Empire Metals Limited / LON: EEE / Sector: Natural Resources

15 February 2023

Empire Metals Limited

("Empire" or "the Company")

Cash position

Empire Metals Limited (LON: EEE), the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, announces that, further to a recent media interview, its current cash position is circa £1.25 million (approximately AUD$2.2 million). Current cash reserves are sufficient for the initial soil sampling and planned maiden drill programme at the Pitfield Copper Project in Western Australia.   

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About Empire Metals Limited

Empire Metals is an AIM-listed (LON: EEE) exploration and resource development company with a project portfolio comprising gold interests in Australia and Austria.

The Company's strategy is to develop a pipeline of projects at different stages in the development curve. Its initial focus has been on the high-grade Eclipse and Gindalbie Gold Projects in Western Australia.  The Company expanded its exploration licence area in April 2022 from 9.5km² to 1,728km² with the acquisition of the Pitfield Copper-Gold Project and the Walton Copper-Gold Project in Western Australia, and the Stavely Copper-Gold Project in the Stavely Arc region of Victoria. 

Empire also holds a portfolio of three precious metals projects located an historically high-grade gold production region comprising the Rotgulden, Schonberg and Walchen prospects in central-southern Austria.

The Board continues to evaluate opportunities through which to realise the value of its wider portfolio and reviews further assets which meet the Company's investment criteria.