Benton Makes New Gold Discovery on Panama Project in Red Lake Mining District

Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 18, 2018) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that during recent prospecting the Company has made a new discovery on the Panama Lake Gold project. A total of 24 samples were collected across the project area, six of which show promising results in a previously underexplored area. Five samples collected from an altered and silicified sedimentary iron formation containing quartz veining, pyrite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite, graded between 0.17g/t Au and 6.17g/t Au. The sampling was completed in a poorly-exposed area over 20m long and located approximately 275m northwest of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) till sample, 92-SBB-142, which contained 107 gold grains, the highest count in the regional-scale survey.  Another sample containing 0.68g/t Au was collected 100m southwest of the GSC till sample. The new showings are associated with a distinct magnetic high (Ontario Geological Survey, 2003, Uchi-Bruce Lakes Area Airborne Survey), which extends for over 120km.

Maps can be viewed on the Company website, which show the Panama Project with relation to Great Bear Resources Ltd.'s ("Great Bear") discovery at their Dixie project in the Red Lake district (see Great Bear's press release dated August 22, 2018). Benton has now mobilized a crew to continue exploration on the Panama project, which lies 60km east of Great Bear's Dixie Project.  Benton has also staked a number of new cell claims enlarging the Panama project to 4250 hectares. The Panama Lake gold project is hosted in the Red Lake mining district, 55km northeast of the town of Ear Falls and is accessible by road.  Historical work is minimal and the last diamond drill campaign on the property was completed by Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. in 1988 where 8 widely-spaced diamond drill holes over a 1.4km strike-length yielded results of up to 2.8g/t Au over 4.5m within a 20-30m wide mineralized shear zone. 

About Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX)

Benton Resources Inc. is a well-funded Canadian-based project generator with a diversified property portfolio in Gold-Silver, Nickel, Copper, and Platinum group elements.  Benton holds multiple high-grade projects available for option, which can be viewed on the company's web site. Most projects have an up-to-date NI 43-101 report available. Interested parties can contact Stephen Stares using the contact information below. 

Nathan Sims (P.Geo.), Senior Exploration manager for Benton Resources Inc., is the qualified person responsible for this release and has prepared or supervised the preparation of or reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure in this news release. 

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Benton Resources Inc., 

"Stephen Stares" 

Stephen Stares, President

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