Southern Empire Updates Status of Oro Cruz Project Permitting News provided by Share this article Share this article VANCOUVER, BC, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Southern Empire Resources Corp. (Southern Empire) (TSXV: SMP) (Frankfurt: 5RE) (OTC: SMPEF) announces that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to determine the respective responsibilities, conditions, and procedures to be followed during the preparation of an Environmental Assessment (EA) for a 630 acre (255 hectare) area of the Oro Cruz Project that is subject to Southern Empire's Exploration Plan of Operations (Plan), which the BLM previously deemed to be administratively and technically complete; see the Southern Empire news release of January 19, 2021. The Oro Cruz Project encompasses a historically explored and mined area of the Cargo Muchacho Mountains of southeastern California.