Galileo Resources PLC Appointment of Senior Management team (9941S)
July 15 2020 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 9941S
Galileo Resources PLC
15 July 2020
15 July 2020
Galileo Resources Plc
("Galileo" or "the Company")
Appointment of Senior Management team - highly experienced and
successful Kalahari Copper Belt exploration geologists
Highlights
-- Galileo has appointed the highly experienced and successful
Kalahari Copper Belt exploration geologists, Dr Quinton Hills and
Fred Nhiwatiwa as members of the Company's senior management to
provide assistance with the Company's exploration projects in
Botswana
-- The new team members have previously discovered mineral
deposits that have led to the development of mines in Botswana
-- Dr Hills has been appointed to an advisory and supervisory
role across all the Company's exploration projects in Botswana
-- Mr Nhiwatiwa has been appointed to manage exploration activities in Botswana
-- Galileo will shortly commence a comprehensive and targeted
exploration program utilising geochemical and geophysical
techniques that have been routinely used to find copper-silver
deposits in the Kalahari Copper Belt
-- Galileo's Kalahari Copper Belt tenures are positioned near:
Ø Cupric Canyon's world-class Khoemacau Copper-Silver Project
that hosts a sulphide resource of 502Mt @ 1.4% Cu and 17g/t Ag,
including 185Mt @ 2.0% Cu and 27g/t Ag (refer to Cupric Canyon's
website www.khoemacau.com for details); and
Ø Sandfire Resources' (ASX:SFR) Tshukudu Exploration Project
that comprises the T3 Copper-Silver Project (60Mt @ 0.98% Cu &
13.6g/t Ag) and the recently discovered high-grade copper A4 Dome
Prospect (refer to Sandfire Resources' ASX announcements for
details)
Colin Bird CEO said: " We are very pleased to have appointed
such highly experienced and successful exploration geologists as Dr
Hills and Mr Nhiwatiwa to help us progress the exploration and
development of our very exciting, newly acquired copper licences in
the highly prospective Kalahari Copper Belt and
nickel-copper-platinum group metal licences in the Limpopo Mobile
Belt in Botswana. With these additions to the Galileo team we are
looking to accelerate the commencement of exploration on these
properties within a matter of days".
Galileo Resources plc ("Galileo "or the "Company") is pleased to
announce the appointment of highly experienced and successful
Kalahari Copper Belt exploration geologists Dr Quinton Hills and
Fred Nhiwatiwa. Dr Hills has been appointed to an advisory and
supervisory role across all of the Company's exploration projects,
while Mr Nhiwatiwa has been appointed to manage exploration
activities within Botswana. Dr Hills was part of the team
responsible for the discovery of the Plutus Copper Deposit and
defined the first 100Mt of mineral resources at the Boseto Copper
Project in north-western Botswana, during his tenure with Discovery
Metals Limited. Mr Nhiwatiwa has been involved in two projects in
Botswana that have proceeded from exploration all the way through
to mine development, the Mupane Gold Mine and the Boseto Copper
Mine.
Dr Quinton Hills BSc, MSc, PhD, MAusIMM
Dr Hills is a qualified geologist and minerals industry
executive with more than 16 years' experience in project
generation, exploration and project development across a broad
range of base, precious and minor metals (cobalt and vanadium) in
Australia, Botswana, Namibia, Sweden and Finland. He possesses
significant technical and project management expertise having
previously been the CEO or Exploration Manager of four ASX-listed
exploration and project development companies.
Fred Nhiwatiwa BSc, MSc, MAusIMM
Mr Nhiwatiwa has more than 25 years' experience in design,
implementation and management mineral exploration, resource
development and business development in southern Africa.
You can also follow Galileo on Twitter: @GalileoResource
For further information, please contact: Galileo Resources
PLC
Colin Bird, Chairman Tel +44 (0) 20 7581 4477
Andrew Sarosi, Executive Director Tel +44 (0) 1752 221937
Beaumont Cornish Limited - Nomad
Roland Cornish/James Biddle Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396
Novum Securities Limited - Joint Broker
Colin Rowbury /Jon Belliss +44 (0) 20 7399 9400
Shard Capital Partners LLP - Joint Broker
Damon Heath Tel +44 (0) 20 7186 9952
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