Canadian Manganese Company Inc. provided an update for its on-going exploration work at the historically documented North Hartford manganese-iron deposit within the Company's wholly-owned Woodstock Project in New Brunswick, Canada. In 2022, the Company completed an initial core drilling campaign at North Hartford. Results for this drilling are disclosed herein and successfully demonstrate grades and widths comparable to historical estimates for the North Hartford deposit, including drilled intercepts of up to 84.2 m (core length) averaging 10.53% Mn & 14.55% Fe.

These results confirm the North Hartford deposit is analogous to the Company's Plymouth Deposit ("Plymouth") located approximately 2.2 km to the southwest where the Company recently announced a mineral resource estimate of 56.7 million tonnes Measured and Indicated Resources grading 10.07% manganese (Mn) plus 17.7 million tonnes Inferred Resource grading 10.02% Mn. Drilling at Hartford has been expanded in 2023 with the intention of delineating additional mineralization that may add significant resources to the Project's mineral inventory. In December 2022, the Company permitted twenty-nine (29) drill hole locations at North Hartford in preparation for a 2023 exploration program ("2023 Program").

In March 2023, the Company permitted an additional four (4) drill hole locations to test the extent of the geological sequence observed earlier in the program. The 2023 Program has been designed by Mercator Geological Services Limited ("Mercator") to further test the historically documented manganese-iron mineralization in the North Hartford area. The 2023 Program was conceived based on 100 m x 100 m hole spacing encompassing the currently interpreted outline of the deposit down to a vertical depth of approximately 200 m. To date in 2023, the Company has completed ten diamond drill holes including one abandoned at 152 m due to poor ground conditions, and two currently in progress for a total of 3,479.5m drilled.

Drill holes 5 through 8 were completed on section lines to the west of the initial 2022 Program and the remaining holes, 9 through 16, were collared on section lines east of the 2022 Program section line (Figure 1). The Company, with support and engagement from private landowners, is currently planning for completion of the drilling program over the next few weeks as well as possible extension of the current program and additional fall in-fill drilling initiative. As part of the Company's ongoing efforts to reduce environmental impacts and improve operational sustainability, the current drilling program is utilizing a recirculating centrifuge system for management of drill cuttings and drilling fluid.

This system reduces water consumption by up to 75% and prevents direct discharge of cuttings to the surface environment around the drill site. Use of the system has minimized potential impacts of drilling activities on agricultural land where the 2023 drilling program is being carried out. Historic resource estimates for the North and adjacent South Hartford deposits were compiled by Strategic Manganese Corporation in 1957.

These deposits are located approximately 2 km on strike to the north of the Plymouth Deposit and their respective historic resource estimates rely on a combination of historic results from diamond drilling and associated gravimetric data obtained and prepared by Strategic Manganese Corporation. Based on these data, Strategic Manganese Corporation estimated the *North Hartford deposit to contain 50 million short tons (45 million tonnes) grading 8% Mn and 12% Fe, and the *South Hartford deposit to contain 50 million short tons grading 8% Mn and 12% Fe. The geological information used to compile these historic resource estimates are themselves historical in nature and rely entirely on data provided by other sources which have not and cannot be independently verified at this time.

As such, these historical resource estimates should not be relied upon but are presented herein as an indication of the exploration potential of the mineralization described. While the Company has initiated further work to assess this mineralization with an intention of compiling a mineral resource estimate, successful estimation of additional resource estimates for this mineralization remains contingent on future results.