The Nevlje Property covers 62 km2, and is located 10 km south of Demitrovgrad in southeast Serbia. The property is adjacent to and immediately across the border from Teck Cominco's and Euromax' Trun gold project in Bulgaria.

The Nevlje license area occurs within the productive Tethyan Belt which contains the Bor (7.94 billion lbs of copper, 3.5 million oz. of gold) and Majdanpek (13.2 billion lbs of copper, 10.6 million oz. of gold) porphyry copper-gold mines and contains similar geologic elements.

Historic exploration at Nevlje, limited to surface prospecting, trenching and two short drill holes, has identified porphyry-style disseminated and skarn copper mineralization with assay values up to 1.7% copper in altered volcanic rocks. The area of widespread copper showings at Nevlje is also coincident with a strong magnetic anomaly which is believed to reflect a buried intrusive body.

Empire has commenced detailed field work on the license, including mapping, soil geochemistry and geophysics in order to develop drill targets for future drilling.