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Benton Resources Inc. (BNTRF) generates frequent news as it advances a portfolio of copper, gold, and multi-metal exploration projects, with a primary focus on the Great Burnt Copper-Gold Project and the South Pond Gold-Copper Deposit in central Newfoundland. Company updates often highlight drill results, resource expansion, metallurgical testing, project acquisitions, financings, and corporate actions.
Recent news releases describe wide, high-grade copper intercepts at the Great Burnt Copper Deposit and extensive gold-bearing intervals at South Pond, where Benton is working to demonstrate continuity along a multi-kilometre gold-copper horizon. The company has also reported preliminary metallurgical testwork at South Pond, with laboratory-scale bottle-roll cyanidation tests at SGS Canada Inc. yielding gold recoveries up to 88.4%, which Benton characterizes as highly favourable while noting that the results are not intended to support resource or production estimates.
Beyond drill and metallurgical results, Benton’s news flow covers the discovery of a new VMS-style system in the End Zone area north of Great Burnt, the delineation of a large copper-in-soil anomaly south of the main deposit, and the staking or acquisition of additional claims at projects such as Stoney Caldera, Dominion, Victoria West, and Island Pond. Corporate announcements include private placement financings, stock option grants, and the spin-out of Vinland Lithium Inc., along with the company’s equity position and NSR royalty interests in other mining projects.
Investors and followers of BNTRF stock can use this news page to review Benton Resources’ exploration progress, technical results approved by Qualified Persons under NI 43-101, and ongoing efforts to expand its land position along what the company calls the Great Copper-Gold Corridor. Regular updates provide context on how Benton is advancing its Newfoundland-focused exploration strategy.
Benton Resources (OTC:BNTRF) intends to complete a non-brokered $2.5 million flow-through private placement of up to 31,250,000 FT Units at $0.08 per unit, subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval. Each FT Unit includes one flow-through common share and one-half warrant exercisable at $0.12 for 24 months.
The company will renounce qualifying Canadian exploration expenditures to subscribers effective Dec 31, 2026, and must incur those expenditures by Dec 31, 2027. FT Units will be subject to a four-month plus one day Canadian hold period. Finder fees may apply per Exchange policy.
Benton Resources (OTC:BNTRF) announced that Homeland Nickel will no longer participate in the Great Burnt joint venture, leaving Benton with a deemed 73.51% interest (as of Dec 31, 2025) after $6,108,232.33 in exploration spend versus Homeland's $2,201,071.93.
Benton plans an aggressive summer program including airborne EM/magnetic surveys, prospecting, trenching and diamond drilling and reported soil gold values up to 5.1 g/t Au near newly sampled float assaying 12.0 g/t Au.
Benton Resources (BNTRF) and Metals Creek jointly staked 763 claim units on March 25, 2026 to acquire six prospective natural (white) hydrogen projects on Newfoundland's west coast.
Three projects have historical gas shows; Parson's Pond drill logs report up to 72% C1 methane in two holes. The companies caution that further studies are required to confirm hydrogen or helium.
Benton Resources (TSXV: BEX) will attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention (PDAC) and host a booth at the Investors Exchange, booth #2117.
Company President and CEO Stephen Stares will present on March 3, 2026 at 3:50pm EST in the InterContinental Toronto Centre Hotel, Ontario & Niagara Rooms, outlining Benton’s projects, progress and plans. Qualified Person Stephen House (P.Geo.) approved the technical disclosure and QA/QC protocols were described.
Benton Resources (OTC:BNTRF) appointed Darin Wagner, P.Geo., as a special technical advisor and granted 300,000 incentive stock options at $0.10 exercisable for five years. Benton postponed planned drilling in Central Newfoundland due to heavy winter snow, continued limited soil sampling, and is upgrading its Great Burnt camp ahead of a larger 2026 exploration season.
The company highlighted large land positions at Dominion Lake and Victoria West near recent Equinox gold discoveries and plans trenching at Dominion Lake when weather allows.
Benton (OTC:BNTRF) reported encouraging drill results from the End Zone and additional assays from the South Pond gold-copper deposit on January 27, 2026. End Zone holes EZ-25-01 and EZ-25-02 intersected wide, VMS-style copper mineralization, including 58.00 m @ 0.11% Cu (EZ-25-01) and intervals up to 1.60% Cu over 0.70 m (EZ-25-02). South Pond results include multiple gold-bearing intervals (e.g., 10.00 m @ 1.39 g/t Au in SP-25-56 and 1.00 m @ 4.55 g/t Au in SP-25-57) and nickel-cobalt-chromium anomalism in the southernmost hole (SP-25-61: 15.67 m @ 0.07% Ni, 0.009% Co, 0.09% Cr). True widths estimated ~60–80% of core lengths; follow-up drilling is planned.
Benton (OTC:BNTRF) reported preliminary laboratory bottle-roll metallurgical results from its South Pond gold-copper deposit with gold recoveries up to 88.4% from three 24-hour tests performed by SGS Canada. The test used a ~20 kg composite compiled from 16 drill-hole intervals (average gold ~3.288 g/t, average Cu 0.16%). Results improved across the three tests but are laboratory-scale only and are not intended to support mineral resources, reserves, or production estimates. Benton also cited prior SGS work on Great Burnt showing an average copper recovery of 94.7% and predicted 96% recovery to a 25% Cu concentrate; Great Burnt strike length has been expanded from 650m to 950m.
Qualified Person: Barry Sparkes, P.Geo.; assays by Eastern Analytical; QA/QC protocols described.
Benton Resources (OTC:BNTRF) provided a year-end update on December 23, 2025, summarizing 2025 exploration progress and near-term plans.
Key points: $2.9M cash and $3.0M equity holdings; 26,637 m drilled at Great Burnt and South Pond since late 2023; Great Burnt strike extended from 650 m to 950 m; South Pond delineated a 2.7 km wide shallow gold-copper zone; new VMS discovery (assays pending); multiple strategic acquisitions including Dominion, Victoria West and Stoney Caldera; Benton holds 24.6M shares + 0.5% NSR in Clean Air Metals and spun out Vinland Lithium (Benton owns 2.0M shares + 1% NSR).
Plans: large 2026 drilling program, early-2026 airborne geophysics, and pending metallurgical results for South Pond gold recovery.
Benton Resources (OTC:BNTRF) announced that its board approved the grant of 2.675 million incentive stock options on December 22, 2025. The options were granted to directors, officers, employees, advisors and consultants at an exercise price of $0.10 and are exercisable for five years from the grant date. The options are subject to the company's stock option plan and its vesting provisions.
Benton Resources (OTC:BNTRF) reported new South Pond drill results, highlighted by 2.02 g/t Au over 17.13 m (SP-25-54) including 3.98 g/t Au over 5.00 m and 9.12 g/t Au over 1.00 m, plus 1.10 g/t Au over 23.00 m (SP-25-55) including higher-grade intervals. The company also announced discovery of a new VMS-style system in the End Zone (EZ-25-01 and EZ-25-02) with multiple semi-massive sulphide intervals, including ~10.30 m and ~11.66 m sulphide sections in EZ-25-01. Drilling is paused for year-end and planned to resume in January 2026; many gold and base-metal assays remain pending. Benton launched a new website and engaged SGS for metallurgical gold recovery testing.