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GALILEO MINING LTD — Investor Presentation 2020
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3 June 2020 ASX: GAL
INVESTOR WEBINAR PRESENTATION
Corporate Directory
Directors
Chairman & Managing Director Brad Underwood
Technical Director Noel O’Brien
Non-Executive Director Mathew Whyte
Projects
Fraser Range Project Nickel-Copper
Norseman Project Cobalt-Nickel-Copper
Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL, “Galileo” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce its participation in the Share Café “Nickel’s New Wave” Webinar to be held on Wednesday 3[rd] June 2020 from 2:00pm AEST / 12:00pm AWST.
Managing Director Brad Underwood will provide an update on the company’s significant exploration programs underway at its Fraser Range joint venture project in Western Australia.
This FREE webinar is able to be viewed live via Zoom over the internet and will provide viewers the opportunity to hear from, and engage with, a range of emerging ASX listed nickel exploration companies.
To access further details of event and to register (for FREE), please copy and paste the following link into your internet browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xQ27aXc8TpacAQxJnhYu6Q
A recorded copy of the webinar will be made available following the event. A copy of the investor presentation to be delivered during the webinar is attached.
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Contact Details
T: +61 8 9463 0063 E: [email protected] W: www.galileomining.com.au 13 Colin St, West Perth, WA
Authorised for release by the Galileo Board of Directors.
Investor information: phone Galileo Mining on + 61 8 9463 0063 or email [email protected]
Media: David Tasker Managing Director Chapter One Advisors E: [email protected] T: +61 433 112 936
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STRATEGIC FOCUS ON NICKEL, COPPER & COBALT IN TIER-1 MINING JURISDICTION
INVESTOR PRESENTATION – June 2020 (ASX:GAL)
Disclaimer
This Presentation (“Presentation” or the “Document”) has been prepared by Galileo Mining Ltd (ACN 104 114 132) (“Company”) and is general background information about the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries activities as at the date of this Presentation. This Document is prepared for the benefit and internal use of the recipient (the “Recipient”). It is provided on a confidential basis and the Recipient cannot reproduce in whole or in part any information provided in this Presentation or communicate the information of this Presentation to any third party without the prior written consent of the Company. This Document has been prepared on the basis of publicly available information and certain confidential information. The Company has relied upon and assumed, without independent verification, the accuracy and completeness of all such information, including forecasts. It contains selected information and does not purport to be all inclusive or to contain all of the information that may be relevant to the Document. The Company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents do not accept responsibility or liability for this Presentation or its contents (except to the extent that such liability cannot be excluded by law). No representation or warranty is made as to the Presentation’s accuracy or completeness and the Company assumes no obligation to update the Presentation’s information contained herein. Any requests for information in connection with this Document should be addressed directly to the Company and to no other party.
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Nothing in this Presentation constitutes the provision of financial or legal advice. The Recipient should consider its own financial situation, objectives and needs, and conduct its own independent investigation and assessment of the contents of this Document, including obtaining investment, legal, tax, accounting and such other advice as it considers necessary or appropriate. Further, nothing in this Presentation constitutes an offer for the sale of securities. This Presentation does not constitute an offer or invitation in any place in which, or to any person to whom, it would not be lawful to make such an offer or invitation. The distribution of this Presentation (including in electronic form) outside Australia may be restricted by law and persons who come into possession of this Presentation outside Australia should seek advice on and observe any such restrictions. Any failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a violation of applicable securities laws.
The information contained in this Presentation is prepared as of 2[nd] June 2020. Neither the delivery of this Presentation nor any offer, issue or sale contemplated by this Presentation at any time implies that the information contained in it is correct, that any other information supplied in connection with an offer of shares is correct or that there has not been any change (adverse or otherwise) in the financial conditions or affairs of the Company at any time subsequent to the preparation date. In particular, the Company is not under any obligation to any person to update this Presentation at any time including after an issue of shares.
