Southern Empire Announces AGM Results and Amends Oro Cruz Option Agreement Annual General Meeting Southern Empire announces that shareholders overwhelmingly approved all motions put forth at the Annual
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News Release
September 6, 2022
Southern Empire Announces AGM Results and Amends Oro Cruz Option Agreement
Annual General Meeting
Southern Empire announces that shareholders overwhelmingly approved all motions put forth at the Annual
General Meeting held on September 1, 2022, including the re -election of all directors, the appointment of
Davidson & Company LLP as auditor and the approval of a 10% rolling stock option plan.
A total of 21,122,008 common shares, being 33.4% of Southern Empire’s issued and outstanding share capital,
were voted at the Annual General Meeting. The votes cast for each matter were as follows:
Resolution For % Withheld/Against %
Number of Directors 100.00% 0.00%
Directors
Dale Wallster 97.58% 2.42%
Ronald Netolitzky 100.00% 0.00%
James Currie 99.97% 0.03%
Andrew Davidson 97.58% 2.42%
P.E. (Ted) Kavanagh 99.97% 0.03%
Alex Heath 99.97% 0.03%
Appointment of Davidson & Company LLP 100.00% 0.00%
Stock Option Plan 99.72% 0.28%
Amendment to Oro Cruz Option Agreement
Southern Empire announces that it has entered into an amendment agreement with Ronald Netolitzky,
Chairman and director of Southern Empire, to amend the terms of the previously announced option
agreement to acquire a 25% interest in the Oro Cruz Property (see news release June 26, 2020) located in the
Cargo Muchacho mountains of Imperial County, California.
Pursuant to the terms of the amendment agreement, Southern Empire will exercise its option to acquire a
25% interest in the Oro Cruz Property by issuing a total of 2,000,000 common shares to Mr. Netolitzky in lieu
of the final two option payments totaling $200,000. The Southern Empire shares to be issued under the
amendment agreement will be subject to restrictions on resale for a period of four months from the date of
issuance. The amendment agreement and the transactions contemplated therein are subject to acceptance
of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Upon closing of the amendment agreement, Southern Empire will own a 25% interest in the Oro Cruz Property
and have the option to acquire the remaining 75% by making a final payment of US $100,000 to an underlying
vendor by April 15, 2023.
Qualified Person
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 focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of metals and minerals deposits
in North America.
In northeastern Durango State, México, 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 Corporation.
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
easter part of Sierra Madre Occidental. Gold is present in 12 of the 17 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 percent of the
historical gold-producing American Girl mine property and holds options to acquire a 100 percent interest in
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
(“AGMJV”) 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., totaling 341,800 ounces gold
based on 4,386,000 tonnes averaging 2.2 grams gold per tonne (g Au /t) at a cut -off grade of 0.68 g Au/t
(4,835,000 tons at 0.07 ounce gold per ton; please refer to the Cautionary Notice Regarding the Oro Cruz
Property Historical Resource Estimate below).
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Southern Empire Resources Corp.,
Dale Wallster, CEO and Director
For further information on Southern Empire please visit: www.smp.gold and SEDAR or contact:
Lubica Keighery, (778) 889-5476, [email protected] .
Cautionary Notice on Forward-Looking Information
Information provided in this news release may contain forward -looking information or forward -looking
statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. Such information or
statements reflect management’s current estimates, belief s, intentions , and expectations and are not
guarantees of future performance. Southern Empire cautions that all forward -looking statements are
inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by many material factors, many of which
are beyond its respective control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating
to Southern Empire’s limited operating history, the need to comply with environmental and governmental
regulations, results of exploration programs on its projects, and those risks and uncertainties identified in its
annual and interim financial statements and management discussion and analysis. Accordingly, actual and
future events, conditions , and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions, and
expectations expressed or implied in the forward -looking information. Except as required under applicable
securities legislation, Southern Empire undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking
information.
Cautionary Notice Regarding Historical Resource Estimate
The Oro Cruz Project historical resource estimate is disclosed in a technical report dated April 29, 2011,
prepared for Lincoln Mining Corp. by Tetra Tech, Inc. and filed on Canadian Securities Administrators' System
for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“SEDAR”). It is termed an inferred mineral resource, which is
a category set out in NI 43 -101. It was based on historical reverse circulation and core drill hole sample,
underground channel sample, and blasthole sample assay results and calculated using ordinary kriging to
estimate gold grades in 10-foot-by-10-foot-by-five-foot blocks. Accordingly, Southern Empire considers this
historical estimate reliable as well as relevant as it represents key targets for future exploration work.
However, a QP has not done sufficient work to verify or cla ssify the historical estimate as a current mineral
resource and Southern Empire is not treating this historical estimate as current mineral resources.
Work Programs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The timing of Southern Empire's exploration programs is contingent on governmental regulations regarding
the COVID -19 pandemic and also the availability of exploration personnel, drill contractors, equipment,
lodging, etc. Southern Empire will adhere to COVID -19 directives regarding safe working practices putt ing
worker and community health and safety first and will proceed with exploration and development work
programs only if potential COVID-19 risks can be effectively managed.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that te rm is defined in
the policies of the Exchange) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.