Vortex Energy Corp. announced that drill and crew mobilization has begun at the Company's property, the Robinsons River Salt Project (the "Project"), to commence drilling at the second approved core well. The Company has retained the services of the contractors involved in the drilling of the initial core well at the Project, RESPEC Consulting Inc., Major Drilling Group International Inc., and DGI Geoscience Inc., to drill the second core well.

The drilling of the second core well is designed to confirm the depth of the salt rock structures at the Project and attain the geological properties of the salt and non-salt rocks present at the Project. The Company previously announced on December 14th, 2023, that it had intersected salt rock at its first core well at a depth of 581.5 meters.