton is planning a follow-up program to start this week on the GNP and newly-staked western block on the GNP project. The Company believes that the Gunners Cove style...