Tower Resources Ltd. announced the expansion, by staking, of the company's mineral tenures covering the Rabbit North copper (Cu) and gold (Au) property in the Kamloops Mining District of south-central British Columbia. The road-accessible Rabbit North property now consists of 34 mineral tenures covering 16,400 hectares, which are in-part abutting New Gold Inc.'s tenures covering the New Afton mine. The producing New Afton copper and gold mine is approximately 14.5 kilometers east of the main Rabbit North target. Rabbit North is also 28 kilometers east-northeast of the producing Highland Valley copper mine operated by Teck Resources Limited, Canada's larger copper producer. The core 2,850 hectares of mineral tenures comprising Rabbit North are under an option agreement. Expansion of Tower's land position at Rabbit North was considered strategically important as it gives Tower control over a large area of favorable geology which is considered to have good exploration potential. The claims cover multiple large highly anomalous magnetic geophysical features Tower identified following a compilation of regional geophysical data. These anomalies
occur north and south of the main target areas at Rabbit North, in particular, the Durand Stock. In regional data, the mineralized Durand Stock, and its proximal and altered volcanic country rocks, are characterized by a single large magnetic-high approximately 4.5 kilometers across. Higher
resolution geophysical data demonstrates that the Durand Stock and its volcanic country rocks are in fact geophysically complex, comprising a circular magnetic-high rim with a magnetic-low core with discrete magnetic-highs proximal to the stock where magnetite alteration is documented. This level
of detail is not achievable in regional data sets, therefore follow-up work including geological mapping and higher resolution geophysics is warranted over selected recently identified magnetic- high anomalies. Together with the Durand Stock magnetic-high, the regional magnetically anomalous trend spans approximately 25 kilometres north-south, where Tower now controls approximately 85% of the trend. Rabbit North: Alkalic porphyry related mineralization and alteration at the Rabbit North property is documented in two host rock types: the 3 by 2 kilometer Late Triassic to Early Jurassic zoned alkaline intrusion termed the Durand stock, and the intrusion's volcanic country rocks assigned to the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The age of the Durand stock is approximately the same age as the Guichon and Iron Mask batholiths which host the Highland Valley and New Afton mines espectively. Copper mineralization within the porphyritic monzonite core of the Durand stock is characterized by disseminated and blebby chalcopyrite (that is Central Monzonite zone) whereas mineralization hosted in the Nicola volcanics is dominantly characterized by disseminated and blebby halcopyrite and pyrite (+/- bornite) associated with varying degrees of albite, biotite, epidote and magnetite alteration (that is Chrysocolla and Western Magnetite zones).