Blackstone Minerals Limited has commenced drilling at Ta Cuong, using electromagnetic (EM) plates to test new massive sulfide vein (MSV) targets for high impact drilling over the coming months; rigs targeting MSV prospects analogous to the recently discovered Ban Chang prospect and the Ban Phuc orebody; Ta Cuong is 6km along strike from Ban Chang and proximal to a major regional structure that is also close to the Ban Phuc and Ban Chang prospects; Drilling by previous owners did not target geophysical anomalies, however Blackstone has used it's highly successful, in-house geophysics team to define new targets at Ta Cuong for high impact drill testing; Blackstone's recent assaying of historic drill holes (previously unassayed) from Ta Cuong returned the following significant results: BKh18-02 15.6m @ 0.66% Ni, 0.6% Cu, 0.04% Co & 0.31g/t PGE 1 from 45.9m; incl. 0.6m @ 1.95% Ni, 4.47% Cu, 0.12% Co & 0.66g/t PGE from 51.7m; BKh18-03 5.0m @ 0.84% Ni, 0.59% Cu, 0.05% Co & 0.87g/t PGE from 150.0m; incl. 2.55m @ 1.43% Ni, 0.86% Cu, 0.09% Co & 0.78g/t PGE from 150.45m; Ta Cuong is the Company's second high priority MSV prospect within Blackstone's portfolio of 25 MSV prospects to be systematically tested with modern techniques; A recently purchased fourth drill rig will follow the geophysics crew throughout the Ta Khoa nickel sulfide district, testing high priority EM targets generated from 25 MSV prospects including Ban Chang, Ta Cuong, Ban Khoa and King Snake; Drilling continues at the King Cobra Discovery zone (KCZ) and Ban Chang.