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Trading Symbol: EP 12g3-2(b): 82-1669 August 5, 2025 Standard & Poor's Listed Tel: 604.683.3288 Website: www.empiremetalscorp.com Toll Free: 1.888.880.2288

Exploration Program at the Buck Lake Platinum, Palladium Project

Empire Metals Corp. (TSX.V-EP) (`Empire') is pleased to announce its 2025 exploration program at it's Buck Lake platinum, palladium, copper and nickel Project in Ontario. This strategic initiative aims to significantly enhance our 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 km 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% copper, and 9.96% 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.

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Empire Metals Corp. is highly encouraged by Buck Lake's potential, believing 2025's exploration 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, P.Geo, 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 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.

For further information contact: Mark C. Patchett, President

E-mail: President@empiremetalscorp.com

Tel: 604.683.3288

Toll Free: 1.888.880.2288

EMPIRE METALS CORP.

PER: "Mark C. Patchett"

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.

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