Mass and energy-dispersive recoil spectrometry has recently reached the state of development where it is possible to separately characterise Ga and As in GaAs samples. Since it is possible to simultaneously characterise several elements (light as well as heavy), e.g. C, O, Si, Co, Ga and As, the technique is suited for examining the depth distribution of metallisation contacts on GaAs. In a Swedish-Australian collaboration a recoil detector telescope was attached to a beamline of the FN tandem accelerator ''ANTARES'', at Lucas Heights Research Laboratories, Australia. In the measurements presented here, I-127(10)+ at an energy of 77 MeV was employed to analyse GaAs samples with thin film overlayers - Si(220 nm)/Co(50 nm)/[100]-GaAs. A reference sample and samples annealed at 300 to 600-degrees-C were analysed. The measurements showed that CoSi2 is formed during annealing at and above 500-degrees-C with no detectable reaction between the GaAs-substrate and the CoSi2 overlayer.