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Tower' Step-Out Drilling at Rabbit North Confirms North-Northwest Strike of Lightning Zone, Continues to Obtain Wide Intercepts with Pyrite Levels Similar to Discovery Hole 026
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 15, 2022) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSX...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tower' Step-Out Drilling at Rabbit North Confirms North-Northwest Strike of Lightning Zone, Continues to Obtain Wide Intercepts with Pyrite Levels Similar to Discovery Hole 026Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 15, 2022) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TWR) (\"Tower\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide a progress report on the step-out diamond drilling program report that is underway on the new Lightning Zone gold discovery 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). Four of the planned six to eight drill holes have been completed and the core from the first three hole, Nos. RN22-034 to 036, has been cut and submitted for assay.North-Northwest Strike ConfirmedA key objective of the present drilling program was to confirm indications from the previous March-April drilling program that the Lightning Zone strikes north-northwest (NNW) rather than northeast as originally anticipated. The new drilling has confirmed the predicted strike, with step-out holes both NNW and SSE of Discovery Hole RN21-026 (95 m of 1.40 g/t Au including 19.2 m of 4.21 g/t Au; see Tower's January 11, 2022 press release) hitting the zone precisely where expected (see Fig. 2).Visual Characteristics of the Lightning ZoneAs in discovery Hole 026, the Lightning Zone in Holes 034 to 037 is hosted mainly by andesitic crystal-ash tuff and is recognizable visually from intense shear-related fracturing/brecciation and pervasive bleaching and sericite-silica-pyrite alteration (see Figs. 3, 4) extending over core lengths ranging from tens of metres to more than 100 metres. The zone appears to be near vertical.The core length of the zone-compatible alteration is dependent on both the dip of the drill hole and the proximity of the hole to a nearby diorite plug. This plug is centered on Hole 025 approximately 200 m southeast of discovery Hole 026 (see Fig. 2).The longest intercept of the alteration zone is ~150 m in Hole 036, a 60 m step-out NNW of Discovery Hole 026. This hole was drilled ENE at a steep, -75° dip to replace Hole 035 which was drilled from the same pad at -60° and abandoned in the zone at 129 m due to difficult drilling conditions. Hole 037 is currently being drilled 20 m further N...