Drill Permit Received For The Copper Hill Project

VANCOUVER – Manning Ventures Inc. has received the necessary approvals and permitting to proceed with its planned drill program at the Copper Hill Project, Nevada. Nine Reverse Circulation (RC) drill holes totalling approximately 2,500 meters are planned for this initial phase one drill program.  The initial program 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).

The Company is now implementing road building activities to access the determined drill pad locations.  Once access to the drill sites has been completed mobilization of crew and equipment will begin.  

Recent geological mapping has identified four primary rock units within Triassic Luning limestone which was intruded by a Jurassic igneous complex which was then overlain by Neogene age Volcanic rocks and Quarternary aged unconsolidated gravels.  Comparison of the geophysical interpretations and surface geochemical sampling results announced previously with the current geological mapping indicates a series of west-northwest and northwest trending structural fabrics providing the primary controls to copper mineralization at Copper Hill. The northwest faults and associated magnetic and gravity linears represent structural breaks and pathways for mineralizing fluids as witnessed by the elevated copper values returned within these zones.

Skarn-type alteration and mineralization is found throughout the Mesozoic limestone and igneous rocks. It occurs in two prominent geologic settings on the copper hill property: 1) Limestone-granodiorite contact. 2) Along northwest and west-northwest trending faults and fault zones; dominantly in the Jurassic igneous rocks with less intense, more distal-type skarn-type alteration in the Triassic Luning Limestone.  

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).