Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) has commenced EM surveying of massive sulphide in aircore drilling at the company’s 100% owned Norseman project in Western Australia.
Managing Director Brad Underwood said drilling in November identified sulphide mineralisation just 60 metres down hole with assays reporting prospective early results of 1 metre @ 0.24% nickel, 0.35% copper, 0.04% cobalt and 0.25 g/t palladium.
“We have been extremely fortunate to identify massive sulphide in aircore drilling while looking for nickel and palladium at our Norseman Project. This result has significantly increased the prospectivity of the area and we are now using EM surveying to build on our positive early results and to define targets for follow up RC drill testing,” he said.
“We look forward to updating the market as results become available and as we move into the drill testing phase of exploration later in the year.”
EM surveying is a very useful tool in exploration due to the conductive response of sulphide minerals that can contain nickel, copper, cobalt and palladium. Massive and semi-massive nickel deposits frequently exhibit conductive signatures when a current is passed through the earth.
However, disseminated sulphides, and deposits with complex geometry, may only provide subdued conductive responses. As the sulphides in aircore drilling at Norseman are at shallow depth, a moving loop survey using a 100m loop size has been designed to maximise any subtle change in response that may be related to accumulations of massive, semi-massive and/or disseminated sulphides.
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