📈 Mark Creasy and IGO back $20.4M raise to accelerate drilling

This morning our long term exploration Investment Galileo Mining (ASX: GAL) came out of a trading halt having raised capital to accelerate drilling at its new PGE discovery in WA.

GAL managed to raise $20.4M via a placement at a share price of $1.20 per share with the shares expected to be issued on the 13th of July 2022.

Importantly, the placement closed oversubscribed with cornerstone investments by GAL’s major shareholders Mark Creasy and IGO for a combined $8.7M.

Before the placement mining billionaire Mark Creasy owned 24.82% of GAL and IGO 8.89% for a combined ownership of ~34%. After tipping in $8.7M of the $20.4M raised, we expect to see the combined shareholdings of the two increase.

The significance of this is that IGO has previously purchased projects from Mark Creasy backed companies, including the Nova mine for $1.8 billion and the Silver Knight discovery.

We think that the cornerstone investments from both Mark Creasy and IGO are a strong vote of confidence for the recent PGE discovery GAL made and show that there is institutional interest in the company’s projects.

GAL expects to have $26.5M in cash after the capital raise and is already putting the cash to work procuring a third RC drill program which is scheduled to begin at the end of July followed by a diamond drilling program planned to commence in August.

Next: We are eagerly waiting to see what comes from GAL’s ~4,000m of RC drilling to test for extensions to its new PGE discovery.