Southern Empire Resources Corp. has started its first core drilling program on the Pedro Gold Project, located in northeastern Durango State, México. Drill Hole P22-01 is the first core hole designed to test the Zona Oeste (West Zone) where multiple surface grab samples, which assayed between 0.33 gram gold per tonne (g Au/t) and 2.22 g Au/t, were collected from a silicified, heterolithic breccia zone that occurs in multiple surface exposures extending across a northwest trending linear of up to 300 metres (m) in length.

The drill program targets this heterolithic breccia, which is coincident with Induced Polarization (IP) chargeability and resistivity geophysical anomalies, and is budgeted for up to 2,000 m (6,562 feet) in 6 to 9 holes.