Mr. Stephen Stares reports

BENTON PROVIDES RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL AND SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS AND ST. ANTHONY PROJECT ACQUISITION

Benton Resources Inc. has provided the results of its annual general and special meeting of shareholders held on Nov. 20, 2017, in Thunder Bay, Ont. At the meeting, shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of all items proposed. In particular, shareholders voted to reappoint Wasserman Ramsay, chartered accountants, as the company's auditor, and elected the company's nominees for directors: Stephen Stares, Clinton Barr, Michael Stares, John Sullivan and William Harper.

Shareholders also voted in favour of amending the shareholders rights plan to extend the expiration time on the plan through to the 2020 annual general meeting.

In addition, the company would like to announce that it has acquired a 100-per-cent interest by staking in two claim blocks totalling 233 units in northern Newfoundland near St. Anthony (the GNP project). Benton's land position covers favourable geology similar to that of White Metal Resources Corp.'s new discovery at its Gunners Cove property, where they recently announced significant amounts of highly anomalous gold values over approximately a 15-square-kilometre area in black sedimentary shale units (see White Metal Resources' press release dated Nov. 20, 2017). The company believes this could be a very important new discovery in a unique geological environment similar to other large gold deposits hosted in black shale environments around the world. The company will plan an exploration program to evaluate the geological potential in the coming months and will update shareholders accordingly.

About Benton Resources Inc.

Benton Resources is a well-financed Canadian-based junior with a diversified property portfolio in gold/silver, nickel, copper and platinum group elements.

Clinton Barr, PGeo, vice-president, exploration, for Benton Resources, is the qualified person responsible for this release has prepared, supervised the preparation or approved the scientific and technical disclosure in the news release.

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