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Tower Resources' Drilling Verifies Eskay Creek Deposit Model for the Au-Ag-As-Zn-Pb Mineralization on the April Trend at Nechako
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 13, 2020) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tower Resources' Drilling Verifies Eskay Creek Deposit Model for the Au-Ag-As-Zn-Pb Mineralization on the April Trend at NechakoVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 13, 2020) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TWR) (\"Tower\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to report that detailed logging of the core from diamond drill hole No. 06 on the Company's Nechako property has confirmed that this hole intersected mineralized volcanogenic horizons of the same type that host the uniquely high-grade Au-Ag mineralization at the Eskay Creek deposit.Joe Dhami, President and CEO, commented: \"Confirmation of the Eskay Creek mineral deposit model for the April Trend at Nechako gives us further incentive to thoroughly explore this mineralized trend.\"At Nechako, Tower is testing the recently discovered April Trend at the head of a large, 1.5 km wide x 3 km long sulphide mineral dispersal train in glacial till (see February 14, 2019 press release). The applicability of the Eskay Creek model to the April Trend was suspected prior to drilling because both the mineral dispersal train and the historical April Showing, a large sulphide breccia vein (Fig. 1) at the northwest end of the trend, are enriched in the same five metals - Au, Ag, As, Zn and Pb - as the Eskay Creek deposit and in roughly the same ratios. Also, in each occurrence, the gold and silver are hidden within the sulphide minerals rather than occurring as visible particles.Hole 06 was the last hole of an initial diamond drill test of the April Trend in August, 2019. While Holes 01 to 05 intersected an unexpected fault block of unprospective basalt (see September 20, 2019, press release), Hole 06 provided direct physical confirmation of the Eskay Creek model by intersecting:a) an 8.6-m-thick zone of carbonaceous (graphitic) mudstone, a significant ore host at Eskay Creek;b) and, at the end of the hole, 9.4 m of an unusual volcaniclastic conglomerate that contains transported centimetric fragments of both graphitic mudstone and volcanogenic sulphides, including massive sphalerite (Zn-sulphide), and closely resembles the main ore host at Eskay Creek.The previously reported zone of narrow stockwork sulphide veinlets, including a 0.2 m wide vein that contained 2.93 g/t Au, 34.3 g/t Ag, 5.45% Zn and 0.60% Pb, occurs between the mudstone and conglomerate.Stu Averill, P.Geo., a Dire...