Benton Mobilizes Drill to Bolton Bay and Amends Bedivere Option

Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 13, 2018) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV: BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has commenced diamond drilling on its Bolton Bay gold project located in northwestern Ontario. The program will consist of approximately 400m and is designed to test several areas on the project including two holes that will target the projected down plunge mineralization envelope of the historical 'West Zone" where recent Benton sampling returned grades of up to 145 grams per ton (g/t) gold (Au) in selective surface grab samples as well as 0.90g/t Au over 17m in channel sampling. Recent stripping of overburden at the West Zone uncovered an outcrop which could be the surface expression of a vertical, quartz breccia pipe hosting gold. A third hole will test a newly discovered deformation/shear zone containing green mica (fuchsite or roscoelite), quartz and quartz carbonate within a silicified volcanic which graded 0.42g/t Au over 7.5m including 1.2g/t Au over 1m. A fourth hole will test a copper-nickel-platinum-palladium target where anomalous mineralization was discovered at surface. Recent logging in the area is providing excellent access to the mineralized zones, which historically were only accessible by water or air.

Benton would also like to announce that it has renegotiated the terms of the Bedivere Lake option agreement (see Benton PR dated November 1, 2016 for original terms), subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval, and has made the amended third anniversary payment to the vendors in the amount of $35,000 and will issue 300,000 common shares of the Company upon regulatory approval. The amended option payment schedule is as follows:

• $35,000 and 300,000 common shares on or before October 31, 2018 (Paid)
• $50,000 and 300,000 common shares on or before October 31, 2019
• $65,000 and 400,000 common shares on or before October 31, 2020
• $80,000 and 500,000 common shares on or before October 31, 2021
• $90,000 and 600,000 common shares on or before October 31, 2022.

Highlights from the 2017-2018 diamond drilling completed by the company include 1.5g/t Au over 14.0m including 6.43gpt over 2.0m in BED-17-001 and 37.3gpt Au over 1.0m in BED-17-003, 3.09g/t Au over 4.0m including 11.2g/t Au over 1.0m and a second parallel zone of 4.04g/t over 1.0m in BED-17-13, 7.87gpt gold over 2.1m in drill hole BED-17-016 and 2.73gpt gold over 4.0m in BED-17-019 and the deepest hole to date on the Traxxin zone, which assayed 1.61g/t over 20.0m including 3.43g/t over 7.4m and 9.11g/t over 1.0m and 7.65g/t over 1.0m in BED-18-022. In addition, the most southerly hole completed, approximately 1km south of the Traxxin zone has identified highly prospective rocks within the mineralized structure. Drilling in this area intersected wide zones of anomalous gold including an altered quartz breccia that graded 0.21g/t gold over 42m, with locally higher grades up to 1.7gpt gold over 1.0m.

Finally, the Company would like to acknowledge and thank the Ontario Prospector's Association and the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation for approving the Company's participation in the Junior Exploration Assistance Program. Benton recently received a grant under the program in the amount of $100,000 based upon the Company's 2017 diamond drilling program at Bedivere.

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.

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 found below.

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

"Stephen Stares"
Stephen Stares, President

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