Galileo targets four zones for lithium exploration

Zim Now Writer

UK-based Galileo Resources chairperson and chief executive, Colin Bird has said the mining company has identified four target zones with potential for pegmatite-hosted lithium, tin and tantalum at the Kamativi lithium project in southwest Zimbabwe.

A detailed reconnaissance mapping and sampling programme was used to identify the four targets.

Galileo owns a 29 percent stake in BC Ventures and has the option to earn an additional 51 percent by spending US$1.5 million on exploration and evaluation in the project area and over the Bulawayo gold-nickel property by 21 January, 2024.

The target zones are located along strike extensions or parallel structures to the Kamativi Tin Mine, which has a JORC-compliant indicated mineral resource of 26.3 million tonnes (Mt) of lithium in tailings at 0.58 percent lithium oxide.

Bird, in a recent statement said Galileo Resources was still waiting laboratory analysis results before they begin drilling explorations.

“We await the results of laboratory analysis and, if appropriate, we will aim to progress confirmed prospects to drill testing stage.

“We also have a substantial number of additional samples in storage for analyses, depending on the results of the current batch.

“The prospects for lithium remain strong and Zimbabwe is an emerging source of this new age metal,” said Bird.

Previous workings of tantalum, tourmaline and tin were documented within the project area on historic geological maps, but lithium was not targeted at that time.

Bird, however placed emphasis that Galileo field team’s possible visual identification of spodumene and petalite mineralisation in rock chip samples from one site will require laboratory confirmation.

The AIM-listed company sent 1,661 samples, including rock chips, stream sediments, and soil samples, to an assay laboratory for elements such as lithium, tin and tantalum.