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Benton Drilling Delivers Further High-Grade Copper at Great Burnt and Intersects New Multiple Copper and Gold Horizons East of Main Zone
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 20, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc . (TSXV: BEX) ("Be...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Benton Drilling Delivers Further High-Grade Copper at Great Burnt and Intersects New Multiple Copper and Gold Horizons East of Main ZoneThunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 20, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) (\"Benton\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has received further high-grade results on the Great Burnt Main Zone (GBMZ), Footwall Zone (FW) and North Stringer Zone (NSZ).Highlights include DDH GB-25-65, drilled from West to East, was designed as an infill hole to test the GBMZ and intersect the FW, located 100-150 m east of the GBMZ. Both zones were successfully intersected, cutting several sections of massive sulphide in the GBMZ grading 2.49% Cu over 12.30 m (2.95% CuEq), including 5.27% Cu over 4.80 m (6.34% CuEq). This result significantly exceeds the nearby historic hole, GB50, drilled in 1969, which returned 0.13% Cu over 0.91 m from smaller diameter core. Three other important copper intersections were encountered east of the GBMZ, including: 0.33 m grading 3.32% Cu (3.47% CuEq); 2.85 m grading 1.27% Cu (1.55% CuEq) and; 0.30 m grading 1.07% Cu (1.16% CuEq). These results confirm the presence of multiple copper-rich zones east of the GBMZ, an area that has seen little drilling or exploration. Due to the increased gold content observed in the FW and NSZ, the Company has decided to add a CuEq column and the full table of these results are below (see Table 1). Table 1: Great Burnt/South Pond Drill ResultsDDH #From (m)To (m)Length (m)Cu (%)Au (g/t)Zn (%)Ag (g/t)Co (%)*CuEq (%)ZoneGB-25-6153.0057.704.700.240.350.020.900.0030.59NSZincl56.0056.700.700.461.190.032.200.0041.61NSZ            GB-25-62127.50144.5017.000.340.030.010.410.0050.39NSZincl131.50135.504.000.800.060.011.100.0070.89NSZ            GB-25-632.159.857.700.232.150.021.060.0042.25NSZincl7.109.852.750.355.460.021.860.0055.45NSZ            GB-25-6437.0038.001.000.040.130.01<0.20.0030.17NSZand117.70118.300.600.17<50.01<0.20.0060.19NSZ            GB-25-65246.00258.3012.302.490.110.905.450.0202.95Mainincl247.90252.704.805.270.242.1512.120.0456.34Mainincl249.90250.901.007.490.412.7916....