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Southern Empire Acquires the La Loma Property in Durango, México and Expands the Centauro Property in Chihuahua, México
Southern Empire Acquires the La Loma Property in Durango, México and Expands the Centauro Pr...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Southern Empire Acquires the La Loma Property in Durango, México and Expands the Centauro Property in Chihuahua, México\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n VANCOUVER, BC\n \n \n ,\n \n \n Dec. 19, 2022\n \n \n /CNW/ - Southern Empire Resources Corp. (Southern Empire) (TSXV: SMP) (\n \n Frankfurt\n \n : 5RE) (OTC: SMPEF) announces the acquisition of the 23,750 hectare (\"ha\"; 58,687 acre) La Loma gold property by staking. La Loma is located in Durango State, México approximately 50 kilometres (\"km\") southeast of Southern Empire's Pedro Gold Project and 35 km west-southwest of the major city of\n \n Torreón\n \n (see\n \n Figure 1\n \n ).\n \n \n Southern Empire also announces the expansion of its recently optioned Centauro Gold (\"Au\") Project (see\n \n Southern Empire news release dated\n \n December 12, 2022\n \n \n ) located near Jiménez, Chihuahua from an original 600 ha to 4,432 ha (10,951 acres) with the staking of the Tauros and Centauro 2 claims.\n \n \n \"Southern Empire's La Loma, Pedro and Centauro gold projects support our theory that a northwest trending metallogenic belt of \"Carlin-style\" and/or low sulphidation epithermal gold deposits extends through northern central México. Our projects all exhibit many of the geological and mineralogical features that define these important precious metal deposit types,\" stated\n \n David Tupper\n \n , Southern Empire's VP of Exploration.\n \n \n \n La Loma Property\n \n \n \n Southern Empire's La Loma, Pedro, and Centauro Gold Projects occur within the north Mexican Oligocene Basin and Range physiographic province. These three project areas define a 150-kilometre trend of gold occurrences that are associated with arsenic-mercury-antimony mineralization, together with silica and clay alteration, all hosted in the same package of Cretaceous limestones and mudstones and Tertiary ignimbrite eruptive and polymictic conglomerate lithologies.\n \n \n As part of the \"Laramide\" Lower Cretaceous to early Tertiary, Mexica...