Nova Minerals Ltd — Major Shareholding Notification 2024

Oct 16, 2024

604 Page 1 of 2 15 July 2001

Form 604

Corporations Act 2001

Section 671B

Notice of change of interests of substantial holder

To Company Name/Scheme Nova Minerals Limited ACN/ARSN 006 690 348

1. Details of substantial holder (1)

Name

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNYMC) and each Group Entity listed in Annexure A (Group Entity),(together BNYMC Group)

ACN/ARSN (if applicable)

There was a change in the interests of the substantial holder on 15 / October / 2024 The previous notice was given to the company on 01 / October / 2024 The previous notice was dated 30 / September / 2024

2. Previous and present voting power

The total number of votes attached to all the voting shares in the company or voting interests in the scheme that the substantial holder or an associate (2) had a relevant interest (3) in when last required, and when now required, to give a substantial holding notice to the company or scheme, are as follows:

mpany or scheme, are as follows:
Class of securities (4)	Previous notice		Present notice
	Person’s votes	Voting power(5)	Person’s votes	Voting power(5)
Ordinary shares	43,659,433	16.05%	40,614,793*	14.94%*
			*See Note 1
			in Annexure
			C

3. Changes in relevant interests

Particulars of each change in, or change in the nature of, a relevant interest of the substantial holder or an associate in voting securities of the company or scheme, since the substantial holder was last required to give a substantial holding notice to the company or scheme are as follows:

follows:
Date of	Person whose	Nature of change (6)	Consideration given in	Class and number	Person's votes
change	relevant interest		relation to change (7)	of securities	affected
	changed			affected
See
Annexure
B

4. Present relevant interests

Particulars of each relevant interest of the substantial holder in voting securities after the change are as follows:

Holder of	Registered holder	Person entitled to be	Nature of relevant	Class and number	Person's votes
relevant	of securities	registered as holder	interest (6)	of securities
interest		(8)
See
Annexure
C

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5. Changes in association

The persons who have become associates (2) of, ceased to be associates of, or have changed the nature of their association (9) with, the substantial holder in relation to voting interests in the company or scheme are as follows:

Name and ACN/ARSN (if applicable)	Nature of association
BNYMC and each GroupEntity	Each Group Entity is an associate of BNYMC pursuant tosection 12(2)(a) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) as eachentity is directly or indirectly owned and controlled byBNYMC.

6. Addresses

The addresses of persons named in this form are as follows:

Name	Address
The Bank of New YorkMellon Corporation	240 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10286 USA
Each Group Entity	240 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10286 USA

Signature

print namesign here	Kevin LockhartcapacityAttorney-In-Fact
	date16/October/2024

Annexure A

This is Annexure A of 1 page referred to in Form 604 Notice of Change of Interests of Substantial Holder given by The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and its related bodies corporate

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is the ultimate parent company of a corporate group comprised of a large number of operating and holding companies. Details of the entities directly owned and controlled by The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation are listed below.

• The Bank of New York Mellon

• Pershing Group LLC

• Pershing LLC

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Annexure B

This is Annexure B of 1 page referred to in Form 604 Notice of Change of Interests of Substantial Holder given by The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and its related bodies corporate

Changes in relevant interests

Date of change	Person whose relevant interestchanged	Nature of Change	Consideration givenin relation to change	Class and number of securitiesaffected(Ordinary Shares)	Person's votesaffected
01-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Transfer out of securities	N/A	(330,000)	(330,000)
02-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Transfer out of securities	N/A	(1,620,000)	(1,620,000)
09-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Transfer out of securities	N/A	(48,000)	(48,000)
09-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Deposit of Securities	N/A	283,080	283,080
10-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Deposit of Securities	N/A	90,000	90,000
10-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Transfer out of securities	N/A	(300,000)	(300,000)
15-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Transfer out of securities	N/A	(1,200,000)	(1,200,000)
15-Oct-2024	The Bank of New York Mellon	Deposit of Securities	N/A	80,280	80,280

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Annexure C

This is Annexure C of 2 pages referred to in Form 604 Notice of Change of Interests of Substantial Holder given by The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and its related bodies corporate

Present relevant interests

Holder of relevant interest	Nature of relevant interest	Class and number of securities
The Bank of New YorkMellon (BNYM)	Remote Interest Held Under Deposit AgreementRelevant interest under section 608(1)(c) of theCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) arising from BNYMhaving the limited power to dispose of, or control theexercise of a power to dispose of, securitiesdeposited with or held by BNYM (or its custodian oragent) in its capacity as depositary administering anADR programNova Minerals Limited(Company)under the Deposit Agreement datedJuly 23, 2024 between the Company, holders of Americandepositary receipts (ADRs) and BNYM (DepositAgreement).[*See Note 1 below].	40,614,780ordinary shares
BNYMC Group (other thanBNYM)	Relevant interest under section 608(3)(a) and/orsection 608(3)(b) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)being a relevant interest held through a bodycorporate (namely BNYM) in which the voting powerof each other entity in the BNYMC Group is above20%, or that each other entity in the BNYMC Groupcontrols.[*See Note 1 and Note 2 below]	40,614,780ordinary shares
Pershing LLC	Relevant interest under sections 608(1) of theCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) arising from PershingLLC being the registered owner of the securities.	13ordinary shares
BNYMC Group (other thanPershing LLC)	Relevant interest under section 608(3)(a) and/orsection 608(3)(b) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)being a relevant interest held through a bodycorporate (namely Pershing LLC) in which the votingpower of each other entity in the BNYMC Group isabove 20%, or that each other entity in the BNYMCGroup controls.[*See Note 2 below]	13ordinary shares

NOTES :

• Note 1 : Of the total of 40,614,793 securities in which the BNYMC Group has a relevant interest, BNYM has a relevant interest in 40,614,780 securities as depositary for Nova Minerals Limited ADR program administered under the Deposit Agreement. BNYM's relevant interest in these securities arises as a result of the Deposit Agreement containing rights for BNYM to dispose of securities held under the ADR program in limited circumstances. Under the Deposit Agreement, ADR holders retain their rights to dispose of those securities and to give voting instructions for the exercise of voting rights attached to the securities. BNYMC Group's power to vote or dispose of these securities is qualified accordingly.

• Note 2 : Each Group Entity is a direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of BNYMC, the ultimate parent company. Other than BNYM in respect of 40,614,780 securities (of which BNYM's power to only dispose of 40,614,780 securities is limited – see Note 1), and Pershing LLC in respect of 13 securities, none of the BNYMC Group entities are entitled to be registered as holder of the securities and their power to vote or dispose of the securities is qualified accordingly.

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