Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) has obtained further nickel, cobalt, palladium, and platinum assay results from aircoredrilling at the company’s 100% owned Norseman project in Western Australia.
New laboratory results from aircore drilling at the Jimberlanaprospect and from the northern end of the Mission Sill prospect have added further to the promising Norseman story.
Obtaining results of up to 1.66% nickel and 0.16% cobalt in first pass aircore drilling from the Jimberlana prospect is a fantastic outcome. We already know that the area has potential by the massive sulphides intercepted in NAC105 which is underlain by large and highly conductive EM targets,” Galileo’s Managing Director Brad Underwood commented.
“The latest results add further weight to the area’s prospectivity and occur on the margin of the Jimberlana Dyke where it interacts with Mission Sill – an excellent location for the development of mineralisation and an area we have been targeting for some time.
“High nickel and cobalt assays, combined with elevated levels of precious metals (gold, palladium & platinum), suggest that the results may be related to basement mineralisation beneath and adjacent to the aircore drill holes.
“We will now undertake detailed geophysical surveys looking to define the best positions for further drill testing as we continue to explore this amazing opportunity so close to developed infrastructure and existing mines.”
Following on from Galileo’s ASX announcements of highly anomalous drill intercepts in December 2021 and March 2022, further laboratory assays have been received from drilling at the Jimberlana prospect and at the northern end of the Mission Sill prospect.
The high nickel and cobalt results in NAC126 were drilled in a zone on the northern margin of the Jimberlana Dyke where it comes in contact with the Mission Sill prospect. NAC126 is approximately 800m east of NAC105 which intersected massive sulphides in bottom of hole chips.
Subsequent EM surveying around NAC105 delineated large EM conductors beneath drill hole NAC105. Additional EM surveying and IP surveying is now planned to follow up the results from NAC126.
Assay results demonstrate the continuity of palladium mineralisation over 9km of strike length at the Mission Sill prospect of which 4km remains untested by drilling. IP surveying and RC drilling will be used to explore this extensive zone looking for disseminated sulphides at depth that could represent economic accumulations of palladium and/or nickel.
This unexplored contact position will be targeted with first pass aircore drilling, IP surveying, and follow up RC drill testing. RC drilling of palladium-nickel targets at the Mt Thirsty prospect (follow up of drill results including 27m @ 0.58g/t Pd, 0.12 g/t Pt, 0.13% Cu and 0.18% Ni) is planned for April while additional drill testing of the Jimberlana and Mission Sill prospects will be undertaken after the completion of heritage surveys and receipt of statutory approvals.