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Benton Provides End of Year Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 23, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc . (TSXV: ...
About this update from Benton Resources, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"Benton Provides End of Year UpdateThunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 23, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) (\"Benton\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide its shareholders with a year-end update on activities and progress. With metal prices reaching record highs, Benton is well positioned to benefit from its exposure to several top-tier copper, gold, platinum, palladium and lithium projects. The Company thanks its shareholders for their continued support and looks forward to an exciting 2026 as it advances its Newfoundland projects. Highlights for Benton's recent advancements include the following: Expanded the Great Burnt Copper Deposit from 650 m to 950 m of strike lengthDelineated a 2.7 km wide, shallow gold-copper deposit at South Pond Discovered a new VMS system in the End Zone area, with assays pendingDiscovered several gold occurrences north of the Great Burnt Copper DepositDiscovered new high-grade gold float at South Pond, extending potential Large drilling program planned for 2026 Metallurgical testing results for gold recovery at South Pond expected shortlyWell funded, with approximately $2.9M in cash and $3.0M in equities Acquired strategic claims from Noble Mineral Exploration Ltd., extending the northern strike of the Great Burnt property by 1.0 km Completed 26,637 m of drilling since acquiring the Great Burnt project in late 2023Planning early-2026 airborne geophysical survey over the southern half of Great Burnt project where the Company has identified a large copper-in-soil geochem anomalyAcquired the large and strategic Dominion project, located 8 km north of Equinox Gold's Valentine Gold Deposit with multiple new discoveries of high-grade gold, zinc and copper Acquired the Victoria West project, located less then 2 km along strike of Equinox Gold's Frank Zone Benton Holds 24.6M shares and a 0.5% NSR in Clean Air Metals Inc.'s Thunder Bay North platinum-palladium copper nickel project Completed the spin-out of Vinland Lithium Inc., with Benton holding 2.0M shares and a 1% NSR on the Killick Lithium project Acquired the Stoney Caldera copper-gold project, adjacent to Pirate Gold Corp. Launched a new website at www.bentonresources.ca Stephen Stares, President and CEO of Benton Resources, stated: \"It has been an exciting year for Benton, marked by numerous achievements in 2025. We...