Galileo begins drilling programme at Concordia.

Galileo Resources announced the commencement of a drilling programme for its Concordia Copper project in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa on Wednesday.

The AIM-traded company said drilling was expected to commence this week, and would comprise up to six reverse circulation drill holes down to 300 metres depth initially.

It said the drilling programme was exclusively focussed to test the reliability of geophysical anomalism in identifying mineralisation targets.

Five geophysics anomalous targets had been selected for drilling, the board said, with four on the Homeep Trend and one on the Shirley Trend.

It added that the holes will be angled between 70 degrees and 80 degrees.

“The initial drill programme is designed essentially to establish a correlation between the geophysics and sulphide mineralisation and attach potential copper grades to the geophysics chargeability levels,” said Galileo CEO Colin Bird.

“The drilling results, if successful, would prove that the geophysics will be an essential part of any future resources drilling programme and as such is very important.

“We look forward to the results and factoring its conclusions overall into our Concordia project.”