13 NOVEMBER 2023CANNON DEVELOPEMENT UPDATEHorizon Minerals...

13 NOVEMBER 2023CANNON DEVELOPEMENT UPDATEHorizon Minerals Limited (ASX: HRZ) (“Horizon” or “the Company”) advises that the Company has received notification from FMR Investments Pty Ltd (“FMR”) that they are no longer in a position to proceed with the proposed joint venture transaction with the company at the current time due to operational issues and a change in capital deployment priorities within their own business group.FMR confirmed that they will honour the current 200,000 tonne processing allocation for Horizon at their Greenfields processing plant near Coolgardie in 2024.The Company is committed to bringing Cannon into production and has progressed the development of the mine. Initial clearing works have been undertaken, and the dewatering pipeline construction is commencing this week, to enable the Cannon pit to be dewatered and expose the underground portal position.The Company has extensive in ground assets and remains committed to monetising its extensive portfolio in a time of high gold prices in Australian dollar terms through contract mining and toll treatment or joint ventures. Horizon has been in discussions with several joint venture / contractor parties for mining on several of its underground and open pit gold deposits and will now also consider these parties for the Cannon underground mining. A further update will be provided in the March 2024 quarter.Horizon has also reduced its corporate and employment expenses moving forward in excess of $1 million per annum, reducing staff from 17 to 10 since June 2022. The Company has been active in divestment and monetisation of non-core assets to reduce holding costs and expenditure commitments by $750,000 since July 2023, while generally still having upside to any potential success. Horizon continues to evaluate selective low cost, value accretive opportunities to add to the portfolio. Cash at bank currently stands at $7.0 million plus ~$7.8 million in listed company investments plus $3 million in Vox shares pending issue.Approved for release by the Board of Directors. For further information, please contact:Grant HaywoodChief Executive OfficerTel: +61 8 9386 9534 [email protected] 163 Stirling Hwy PO Box 1104 Nedlands WA 6009 Nedlands WA 6909+Michael VaughanMedia Relations – Fiv