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Tower Resources Drills 92 m of 1.13 g/t Au Near Surface in Lightning Zone; Next Campaign to Focus on Expanding the New Thunder Au and Rainbow Porphyry Cu-Au Zones Laterally and to Depth
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 10, 2023) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TWR) (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tower Resources Drills 92 m of 1.13 g/t Au Near Surface in Lightning Zone; Next Campaign to Focus on Expanding the New Thunder Au and Rainbow Porphyry Cu-Au Zones Laterally and to DepthVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 10, 2023) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TWR) (\"Tower\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to report that Hole RN23-045, the last hole of the winter diamond drilling program on the Company's Rabbit North property near Kamloops, British Columbia, between New Gold's New Afton underground Cu-Au mine and Teck's Highland Valley open pit Cu-Mo mine (see Fig. 1), intersected 92 m grading 1.13 g/t Au in the Lightning Zone, and that a summer drilling program is planned 400 m to the west to expand the new Thunder Au and Rainbow Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Zones.Hole 045, Lightning ZoneThe near-surface Lightning Au Zone was discovered by Tower in December, 2021, and has yielded highlight intersections of 95 m of 1.40 g/t Au in discovery Hole 026, 138 m of 1.55 g/t Au in Hole 028 and 70.5 m of 1.78 g/t Au in Hole 029 (see press release from June 22, 2022). It occurs beneath 30-50 m of saprolite in strongly sheared Nicola volcaniclastic rocks on the northwest side of a small plug of Durand diorite (see Fig. 2). An older, 10-15 m wide zone of Durand-style porphyry Cu-Au mineralization is present on the south side of the gold zone at the contact between volcaniclastic rocks and diorite. The Hole 026 intersection of this zone averaged 0.28% Cu and 0.31 g/t Au over 13.0 m.Shear-hosted Au zones typically persist to a depth greater that their strike length, and Hole 045 was designed to test whether this is the case for the Lightning Zone. It was collared over the gold-depleted saprolite horizon that overlies the gold zone and drilled to the north at a -80° dip with the objective of following the steeply northwest dipping gold mineralization to depth without deviating into either the footwall (south side) or hanging wall (north side).Hole 045 entered the Lightning Zone at 52 m and exited it 92 m further down-hole at 144 m. It appears to have followed the footwall too closely and deviated into it several times rather than flattening slightly and remaining in the zone as expected. The longest uninterrupted mineralized interval, 20.0 m at the bottom of the section, averaged 2.13 g/t Au (see Table 1). The average Au grade of the ...