Tower Resources Ltd. announced that Mr. Christopher Leslie will transition from his current role as Vice President, Exploration to become an appointed Technical Advisor to the company as he is commencing his Ph.D studies later 2016.

The company has commenced its 2016 exploration program at its Rabbit North copper and gold property in the active and significant Kamloops mining division of south-central British Columbia. The program will consist of up to 2,500 metres of diamond drilling targeting several key porphyry related copper and gold occurrences. The road-accessible Rabbit North property comprises approximately 16,400 hectares. The producing New Afton copper and gold mine is approximately 14.5 kilometers east of the main Rabbit North targets. Rabbit North is also 28 kilometers east-northeast of the producing Highland Valley copper mine operated by Teck Resources Limited. The drill program is designed to test for copper and gold mineralization in four high priority areas which are collectively associated with the composite Late Triassic Durand intrusive stock. These targets are Western Magnetite, Central Monzonite South, Chrysocolla East and Dominic. Drilling at the Western Magnetite target is intended to investigate an area undrilled since 1975, where local shallow percussion drilling indicated increasing copper grades with depth (e.g. P70-01, which ended in 6.1m of 0.38% copper (Cu) with gold (Au) unassayed). At Central Monzonite South, sampling by Tower recovered up to 0.62% Cu and 0.73 g/t Au in surface samples; this target has not been systematically drilled previously. The Chrysocolla East showing was discovered by Tower, and has never been drilled. Surface sampling at Chrysocolla East recovered up to 1.6% Cu and 1.9 g/t Au, with elevated palladium. Finally, Dominic is a deep porphyry target represented by a, 1.6 km wide chargeability and magnetic anomaly defined by Tower's geophysical surveys. The Dominic target has also not been systematically tested at depth. Tower plans to investigate the size and grade of mineralized areas at depth while focusing on potential geological and structural mineralization controls. These targets are considered priority because of compelling geochemical (rock and soil) anomalies with coincident geophysical anomalies (IP chargeability and magnetics).