Vertex Minerals Limited announced drilling results from the last of the Red Hill program and the first hole at Hargraves, at the recently granted EL 9485, which is, in turn, entirely surrounded by the company's existing EL6996. There has been no systematic exploration on EL9485 for many decades. It is considered highly prospective for continuation of quartz veins containing very high gold grades.

illustrates Section A-A, which is on the Company's EL6996 and adjacent to the first Vertex drill hole at Hargraves and the new exploration license. The Section A-A shows a geological interpretation and the assay results from past drilling programs. illustrates Section B-B, which is a cross section through the new EL9485 and showing HRGD001, the first hole drilled by Vertex at Hargraves, with the down plunge continuation of quartz veining that represents the exploration target on EL9485. This down plunge extension of quartz veins is well founded at Hargraves, with an extensive drill database that supports the southerly plunge of the vein system.

This trend is illustrated in Figure 4, and shows the upper exploration target where some depletion from historic mining is to be expected, plus two deeper exploration targets. The middle target is supported by drill data on either side of EL9485. The Hargraves drilling program is the Company's second drill program.

Hargraves presents great potential for significant resource growth. The Company believes that there is compelling evidence that the Hargraves deposit is a robust deep plunging deposit, and the gold inventory will benefit from additional drilling. The Mineral Resource of the Hargraves Project stand at 177,000 ounces.