Southern Legacy Announces Closing of Private Placement of Common Shares

LIMA, PERU--(Marketwired - Sep 30, 2013) - Southern Legacy Minerals Inc. ("Southern Legacy" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:LCY)(LCY.V) announces that is has closed the first tranche of its non-brokered private placement offering of common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") previously announced on August 23, 2013 (the "Offering"). The Company issued 1,810,416 Common Shares at a price of $0.25 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of $452,604. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for option payments, expenses related to drilling permit applications and access rights and for general working capital purposes.

The Company expects that it will complete the second tranche of the Offering within the next two weeks.

In connection with this tranche of the Offering, the Company paid finder's fees of $2,625. Insiders of the Company subscribed for an aggregate of 20,833 Common Shares under the Offering pursuant to exemptions that are available from TSX Venture Exchange Policy 5.9 for the issuance of securities to such insiders.

All securities issued are subject to a four month hold period expiring January 31, 2014 in accordance with applicable securities laws. Completion of the Offering is subject to final TSX Venture Exchange approval. As a result of the closing of this first tranche of the Offering, the Company has 59,430,891 Common Shares issued and outstanding.

Fernando Pickmann, President and CEO

About Southern Legacy Minerals Inc.

Southern Legacy is a mineral exploration company with a portfolio of copper and gold projects in South America. Southern Legacy is currently focused on advancing its flagship copper and gold AntaKori Project (formerly known as Sinchao), located in northern Peru between Gold Fields' Cerro Corona and Buenaventura-Southern Copper's Tantahuatay mines. The AntoKori Project currently has an inferred resource estimate of 3.1 billion pounds of copper and 3.4 million ounces of gold based on average copper and gold grades of 0.48% and 0.36 g/t respectively within a mineralized zone of 294 million tonnes. Southern Legacy has the option to acquire an 83.16% interest in the company which owns 100% of the three mineral concessions that comprise the AntaKori Project. For additional information regarding the AntaKori Project, please refer to the report entitled "Technical Report - Southern Legacy Minerals Inc., AntaKori Project, Peru" dated July 2, 2012 prepared by Scott E. Wilson Consulting, Inc., a copy of which is available on the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.