Mr. Dale Wallster reports

SOUTHERN EMPIRE ANNOUNCES REVOCATION OF CEASE TRADE ORDER

Effective Oct. 7, 2026, Southern Empire Resources Corp. has filed its interim financial reports and related management's discussion and analysis for the nine months ended July 31, 2026, on SEDAR+. As a result of the filing of the interim financial reports and related MD&A, the B.C. Securities Commission revoked the failure-to-file cease trade order on Oct. 8, 2026.

As the corporation was issued an FFCTO, the TSX Venture Exchange is required to complete a reinstatement review. The corporation's common shares will remain halted pending completion of the TSX Venture Exchange's reinstatement review.

Subject to completion of the exchange's reinstatement review, the corporation anticipates trading of its common shares will resume early next week.

About Southern Empire Resources Corp.

Southern Empire is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of metal and mineral deposits in North America.

In northeastern Durango state, Mexico, Southern Empire has an option to acquire a 100-per-cent beneficial interest in the 1,750-hectare Pedro gold project. At Pedro, in the spring of 2022, Southern Empire drilled gold mineralization approximately 800 metres from 2014 drilling by a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corp. Gold mineralization, associated with highly anomalous arsenic (orpiment and realgar common), antimony, mercury and thallium, has been identified hosted in permeable basal conglomerates deposited during Oligocene extensional deformation, the latter forming widespread Basin and Range physiography along the eastern part of Sierra Madre Occidental. Gold is present in 12 of the 17 drill holes drilled at Pedro to date. Please see Southern Empire's news releases posted on SEDAR+ for further details.

In the Cargo Muchacho Mountains of Imperial county, California, Southern Empire owns 100 per cent of the historical gold-producing Americal Girl mine property and the adjacent 2,160-hectare (5,338-acre) Oro Cruz property located approximately 22.5 kilometres (14 miles) southeast of the operating Mesquite gold mine of Equinox Gold Corp.

At Oro Cruz, extensive historical drilling and large-scale open-pit and underground mining of the American Girl, Padre y Madre, Queen and Cross oxide gold deposits by the American Girl mining joint venture occurred between 1987 and 1996. During that time, gold was recovered by either heap leaching of lower-grade or milling of higher-grade ores until AGMJV operations ceased in late 1996 because of declining gold prices leaving the Oro Cruz property with many gold exploration targets in addition to a historical inferred resource estimate, reported in 2011 by Lincoln Mining Corp., totalling 341,800 ounces gold based on 4,386,000 tonnes averaging 2.2 grams gold per tonne at a cut-off grade of 0.68 grams per gold per tonne (4,835,000 tonnes at 0.07 ounces gold per ton).

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