Galileo Mining's (ASX: GAL) assay results for the company’s 100% owned Norseman project in Western Australia have further identified prospective zones of palladium-platinum close to the existing Callisto resource.
Drill results include wide zones of anomalous PGE; o 8m @ 0.21 g/t 3E1 from 128m (NRC505)
o 20m @ 0.18 g/t 3E from 180m(NRC502)
o 36m @ 0.14 g/t 3E from 128m(NRC501)
Managing Director Brad Underwoods said the assay results demonstrate two target models for the Norseman Project, Callisto-style sulphide mineralisation at the base of intrusive sills and mineralisation at the interface between mafic and ultramafic rock units.
“Results from our RC drill campaign at Norseman continue to show prospective palladium and platinum assays,” Mr Underwood said.
“These results are highly encouraging as they display how widely distributed the mineralisation is within our Norseman project area. Our ground has never been systematically explored for palladium-platinum mineralisation and we are the first to realise the potential of this region.
“That understanding has received a significant boost with the results from our mapping campaign and from computer processing of geochemical data at our Mission Sill prospect. This prospect is approximately six kilometres from Callisto with the same host rock sequence of ultramafic and mafic units.
“Geological mapping and geochemical analyses have now recognised the basal contact target at the Mission Sill as a similar stratigraphic position to that which hosts the Callisto palladium-nickel deposit. This zone is untested over ten kilometres of strike and will be targeted in the upcoming November drill campaign.
“Galileo is an active exploration company undertaking multiple drill campaigns each year with the aim of discovering new resources from our extensive tenement package and we look forward to the next drill program in this newly discovered mineral province.”
Approximately 2,100m of RC drilling was undertaken in August/September targeting a series of geophysical and geochemical anomalies. Disseminated sulphide minerals were intersected coincident with EM conductors, IP geophysical chargeable zones, and at geochemical targets. Several drill intersections in ultramafic and mafic rocks (the potential host units for economic mineralisation) contained anomalous palladium and platinum results.