Mr. Chris McLeod reports

PACIFIC IMPERIAL ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF LICURGO ALBUQUERQUE AS PRESIDENT

Pacific Imperial Mines Inc. has appointed Licurgo Albuquerque as president of the company, effective immediately. To facilitate this change, Chris McLeod has resigned as president but remains the chief executive officer, secretary and a director of the company.

Mr. Albuquerque is a business strategist with over 25 years of business management experience. He specializes in strategic planning and negotiation of alliances and partnerships.

Holding a civil engineer degree with an extensive background in geology, Mr. Albuquerque has been an adviser for several companies in Canada, focusing on the development of mineral resources, oil and gas, new technology, and other energy related projects.

Through mineral prospect evaluation, Mr. Albuquerque has been successful identifying mineral deposits around the world. Mr. Albuquerque is fluent in Portuguese and brings Pacific Imperial Mines his unique experience in due diligence, project feasibility studies, public bidding, contract negotiation, and project planning and execution.

About Pacific Imperial Mines Inc.

Pacific Imperial is a mineral exploration company based in Vancouver, Canada, engaged in the acquisition, exploration, evaluation and development of mineral properties in an acceptable-risk environment. The company's current focus is on the Eagle Mountain lithium property in the United States, the Brownell property in Saskatchewan, and the PAM and Babine properties in British Columbia.