More RC holes intersect sulphides; diamond drilling underway

Galileo Mining (ASX:GAL) yesterday announced that it has commenced diamond drilling at its Callisto PGE (palladium-platinum-gold-rhodium-copper-nickel) discovery in WA, while it also reported that it has intersected sulphides in a further eight RC drill holds.

GAL reported that the mineralisation at the Callisto discovery remains open in all directions, where it plans to undertake an initial 2,000 metres of diamond drilling with a particular focus on the down dip potential.

The first diamond drill tail to be undertaken is on hole NRC278, which had ended in mineralisation:

In addition to the diamond drilling program, the RC drill rig is now 25% of the way (2,479 metres) through the current 10,000-metre RC drill program.

GAL has now completed eight drill holes to date in the current program, each intersecting sulphides. Disseminated sulphide zones of 16m to 48m thick were logged in completed drill holes — the drill samples are at the lab with assays expected back next month.

Four of the drill holes were pulled up early to allow for diamond drill tails to be completed through the mineralised zone.

The RC drill rig is focused on both the shallow sections of the known mineralisation at a 50m spacing as well as the excellent prospectivity for further discoveries along strike. It will target the along-strike potential up to one kilometre north.

Here, GAL has planned a sequence of 12 RC drill holes between 300m and 1,000m north of the current drilling with the opportunity for additional new discoveries to be made.

On the plan view below, you can see both the RC (in red) and diamond drill (in green) target zones around known sulphide mineralisation for the current drill campaigns. The regional drilling up to one kilometre away from existing drill holes is located off the plan to the north.

Completed drillholes in the current RC drill program are shown as red dots and the blue dots are from the prior RC drill program, including the discovery hole.