Confirmation Of Footwall Zone At Great Burnt Main Zone

THUNDER BAY - Benton Resources Inc. has received additional impressive Copper (Cu) results from the Great Burnt Main Zone and confirms mineralization in a parallel Footwall Zone. The Company was targeting the potential of a parallel conductor that was recently identified through the completion of a down hole geophysical survey. Given the location of this strong footwall conductor/anomaly, the Company planned drill hole GB-24-49 that would also serve as an infill hole within the Great Burnt Main Zone and continue eastward to intersect the Footwall Zone. The Great Burnt Main Zone was successfully intersected at 220 m downhole and cut an impressive 22.0 m grading 7.47% Cu, 3.76g/t Silver (Ag) and 0.03% Cobalt (Co), including 15.0 m of 10.02% Cu, including 8.0 m of 11.93% Cu. The hole continued to a depth of 454 m and cut several sections of silicified mafic volcanics with stringer sulphides, with one section grade 0.25% Cu and 0.9g/t Gold (Au) over 9.5 m including, 0.35% Cu and 4.21g/t Au over 2.0 m. The Company is pleased to receive further excellent results from the Great Burnt Main Zone and is equally thrilled to confirm the potential of this wide-open Footwall Zone located 170-200 m to the east. Drilling has now recommenced to test this parallel horizon in several areas in hopes of identifying the strong conductor and delineating this new copper-gold horizon. The Company is planning multiple drill holes on this horizon, along with testing the down plunge extension of the Great Burnt Main Zone.

The Company also has received highly anomalous results from sections of newly discovered sulphides located 200 m west of the historical End Zone, located 5.5 km north of the Great Burnt Main Zone and 1 km south of the South Pond Copper Gold Zone, where high-grade copper boulders grading up to 4.55% Cu have yet to be sourced. Narrow sections with grades of 0.17% Cu have been received in addition to a 4.0 m section grading 0.12% nickel, further elevating the potential to make nickel discoveries on the project. The Company has initiated a detailed magnetometer survey in this area to narrow the search for the high-grade copper.

President and CEO, Stephen Stares, states, "Grades and widths of this calibre are exceptionally rare in our industry. Confirming gold and copper mineralization in a parallel zone that is associated with an unsourced strong conductor has our team extremely excited. Moreover, 8 km further north, we have another large system with gold-copper coming together rapidly. This presents us with an unparalleled opportunity and we look forward to continuing to uncover this project's potential."