Benton Completes Drilling at Cape Ray and Announces Final Assay Results

THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Nov. 5, 2014) - Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX) ("Benton" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has now received all results from drilling on the Cape Ray Project. The Company completed 3051.6m of diamond drilling in 17 exploratory holes. While most drill holes were designed to test for new gold mineralization outside the known resources, two holes PB14-393 and 394 were successful in confirming the continuity of gold mineralization between the 04 and 41 deposits indicating that there is potential to merge the two deposits into one and thus increasing the overall resource. PB14-393 intersected 3 separate zones of mineralized graphitic fault and quartz vein material that graded 2.18gpt Au with 5.2gpt Ag over 1.0m from 131.2 to 132.2m, 6.89gpt Au with 60.5gpt Ag over 1.1m from 172.5 to 173.6m, and 0.57gpt Au with 13.0gpt Ag over 2.6m from 254.6 to 257.2m. Drill hole PB14-394 also intersected multiple mineralized horizons that graded 2.07gpt Au with 2.45gpt Ag over 1.8m from 172.2 to 174m and 2.2gpt Au with 5.2gpt Ag over 0.5 m from 182.0 to 182.5m (all thicknesses are core length).

In addition, two holes totaling 212m were drilled into the 04 deposit for metallurgical purposes. Drill hole M14-01 graded 13.4gpt Au, 22.0gpt Ag, 0.82% Pb, 0.20% Cu and 0.98% Zn over 13.0m and was drilled shallowly across the deposit, twinning historical hole PB77-08 (9.5gpt Au, 15.1gpt Ag, 1.05% Pb, 0.18% Cu, and 0.72% Zn over 11.4m). Drill hole M14-02 was drilled down dip along the zone of mineralization on the same section and intersected 15.2gpt Au, 13.3gpt Ag, 1.0% Pb, 0.2% Cu and 0.77% Zn over 18.0m. These mineralized intervals represent core lengths however true thickness is approximately 80% of the core length. As the holes were drilled for metallurgical purposes whole core was used and crushed to less than 0.6 to 0.75 inch from which a 250 gram sample was split, pulverized and a 30 gram sample analysed. It should be noted that the crush size is not amenable to NI 43-101 standards as it is considered to be too coarse to achieve proper homogeneity of the sample and thereby potentially causing biased results.

All split and whole core metallurgical samples were sent to and analyzed by Eastern Analytical Ltd of Springdale, NL. A complete list of the drill results with a surface plan map can be found on the Company's website www.bentonresources.ca.

The Cape Ray gold project is host to 6 historical gold deposits located approximately 20 kilometers north of the town of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. The company has recently signed a letter of intent with Nordmin Engineering ("Nordmin"), whereby Nordmin can earn a 50% interest in the property by completing a feasibility study on the mining of the 04, 41, 51 and Windowglass Hill deposits. Benton controls a 100% interest in 60km of strike length along the Cape Ray Fault, a significant regional gold-bearing structure that hosts the Cape Ray deposits as well as Marathon Gold's Valentine Lake deposit located 120 km to the northeast of Benton's claim block.

Benton would like to thank the government of Newfoundland and Labrador for financial support of this project through the Junior Exploration Assistance program, part of the provincial Mineral Incentive Program.

About Benton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BEX)

Benton Resources Inc is a well-funded listed Canadian based junior with multiple joint ventures and a diversified property portfolio in Gold-Silver, Nickel, Copper, and Platinum group elements.

Stephen House (P.Geo.), is the qualified person responsible for this release.

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

Stephen Stares, President

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