Benton Resources is a well-funded Canadian-based project generator with a diversified property portfolio in multiple commodities: gold, silver, nickel, copper and platinum group elements. The Company is currently advancing exciting projects in Ontario, highlighted by the Far Lake Copper project, west of Thunder Bay, ON. Incorporated in 2004, Benton is a resilient junior and has survived various market fluctuations thanks to well-timed financings and the strategic sale of projects including the Bermuda Property to Stillwater Mining in 2008 and Cape Ray Gold project to Matador Capital in 2018.
Benton also has multiple projects being advanced by its partners through option agreements, including two with Rio Tinto Exploration Canada.
2. During the course of this presentation, Benton Resources Inc. may make forward-looking statements
with regard to the company’s projects and or business plans. Statements may also be made with regard
to the company’s business strategy, products, partners, and market position which could be construed as
forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause
results to be materially different than expectations.
The presentation has been prepared by management of Benton Resources Inc, and does not represent a
recommendation to buy or sell these securities. Investors should always consult their Investment
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Intersection widths are core widths, unless otherwise stated.
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Forward-Looking Statements
3. StephenStares
President,CEO & Director
Evan Asselstine,CPA,CA
Chief Financial Officer
Tom Sarvas,CPA,CA
Director
MichaelStares
Director
Tim Froude,P.Geo
Director
John Sullivan,P.Geo
Director
GordonFretwell
Legal Council/Corporate Secretary
Steve House , P.Geo
V.P Exploration
Management & Board. Corporate Structure
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Corporate Structure as of April 2022
Shares Issued 138.96 M
Options - warrants 0.09 - 0.25 50.1M
Fully Diluted 189.1M
Equity Holdings >$8.0M
Cash $5.6 M
Current Market Cap $25.0 M
Legendary investor Eric Sprott is Benton’s
largest shareholder at 22.5m shares
holding 16% and 17.5m warrants which is
26% on a partially diluted basis.
4. Project Generator with a High-Quality Property
Portfolio and Multiple Commodities
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• Currently holding many projects and large equity positions in companies advancing high-quality
assets.Wheneverpossible,BEX retains Net SmelterRoyalties (NSR) for potential long-term cash
flow.
• Far Lake Copper-Gold-Silver: newhigh-grade Cu discoveryunder option from White Metal
Resources,with exploration planned for 2022.
• High-gradeTBNand EscapePGM,projectsbeing advanced by Clean Air Metals (AIR.V)of which
Benton holds 24.6M shares and 0.5% NSR.
• Panama Gold,projectin the prolific Red Lake District being advanced by St Anthony Gold.
• Staghorn Gold,projectnear Marathon Gold’s projectbeing advanced by Quadro Resources.
• Baril Lake PGM, projectsbeing advanced by Rio Tinto Canada.
• Saganaga Gold,drilling to commencein 2021 by partner Metallica Metals Corp.
• JV with Buchans ResourcesCorp. on high-grade Goldquest Projectin NL.
• 50-50 JV with Sokoman Minerals onmultiple projects in NL.
7. • Property shows characteristics similar to that of other large world-class
porphyry and IOCG deposits.
• High-grade copper discovered in bedrock up to 22%.
• First and second phase drilling confirmed a large copper system, wide
open for expansion.
• Project has excellent access; logging roads starting at the Trans-Canada
Highway used to access all zones within minutes, CN rail and power flank
the property.
• Soil geochemical sampling, prospectingand mapping has reviled further
exploration targets for drilling in 2022.
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Far Lake Project: Summary and Blue Sky Potential
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• Option to earn 100% interest
fromKeats-MacDonald on large
projectlocated in the Buchan's
and Valentine lake VMS-Gold
belt.
