The Kalahari Copper Belt is a rapidly emerging copper-silver mining region, known for its high-grade, sediment-hosted copper deposits. The belt is gaining global attention and increased investment amid a rising demand for copper. Several advanced and producing projects are already underway in the area, including Sandfire’s Motheo Mine, which has a resource estimate of over 64 Mt of ore graded at 1.0% Cu and 13.8 g/t Ag, and the high-grade Khoemacau Copper-Silver Mine, which boasts over 110 Mt of ore at 1.7% Cu and 18 g/t Ag. Khoemacau was acquired by MMG in 2024 for US$1.9 billion and is expected to produce between 43,000 and 53,000 tonnes of copper in copper concentrate per annum.
Emerging developments include Cobre’s Ngami project, where a maiden economic mineral resource is expected, and Cobre’s Kitlanya West & East joint-venture which in 2025 attracted a US$25 million investment from global giant BHP.
Galileo’s holdings are proximal to all of these discoveries and are proven to include similar stratigraphic and structural settings, ensuring Galileo is well positioned for discovery in the region.
Background
The project encompasses three core exploration licences across the Kalahari Copper Belt, all considered to represent high-priority targets due to their proximity to active developments. These licences are: PL253/2018, located between Cobre’s Kitlanya West and Ngami projects, and PLs 039/2018 and PL040/2018, which lie adjacent to and south of the Khoemacau Mine and proximal to recent copper discoveries along the Mowana Fold structure made by Khoemacau and Arc Minerals.
Geology
Mineralisation in the Kalahari Copper Belt is sediment hosted and structurally controlled, and exploration in the region is focused on identifying deposits of copper and silver associated with the redox contact between the D’Kar and Ngwako Pan lithological contact, which hosts many of the new discoveries. There is further structural preference for the discovery of tight, upright folds which offer potential trap sites for the mineralisation and the formation of larger deposits, these folds are typically bounded by regional shear-zones that offer potential for fluid movement.
Work completed on the licences by Galileo to date has included airborne EM surveying, exploratory drilling, a TerraleachTM soil sampling survey and a ground induced polarisation geophysical survey. Several priority targets have been identified that contain the pre-requisite geological characteristics found at other deposit discovery sites in the region.
The identification of an induced polarisation geophysical chargeability and resistivity anomaly on exploration licence PL039/2018 is compelling due to its location on the crest of the Galileo Fold. This geological setting is analogous to the adjacent Mowana Fold which has been identified as copper mineralised in recent drilling carried out by Khoemacau and Arc Minerals, including an intercept of 4.3m @ 1.65% Cu and 6.1m @ 2.56% Cu reported by Khoemacau. The presence of a conductive dome with associated faulting on this licence offers the potential for a Motheo style A4/T3 dome-type drill target where mineralisation at the prospective D’Kar/Ngwako Pan contact has potentially been remobilised upwards via low-angle thrusts and concentrated in a mineral trap site. Drilling completed by Galileo in 2021 intersected the correct target lithology and the mineral potential was confirmed by the 2024 soil geochemical programme which identified several targets.
Over 30km of the prospective D’Kar/Ngwako Pan contact extends through licence PL040/2018. Several targets for continued work have been identified, including a continuation of soil geochemical anomalies extending to the south along previously unidentified extensions to the D’Kar/Ngwako Pan contact. The southernmost target measures 2.8km in strike and targets were constrained during a 2025 induced polarisation geophysical survey.
Tightly folded and thrust repeated inclusions of the D’Kar/Ngwako Pan contact have been identified on licence PL253/2018, which is situated between Cobre’s Kitlanya West and Ngami licences in the underexplored north-western region of the Copper Belt. Three strong copper-in-soil anomalies with a combined strike of 6km have been delineated by Galileo that are contiguous with targets identified by Cobre on an adjoining licence. A potential fourth target lies along strike from BHP/Cobre’s Tlou target.
