Empire Mining Corporation is pleased to announce assay results for the next 6 diamond drill holes completed at the Demirtepe target area of the Bursa copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project located in Turkey.

There are three identified porphyry-related target areas at Bursa of which Demirtepe is the second to be drill tested by Empire. The results of hole DTH-001 (the “Discovery Hole”) drilled at Demirtepe were announced on January 18, 2011 and intersected zones of copper-gold-silver skarn mineralization, including:

* 2.02% copper, 0.96 g/t gold, 21.64 g/t silver over a sampled width of 47.35 m from 112.2 m to 159.55 m. [Read more...]