• Road access, historicalwork
showing unsourced high-grade
VMS boulders up to 37.9% Zn-
Pb-Cu within favorablegeology
and major structure
• Recent prospecting completed by
the vendor (the Keats) identified
up to 13.59% Zn-Pb-Cu and up to
7.3g/tgold in grab samples on
the property
• Airborneplanned in April-May
with exploration to startshortly
after receiving data
KM67 VMS Gold Project
10. Long Range JV – Central Newfoundland
BuchansResources
orogenic structure
Legend
BRL–Benton JV (10,000 ha)
51% Buchans:49% Benton
GOLDQUEST PROSPECT
o/c up to 8.5 g/t Au & 31 g/t Ag
float up to 123.8 g/t Au & 414 g/t Ag
drilled 5.5 g/t Au, 5 g/t Ag over 0.30 m
Little Barachois Brook
o/c 112 g/t Au, 363 g/t Ag
bedrock gold occurrence
Silver Pond
o/c up to 21.4 g/t Au
5 km
Abbots Brook
o/c up to 7.0 g/t Au
Stephenville
Valentine
Marathon
GloverIsland
MountainLake
undeveloped gold resource NI 43-101
Claims as of May 12, 2021
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Tulks Hill VMS
deposit 100% BRL
Steady Gold
o/c 2.64 g/t Au
Map Area
Long Range JV – Central Newfoundland
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11. meta-diorite/gabbro
(Ordovician)
meta-tonalite/granodiorite
(Ordovician)
250 metres
N
pond
1.8 g/t Au, 7.7 g/t Ag
float
12.4 g/t Au, 47.9 g/t Ag
float
7.3 g/t Au, 38.4 g/t Ag
float
1.7 g/t Au, 5.4 g/t Ag
float
8.5 g/t Au, 30.7 g/t Ag
outcrop grab
18.2 g/t Au, 87.1 g/t Ag
float 4.1 g/t Au, 18.8 g/t Ag
outcrop
1.7 g/t Au, 8.1 g/t Ag
outcrop
2.1 g/t Au, 8.8 g/t Ag
float
22.0 g/t Au, 84.0 g/t Ag
float
27.9 g/t Au, 157.2 g/t Ag
float
106.4 g/t Au, 364.3 g/t Ag
float
31.0 g/t Au, 138.0 g/t Ag
float,
19.8 g/t Au, 86.3 g/t Ag
float
5.4 g/t Au, 24.2 g/t Ag
float
5.5 g/t Au, 25.3 g/t Ag over
0.45 m outcropchannel
123.8 g/t Au, 414.2 g/t Ag
float
20.2 g/t Au, 51.8 g/t Ag
float
57.1 g/t Au, 310.6 g/t Ag
float
3.3 g/t Au, 15.7 g/t Ag
float
104.1 g/t Au, 425.7 g/t Ag
float
18.2 g/t Au, 73.2 g/t Ag
float
8.4 g/t Au, 46.8 g/t Ag
float
12.5 g/t Au, 43.3 g/t Ag
float
37.3 g/t Au, 210.9 g/t Ag
float
GQ-11-01
5.49 g/t Au, 4.5 g/t Ag over 0.30 m
GQ-11-02
local anomalous assays
GQ-11-03
1.37 g/t Au, 4.5 g/t Ag over 0.30 m
GQ-11-04
local anomalous assays
GQ-11-05
local anomalous assays
GQ-11-06
local anomalous assays
GQ-11-07
local anomalous assays
GQ-11-08
local anomalous assays
rock sample – 2011
rock sample - 2010
labelled with Au & Ag (g/t)
Select samples labelled (>1 g/t gold)
Geology after van Staal et al., 2005,
(GSC) Contoured elevation in metres
above sea level
GoldquestGold Prospect
Long Range JV, Newfoundland
assays highlights
2011 drill hole locations
with assay highlights
Reported intersections are core
length. True widths are estimated
to be ~97% of reported core
length.
