Southern Empire Updates Permitting Status for Centauro Gold and Oro Cruz Projects - Seite 2

The Imperial County Planning Commission (ICPC) held a hearing on September 13, 2023 to make determinations regarding the Oro Cruz Project, including, but not limited to, resolutions adopting the EA/MND, the Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Reclamation Plan, and the Reclamation Plan. The passing of these resolutions was deferred, awaiting further information to be provided by the BLM to the ICPC and as such, the hearing was adjourned to a yet to be determined date.

Qualified Person (QP)

The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been prepared, reviewed and approved by David Tupper, P.Geo. (British Columbia), Southern Empire's VP Exploration and a Qualified Person (QP) within the context of Canadian Securities Administrators' National Instrument 43-101; Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (NI 43-101).

About Southern Empire Resources Corp.

Southern Empire is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of metals and minerals deposits in the American southwest and northern México; particularly focused on those that are amenable to lower-cost metal extraction methodologies such as heap leaching. To achieve its goals, Southern Empire has assembled a board of directors, all veterans in mine and corporate finance, exploration, permitting, development, and operations that will guide the future growth of the company.

In northern México (Sonora, Chihuahua, and Durango states), Southern Empire has a leachable copper project and three gold projects, which are:

• Centauro Gold Project, Escalón, Chihuahua;
• Pedro Gold Project, Mapimí, Durango; and,
• La Loma Gold Project, Nazas, Durango.

These gold projects are located along what Southern Empire is calling the Mapimí Gold Corridor, a 150-kilometre, southeast-trending Oligocene tectonostratigraphic belt, the regional geological setting of which, together with numerous coincident geological, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics as observed at Centauro, Pedro and La Loma, strongly supports the proposition that the Mapimí Gold Corridor has significant potential to host bulk-mineable, low sulfidation epithermal and/or Carlin-style gold deposits.