Benchmark Metals Inc. announced positive results for mineralization expansion utilizing machine learning and AI. The company recently conducted first pass Maptek DomainMCF to evaluate, validate and expand mineralized gold and silver domains within the Cliff Creek and Dukes Ridge deposits. Utilizing machine learning in conjunction with detailed logging and geochemical alteration mapping, results indicate the potential exists to expand the Cliff Creek and Dukes Ridge deposits.

Benchmark's flagship Lawyers Gold-Silver Project (the Project) is located within a road accessible region of the prolific Golden Horseshoe area of north-central British Columbia, Canada. The independently generated Artificial Intelligence Gold Equivalent model provides a strong validation of the company's exploration model and further underlines the significant potential for continued expansion of mineralization, as well as providing indications of several compelling new trends that can be investigated with future drill programs. The advanced AI model generated by Maptek is an innovative approach to continue building significant value for the Lawyers deposit in both the pit and the underground resources with each successive drill program. The Cliff Creek and Dukes Ridge Deposits are controlled by major NW and WNW structural trends that form the basis of the company's comprehensive exploration model which combines logged geological features, extensive structural data, and categorized mineralization domains to inform the Mineral Resource Estimate.

In addition to the newly developed AI model, independent new alteration and lithological models have been generated using multi-element geochemical data in order to provide more insight on mineralized domains and develop new exploration tools that can be used to identify and vector towards new mineralized zones and potentially expand high grade zones. There is excellent agreement between these models and the logged geology, as well as the mineralisation and structural models. The High Potassium geochemical grouping corresponds with the logged potassic alteration which envelopes the main mineralization zone and is closely associated with high grade Au-Ag intercepts.

These alteration zones along the major NW and WNW faults show the same spatial orientation as the AI model and the Benchmark Resource Model, providing further evidence for the use of alteration mapping and multi-element geochemical data as an effective tool for expanding known mineralized domains and revealing new opportunities at the Lawyers deposit.