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Tower's Latest Drilling Indicates Lightning Zone Has Two Branches, Doubling Its Strike Length; Hole 031 Intersects 22.0 m of 2.09 g/t in Main Branch, Holes 030 and 033 Hit 26.5 m of 1.76 g/t Au and 1.0 m of High-Grade, 69.3 g/t (2.01 oz/ton) Au in Splay Shear
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 13, 2022) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TW...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tower's Latest Drilling Indicates Lightning Zone Has Two Branches, Doubling Its Strike Length; Hole 031 Intersects 22.0 m of 2.09 g/t in Main Branch, Holes 030 and 033 Hit 26.5 m of 1.76 g/t Au and 1.0 m of High-Grade, 69.3 g/t (2.01 oz/ton) Au in Splay ShearVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 13, 2022) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TWR) (\"Tower\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to report that it has received gold assays for the final four of the six follow-up holes drilled in April on the recently discovered Lightning Zone 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).The April drilling program was designed to establish the strike, dip and true thickness of the Lightning Zone to ensure that the next holes, tentatively scheduled for August, are positioned and aimed to maximize their exploration value. For the April drill holes, the Lightning Zone was assumed to strike northeast and dip vertically (see Fig. 2). However, the northeast strike direction was speculative because the gold zone is not exposed and no helpful marker horizons were intersected in the earlier discovery program.The first two holes, RN22-028 and 029, showed that the Lightning Zone is approximately 40 m thick in the discovery area and dips steeply at -85° (see Fig. 3 and Tower's June 22, 2022 press release), but did not establish the strike of the zone.The Au, sulphur (a measure of pyrite since the gold is not accompanied by any other sulphide minerals) and Cu results obtained from the last four holes, Nos. 030 to 033, show that the Lightning Zone is Y-shaped. Its main branch appears to strike north-northwest (see Fig. 4) but the targeted northeast trend is also well mineralized and appears to be a major splay structure, doubling the known strike length of the gold system.Since the drilling was based on a northeast strike, the holes were aimed at the splay structure. Hole 031 still reached the Lightning Zone, cutting 22.0 m of 2.09 g/t Au and extending the zone 100 m but Holes 030 and 033 tested only the splay structure, cutting 26.5 m of 1.78 g/t Au and 1.0 m of high-grade, 69.3 g/t (2.01 oz/ton) Au, respectively. Hole 032 was drilled parallel to rather than toward the target. Stu Averill, a seasoned geo...