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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score on Monday was a mediocre 67-82-161 as the TSX Venture Exchange fell fractionally to 710. Stephen Stares's Benton Resources Inc. (BEX) was unchanged at 7.5 cents on 254,000 shares Friday on the heels of more assay encouragement from its Great Burnt copper project in central Newfoundland. The headline hit, a 12.3-metre intercept in the Great Burnt Main zone, returned 2.49 per cent copper and 0.9 per cent zinc along with 0.11 gram of gold and 5.45 grams of silver per tonne -- a metals buffet that sums to 2.95 per cent copper equivalent. Much of that metal sat within a 4.8-metre portion that ran 6.34 per cent copper equivalent.

That hit, the company cheers, "significantly exceeds" a nearby historical hole drilled in 1969 that yielded just 0.13 per cent copper over 0.91 metre. (Needless to say, the word "continuity" does not appear in the company's spiel.) Nevertheless, Benton does say that all phases of drilling at Great Burnt have returned impressive results, with the best one coming in 2023, when a 13-metre hit graded 8.31 per cent copper and a 26.87-metre intercept averaged 7.18 per cent copper.

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