• Benton Resources reported trenching progress at its Dominion Lake project, exposing the Rickirb gold zone over 210 m of intermittent strike.
• Rickirb zone described as 5 m to 12 m wide, hosted in a shear-altered quartz-feldspar porphyry with quartz stockwork veining.
• More than 150 channel samples sent for gold and ICP analysis; results pending.
• At Stoney Caldera, a new Reid gold zone returned 82 ppb to 2,014 ppb (2.01 g/t) from 10 grab samples across 600 m.
• Work programs planned at Reid include geophysics, soil geochemistry, prospecting, trenching.

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