Vertex Minerals Limited announced Advanced Hill End Gold Project (NSW) 34km strike length high grade gold system ­ to be developed on a large scale - 1.6m ozs historically mined. Advanced Hargraves Gold Project (NSW) moving to a PFS. Combined existing 2012 JORC 484K oz @ 3.28 g/t. Significant exploration upside likely to be amenable to gravity recovery, with recoveries potentially as high as 95%.

§ Additionally, Vertex Geologists are interested to understand the Ni potential at shallower depths, as the mineralisation suggests it may continue up dip. There was no follow up by Norilsk. Significant historical drilling on the tenure, 12NLJC0005: 2m @ 0.795% Ni from 202m, 12NLJC004: 2m @ 0.636% Ni from 250m, 10NLJC0132: 37m @ 0.477% Ni from 205m, Including 1m @ 1.02% Ni from 212m, 1m @ 0.835%Ni from 206m, 1m @ 0.822% Ni from 209m, 1m @ 0.766% Ni from 205m, LJPR0084: 3m @ 0.649% Ni from 15, With Gold intercepts, LJPA0145: 3m @ 9.84g/t Au from 42m, Including 1m @ 45.40g/t Au from 44m, Three Pegmatite outcrops, sampled in late 2022 for both assay and petrology, did not show any significant Li.

The Taylor Rock tenement is located on the very poorly explored far south eastern margin of the Archaean Lake Johnston greenstone belt. The Lake Johnston greenstone belt is a narrow, north-northwest trending belt, approximately 110 km in length. It is located near the south margin of the Yilgarn Craton, midway between the southern ends of the Norseman-Wiluna and the Forrestania-Southern Cross greenstone belts.

The eastern and northern limits of the Lake Johnston greenstone belt are defined by the large northwest-trending Koolyanobbing shear zone. To the west the greenstones are bound by granitoids and gneissic rocks which extend some 70km west to the Forrestania-Southern Cross greenstone belt. To the south the greenstones appear to pinch out in granites but a weak magnetic signature and data in a minor open file report suggest there is continuity of mafic rocks south towards Lake Tay.

To the northwest and west of the greenstone belt proper a number of small isolated remnants of greenstone rocks are contained within the granitoids. Due to the continuous extent of banded iron formations (BIF), and a similar metamorphic grade, the Lake Johnston greenstone belt is thought to have more similarities to the Forrestania-Southern Cross greenstone belt than to the Norseman - Wiluna greenstone belt. Limited radiometric dating also provides evidence of similar ages for the Lake Johnston and the Forrestania belts both of which appear older than the dates from the Norseman area.

Notwithstanding this, the GSWA in the 1970 vintage geological interpretation of the Lake Johnston area (1:250,000 scale GSWA explanatory notes) correlate the southern end of the Lake Johnston belt with the southern end of the Norseman belt of mafic and felsic volcanics, some sediment horizons, including BIF, and three ultramafic units. The volcanics and sediments are flanked and intruded by granitic rocks, which disrupt continuity of the greenstone belt. Pegmatitic and doleritic dykes are common.

The sequence is extensively faulted, and gently inclined, north- and south- plunging folds have been recognised.