Southern Empire Resources Corp. announced the acquisition of the 23,750 hectare La Loma gold property by staking. La Loma is located in Durango State, México approximately 50 kilometres southeast of Southern Empire's Pedro Gold Project and 35 km west-southwest of the major city of Torreón. Southern Empire also announces the expansion of its recently optioned Centauro Gold ("Au") Project 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. La Loma Property: 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. As part of the "Laramide" Lower Cretaceous to early Tertiary, Mexican Fold and Trust Belt, the stratigraphy of the area exhibits repeated, elongate north-south folds that are regularly interrupted by moderate- to high-angle thrusts and later extensional faulting. A significant portion of the La Loma property covers "Terrano Naccional" (federal land) and is therefore unencumbered by private or communal Ejido ownership.

Access is limited to several broad, ephemeral riverbeds (arroyos) extending from the south. The La Loma property covers a large, unexplored area having Au, arsenic ("As"), antimony ("Sb"), mercury ("Hg"), molybdenum ("Mo"), and silver ("Ag") stream sediment geochemical anomalies as reported by the Secretaria de Economia de México, ("SGM") in 2006. This government stream sediment sampling survey was completed at a low, regional density.

Additionally, much of the regional geological mapping was accomplished with the aid of stereoscopic interpretation. The SGM regional geochemical sediment sample results also suggest significant potential for Carbonate Replacement Deposit ("CRD") mineralization in the La Loma area, especially with the Ojuela and La Platosa CRD mines (both now closed) located only 50 km to the north. Significant anomalies supporting the prospectivity for CRD mineralization also occur to the southeast of the La Loma claim, however this is a protected area.

At La Loma, Southern Empire has planned exploration programs for spring 2023 that will include: Higher density stream sediment sampling; Prospecting and preliminary geological mapping. Centauro Property Expanded by Staking: The Centauro property has been significantly expanded by staking two claims totalling 3,832 ha that surround the 600-ha claim block, which is held under option by Southern Empire. This staking extends the project area up to 7 kilometres to the west.

The Tauros and Centauro 2 claims cover areas of silica and kaolinite alteration, and lesser alunite and buddingtonite alteration, as recently identified and mapped (by analysis of Worldview-3 hyperspectral data) along trend and to both the northwest and the northeast of the original Centauro claim block. These suites of probable alteration mineralization are often spatially associated with "Carlin-style" and/or low sulphidation epithermal gold mineralization observed at Centauro to date. Southern Empire has initiated negotiations to secure surface access rights at the Centauro Gold Project with the local rancher owners who have worked with the claim owner for more than 30 years.