Emerita Resources Corp. announced it is commencing with the previously announced diamond drill program at its wholly owned Nuevo Tintillo project. Due to an unusually hot and dry summer, the restrictions related to fire prevention in the area were extended to mid-October.

During the hottest weather in this region of Spain, heavy equipment is not permitted to operate during the daytime hours. Construction of drill access roads and platforms at the Project are completed. The drill campaign will start with one rig that will be mobilized next week.

Permits for the program and agreements with local landowners are in place. The initial Drill Program at Nuevo Tintillo will focus on targets that have been identified on the west side of the Project, nearest to the Rio Tinto mine. The Drill Program will evaluate six priority targets and comprise approximately 3,000 meters in the initial target testing phase.

Subsequent drilling will be budgeted based on results. Targeting is based on a combination of airborne electromagnetic surveying, detailed and archived gravity data, detailed mapping and a compilation of historical geology. The area has abundant evidence of base metal mineralization in surface outcrops as well as small historical mines and is situated on trend from large Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (VMS) deposits such as Rio Tinto mine, Aznalcóllar mine and Cobre Las Cruces mine.

In addition to the drilling at Nuevo Tintillo, the Company has continued to evaluate the potential along strike to the east, towards the center of the property. The exploration team has been mapping and characterizing the lithologies and alteration types in this area. The geological interpretation indicates the stratigraphy correlates well with the western area in the Project and by extension the stratigraphy hosting the Rio Tinto mine further to the west.

The Nuevo Tintillo project comprises 6,875 hectares with an additional 7,625 hectares of claims that are pending final granting to the Company. As such, it is Emerita?s landholding in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB). It is situated between several world-class Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposits, including Rio Tinto, Aznalcóllar and Cobre Las Cruces.

Seven known mineralized occurrences and several historic producing mines are located within the Project boundaries.