Southern Empire Grants Stock Options
TSX-V: SMP
Frankfurt: 5RE
OTCQB: SMPEF
News Release
December 22, 2025
SOUTHERN EMPIRE GRANTS STOCK OPTIONS
Southern Empire Resources Corp. (“Southern Empire”; TSX -V: SMP , Frankfurt: 5R E, OTC: SMPEF)
announces that is has granted a total of 2,700,000 stock options to its directors, officers, employees and
consultants. Each option is exercisable at a price of $0.07 per 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. 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 t o 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 classify the historical estimate as
a current mineral resource and Southern Empire is not treating this historical estimate as current mineral
resources.
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policies of the Exchange) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.