Desert Metals announced that the Company is now proceeding with extensive field work at its three key projects. The programs include drilling, metallurgical test work and heritage surveys and signify an important step forward for the Company. Drilling at Belele of a previously untested 15km of greenstone belt for gold and base metals, with about 100 holes to be drilled within the Carbar Shear Zone.

At the Dingo Pass rare earth elements (REE) project, a heritage survey will be underway from 29 March. This will precede a 5,000m-- 10,000m drill program, which is aimed at defining the eastern extension of the Tower REE resource owned by Krakatoa Resources. In November 2021 KTA reported a maiden resource on its ground.

Drilling at Dingo Pass will follow the work at Belele. At the polymetallic Innouendy project, metallurgical work is already underway to determine recovery rates of clay hosted REE mineralisation, and to identify the most cost-effective processing methodology. Results are expected next month.

The Program of Work (POW) permit at Innouendy has been approved and heritage surveys are planned for a follow-up program of up to 20,000m of drilling to further test the extent of rare earths mineralisation and also to define the inaugural resource. Heritage surveys have been completed and a 100-hole aircore drilling program to test for gold and VMS mineralisation along an unexplored extension of the Mingah Range Greenstone belt will commence next week. The Belele prospect on the Company's 100% owned license EL51/1907 covers a gravity feature initially interpreted by Desert Metals to be an extension of the Mingah Range Greenstone Belt.

Airborne and ground EM data collected by the Company in 2021 identified a conductive feature within the belt that was drilled in 2022. Sulphide mineralisation including chalcopyrite was intersected, explaining the conductive anomaly. The prospect is completely covered by alluvium and colluvium and the intersected copper mineralisation and the extension of the belt itself is blind to surface data.

The entire Belele license, which is now known to be underlain by the Mingah Range Greeenstone Belt, has become prospective for both VMS and orogenic style gold which is the target of the current drilling program. The belt has previously been explored for gold and base metals where it outcrops to the south of the license and contains numerous historical gold showings, as well as a number of reported base metal gossans. Stratigraphically, it passes upwards from komatiitic volcanics into high-magnesium basalts, which have been intruded by broad differentiated gabbroic sills, to felsic-intermediate volcanics and finally sediments comprising BIF, felsic epiclastics and quartzites.

The entire stratigraphy has been regionally metamorphosed to mid to upper greenschist facies. Shearing and potassic alteration intersected in the company's 2022 drilling is interpreted to represent the Carbar Shear zone. This regional scale linear feature correlates to the Big Bell gold deposit 120km to the south.

Drilling of the presumed extension of the Tower Rare Earth Element Resource will commence after a heritage survey which begins on 29 March. The survey is due to be finished in the first week of April. In November 2022 Krakatoa Resources Ltd. reported a JORC compliant resource of 101Mt @ 840ppm TREO at their Tower prospect.

The eastern limit of the resource is truncated by the Dingo Pass tenement boundary, with remote sensing and radiometric data suggesting the REE mineralisation is likely to continue into the Dingo Pass Project. Desert Metals plans to drill test a 9km long zone along strike to the east of the Tower deposit with 5000m-10,000m of Aircore drilling.