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Investment Opportunity
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Strong cash position with ~$9.3M
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High value nickel targets in the Fraser Range nickel belt
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Active nickel/copper/cobalt exploration at Norseman with an existing resource base
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All assets are in the Tier-1 mining jurisdiction of Western Australia
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Pre-discovery market valuation and highly leveraged to success
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Mining entrepreneur Mark Creasy is the founder and major shareholder with a 26% holding
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Corporate Snapshot
Key Metrics
ASX Code GAL Shares on Issue 143.1m Share price (as at 2 June 2020) 23.0c Market Cap (undiluted) $32.9m Cash $9.3m Enterprise Value $23.6m Options on Issue 15m @ $0.20 (vesting condition: 60 day VWAP > $0.60) 2.3m @ $0.44 per share Debt No debt
Shareholder Composition
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Share Price (six months)
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Major Shareholders
Mark Creasy 26.1% Independence Group Limited (ASX:IGO) 8.9%
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Project Portfolio
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Strategic Commodity & District Focus
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Nickel and cobalt
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Numerous operating mines in the district with access to worldclass infrastructure (road, rail, Port of Esperance)
**Fraser Range JV Project ***
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Developing nickel province with two significant deposits so far
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Management with proven track record in the Fraser Range with the Silver Knight discovery**
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Outstanding targets at the Lantern prospect, along strike from Legend Mining’s Mawson Prospect
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RC and Diamond Drilling planned for July/August
Norseman Project
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High grade cobalt resource of 25Mt JORC with 26,600t of contained cobalt & 122,500t of contained nickel[(1)]
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Ongoing nickel/copper/cobalt exploration
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67% Galileo Mining/33% Creasy Group JV
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** Galileo’s exploration team helped discover the Silver Knight deposit when they were a part of the Creasy Group
(1) See slide 19 for details
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Fraser Range Nickel Belt
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Fraser Range: Fast developing new mineral province
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Two nickel-copper-cobalt resource discoveries in the past eight years (Nova & Silver Knight)
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IGO: Nova nickel-copper-cobalt mine
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14.4 Mt @ 2.3% Nickel, 0.9% Copper and 0.08 % Cobalt[(1)]
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Silver Knight deposit, initial publicly disclosed resource
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4.2 Mt @ 0.8% Nickel, 0.6% Copper, 0.04% Cobalt[(2)]
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Legend Mining: Mawson prospect, multiple zones of mineralisation including
12.8m @ 2.76% Nickel, 1.36% Copper, 0.14% Cobalt[(3)]
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Galileo has 602km[2] of prospective ground in two zones;
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Lantern nickel prospect: 15km from the Trans-Australia Railway
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Empire Rose nickel and gold prospect: 10km from the Eyre Highway
(1) See IGO ASX Announcement dated 3[rd] November 2015
- (2) See DMIRS website
(3) See Legend Mining ASX Announcement dated 21[st] April 2020
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Similar to Canadian Nickel Belts
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Canadian Nickel Belts analogous to the Fraser Range Belt
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Three world class nickel mining centres
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Each Canadian nickel hub is on the margin of the Archean aged Superior Province
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The Fraser Range is on the margin of the Archean aged Yilgarn Province in a similar geological environment
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Decades of exploration and mining history in the Canadian examples
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First discovery of economic nickel in the Fraser Range was in 2012
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Further work in the Fraser is to uncover Range likely
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new deposits
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Thompson vs Fraser Range
Thomson Fraser Range Nickel Belt Nickel Belt More than 10 Two deposits with deposits over over 150km of 100km of strike prospective strike length length Total known Total known vs resources of resources of 18Mt 146Mt with less than eight years of Over 50 years of mining mining and exploration Immature nickel belt with untapped potential
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Active Exploration Zone
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Galileo, Creasy, IGO and Legend Mining
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Lantern Prospect is 50km along strike from Legend Mining’s Mawson (Area D) Prospect
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IGO aggressively exploring in the Fraser Range with a $24 million regional exploration budget and a $26 million Nova near-mine exploration budget[(1)]
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Galileo tenements surrounded by Legend Mining and IGO tenure[(2)]
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First ever RC drilling at the Lantern Prospect discovers disseminated nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation[(3)]
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Follow and around the drill up drilling geophysics planned discovery
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hole
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Additional early stage magnetic and gravity targets with ongoing aircore drilling programs
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(1) See IGO ASX Announcement dated 15[th] October 2019
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(2) See Legend Mining ASX Announcement dated 14[th] October 2019 (3) See Galileo Mining ASX Announcement dated 17[th] March 2020
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Lantern Sulphide Discovery
Disseminated nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation[(1)]
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LARC003 returns significant intersection of;
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12m @ 0.38% Ni & 033% Cu from 124 metres down hole
Including 5m @ 0.49% Ni % 0.46% Cu from 126m
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Mineralisation open in all directions
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Maximum values over one metre of 0.66% nickel and 0.75% copper (127 -128m)
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Next round of RC drilling scheduled for July
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- (1) See GAL ASX Announcement dated 17[th] March 2020 for details
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Lantern Prospect Targets
Intrusions with the same host rocks as the Nova and Silver Knight deposits
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Multiple highly prospective drill targets
