Manning Ventures Commences Drill Program at the Copper Hill Project, Nevada, USA

Drilling began yesterday, Monday, December 2, at the Copper Hill. The first three targets at the Copper Hill project are designed to follow up on strong geochemistry and favorable structural zones. Drill sites PDH-1 and PDH-3 have been completed with additional pad locations scheduled to be completed over the next week.

"We're excited to break ground and begin phase one of our drill plans at Copper Hill," said Alex Klenman, CEO. "This project, and the area in general, has a rich history of copper discoveries and mining. There is a lot of highly-prospective, untested ground at Copper Hill that needs to be explored. We're eager to unlock the value we feel the project holds and this first drill program is a great start."

This phase one drill program will consist of up to nine Reverse Circulation ("RC") drill holes totalling approximately 2,500 meters. Drilling will test for skarn mineralization on the contact between the limestone and the intrusive for the Northern and the Southern Zones. The two zones outline target areas that returned significant copper values (0.5 to > 1.0% copper) in intense skarn alteration. The Copper Hill Project is comprised of 108 unpatented lode mining claims that cover 2,215 acres (896.3 Ha).

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Image 1: Phase one planned drill sites, Copper Hill Project, Nevada, USA

Mineralization Controls

The mapping and compilation of all exploration data at Copper Hill outlines an untested, highly prospective, copper/gold bearing skarn target. Potential may exist for a porphyry type copper deposit to be found deep beneath Copper Mountain or beneath the covered southeast intrusive. Additionally, porphyry-related veins and local chloritic and sericitic alteration is found along these northwest trends.

Two exploration corridors termed the Northern Zone and the Southern Zone outline areas with over 1500 meters (>5,000 feet) of strike length which host significant, intense skarn alteration and elevated copper values (0.5 to >1.0% copper).

The most significant features on the west-northwest trends are:

• Northern Zone

• Correlates with northern copper in soils anomaly

• Aligns with garnetite, copper-bearing zones

• Aligns with larger dikes of diorite

• Southern Zone

• Adjacent to deepest historic mineralization and proximal to historic shallow, near surface mines (limestone host in historic mine area is likely very thin and gets wider and thicker moving to southeast).

• Aligns with gravity trend indicating Limestone/intrusive contact connecting southeast to "SE" buried intrusive.

• Northern end of southern zone associated with high-grade surface sampling and historic mining of garnetite and massive magnetite skarn zones.

• Correlates with southern high copper in soils anomaly.

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Image 2: Location of Copper Hill, Walker Lane Trend, Nevada, USA

About the Copper Hill Project

Located within the prolific Walker Lane trend in southern Nevada, Copper Hill is situated one of the premier jurisdictions for precious metals mining in the world. Historic endowment within Walker Lane includes 50Moz Au, 700Moz Ag, and 4Mt Cu. Copper Hill hosts copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization in both porphyry and skarn styled deposits in Mineral County, Nevada.

The Project is centered on a Jurassic Age quartz monzonite porphyry intruding Triassic age Luning Limestone. The claims are located 33 miles east of the Yerington Copper District which hosts the Yerington Copper Mine (Anaconda 1952-1978), Ann Mason Deposit, Bear Deposit, MacArthur Deposit, and the Pumpkin Hollow Mine.

Historically at Copper Hill, reported high-grade copper was mined from underground shafts from skarn and porphyry-copper styled mineralization at the Copper Mountain Mine. Between 1914 to 1926 mining from the "Copper Mountain Mine" produced an estimated 1,000,000 pounds of copper from shallow underground workings. Historic reporting from the period of production describes ore zones of contact skarn- type and porphyry-type mineralization with shipping grades ranging from 3.5 to 11.0% copper*.

The Copper Hill mineralizing system forms a topographic high surrounded and partially covered by younger volcanic rocks. Mineralization identified at Copper Hill are bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper-native, covellite, cuprite, gold, malachite, molybdenite, silver, sphalerite (rare), and tetrahedrite.

The Copper Mountain area was explored between 1959 to 1979 by Idaho Minning Corp. and Walker-Martel who conducted ground geophysics, underground mapping, prospecting and reported 6000 feet of Rotary drilling. Since that time ground magnetics were conducted in 2007.

Rock sampling collected at this time returned values from select samples of 7.2% and 12.7% copper and 1.06 g/t gold and 1.19 g/t gold respectively.

*Historic Mining information was summarized from an "Unpublished Report on the Carson Sink Area, Nevada by F.C. Schrader, U.S. Geological Survey (Field work 1911-1920) 1947". Manning Ventures cautions investors that the historic exploration and production information is believed to be accurate but has not been verified by a qualified person.

Warren Robb P.Geo., is the designated Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information contained in this release.

About Manning

Manning Ventures is a mineral exploration and development company focused metals and materials critical to the growing Energy Metals space. Manning's project portfolio is focused on Copper in Nevada, Lithium/Copper in Ontario and Quebec, and multiple Iron Ore projects in Quebec.

For further information contact:

Manning Ventures Inc.

Alex Klenman - CEO

Email: info@manning-ventures.com

Telephone: (604) 681-0084

www.manning-ventures.com

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