Mr. Brad Peters reports

PACIFIC EMPIRE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF MR. CHRIS TUCKER TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. has appointed Chris Tucker to the board of directors, effective immediately.

Mr. Tucker holds a bachelor of science (environment) from Simon Fraser University and a master of applied science (mining engineering) from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Tucker brings over 10 years of experience working in the mining industry in project finance, risk management, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and reporting.

Brad Peters, Pacific Empire's president and chief executive officer, said: "We are delighted Chris has joined the Pacific Empire board. Chris brings a passion and skill for corporate growth, which fits with Pacific Empire's focus on advancing its Trident copper-gold-silver porphyry project towards discovery in 2024."

About the Trident property

Located approximately 50 kilometre to the southeast of Northwest Copper's Kwanika deposit and 50 km to the northwest of Centerra Gold's Mt. Milligan mine, the Trident property covers 6,618 hectares and is accessible by vehicle using well-established logging roads.

Copper mineralization on the property was first discovered in 1969, while following up on anomalous stream sediment samples. The following year, Falconbridge Ltd. optioned the property and over the next two years completed IP (induced polarization) and magnetic surveys, geological mapping, soil sampling, and diamond drilling. This work identified the A zone, with intersections in drilling up to 0.84 per cent copper over 45.7 metres (DDH-1971-13) and 0.70 per cent copper over 51.8 metres (DDH-1971-20).

Additional exploration programs were completed by Kookaburra Gold Corp. from 1988 through 1991, Solomon Resources Ltd. from 2006 through 2008 and Pacific Empire/Oz Minerals Ltd. from 2014 to 2015. All of these programs completed diamond drilling, geophysical surveys and geochemical sampling.

Diamond drilling by Solomon Resources at the A zone in 2007 confirmed the presence of intriguing gold grades and demonstrated that mineralization extended at depth.

Work by Pacific Empire from 2013 to 2015 was successful in identifying the source of copper-gold mineralization encountered in drilling as being directly related to porphyry intrusions encountered at the A zone.

Mineralization on the property is most significant in three areas: (1) the A zone; (2) the Slide zone; and (3) Campbell trench. Further information and details, including updated maps, can be found on the company's website and in the corporate presentation.

Qualified person

Kristian Whitehead, PGeo, serves as a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, and has reviewed the scientific and technical information in this news release, approving the disclosure herein.

About Pacific Empire Minerals Corp.

Pacific Empire is a copper exploration company based in Vancouver, B.C. The company's portfolio of gold-enriched copper projects in British Columbia are located in the highly prospective Hogem copper-gold district.

British Columbia is a "green" copper jurisdiction, with abundant hydroelectric power, access and infrastructure in close proximity to the end-market.

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