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Benton Resumes Drilling at Great Burnt and Plans Expansion of the Surface Deep Electro Magnetic Survey a Further 1 km to the Northern Claim Boundary at South Pond
Thunder bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 5, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc . (TSXV: BEX) (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Benton Resumes Drilling at Great Burnt and Plans Expansion of the Surface Deep Electro Magnetic Survey a Further 1 km to the Northern Claim Boundary at South PondThunder bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 5, 2025) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) (\"Benton\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has recommenced diamond drilling at its Great Burnt Copper Gold project. Hole GB-25-61 is underway and will test 50 m below the recently announced new discovery under the North Stringer Zone (\"NSZ\") in Hole GB-25-59. This hole encountered two zones, with the upper zone returning 0.69% Cu over 14.40 m, including 1.09% Cu over 3.00 m. The lower zone returned 0.80% Cu over 15.00 m, including 0.96% Cu over 6.20 m, 1.65% Cu over 3.00 m and 2.07% Cu over 2.00 m. The upper zone was associated with gold mineralization grading 0.67g/t Au over 14.40 m including 2.16g/t Au over 3.00 m. The lower zone, with higher grade copper, is associated with a down hole,off-hole EM anomaly, which demonstrates considerable expansion potential for this new area. Drilling will target this new anomaly and area for expansion with 4 holes; above, below, North and South of these new intercepts (see news release dated April 2, 2025).The Company will also complete a 50 m step-out hole designed to test the continuation of the GB Main Deposit to the south and down-plunge. The hole will target where a deep down-hole pulse electromagnetic survey has identified an EM conductor in drill hole GB-25-53 that intersected a wide zone of copper mineralization grading 0.77% Cu over 32.1 m including 1.12% Cu over 18.97 m, 1.83% Cu over 8.63 m, 2.41% Cu over 5.25 m and 4.34% Cu over 1.00 m.The Company has also completed the planned 5 km long surface pulse Electro Magnetic (EM) survey along the northern 5 km South Pond trend on the Great Burnt Property. Given that the interpreted conductive trend remains open to the North and South, the Company has decided the expand the survey another 1 km to its northern claim boundary to define its limits. Diamond drilling and further geological mapping will target these conductive zones this coming summer. The South Pond trend has been drill-tested at shallow depths over a strike length of approximately 2.3km with impressive results (see news release dated April 22, 2025). Benton has a 70% interest in the Great Burnt Copper-...