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Barksdale Outlines Drill Program at Advanced Stage Copper Project in Mexico
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / June 2, 2021 / Barksdale Resources Corp. (" Barksdale " or the ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Barksdale Outlines Drill Program at Advanced Stage Copper Project in MexicoVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / June 2, 2021 / Barksdale Resources Corp. (\"Barksdale\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV:BRO) (OTCQX:BRKCF) is pleased to provide details of its planned 2021 technical program at the San Javier copper-gold project in Sonora, Mexico.Highlights:An initial program of 5,000 meters of drilling is planned to begin in July, pending receipt of various approvals.Drill testing will begin at the Cerro Verde zone, where previous work has outlined significant near surface oxide copper and gold mineralization up to 200 meters.Barksdale's goal is to confirm historic work and test structures believed to control higher grade mineralization.Metallurgical test program to better understand the potential processing routes for both copper and gold mineralization.Rick Trotman, President and CEO of Barksdale stated: \"We are very excited to begin testing our initial targets identified by our recent relogging program, which we believe could add significantly to the project in terms of understanding the controls to mineralization and should allow us to update historic resource estimates later this year. With the first holes expected to commence within the next six to eight weeks, this comprehensive program and the results that follow will certainly be an exciting time for Barksdale and its shareholders.\"Historic Work at San JavierThe San Javier project hosts multiple zones of copper-gold mineralization interpreted to be associated with an iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) style system, hosted within Laramide-age intermediate-to-felsic volcanic rocks. Historic drilling has intersected up to 200-meter-thick intervals of copper mineralization hosted primarily within hydrothermal-tectonic breccias and associated stockworks. Historic drilling demonstrates that the original sulfides, primarily chalcopyrite, have been oxidized to various depths, including up to 200 meters along structures.Of the three identified zones of mineralization, Cerro Verde is the most advanced exploration stage target at San Javier, with drilling campaigns last active during the 2005 to 2008 timeframe. The last company to actively explore and drill at the project was Constellation Copper Corp. (\"Constellation\") and its most recent project report was a Preliminary Economic Assessment prepared...