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Tower's New Till Samples Confirm That the Lightning Zone Is Not the Main Source of the Dominic Lake Gold Dispersal Train; Drilling Is Underway to Test for a Larger Gold Source Beneath the Train
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 23, 2023) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: T...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tower's New Till Samples Confirm That the Lightning Zone Is Not the Main Source of the Dominic Lake Gold Dispersal Train; Drilling Is Underway to Test for a Larger Gold Source Beneath the TrainVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 23, 2023) - Tower Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TWR) (\"Tower\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce completion of the till sampling and gold grain testing component of the Company's current 2000 m diamond drilling program (see press release from February 2, 2023) 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 gold grain results obtained from the till samples will be used to guide diamond drill testing of the large Dominic Lake gold grain dispersal train as soon as drilling is completed at the source of the smaller but higher-grade Central Train.Gold Grain ResultsAs explained in Tower's December 21, 2022 press release the Lightning Zone that Tower discovered in December, 2021, 300 m glacially up-ice from the Dominic Lake Train, has been yielding attractive gold Au grades of up to 1.55 g/t over 132 m but its glaciated footprint appears to be too small to account for such a large gold grain dispersal train. Additionally, Tower's diamond drilling has shown that the untested 300 m gap between the Lightning Zone and the previously sampled segment of the dispersal train is underlain by a plug of unprospective (pre-mineralization) Durand diorite (see Fig. 2) rather than the gold-prospective Nicola tuff that hosts the Lightning Zone.In the current program, 11 till samples were collected in the gap. The samples were obtained beneath 1 m of snow using an excavator and were collected at the same depth as the original hand-dug samples that identified the Dominic Lake Train.As anticipated, the gold grain content of most of the till samples from the gap, including those directly down-ice from the Lightning Zone, is significantly lower than that of the samples from the Dominic Lake Train (generally less than 150 grains per sample versus 200-600 grains per sample), confirming that the main gold source is probably on the south rather than north side of the diorite plug.Two till samples collected further north over the northeastern part of the diorite plug did cont...