Mr. Mark Patchett reports

EXPLORATION PROGRAM AT THE BUCK LAKE PLATINUM, PALLADIUM PROJECT

Empire Metals Corp. has planned its 2025 exploration program at its Buck Lake platinum, palladium, copper and nickel project in Ontario. This strategic initiative aims to significantly enhance the company's understanding of the project's potential, leveraging its proximity to the renowned Lac des Iles mine, owned and operated by Impala Canada, a major North American platinum-palladium producer.

Situated on the Buck Lake intrusion -- an elliptical, mafic-to-ultramafic body composed mainly of medium-grained hornblende gabbro -- this project is part of the Ring of Fire, a region known for its significant mineral potential. Notably, Impala Canada's Lac des Iles mine, located just 25 kilometres east of Buck Lake's Main Discovery area, is also situated within this prolific belt. The Buck Lake project is recognized for high-grade platinum-palladium and nickel mineralization at the Main Discovery area, where chip samples from sulphide-rich pyroxenite breccias exposed by pit blasting have returned values up to 31.6 grams per tonne palladium, 2.82 grams per tonne platinum, 1.53 per cent copper and 9.96 per cent nickel. This mineralized zone is hosted within gabbro/pyroxenite breccia.

Logging activity has improved access at Buck Lake, with extensive new roads providing excellent pathways to potential future diamond drill targets.

Empire's 2025 exploration program at the Buck Lake project is designed to systematically advance previous work and expand known mineralized zones through a two-phase approach. The program begins with a high-resolution drone-based lidar survey covering the entire property to generate detailed structural and topographical maps to identify subtle geological features and potential structural traps that could host high-grade platinum, palladium, copper and nickel mineralization. Building on these insights, the next phase will focus on targeted geological mapping and sampling, aiming to extend the footprint of known mineralized occurrences delineates more precisely the grade and extent of mineralization, with a view to ultimately defining robust targets for future drilling.

Empire Metals is highly encouraged by Buck Lake's potential, believing exploration in 2025 will unlock further value on the intrusion for platinum group elements.

The technical content of this news release was reviewed and approved by Dr. Bohumil (Boris) Molak, PhD, PGeo, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

About Empire Metals Corp.

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.

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