Southern Empire Updates Permitting Status for Centauro Gold and Oro Cruz Projects

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / September 18, 2023 / Southern Empire Resources Corp. ("Southern Empire"; TSX-V:SMP) announces that it has received permitting from the Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales ("SEMARNAT"; México's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources) for 30 exploration drill hole sites at its Centauro Gold Project located in the State of Chihuahua, México.

The Centauro Gold Project, which has undergone numerous, but low-density, historical exploration work programs along a 2.5 by 1.5 kilometre (km) corridor, including 27 widely-spaced (200 meter (m) to >700m spacing) NQ diameter core drill holes totaling 5,824.5m. Previous operators (Silver Spruce Resources Inc., 2007 to 2009 and Mundoro Capital Inc., 2012 and 2013) also undertook various geological mapping, geochemistry and geophysics campaigns. The new permitting provides for 30 new exploration drill sites as shown in Figure 1.

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Figure 1. The Centauro Gold Project has been permitted for 30 new exploration drill sites (red), infilling the significant gaps in the historical drilling. Site locations shown are approximate.

The Centauro Gold Project exhibits significant potential to host "Carlin-style" and/or epithermal precious metal mineralization based on extensive brecciation, silicification and argillization of the Tertiary-age Ahuichila Formation conglomerate, a strongly coincident gold ("Au"), arsenic ("As"), antimony ("Sb"), mercury ("Hg"), thallium, silver, barium soil geochemical signature associated with a silicified mesa "cap" covering 2.5 km along the strike of the main zone, outcrops containing arsenopyrite, realgar, orpiment and stibnite, and low to non-anomalous base metal values.

The environmental permitting work was completed by the geo-environmental consulting firm Segeo Ambientales Mx. of Hermosillo.

Oro Cruz Project - Permitting Update

On September 1, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a Decision Record and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) regarding the Environmental Assessment/Mitigated Negative Declaration (EA/MND) for the Oro Cruz Project. The EA/MND, and other associated documents were posted for public review online at the BLM NEPA Register. These documents are also available for public review at the BLM El Centro Field Office located at 1661 South 4th Street in El Centro, California. The BLM's September 1, 2023 decision is subject to a 30-day public appeal period.