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with an EM conductor at Lantern East, a
structural target on the margin of a major in-
trusion and a disseminated sulphide target
Galileo breaks at Lantern South being the focal points of
the programme.
“It is a great area to be exploring for nickel
diamond duck sulphides and our first opportunity to test
the ground with core drilling,” Underwood
said ahead of the start to drilling.
maiden diamond drilling programme drilling programme that would be the best “We have approximately 500m of dia-
A was being carried out by Galileo Mining outcome for everyone. mond drilling planned at three separate
Ltd at its Fraser Range nickel targets at the “We are here for the longer term and we areas with each zone showing potential for
time of print. have already spent 18 months exploring sulphide mineralisation. This is an exciting
With the Creasy Group as its largest that ground. Every time we run a drilling part of the exploration process and we look
shareholder, Galileo is backed by people fa- programme, we have a chance of success forward to moving into the next phase of
miliar with the graft needed to be successful and we are building up our knowledge so work at this promising Fraser Range nickel
in the Fraser Range and therefore Galileo that we can ultimately make a discovery,” project.”
managing director Brad Underwood knows he said. – Mark Andrews
the expectations of the company given the Information on just how close Galileo
recent wave of discoveries being made, maybe to making that company-changing
particularly in Western Australia. discovery was expected to come to hand at
“Our largest shareholder and other the time of print, with results from diamond
shareholders have a deep knowledge of drilling which started in August expected.
exploration and understand the ground we Diamond drilling is focused on Galileo’s
are on. It is complete greenfields terrain, northern Fraser Range project, which, as
never been explored before and we have to far as addresses go in the region, places
build up our knowledge of how to explore the company in prime territory.
there to give us a better understanding,” Galileo’s northern Fraser Range project
Underwood told Paydirt recently. boasts the Lantern prospect, situated be-
“This is our first diamond drilling pro- tween Nova to the south-west and Legend
gramme, there were a number of drilling Mining Ltd’s Mawson prospect to the south-
programmes completed before Nova was east. Mark Creasy with Galileo managing
discovered. Of course, we are hoping to A total of three diamond holes have been director Brad Underwood. Creasy is
make a discovery with our first diamond planned to test holes from 200-380m deep, Galileo’s largest shareholder

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