Northern Vertex Mining Corp. announced that, further to the company's news release dated November 15, 2013, it provided an update on Phase I - Pilot Plant, the first phase of a three part project development plan for the reactivation of the Moss Mine Gold-Silver project located in Mohave County, Arizona, USA with highlights as: Gold recovery rates to date are 73.45% after an average of only 96 days and exceed expectations indicated in the Preliminary Economic Assessment - Permittable quantity of mineralized material for heap leaching during Phase I - Pilot Plant has now been increased from approximately 90,000 tonnes to 112,500 tonnes. Current loading of the Phase I - Pilot Plant leach pad is comprised of: 25,785 tonnes of lower grade mineralized material (average 0.966 g/t) crushed to 99% -1/4 inch and agglomerated using 2 kg/tonne (4 lbs per ton) of Portland Cement - 76,887 tonnes of higher grade material (average 1.619 g/t) crushed to 99% -1/4 inch and agglomerated using 2 kg/tonne (4 lbs per ton) of Portland Cement - 3,239 tonnes of higher grade material (average 1.642 g/t) crushed to 99% - 1 inch, not agglomerated.

As of December 31, 2013, five cells on the pad consisting of a measured 81,630 tonnes of mineralized material containing 3,657 ounces of gold and 36,912 ounces of silver were under leach with results as: Leaching times vary from 122 days for cell 1 to 67 days for cell 5 with average leaching at 96 days Gold in doré (2,139 oz) in carbon (536 oz) and in solution (11 oz) total 2,686 oz gold yielding a pre-completion recovery of 73.45% gold. (Preliminary Economic Assessment based on 75% recovery after 9 months) - Gold is still being recovered from all 5 cells - Silver recoveries are at 27.1% as gold is being preferentially adsorbed onto the carbon resulting in high silver recycling values in the leach solution; however, final recovery of silver is expected to meet or exceed the PEA projections. Cell 6A (-1/4 inch agglomerated) and cell 6B (-1 inch, not agglomerated) were only treated with solution on January 1, 2014.

Gold recovery, within all the cells (1 to 6B), is anticipated to continue until mid-year. The process of loading gold onto carbon strips and shipping to processing facilities continues.