Galileo Mining Ltd. announced EM surveying of massive sulphide in aircore drilling has commenced at the Company's 100% owned Norseman project in Western Australia. 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.
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 d eposits 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.