Mr. Mark Patchett reports

NAME CHANGE TO ROLAND MINERAL ENTERPRISES CORP.

Further to its news release of July 22, 2025, Empire Metals Corp. has received TSX Venture Exchange approval for its proposed name change to Roland Mineral Enterprises Corp. The effective date of the name change will be Aug. 7, 2025, on which date the company's common shares will start trading on the TSX-V under the name Roland Mineral Enterprises and under the new trading symbol, RME. The new Cusip number and new ISIN (international securities identification number) for the company's common shares will be 77546D100 and CA77546D1006, respectively.

Empire is a Canadian mineral resource exploration and development company with gold exploration projects in Yukon and the historic Beardmore-Geraldton greenstone gold belt in Ontario, ownership of the Buck Lake platinum, palladium, nickel and gold project near the Lac Des Iles platinum and palladium mine in Ontario, as well as the controlling interest in the Fox Creek lithium brine project in Alberta and the Graphite West hydrothermal graphite exploration project, located immediately west of Zen Graphene Solutions' Albany hydrothermal graphite deposit.

We seek Safe Harbor.