Southern Empire Resources Corp. announces that it has expanded its mineral property portfolio in México by entering into an Option Agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Centauro property ("Centauro") located in southeastern Chihuahua State, approximately 100 kilometres ("km") northwest of its Pedro Gold Project located in northern Durango State. The Centauro property is a near analogue to Southern Empire's Pedro Gold Project, located in the Mapimí area of Durango State.

The Centauro Gold Project currently comprises two core mineral claims, totalling 500 hectares, (approximately 1236 acres) located in southeastern Chihuahua State immediately north of the Durango State border and approximately 70 km south of the city of Jiménez. The highly anomalous Hg, As, Sb values, low base metal values coupled with the anomalous Au and Ag, suggest that the level of more significant precious metals deposition remains at depth below the currently exposed part of the system. Accurate alteration mineral maps are an essential guide to successful exploration when working on hydrothermal-associated mineral deposit systems. For Centauro, Southern Empire, contracted PhotoSat Information Ltd. ("PhotoSat") to provide maps of alteration mineral suites typically associated with epithermal precious metal deposits, using their proprietary processing methods for 16 band WorldView-3 and high-resolution ASTER satellite optical spectral data.

Results of the PhotoSat studies show significant trends highlighting argillic, sericite, and chlorite alteration. Southern Empire has completed the collection of an initial 396 soil samples at 50-metre ("m") spacings along east-west lines, spaced 100 to 200m apart, that infill and expand upon a 2008 geochemical survey on lines having 400 and 600m spacing that covered a zone of prospective alteration and mineralization over four km strike length. Samples collected will be submitted to ALS Laboratories Ltd. in Chihuahua for analyses.