Tower Resources to Drill on the Nechako Property
Tower Resources to Drill on the Nechako Property
Vancouver, B.C. – June 18, 2019 ‐ Tower Resources Ltd. (“Tower” or the “Company”) (TSXV: TWR; OTCQB:
T W R F F ) T o w e r R e s o u r c e s i s p l e a s e d t o r e p o r t t h a t t h e r e c e n t l y announced (see April 29, 2019 press
release) Phase III reverse cir culation (RC) drilling program on the Company’s Nechako property south of
Vanderhoof, BC was completed successfully and achieved its obje ctive of narrowing the location of the
mineralized April Trend in preparation for an initial diamond drill test.
The mineralized April Trend, which was first recognized in the Phase II RC drilling program, is inferred to
be the bedrock source of the major, 1.5 km wide x 3 km long Au‐ Ag‐As‐Zn‐Pb glacial dispersal train (Fig.
1) that was outlined in the Phase I and II programs (see February 14, 2019 press release). It is stratabound
(Fig. 2), occurring at or near the contact between a tuff‐siltstone‐mudstone‐limestone horizon to the west
and structurally overlying basalts to the east (Fig. 3). Both the stratigrapic setting and Au‐Ag‐As‐Zn‐Pb
association are suggestive of a volcanogenic, Eskay Creek‐type deposit model.
Joe Dhami, CEO of Tower, commented: “We have identified a type of mineralization that is new to the
Nechako property and is evidently of a significant scale of but only through the drill bit will we learn its
potential. Having spent the last two years methodically trackin g the Nechako gold dispersal train 3 km to
its bedrock source, we are eager to begin diamond drilling.”
Program Summary
The Phase III RC holes were drilled along the northernmost 500 m of the 1500 m long mineralized trend.
Eleven holes, Nos. NRC19‐52 to 62 (Figs. 1, 2), were completed in the three budgeted drill shifts,
significantly exceeding the expected six to eight holes. The ho les were sited 100‐200 m apart and drilled
vertically. Both the Upper and Lower (where preserved) Till hor izons and underlying bedrock were
sampled continuously over 1.5‐2 m intervals (Fig. 3).
Till Results
Holes 52 and 60 intersected a key extension (Fig. 1) of the wes ternmost of the two preserved segments
of the Lower Till horizon that host remnants of the once‐contin uous, east‐northeast trending dispersal
train. The Au‐Ag‐As‐Zn‐Pb analyses obtained from the heavy mine ral concentrates (HMCs) of the Lower
Till samples from these holes and from nearby Phase II Hole 45 are the highest encountered to date. The
average HMC Au values for all of samples collected from the Lower Till section (up to 8 samples per hole)
rise progressively westward – i.e. glacially up‐ice – from 1‐1.5 g/t 2‐3 km down‐ice in the Phase I drill area
to 2.1‐2.4 g/t in Holes 45 and 60 (Fig. 3, Table 1). They peak at 4 g/t in Hole 52 immediately down‐ice from
the April Trend and then drop precipitously to less than 0.5 g/ t 150 m further up‐ice in Hole 42 (Fig. 3),
providing a sharp cut‐off to the dispersal train.
Bedrock Geology
The bedrock intercepts from the new drill holes confirm that th e source of the Nechako dispersal train
lies within the mixed tuff‐siltstone‐mudstone‐limestone unit on the west side of the April Trend but show
that the Trend has a slightly more easterly strike (Fig. 2) than that previously projected (see April 29, 2019
press release). The tuff, siltstone and mudstone are extensively fractured to brecciated, have been
recrystallized by thermal metamorphism, are sulphidized and contain abundant biotite indicating that
they have undergone pervasive potassic alteration. The limeston e member, which was intersected only
in Hole 62, has been recrystallized and its contact with the siltstone is a skarn comprised of epidote,
grossular garnet and calcic feldspar. In contrast, both the basalt along the east side of the April Trend and
an ignimbrite horizon further east are unmetamorphosed, undeformed and unaltered.
The diamond drill holes will be collared over the basalt and drilled to the southwest across the tuff‐
sediment unit as depicted in Figure 3.
Significant Mineralization
While the Nechako dispersal train is clearly derived from the metamorphosed and hydrothermally altered
tuff‐siltstone‐mudstone‐limestone horizon, the only sulphides encountered in the new drill holes that
intersected this horizon are py rrhotite and pyrite, mainly in H oles 53 and 62 where they reach a
concentration of 10‐15% with pyrrhotite dominant. Arsenopyrite, sphalerite and galena – the
c h a r a c t e r i s t i c m i n e r a l s o f t h e N e c h a k o d i s p e r s a l t r a i n – a r e c onspicuously absent from the bedrock in
these holes, suggesting that the thickness of the targeted Au‐A g‐As‐Zn‐Pb zone is considerably less than
the 100‐200 m distance between holes. However, given the consid erable thickness of the dispersal train
(Fig. 3), its high metal content and its persistence for 3 km d own‐ice, the grade x thickness value of the
source mineralization is inferred to be significant.
National Instrument 43‐101 Disclosure
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Stuart Averill,
Chairman of ODM, a Director of the Company and a Qualified Pers on as defined by National Instrument
43‐101.
About Tower Resources
Tower is a Canadian based mineral exploration company focused o n the discovery and advancement of
economic mineral projects in the Americas. The Company’s key ex ploration assets are the Rabbit North
copper‐gold porphyry project located between the New Afton and Highland Valley Copper mines, the
Nechako gold project near New Gold’s Blackwater project and the More Creek and Voigtberg gold projects
in the Golden Triangle area of Northern British Columbia.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Tower Resources Ltd.
Joe Dhami, President and CEO
(604) 558‐2565
www.towerresources.ca
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