Mr. Stephen Stares reports

BENTON INTERSECTS 21.1 M MASSIVE SULPHIDE AT GREAT BURNT MAIN ZONE AND CUTS 12.3 M STRINGER MINERALIZATION IN FOOTWALL ZONE

Benton Resources Inc. has completed a drill hole at the Great Burnt Main deposit to test a parallel conductor interpreted to be a footwall zone located approximately 150 metres to the east of the main deposit. All samples have been submitted to the lab, and assays are pending for this drill hole.

Given the location of the footwall conductor, the company planned a drill hole GB-24-49 that would also serve as an infill hole within the Main deposit and continue eastward to intersect the footwall zone. The Main deposit was intersected at 220 metres and cut 21.1 m of semi-massive to massive sulphide of high-grade copper mineralization. The hole continued to a depth of 454 m and at 393 m, and it intersected hard silicified mafic volcanics with stringer pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. This assemblage is very similar to the horizon that hosts the Main deposit. The company is excited to have confirmed and identified that a parallel, mineralized footwall horizon is present in the system and will further target this horizon in coming drilling.

Drilling will pause now for the Christmas break and resume in mid-January, when it will test numerous other deep and parallel targets, aimed at expansion of the Great Burnt deposit.

Benton has a 70-per-cent interest in the Great Burnt copper-gold project, and Homeland Nickel holds the remaining 30 per cent, where they are financing their respective interest, with Benton as the operator.

Quality assurance/quality control protocols

Core and rock samples, including standards, blanks and duplicates, are submitted to Eastern Analytical Ltd., Springdale, Nfld., for preparation and analysis. All samples were acquired by saw-cut (channels and drill core) with one-half submitted for assay and one-half retained for reference, or hand (rocks) delivered, by Benton personnel, in sealed bags, to the Springdale lab of Eastern Analytical Ltd., which is an accredited assay lab that conforms to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025. Samples are analyzed using Eastern's gold (fire assay) at 30 grams plus ICP-34 method that delivers a 34-element package utilizing a 200-milligram subsample totally dissolved in four acids and analyzed by ICP-OES analytical technique. Overlimits are analyzed with Eastern's atomic absorption method, using 0.200 gram to 2.00 grams of sample, digested with three acids. All reported assays are uncut. Eastern achieved ISO 17025 accreditation in February, 2014.

Qualified person

Stephen House (PGeo), vice-president of exploration for Benton, the qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has approved the scientific and technical disclosure in this news release and prepared or supervised its preparation.

About Benton Resources Inc.

Benton is a well-financed mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol BEX. Benton has a diversified, highly prospective property portfolio and holds large equity positions in other mining companies that are advancing high-quality assets. Whenever possible, Benton retains net smelter return royalties with potential long-term cash flow.

Benton is focused on advancing its high-grade copper-gold Great Burnt project in central Newfoundland, which has a mineral resource estimate of 667,000 tonnes of 3.21 per cent copper indicated and 482,000 tonnes of 2.35 per cent copper inferred. The project has an excellent geological setting covering 25 kilometres of strike and boasts six known copper-gold-silver zones over 15 km that are all open for expansion. Further potential for discovery is excellent given the extensive number of untested geophysical targets and Cu-Au soil anomalies. Phase 1, 2 and 3 drill programs returned impressive results with 25.42 metres of 5.51 per cent Cu, including 9.78 m of 8.31 per cent Cu, and 1.00 m of 12.70 per cent Cu. Drilling at the South Pond gold zone, approximately 7.5 km north of the Great Burnt copper-gold zone, has confirmed a robust gold mineralized system over 2.5 km with results of 74.20 m of 1.43 g/t Au and 43.75 m of 1.62 g/t Au, and is open for expansion in all directions.

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