Original News Release
Tower Resources completes drilling at Rabbit North
Mr. Joe Dhami reports
TOWER SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES EXPANDED 3213 M DRILL PROGRAM AT RABBIT NORTH, DRILLING SIX HOLES ON THE NEW BLUE SKY GOLD TREND AND FIVE ON THE THUNDER NORTH ZONE
Tower Resources Ltd. has completed its expanded diamond drilling program on the high-grade Blue Sky gold trend and Thunder North gold zone on its Rabbit North property in the heart of the Kamloops porphyry copper mining district.
Due to high drilling productivity, the program was expanded from 3,000 metres to 3,213 metres before drilling was suspended for the holiday season. Drilling is expected to resume in February as the daylight hours increase.
Blue Sky drilling
Six holes totalling 1,756 m, No. RN25-063 to 068, were drilled on the Blue Sky trend. The first three holes were drilled at various angles near discovery hole No. RN24-055 (31.5 m of 4.15 grams per tonne gold) to determine the orientation and overall prospectivity of the contact between the Durand diorite and Nicola tuff along which the hole 055 mineralization occurs. The other three holes were designed to follow the Durand-hosted hole 060 intersection (6.02 m of 23.63 g/t Au) both downdip and 100 m eastward along the mineralized trend toward the strong, 560-grain anomaly obtained from the company's recent till gold grain survey (see Nov. 3, 2025, press release).
Thunder North drilling
Five holes totalling 1,457 m, No. RN25-069 to 073, were drilled at Thunder North. One hole was drilled west of the known mineralization to verify previous indications, from hole RN24-054, that Thunder North is faulted to the south and continues westward as the Thunder zone (formerly Thunder South), which was intersected in hole RN23-041 in 2023 (13.3 m of 3.28 g/t Au followed 10 m downhole by 10.1 m of 2.16 g/t Au; see April 5, 2023, press release) and on which the company has not yet performed any follow-up drilling. The other four holes were variously designed to extend the Thunder North zone eastward from hole RN25-062 (19.0 m of 4.93 g/t Au) or confirm continuity of the gold mineralization to depths greater than 150 m and fill in a gap left by the intersection of a crosscutting, postmineralization dike in hole RN23-040.
Assay schedule
Tower's previous drilling campaigns have shown that most of the drill core is significantly anomalous in gold, reflecting the large scale and pervasiveness of the previously unknown gold mineralizing system that the company has discovered at Rabbit North and differs in both age (younger) and style (orogenic) from the typical late Triassic porphyry copper plus or minus gold deposits of the Kamloops district. Consequently, all core except that from the postmineralization Chilcotin basalt cover flows must be analyzed, typically in one- to two-metre intervals yielding an average of 200 samples per hole. Nevertheless, the company expects to receive most of the assays prior to the planned resumption of drilling in February.
Qualified person
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Stuart Averill, PGeo, a director of the company, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
About Tower Resources Ltd.
Tower is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company focused on the discovery and advancement of economic mineral projects in the Americas. The company's key exploration assets, all in British Columbia, are the Rabbit North orogenic gold and porphyry copper-gold project located between the New Afton copper-gold and Highland Valley copper mines in the Kamloops mining district, the Nechako porphyry-associated gold-silver project near Artemis's Blackwater project, and the More Creek epithermal gold project on the critical red line structural zone connecting the mineral deposits of the Golden Triangle.
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