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Southern Empire Grants Stock Options

Share Capital & Compensation

Southern Empire Grants Stock Options

TSX-V: SMP

Frankfurt

: 5RE

OTC: SMPEF

VANCOUVER, BC

,

Jan. 18, 2022

/CNW/ - Southern Empire Resources Corp. (Southern Empire)

(TSXV: SMP) (

Frankfurt

: 5RE) (OTC: SMPEF) announces that it has granted options to purchase

900,000 common shares to its directors, officers and consultants. Each option is exercisable at

$0.11

per common share for a period of five years from the date of grant.

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 where 2014 drilling by a subsidiary of

Newmont Mining Corporation encountered epithermal gold mineralization within basal conglomerates

of the Ahuichila Formation. Please see Southern Empire's news release of

July 27, 2021

, 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; ultimately owned 53 percent by MK Gold Company and 47 percent by Hecla

Mining Company) 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 the 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/t Au) at a cut-off grade of 0.68 g/t Au (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, beliefs, 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 outlined above 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 classify 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 will be contingent on governmental regulations

regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and also the availability of exploration-related personnel, drill

contractors, equipment, lodging, et cetera. Southern Empire will adhere to COVID-19 directives

regarding safe working practices putting worker, community and national 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 term is

defined in the policies of the Exchange) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy

of this release.

SOURCE

Southern Empire Resources Corp.

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http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2022/18/c2193.html

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For further information:

Lubica Keighery, (778) 889-5476, [email protected]

CO: Southern Empire Resources Corp.

CNW 23:41e 18-JAN-22