Mr. Stephen Stares reports

BENTON MAKES SECOND HIGH-GRADE GOLD DISCOVERY OF 37.87 G/T AU AT THE QUINLAN ZONE AND DISCOVERS VISIBLE GOLD ASSAYING 79.1 G/T AU AT THE RICKIRB ZONE, DOMINION PROJECT

Benton Resources Inc. has received the first channel sample results from its Quinlan trenches. Highlights include 6.59 grams per tonne Au (gold) over 6.0 metres, including 37.87 g/t Au over 1.0 m on Line 2 and 3.84 g/t Au over 5.0 m including 18.28 g/t Au over 1.0 m on Line 1. The Quinlan No. 1 trench is located approximately 100 m west of the 2025 prospecting area, where surface samples returned up to 10.8 g/t Au. At the 10 Grammer trench, the company received 1.95 g/t Au over 0.8 m, and 396 parts per billion Au over 0.8 m in channel sampling; however, sampling was limited by the local topography.

In addition, Benton is pleased to announce that further sampling at the Rickirb No. 3 trench has returned high-grade visible gold-bearing grab samples that assayed 79.1 g/t Au and 15.2 g/t Au. These results are highly encouraging at such an early stage of discovery and underscore the strong potential of the system with continued sampling and evaluation.

To date, Benton's Dominion project has delivered exceptional results with 159 channel sample results still outstanding at Ellie, Rickirb and Quinlan.

The new Quinlan gold discovery represents another significant advancement of the Dominion project, showing the vast potential of the Tulks volcanic belt in central Newfoundland. Quinlan sits approximately 6.4 kilometres from the new Rickirb gold zone and 20 km by road from Equinox Gold's Valentine gold mine.

Benton's news release on Sept. 10, 2026, announced the first significant gold discovery from channel sampling at the Rickirb gold zone delivering highlights of 1.80 g/t Au over 11.2 m including 6.36 g/t Au over 3.0 m and 10.58 g/t Au over 1.0 m, 8.00 g/t Au over 2.0 m, including 30.53 g/t Au over 0.5 m and 4.20 g/t Au over 3.7 m, including 15.29 g/t Au over 0.9 m. The Rickirb gold zone remains open in all directions. Both the Rickirb and Quinlan gold zones are drill ready and targeting is in progress.

The company started assembling the Dominion project in November of 2023, after a large parcel of land became available for staking, and has since accumulated a very large and prospective land position through further claim staking, option agreements and claim purchases. Since acquiring the project, which lies within an excellent and highly prospective geologic terrain, the company has made new discoveries.

In addition, the company would like to remind its shareholders that the spinout of the Great Burnt project continues to move along at a steady pace (see news release dated July 27, 2026). The spinout, through the share distribution to Benton shareholders, will collectively provide Benton and its shareholders with a distribution of a $15.0-million in value for the Great Burnt project, backed by a $10.0-million financing, allowing for rapid advancement of the project, new discoveries and development potential. Further updates will be provided as they become available.

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Stephen House (PGeo), vice-president of exploration for Benton Resources, 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.

QA/QC (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 delivered by Benton personnel, in sealed bags, to the Springdale lab. Samples are analyzed by Au 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 using the atomic absorption method, using a 0.200 g to 2.00 g of sample, digested with three acids. All reported assays are uncut. Eastern achieved ISO 17025 accreditation in February, 2014 (for more details on the scope of accreditation visit the CALA website).

About Benton Resources Inc.

Benton Resources is a well-financed mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol BEX. Benton is currently planning a spinout to shareholders of its high-grade Great Burnt copper/gold project, 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 (NSR) royalties with potential long-term cash flow.

Benton is focused on advancing its Dominion copper-zinc-gold project, Victoria West/South gold projects, Stoney Caldera copper-gold project and its various hydrogen-helium projects on the west coast of Newfoundland.

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