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Re:   News Release - Monday, May 17, 2010
      Nanika Announces Herb Lake Manitoba Work Program
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May 17, 2010: Vancouver B.C. Nanika Resources Inc. (TSXV: NKA and FSE:
C7X) is pleased to announce a multiphase exploration program on the
Herb Lake property. Located approximately 120 kilometers east of Flin
Flon, Manitoba, Herb Lake is comprised of eleven mineral claims on
approximately 5,930 acres to the immediate north of the Copperman
Property of VMS Ventures Inc. Phase 1 of the work program will include
extensive prospecting, mapping and sampling. Depending on weather
conditions it is anticipated that Nanika's crew will be mobilized to
the site within the next ten days and will include Nanika's consulting
geologist, Alex Walus, P. Geo.

Historic drilling on the Copperman Property to the south indicated that
the "A" zone contains 149,672 tonnes 3.08% Cu and 3.08% Zn. Combined
reserves of 221,308 tonnes with 2.63% Cu and 4.46% Zn were reported in
Manitoba Mineral Deposit Series Report 21. In 1994, a regional diamond
exploration program which also included drilling was executed by
Falconbridge and European Ventures Inc. at the Snow Lake property
approximately 3 kilometers from the Herb Lake claim. One of the holes
intersected a dyke of potentially diamondiferous Kimberlite. In 2007 a
VTEM survey flown over the northern part of the Copperman area
identified a large number of conductors of which only some were tested
to date. The reported mineralization in the adjacent Copperman deposit
is associated with altered volcanic rocks that are exposed at the
northern edge of the limestone cover rocks found in this area of
Manitoba. A large portion of the prospective volcanic rocks on the
Copperman property extend beneath the limestone cover, which gradually
increases in thickness southwards. Felsic volcanic rocks and minor
amounts of Cu and Zn are present at a number of localities. It should
be noted that there has been insufficient exploration to date to define
a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will
result in discovery of a mineral resource.

Alex Walus, P. Geo., a qualified person under National Instrument
43-101 is supervising Nanika's work program on the Herb Lake property
and has reviewed and approved the technical disclosure in this news
release.

About Nanika Resources Inc.

Nanika Resources Inc. is a TSX Venture listed mineral exploration and
development company focusing on the advancement of its mineral
properties, all of which are located within Canada.

On Behalf of the Board

James D. Jacuta

Chairman, President and CEO

For further information contact:

CHF Investor Relations
416-868-1079

Christopher Haldane
Account Manager - ext. 237
chris@chfir.com

Chelsea Jones
IR Associate - ext. 246
chelsea@chfir.com

Douglas Kerr
Telephone: 604-638-0699
Toll Free: 1-866-580-0699
www.nanikaresources.com
 
Or visit; www.nanikaresources.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor the Investment Industry Regulatory
Organization of Canada (IIROC) accepts responsibility for the adequacy
or accuracy of this release.

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