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Benton Resources Sells Equities for Gross Proceeds of $1.8 Million to Add to the Purchase of High-Grade PGM Deposits
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 2, 2019) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ('...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Benton Resources Sells Equities for Gross Proceeds of $1.8 Million to Add to the Purchase of High-Grade PGM DepositsThunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 2, 2019) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ('Benton' or 'the Company') today announced that it has sold 8.0 million shares of Matador Mining Ltd for gross proceeds of CDN$1.803 million. Proceeds will be used to help finance the previously announced purchase of Rio Tinto's Escape Lake Deposit and Panoramic's Thunder Bay North Deposit. Benton continues to hold 800,000 warrants of Matador with a strike price of AUD$0.30.Below is the release disseminated on July 2, 2019.\"The Company executed two separate binding purchase agreements with Rio Tinto Exploration Canada ('RTEC') (the 'RTEC Agreement') and Panoramic Resources Inc ('PAN') (the 'PAN Agreement') (together the \"PGM Project\").Highlights:High-grade, near-surface Platinum Group Metals (PGM) deposits.Excellent infrastructure, with a paved highway and established logging roads.Drilling highlights on the 30,000 hectare Thunder Bay North (TBN) Property include historic high-grade intercepts of 46.65 m @ 10.1 g/t Platinum+Palladium+Gold (5.267g/t Pt + 4.555g/t Pd + 0.324g/t Au) with 1.62% Copper+Nickel (1.154% Cu + 0.465% Ni), incl. 13.0 m @ 33.2 g/t Pt+Pd+Au (17.305g/t Pt + 14.817g/t Pd + 1.061g/t Au) and 4.91% Cu+Ni (3.755% Cu + 1.308g/t Ni), incl. a spectacular intercept of 2.6 m @ 97.9 g/t Pt+Pd+Au (52.769g/t Pt + 41.538g/t Pd + 3.630g/t Au) and 14.9% Cu+Ni (11.599% Cu + 3.289% Ni) in drill hole BL 10-197.Drilling highlights on the 220 hectare Escape Lake Property include 121.6 m @ 2.49 g/t Pt+Pd+Au (1.04g/t Pt + 1.37g/t Pd + 0.07g/t Au) and 0.86% Cu+Ni (0.52% Cu + 0.34% Ni), incl. 33.4 m of 7.28 g/t Pt+Pd+Au (3.01g/t Pt + 4.08g/t Pd + 0.19g/t Au) and 2.26% Cu+Ni (1.49% Cu + 0.77% Ni) in drill hole 12CL0009, and 162 m @ 1.42 g/t Pt+Pd+Au (0.61g/t Pt + 0.76g/t Pd + 0.06g/t Au) and 0.47% Cu+Ni (0.28% Cu + 0.19% Ni), incl. 40.67 m 4.5 g/t Pt+Pd+Au (1.92g/t Pt + 2.48g/t Pd + 0.18g/t Au) and 1.26% Cu+Ni (0.89% Cu + 0.36% Ni) in drill hole 11CL0005. Stephen Stares, President and CEO, stated: \"Our team has been searching for an exciting PGM project in the market that possesses what we feel are essential project qualities: a high-grade, near-surface deposit containing a resource and located near existing infrastructure in...