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Manganese X Energy Announces Dr. Moreno to the Board of Directors and Granting of Options

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Manganese X Energy Announces Dr. Moreno to the Board of Directors and Granting of Options

February 23, 2017: Montr eal, Quebec, Canada. Manganese X Energy Corp. (the “ Company”) (TSX-V: MN)

(FSE: 9SC2) (OTC: SNCGF) is pleased to inform sh areholders that Dr. Luisa Moreno has accepted an

appointment to its Board of Directors.

Dr. Moreno is Co-founder and Managi ng Partner of Toronto-based Tahuti Global, a successful Global Advisory

and Consulting firm supplying service s to government institutions, investment firms and companies in the

mineral resource sector. She has been involved in industry metals, with a major focus on technology and energy

metal companies, for many years and has published reports on rare earths and other critical metals. She has also

been a guest speaker on television and at internationa l conferences and has been q uoted in newspapers and

industry blogs. Dr. Moreno held positions as a Senior An alyst, at Toronto based-investment banks and as an

Investment Research Analyst at a global investment resea rch firm. She holds a bachelor's degree and a master's

degree in physics engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in materials and mechanics from Imperial College, London.

“We are very pleased to have Dr. Moreno agree to join the board. Dr. Moreno’s technical and economic research

abilities, along with her unparalleled e xpertise in strategic minerals and related processes within the critical

metals industry, will make her a valuable addition to the Manganese X Energy team,” said Martin Kepman, CEO

of Manganese X Energy Corp. “I look forward to worki ng with Dr. Moreno as we continue to build Manganese

X Energy within the manganese/EMD evolution in Nort h America. With the addition of Dr. Moreno to our

board of directors along with Peter Godbehere (advisory board member), our VP of Exploration, Roger Dahn

and director Mark Billings, we are now very confident that we have formed a very well-seasoned experienced

technical team, which will enable us to strive to b ecome the first North American manganese producer to supply

the North American EMD market. Our technical team w ill focus on metallurgical processing to produce a high

grade concentrate, economical, cost saving, environmenta lly friendly processes which we anticipate to be very

price competitive.”

Mr. Anthony Viele has resigned to allow Dr. Moreno to join the board as an Alternate Director and has been

appointed to the Technical & Marketing Advisory Board.

Granting of Options

The Company is pleased to announce th at the Company has granted 400,000 incentive stock options to various

Directors and members of Technical & Marketing Adviso ry Board. The options are exercisable at $0.21 per

option for a period of 3 years from the date of grant and have no vesting conditions. The options are being issued

under the terms of the Company's Stock Option Plans whic h were approved by shareholders at the Company's

Annual General and Special Meeting on April 21, 2016. The Option Plan has been submitted, in the normal

course to the TSX Venture Exchange for approval and no op tions can be exercised prior to the receipt of this

approval.

About Manganese X Energy

Manganese X Energy’ s mission is to acquire and advance high potential manganese pros pects located in North

America with the intent of supplying value added ma terials to the lithium ion battery and other alternative

energy industries as well as the steel industry. In addition our company is striving to achieve new methodologies

emanating from environmentally friendly green/zer o emissions, while processing manganese at a lower

competitive cost.

For more information, visit the website at www.manganesexenergycorp.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Martin Kepman

Interim CEO and Director

[email protected]

1-514-802-1814

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the

TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.