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12. Standing on the Kraken Pegmatite Lithium
Discovery in Southwestern Newfoundland
50-50 Joint venture
with Sokoman
Minerals on three
large land packages
in Newfoundland
13. • District-scaleproject
consisting of 3,146 claims
(78,650 hectares)
• Region hostto at least two
significant gold deposits
including the former Hope
Brook Gold Mine (First
Mining - Big Ridge Gold) and
the advancedCape Ray
Project (Matador Mining)
• Extremely underexplored,
despite known occurrences of
gold, the presenceof
unsourced till, soil and stream
sediment geochemical
anomalies (> 5,000 ppb Au),
and the first-order
commonalities and linkages
between southern and
central Newfoundland
• High-grade lithiumdiscovery
just made – first in
Newfoundland
Golden Hope (Sokoman Minerals - BentonResources50-50 JV)
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New Kraken Lithium discovery
up to 2.37% Li20
14. KRAKEN Li
Leinster
Carolina Tin
Spodumene
Belt
APPALACHIAN - CALEDONIAN
(and Variscan)
LCT PEGMATITE-HOSTED LITHIUM
in the North Atlantic Borderlands
Modified from Bradley 2016 and others
The key structural control on lithium districtsis recognized
along the length of the Appalachian– Caledonian Orogen
(Leinster – UK; Peidmont –USA; Kraken – Newfoundland)
Major collisionalboundary
Significant Li resourcesknown in the Carolina
Tin-Spodumene Belt
Promisingnew discovery in Newfoundland - Kraken
Newfoundland
Golden Hope Joint Venture – Kraken Lithium Discovery
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16. CarolinaTin Spodumene Belt sited on Central Piedmont Shear Zone, in
high-grade Silurian basin (Cat Square Basin) at NW edge of a composite
PreCambrian Peri-Gondwananterrane
Kraken sited on Bay D’Est Shear
Zone, in med-grade Silurian
basin (LaPoile) at NW edge of a
composite PreCambrian Peri-
Gondwananterrane
17. HERMITAGE FLEXURE
GOLD and CRITICAL MINERALS
Li
Cu-Mo
Au
U
W
Au
Au
Au
APPALACHIAN OROGEN IN
NEWFOUNDLAND
Principal Tectonic Divisions
SIC-BEX
KRAKEN
LITHIUM
PROJECT
Sn-Mo
Hermitage Flexure part of a major
Appalachian collision zone between
Laurentia and Gondwana
Locus of peak Appalachian Siluro-Devonian
magmatism, deformation & metamorphism
Reactivated crustal-scale faults
Thick widespread successions of Silurian
and older metasedimentary country rocks
Greenschist to upper amphibolite
metamorphic rocks
18. Kraken Li
Close to paved roads (14 kms)
High voltage substation at
Grandy Brook (10 kms)
Ice-free deep water port (35 kms)
Supportive communities
Golden Hope Joint Venture – Kraken Lithium Discovery
Infrastructure
19. Kraken Lithium Discovery
Golden Hope JV Property (red)
Government Till Geochemistry
Up to 49 ppm Li in vicinity of Kraken
pegmatites; 75 ppm Li to southwest
of Kraken; and up to 82 ppm Li on
western area claims
Burgeo
t
Scale
Atlantic Ocean
Western Claims
Golden Hope
20. composite
Gander Subzones
Silurian
volcano-sedimentary
successor basin
Exploits Subzone
(composite)
0 10km
BDFZ
mainly Devonian granitoids
mainly Silurian granitoids
TECTONIC SETTING
KRAKEN Li
Kraken LCT dykes
Local Geological Setting
Long lived crustal structure – Bay d’Est Fault
Mica rich metasedimentary host rocks
Abundant granitoids
21. Lithium in tills and unsampled
pegmatite dykes are spatially
associatedwith Bay d’Est Fault
Unsampled Pegmatite
Kraken Lithium Discovery Area
Gov. Till Site (Lithium)
Power Substationlink to Hope
Brook Mine (Hydro generated)
Kraken Lithium
Port of Burgeo
21 kms
23. Tourmaline(Boron) – important
regional indicator - Kraken
has lots!
Metasedimentarydomain
lots of mica - host rock for
Kraken dikes
Numerousgranitic plutons
with correct chemistry –
possible parent source of
fluids?
28. Golden Hope Joint Venture
Kraken Lithium Prospect
2022 Aggressive field
program - $2-3 Million to
focus on diamond drilling
currently known extent of Li
bearing dykes; and to
prospect NE and SW strike
extents
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Kepenkeck
• 50-50 Joint Venture with Sokoman Minerals
• 595 claim units over 15,625 hectares located
near the NE extension of the Hermitage Flexure
and along trend from Canstar Resources’
Golden Baie Project
• Road access, little historical work and
favourable geology located on a major structure
• Recent prospecting completed by the vendor
(the Keats) identified up to 2.45gpt gold in grab
samples visible gold has been panned from till
in two locations on the property. Sampling by
Benton in 2021 returned results of 5.34gpt gold
• Discovery by Benton of high-grade Uranium in
black soil grading up to 1.6% U and 0.08% Mo
• Soil sampling on uranium area beginning to
outline strong uranium-moly target.
30. Gold and new high Grade Uranium Discovery
in Central Newfoundland
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• New gold discovered by Keats in 2020,and more recentsampling by Benton in 2021 showed
grades up to 5.34gptgold.
