File: Attachment EP NR 2025 08 05 Name Change.pdf

August 5, 2025 Trading Symbol: EP Tel: 604.683.3288 Website: www.empiremetalscorp.com Toll Free: 1.888.880.2288

NAME CHANGE TO ROLAND MINERAL ENTERPRISES CORP.

Empire Metals Corp. ("Empire" or the "Company") (TSX.V-EP) is pleased to announce that, further to its news release of July 22, 2025, Empire has received TSX Venture Exchange approval to its proposed name change to "Roland Mineral Enterprises Corp.". The effective date of the name change will be August 7, 2025 on which date the Company's common shares will start trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the name Roland Mineral Enterprises Corp. and under the new trading symbol "RME". The new CUSIP number and new ISIN 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 the Yukon Territory 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, palladium mine in Ontario, 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.

EMPIRE METALS CORP. For further information contact: Mark C. Patchett, President PER: "Mark C. Patchett" E-mail: mark@empiremetalscorp.com Tel: 604.683.3288 MARK C. PATCHETT President & CEO

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or the accuracy of this release. Cautionary Note to US Investors: This news release may contain information about adjacent properties on which we have no right to explore or mine. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's mining guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. U.S. investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our properties. This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.