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OF AMERICA Pacific Empire Closes Second Tranche of Private Placement Financing

Financings

Telephone: 604-6

Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. | Suite 804 - 525 Seymour Street, Vancouver BC, Canada V6C 1X8

69-0660 Facsimile: 604-688-1157

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Pacific Empire Closes Second Tranche of Private

Placement Financing

January 17, 2024 - Vancouver, BC, Canada - Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. (TSXV: PEMC) (“Pacific Empire”,

“PEMC” or the “Company”), a British Columbia copper-gold explorer, is pleased to announce that it has closed

the second tranche of the non -brokered private placement (the “ Offering”) announced on December 19 ,

2023. Under the second tranche of the Offering, the Company issued 11,000,000 common shares (the “Shares”)

at a price of $0.01 per Share, and 4,000,000 “Flow-through” shares (the “FT Shares”) at a price of $0.015 per FT

Share, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $170,000.

The proceeds of the FT Shares portion of the second tranche of the Offering will be used for the exploration of the

Company’s Trident project, and the proceeds of the Shares portion of the second tranche of the Offering will be

used for general corporate purposes and exploration of the Company’s properties.

In connection with the Offering, the Corporation has agreed to pay to Haywood Securities Inc. (the “Finder”) a

commission equal to 7% of the gross proceeds raised from the Shares and the FT Shares sold to the purchasers by

the Finder (the “Finder’s Fee”) payable in cash and also issued the Finder the number of Common Share purchase

warrants (the “Broker Warrants”) equal to 7% of the aggregate number of Shares and FT Shares placed by the

Finder. Each Broker Warrant will entitle the Finder to purchase one Common Share Common Share at an exercise

price of $0.05 for a period of 12 months from closing and at a price of $0.10 for the period from January 16, 2025

to January 16, 2027.

All securities issued in connection with the second tranche of the Offering (being the Shares, the FT Shares, and

the Finder’s Warrants), are subject to a statutory hold period expiring May 17, 2024.

About Pacific Empire

Pacific Empire is a copper exploration company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and trades on the

TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol PEMC. The Company has a district scale land position in north-central

British Columbia totaling 22,541 hectares.

British Columbia is a “Green” copper jurisdiction with abundant hydroelectric power, access and infrastructure

in close proximity to the end market.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,

“Brad Peters”

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pacific Empire Minerals Corp.

Tel: +1-604-356-6246

[email protected]

www.pemcorp.ca

Telephone: 604-6

Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. | Suite 804 - 525 Seymour Street, Vancouver BC, Canada V6C 1X8

69-0660 Facsimile: 604-688-1157

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX

Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward-Looking Statements

Information set forth in this news release may involve forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws.

Forward-looking statements are statements that relate to future, not past, events. In this context, forward -looking statements

often address expected future business and financial performance, an d often contain words such as "anticipate", "believe",

"plan", "estimate", "expect", and "intend", statements that an action or event "may", "might", "could", "should", or "will" b e

taken or occur, or other similar expressions. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein

including, without limitation: The proceeds of the FT Shares portion of the second tranche of the Offering will be used for the

exploration of the Company’s Trident project, and the proceeds of the Shares portion of the second tranche of the Offering will

be used for general corporate purposes and exploration of the Company’s properties, are forward-looking statements. By

their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertaint ies and other factors which may cause

our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results,

performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward -looking statements. Such factors include, among others,

the following risks: the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mineral exploration; fluctuations i n

commodity prices; title matters; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for

conflicts of interest among certain officers, directors or promoters with certain other projects; the absence of dividends;

competition; dilution; the volatility of our common share price and volume and the additional risks identified the

management discussion and analysis section of our interim and most recent annual financial statement or other reports and

filings with the TSX Venture Exchange and applicable Canadian securities regulations. Forward-looking statements are

made based on management's beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made, and the Company

undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances

should change, except as required by applicable securities laws. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty

to forward-looking statements.