International mining company Southern Hemisphere Mining Limited announced the results of a further 12 successful drill holes at its Llahuin Porphyry Copper Project located 250 kilometers north of Santiago in northern Chile.

The Company currently has three diamond drill rigs and one Reverse Circulation drill rig operating at Llahuin with a total of 12,336 meters of RC and 4,024 meters of diamond drilling completed to date. Since the last News Release on December 2nd 2011, 23 RC drill holes and 5 DDH holes have been completed.

The current drilling program will enable a maiden JORC compliant Mineral Resource statement to be completed by the end of the Q1 of calendar 2012.

Gold grades for previously reported drill holes are now available and highlight intercepts at copper equivalent values are reported below. Composite samples for molybdenum analysis have been submitted and when results are received, the copper equivalent values will be modified.

The Llahuin project is located in Region IV, 250 kilometers north of Santiago at an elevation of 1,300 meters and is 17 kilometers south from the town of Combarbala which has a population of 14,000 and full amenities. The national power grid is within 10 kilometers from the project.