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Drilling and petrography shows gabbro, gabbro-norite and peridotite rocks with potential to host nickel-copper[(1)]
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Right rock types in right location
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Similar geometry to Nova with 2km by 2.3km intrusion (compare with Nova 2.4km by 1.2km)[(1)]
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Fixed Loop Electromagnetic surveys to start next week
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Second round of RC drilling and first diamond drilling planned for July/August
(1) See GAL ASX Announcements dated 15[th] April 2020 for details
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Nickel Targeting at the Fraser Range
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Next generation of deposits
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Undercover mineralisation means there are no surface indications
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Aircore drilling beneath sediment cover tells us we have the right rock types
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Electromagnetic (EM) surveys map out conductors at depth that may contain economic nickel deposits
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RC and diamond drilling is used to drill test targets from 50 metres beneath surface
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Fixed Loop EM surveying at the advanced Lantern Prospect is scheduled to start next week
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EM surveying to be followed by RC and diamond drill testing
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Untapped greenfields potential in a new nickel province
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New Nickel Targets Identified
Reconnaissance drilling results show three new intrusions
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Petrographic rock description of aircore drilling samples identifies nickel prospective rocks beneath shallow cover
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Drilling results combined with magnetic data show three intrusions named Think Big, Backwood and Green Moon
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First pass Moving Loop Electro Magnetic Surveying planned for July
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Recently completed 8,000m aircore drilling program around Lantern South with results pending
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Upcoming work programs include:
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Petrography and data interpretation from recent aircore drilling
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Additional drilling to delineate near surface boundaries of prospective intrusive rocks
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RC and Diamond Drill testing of targets defined by EM survey and shallow drilling
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Growth through Discovery
Extensive Drilling Programs
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Exploration is our business – high levels of in ground expenditure
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Ten drilling programs in under 2 years since listing
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Aircore, RC and diamond drilling planned over coming months
Improved chances of discovery through targeted drilling campaigns
2019 2020 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Drilling and Geophysical Survey of Key Fraser Range Nickel Targets
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First Lantern Aircore Drilling
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Ground EM Survey
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Gravity Survey
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EIS Drill Funding Approval
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POW Approvals
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Second Lantern Aircore Drilling
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Petrology Confirms Targeting
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New Delta Blues Prospect
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Magnetic Data Defines New Targets
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POW Approvals
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First RC Drilling at Lantern
Third Lantern Aircore Drilling Program Geophysical Surveying (EM) RC & Diamond Drilling Programs
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Empire Rose Prospect
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Best intercept from maiden drilling completed in October 2018 was 36m @ 0.2% Nickel from 18m (drill hole ERAC015)[(1)]
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Electro-magnetic (EM) survey delineated a strongly conductive target 250 metres below surface[(1)]
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Diamond drilling showed anomalous gold associated with sulphide mineralisation[(2)]
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Empire Rose is 30km from IGO’s Nova nickel mine and just 10km from the Eyre Highway (location map on slide 6)
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Over nine kilometres of prospective unexplored ground (magnetic image to left)
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New EM surveys planned to target potential mineralisation along strike
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(1) See GAL ASX Announcements dated 30[th] October 2018 and 21[st] January 2019 for details (2) See GAL ASX Announcement dated 4[th] July 2019 for details
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Norseman Project
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278 square kilometres of prospective ground at the southern end of the prolific Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt
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Tenements are prospective for komatiite hosted nickel sulphide, VMS copper-gold and nickel-cobalt laterite mineralisation
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Current 25 Mt nickel-cobalt laterite resource[(1)]
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Drill for Woodcutters and programs designed
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Gremlin prospects
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Premier project location:
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10 km from the town of Norseman
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Adjacent to sealed Coolgardie-Esperance highway
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Access to gas, water and rail infrastructure
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180km from the deep-water Port of Esperance
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(1) See slide 18 for details
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A Significant Investment Opportunity
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$9.3 million in cash = well funded junior exploration company
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to success with
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Highly leveraged discovery current market cap around $30 million
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Fraser Range exploration with strong potential for high value nickel deposits
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Active explorer with experienced management and team focussed on making discoveries
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Ongoing drilling programs with next round of RC & diamond drilling planned for July
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Appendix – Galileo Board
Brad Underwood
Chairman & Managing Director
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Mr Underwood is a geologist with over 18 years’ experience in exploration, prospecting and mining. He has been involved in copper, gold, nickel and cobalt discoveries and the development of numerous prospects over a variety of commodities.
