Manning Ventures Inc. announced that the Company has begun a first phase reconnaissance program consisting of ground mapping and sampling on its newly acquired district-scale portfolio of exploration projects situated in the Leaf River lithium camp. Leaf River is located 200 km WSW of the community of Kuujjiaq, QC. The four separate projects, named "Snap", "Crackle", "Pop" and "Pow", comprise a combined 65,785-hecatres (1,426 mineral claims).

Several companies are now active in the area with multiple large land acquisitions having taken place in recent months. A geological and prospecting team from GroundTruth Exploration is targeting areas that comprise some of the highest (99% percentile) lithium, cesium, and rubidium lake sediment anomalies in the entire Government du Quebec lake sediment database (SIGÉOM). Geology across all claim blocks consists of a mix of leucotonalites, granodiorites, granites, paragneiss, amphibolites, gabbros, and basalts.

The magnetic data highlights NW and WNW trending structures which make excellent pathways for fractionating fertile parental melts.