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Southern Empire Reports Gold Results from Oro Cruz Historical Heap Leach Pads
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nSouthern Empire Reports Gold Results from Oro Cruz Historical Heap Leach Pads\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\nCanada NewsWire\nVANCOUVER, BC, July 7, 2020\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, BC, July 7, 2020 /CNW/ - Southern Empire Resources Corp. (\"Southern Empire\"; TSX-V: SMP) (Frankfurt: 5RE) is pleased to report gold assay results for selective grab samples collected from the surface of two historical heap leach pads located on its 2,160 hectare (5,338 acre) Oro Cruz Gold Project in Imperial County, California.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nAssessment of Historical Leach Pads – Background, Objectives and Highlights\nHistorical mining of the American Girl, Padre y Madre, Queen and Oro Cruz oxide gold deposits by the American Girl Mining Joint Venture (\"AGMJV\"; MK Gold Company and Hecla Mining Company) occurred between 1987 and 1996. At that time, processing was either by heap leaching of lower-grade, or milling of higher-grade, gold-mineralized materials. Operations ceased in late 1996, due to declining gold prices, leaving both the American Girl and Padre y Madre historical leach pads, covering approximately 61 and 22 acres respectively.\nSouthern Empire believes that the gold-bearing material in the two historical leach pads may contain significant residual gold and, as a first phase of assessment, twenty-six (26) samples were collected; 12 from the historical Padre y Madre and 14 from the American Girl leach pads. Gold assay results are presented in Table 1 and sample locations are presented in Figures 1 and 2.  \nDavid Tupper, P.Geo. and Southern Empire's VP of Exploration stated: \"We are pleased to report that our preliminary surface sampling has confirmed gold is present in historical heap leach pads that remain from the former American Girl Mining Joint Venture operations.\"\nSouthern Empire's President and CEO, Dale Wallster stated: \"Having now unequivocally demonstrated that gold still exists in the historical leach pads, we will use sonic drilling to quickly target the establishment of a resource and provide us with samples for extracti...