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Between 2010 and 2018 Mr Underwood worked for prospector and mining entrepreneur Mark Creasy as General Manager of several private exploration companies. During this time Mr Underwood’s responsibilities included the exploration of the Fraser Range tenements surrounding the Nova mine site as well as the development of Galileo’s projects near Norseman.
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Mr Underwood played a key role in the discovery of the Silver Knight nickel-copper deposit in the Fraser Range and the discovery of Galileo’s Mission Sill cobalt resources.
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Mr Underwood has a Bachelor of Science in Geology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Geology from the University of Auckland, and a Master of Science (Distinction) in Mineral Economics from Curtin University
Noel O’Brien Technical Director
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Mr O’Brien is a metallurgist and processing expert with over 40 years’ experience in the design and construction of mineral processing plants. He has a deep understanding of metallurgy and possesses processing expertise in smelting, gravity separation, flotation, leaching and solvent extraction.
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He was formerly Managing Director in South Africa for SNC-Lavalin Inc, a leading global engineering and construction group, and was responsible for delivering base metal smelters and refinery projects across Africa.
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Mr O’Brien is currently a Technical Director of Metals Tech (ASX:MTC)
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Mr O’Brien holds a Metallurgical Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne, an MBA from Witwatersrand University and is a Fellow of the AusIMM.
Mathew Whyte Non-Exec Director
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& Company Secretary
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Mr Whyte is a CPA and a Chartered Secretary (FCIS) . He has over 25 years’ commercial experience in the financial management, direction and corporate governance of ASX listed companies.
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Mr Whyte has held senior executive roles on a broad range of Australian listed entities with operations in Australia and overseas in the mining exploration, mining services, power infrastructure and technology development industries.
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| dix – JORC Resources | dix – JORC Resources | dix – JORC Resources | dix – JORC Resources | dix – JORC Resources | dix – JORC Resources | Ni Tonnes 60,800 10,200 71,100 35,000 16,400 122,500 |
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| Cut-off Cobalt % |
Class | Tonnes Mt | Co | Ni | ||
| % | Tonnes | % | Tonnes | |||
| MT THIRSTY SILL | ||||||
| 0.06 % | Indicated | 10.5 | 0.12 | 12,100 | 0.58 0.51 |
60,800 10,200 |
| Inferred | 2.0 | 0.11 | 2,200 | |||
| Total | 12.5 | 0.11 | 14,300 | 0.57 | 71,100 | |
| MISSION SILL | ||||||
| 0.06 % | Inferred | 7.7 | 0.11 | 8,200 | 0.45 | 35,000 |
| GOBLIN | ||||||
| 0.06 % | Inferred | 4.9 | 0.08 | 4,100 | 0.36 | 16,400 |
| TOTAL JORC COMPLIANT RESOURCES | ||||||
| 0.06 % | Total | 25.1 | 0.11 | 26,600 | 0.49 | 122,500 |
Appendix – JORC Resources
Mineral Resource Estimates for the Norseman Cobalt Project (“Estimates”) (refer to ASX “Prospectus” announcement dated May 25[th] 2018 and ASX announcement dated 11[th] December 2018, accessible at http://www.galileomining.com.au/investors/asxannouncements/). Galileo confirms that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the Estimates continue to apply and have not materially changed).
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