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Barksdale Receives Drill Approvals at San Antonio
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 5, 2022) - Barksdale Resources Corp. (TSX...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Barksdale Receives Drill Approvals at San AntonioVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 5, 2022) - Barksdale Resources Corp. (TSXV: BRO) (OTCQB: BRKCF) (\"Barksdale\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that the United States Forest Service (\"USFS\") has approved Barksdale's proposed drill program at the 100% owned San Antonio copper project in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. This is the first drill approval received by Barksdale on USFS administered mining claims in the Patagonia district, where the Company controls a significant mineral tenure across six properties.Highlights:Barksdale to complete up to a 3,000-meter Phase I reverse circulation drilling program at the Cosmos drill target on the San Antonio propertyCosmos is a shallow copper porphyry target, identified via multiple geophysical surveys, which highlight coincident magnetic, gravity, and chargeability anomaliesThe Patagonia Mountains are known to host three large, productive, and deep porphyry systems that have been partially defined by previous explorers whereas Cosmos is a very shallow target that has never been drill testedThe San Antonio drill approval is the first of two drilling approvals being sought by Barksdale Rick Trotman, President and CEO of Barksdale stated: \"I'm very happy to announce this major milestone at San Antonio, a core portfolio holding located a few kilometers southeast of the Company's Sunnyside property. We acquired San Antonio from Teck in 2019 as we saw clear indications of a potentially large porphyry copper system and after several years of diligent effort, we are now excited to drill test the target.\" Barksdale's team has worked closely with the USFS to avoid project impacts and designed the initial Phase-I drilling program at San Antonio to be a quick and low-cost test with the smallest possible footprint, little to no ground disturbance, that only operates during daytime hours. The drilling will be conducted via reverse circulation methods and the entire program is expected to be completed, and remediated, in under 60 days from mobilization of the drill rig. Given the limited impacts and short duration of the program, the USFS has approved the San Antonio project as a Categorical Exclusion (\"CE\") under the National Environmental Policy Act (\"NEPA\"). Barksdale has proposed, and the USFS has agreed, to avoid ...