• Recognizedin 1981 to have excellentpotential to discoverUranium – Molly, large companies such
as Noranda, Westfield,Amaxand Teckexplored the area after the NL governmentreleased a lake
sedimentsurvey which contained high concentrations of uranium and moly
• All the known and reported work was completedwithin the uranium bearing granite but no
recordedof work was completed on the contact of the granite and sedimentaryrock
• Recentsampling by Benton near the contact of the sediments and granite has discoveredup to
1.61% Uranium in black organic bog and 0.15% Uranium from the underlying sand/till
• This new discoveryheightens the possibilityto discoverthree types Uranium deposits within this
high favourable geology. Sandstone hosted deposits,Granite hosted deposits and Magnetite-
Hematite hosted deposits
32. 4 samples collectedby Bentonnear the
projectedsediment-granite contactshow
high concentrations moly andextremely
high grade uraniumin soil
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33. Uranium
Up to 1.61%
Uranium
In soil
>0.05%
Sediments including
graphitic shales o
Uranium bearing granite
o
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Benton Sampling
5.34gpt Au
Keats sampling
2.5gpt Au
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Benton –Sokoman Joint Venture Grey River
Property
• 324 claims (8,100 hectares) 50-50 JV Benton-
Sokoman
• Historic grab and channel samples range 0.21 g/t
to 225 g/t Au, locally with 200-300g/tAg – most
not drill tested
• Claims straddle an east-west shear zone along
which granites were emplacedenriched in Au, Ag,
Mo, Cu, W, F and Bi
• A 10-km-long corridoron the propertyhosts
several styles of gold +/- base metal mineralized
zones
• Analogous to the high-grade Pogo gold mine in
the Tintina Gold Belt of Alaska and Yukon (>10
million oz at 13.6 g/t Au)
• Sampling in the vicinity of the historical 225 g/t Au
sample site resulted in the identification of
visible gold
• High-resolution airborne geophysicalsurvey
and 1000m drill program completed.
• All 5 holes intersected gold mineralization
highlighted by 1.8 m @ 10 g/tAu incl 0.35m at 50
g/t Au
• Mineralizationwide open
Grey River (Benton – Sokoman 50 -50 JV)
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From (m) To (m) Length m* Au (g/t)
33.40 35.00 1.60 1.40
45.30 48.35 3.05 2.64
74.50 76.30 1.80 10.58
74.50 74.85 0.35 50.13
GR-21-01 –drill results
77.00 77.70 0.70 2.04
81.90 84.00 2.10 0.80
98.00 105.40 7.40 1.14
101.00 101.75 0.75 8.22
GR-21-02 –drill results
124.00 126.00 2.00 1.78
164.00 168.00 4.00 1.37
GR-21-03 –drill results
115.50 115.80 0.30 1.25
128.10 131.00 2.90 1.36
GR-21-04 –drill results
93.00 99.40 6.40 0.29
95.90 96.80 0.90 1.67
GR-21-05 –drill results
From m To m Length m Au g/t
From m To m Length m Au g/t
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Exciting timesmoving forward 2022
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• Well financed with $5.6million cash and $7.0 – $8.0million in equities
• Joint Venture partnerscarrying many of Benton’s projects
• Clean Air Metals working towarda prefeasibility on the Thunder Bay north deposits with a
current resourceof 3.7 million ounces platinum equivalent (Pt Eq) indicated and 1.0million
ounces Pt Eq inferred
• 20-30 drill holes permitted and to be drilled on large new gold discovery at Grey River along with
additional prospecting over the 10 km silica body as well as new claims to East
• 20-30 drill holes permitted and to be drilled on the Kraken Lithium discoveryalong with
prospecting, mapping and till sampling along to 60km long trend
• Continued prospecting, soil sampling and mapping of gold-uranium discoveriesat Kepenkeck
• Continued exploration at Long Range – Goldquest with Buchan’s Minerals
• Airborneto start shortly on KM67 with follow up prospecting, mapping and possibledrilling of
favorable airborneanomalies
38. Stephen Stares
President& CEO
T: 807 475 7474
C 807 474 9020
E: sstares@bentonresources.ca
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Contact Us
Tim Froude
SokomanMineralsCorp
President& CEO
C: 709 765 1726
E: tim@sokomanmineralscorp.com
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