Manning Ventures hires driller for upcoming drill program at the Copper Hill Project, Nevada, USA.
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Manning Ventures Inc.
Suite 303, 750 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 2T7
MANNING VENTURES HIRES DRILLER FOR UPCOMING DRILL
PROGRAM AT THE COPPER HILL PROJECT, NEVADA, USA
Vancouver, British Columbia, November 14, 2024 – Manning Ventures Inc. (the “Company”
or “Manning”) (CSE: MANN; Frankfurt: 1H5; US:MANVF) is pleased to announce that it has
contracted the driller for the upcoming exploration program at the Copper Hill Project, Nevada,
USA.
Boart Longyear of Salt Lake City, Utah, will provide the drill rig, all relevant equipment and crew
for up to nine Reverse Circulation (“RC”) drill holes totalling approximately 2,500 meters
anticipated for the initial phase one drill program.
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).
The Company is advancing road building activities to the established drill pad locations and will
announce mobilization dates shortly.
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Image 1: Phase one planned drill sites, Copper Hill Project, Nevada, USA
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
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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 see figure 1.
• Limestone-granodiorite contact
• 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.
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
1. Correlates with northern copper in soils anomaly
2. Aligns with garnetite, copper-bearing zones
3. Aligns with larger dikes of diorite
• Southern Zone
1. 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).
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2. Aligns with gravity trend indicating Limestone/intrusive contact connecting southeast
to “SE” buried intrusive.
3. Northern end of southern zone associated with high-grade surface sampling and historic
mining of garnetite and massive magnetite skarn zones.
4. Correlates with southern high copper in soils anomaly.
Image 2: Location of Copper Hill, Walker Lane Trend, Nevada, USA
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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.
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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: [email protected]
Telephone: (604) 681-0084
www.manning-ventures.com
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