The Kursumlija copper property covers 62 km2, located immediately northwest of the Lece mining district and 320 km south of Belgrade in southern Serbia.

The license area contains swarms of copper-bearing veins and zones of disseminated copper mineralization generally related to the margins of northwest-elongated gabbro and diabase bodies and a coincident magnetic anomaly. Limited historic exploration, carried out in the 1950's and 1960's by state companies, identified at least forty individual mineralized veins with grades ranging from 0.18 to 9.91% copper across thicknesses of 1 to 3.5 metres. An area of hydrothermally altered gabbro, with associated disseminated copper mineralization, has also been defined over a surface area of 2 km2 near the village of Trebinja. There has been no drilling within the license area.

Empire has commenced an initial field program designed to evaluate the known mineralized showings within the license area and prospect for others. The program includes geologic mapping, soil and rock geochemical surveys and possible geophysics to define drill targets.