Empire Mining Commences Drilling at Its Bulqiza Chromite Project

TIRANA, April 13؅mpire Mining Corporation (Empire) announced that drilling has commenced at its 100% owned Bulqiza chromite project in Albania.
Drilling will be carried out with two separate drill rigs and will focus on the northern and southern shallow portions of the eastern limb of the Bulqiza-Batra Orebody.
The Bulqiza-Batra Orebody hosts the historically productive Bulqiza and Batra Mines which were responsible for the bulk of Albania’s chromite output when it was the third largest producer in the world before the collapse of the communist regime in 1989.
Empire’s Bulqiza Licence surrounds and extends from the producing Bulqiza and Batra Mines and includes the eastern and western extensions of the Bulqiza-Batra Orebody which was identified by Empire in the data analysis carried out through 2009.
At the southern end of the Eastern Limb at Batra, drilling is planned to confirm extensions northward from outcropping and shallow chromite in area only about 50 m from an open pit where an outcrop of the Eastern Limb is currently being mined by a third party. In addition, a newly-identified shallow extension to the south of this mining area will be evaluated by short drillholes. At the northern end of the Eastern Limb, drilling is planned to confirm grade and thickness of previous state drillhole intersections and obtain continuity.