The Company is pleased to announce that a drilling contract has been signed for 10,000 feet of diamond drilling to be carried out on the Reliance Property. The drilling will commence approximately May 20, 2008.

The Reliance Property consists of 977.7 ha, located ten kilometers north of Bralorne and five kilometers east of the town of Goldbridge, British Columbia.

The drilling will test a new MMI, Geochem Zone discovered on the Carter Claim.

This zone has a strike length of 1200 meters with it being open both to the northwest and to the southeast and a width up to 150 meters. The gold values within this zone are often in the high hundreds times background with the strongest values being almost 5,000 times background.

Menika Mining Ltd.
Charles Boitard
President

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