Empress Engages Geomorphic AI to Enhance Royalty and Streaming Deal Origination

NEWS RELEASE | JULY 8, 2026 | VANCOUVER, BC

EMPRESS ENGAGES GEOMORPHIC AI TO ENHANCE ROYALTY AND

STREAMING DEAL ORIGINATION

VANCOUVER, B.C. - July 8, 2026 - Empress Royalty Corp. (TSXV: EMPR | OTCQX: EMPYF)

(“Empress” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has engaged Geomorphic AI

Corporation (“Geomorphic AI”) to enhance its royalty and streaming deal origination

process in support of the Company’s growth and acquisition strategy.

Geomorphic AI is a private North American developer of AI-driven minerals prospect

generation with a proprietary geoscience platform designed to identify and evaluate

mining investment opportunities. Under the engagement, Geomorphic AI will use its

platform to systematically source, rank and conduct technical, resource and mine-life due

diligence on prospective royalty and streaming opportunities. By combining artificial

intelligence with advanced geoscience analysis, the platform further expands Empress’

ability to quickly identify and assess high-quality opportunities.

“Disciplined origination is fundamental to the royalty and streaming business. The ability

to identify and evaluate high-quality opportunities quickly, and across a much broader

opportunity set than traditional methods allow, creates a meaningful competitive

advantage,” stated Alexandra Woodyer Sherron, CEO & President of Empress.

“Geomorphic AI enhances our ability to prioritize prospective opportunities while

maintaining the rigorous technical evaluation our shareholders expect. By integrating

advanced technology into our investment process, we aim to expand our pipeline of

royalty and streaming opportunities and reinforcing our disciplined approach to creating

long-term shareholder value.”

“Empress’ royalty and streaming model is well suited to a systematic, data -driven

approach to investment origination”, stated Mark Sumner, CEO of Geomorphic AI. “Our

platform combines artificial intelligence with geoscience analysis to rapidly identify, rank

and technically evaluate prospective royalty and streaming opportunities, enabling

Empress to efficiently assess a significantly broader range of opportunities than traditional

sourcing methods alone.” We look forward to working with Empress as it continues to

expand its pipeline of high-quality royalty and streaming opportunities.”

Agreement Highlights

The Company has entered into a consulting services agreement (the “Agreement”) with

Geomorphic AI under which Geomorphic AI will provide AI-assisted sourcing, technical

screening and geological evaluation of prospective royalty and streaming investment

opportunities. The platform integrates public-access datasets with technical, resource

due diligence and mine-life analysis to generate a prioritized pipeline of opportunities for

Empress to evaluate.

The engagement is intended to enhance Empress’s origination capabilities by expanding

the reach and efficiency of its investment sourcing efforts. Their platform compliments

the Company’s existing business development team and strategic partnership with

Endeavour Financial, adding an additional technology-driven layer to its disciplined

investment process.

In connection with the Agreement, Empress has agreed to grant 250,000 stock options to

Geomorphic AI, exercisable at C$0.83 per share for a period of five years from the date of

grant, with immediate vesting of all options The options will be issued pursuant to the

Company’s stock option plan and are subject to the policies of, and acceptance by, the

TSX Venture Exchange.

About Geomorphic AI

Geomorphic AI Corporation is a private North American based AI -driven minerals

prospect generator with a proprietary geoscience platform. Geomorphic AI deploys a

purpose-built team of specialist AI agents for minerals exploration and evaluation

covering geology, geochemistry, geophysics, permit screening, data capture, geological

modelling and report writing, capturing project-specific and regional public-access data.

These agents collaborate like a seamless digital exploration team. An orchestration

engine autonomously evaluates targets via a structured workflow with quality gates at

every stage. A persistent evidence store captures all findings including drilling intercepts,

geochemical anomalies, permit checks with source, confidence and coordinates.

Geomorphic AI also builds custom tools for clients, such as log digitization, 3D modeling

and data room analysis, with each engagement strengthening the platform. To learn

more please visit: www.geomorphic.ai

About Empress Royalty Corp.

Empress is a global royalty and streaming creation company providing investors with a

diversified portfolio of gold and silver investments. Empress has built a portfolio of

precious metal investments and is actively investing in mining companies that require

additional non-dilutive capital. The Company has strategic partnership with Endeavour

Financial which allow Empress to access global investment opportunities while benefiting

from mining finance expertise and deal structuring. Empress is looking forward to

continuously creating value for its shareholders through the proven royalty and streaming

models.

ON BEHALF OF EMPRESS ROYALTY CORP.

Per: Alexandra Woodyer Sherron, CEO and President

For further information, please visit our website at www.empressroyalty.com, or contact us by

email at [email protected] or by phone at +1.604.331.2080.

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Forward-looking information and statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the activities,

events or developments that Empress Royalty Corp. (“Empress” or the “Company”) expects or anticipates will or may

occur in the future, including those regarding future growth and ability to create new streams or royalties, the

development and focus of the Company , its acquisition strategy, the plans and expectations of the operators of the

projects underlying its interests, including the proposed advancement and expansion of such projects; the results of

exploration, development and production activities of the operators of such projects; and the Company’s expectations

regarding future revenues.

Forward-looking information and statements are based on the then current expectations, beliefs, assumptions,

estimates and forecasts about Empress’s business and the industry and markets in which it operates. Forward-looking

information and statements are made based upon numerous assumptions and although the assumptions made by the

Company in providing forward-looking information and statements are considered reasonable by management at the

time, there can be no assurance that such assumptions will prove to be accurate. Forward-looking information and

statements also involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results,

performances and achievements of Empress to differ materially from any projections of results, performances and

achievements of Empress including, without limitation, any inability of the operators of the properties underlying the

Company’s royalty and stream interests to execute proposed plans for such properties or to achieve planned

development and production estimates and goals, risks related to the operators of the projects in which the Company

holds interests, including the successful continuation of operations at such projects by those operators, risks related to

exploration, development, permitting, infrastructure, operating or technical difficulties on any such projects, risks

related to international operations, government relations and environmental regulation, uncertainty relating to the

availability and costs of financing needed in the future and the Company’s ability to carry out its growth plans as well

as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other related risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of important factors

which could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements, refer to the annual information form of

Empress for the year ended December 31, 2025 and its other publicly filed documents under it profile a

www.sedarplus.ca. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results

to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information and statements, there may be other factors

that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking

information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from

those anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking

information and statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or reissue forward-looking information

as a result of new information or events except as required by applicable securities laws. Disclosure relating to properties

in which Empress holds royalty or stream interests is based on information publicly disclosed by the owners or operators

of such properties. The Company generally has limited or no access to the properties underlying its interests and is

largely dependent on the disclosure of the operators of its interests and other publicly available information. The

Company generally has limited or no ability to verify such information. Although the Company does not have any

knowledge that such information may not be accurate, there can be no assurance that such third-party information is

complete or accurate. In addition, certain information publicly reported by operators may relate to a larger property

than the area covered by the Company’s interest, which often may only apply to a portion of the overall project area or

applicable mineral resources or reserves.