Solomon Islands
Principal projects
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Isabel Nickel Project
The Isabel Nickel Project is widely considered one of the largest nickel laterite deposits in the Pacific and is made up of a number of deposits in Isabel Province of Solomon Islands with the key deposits being San Jorge and Kolosori.
The Company was granted a formal mining lease for the San Jorge tenement in September 2018. Following this important milestone, Axiom is progressing toward the expected first nickel shipment in Q1 2019. Development and drilling activities on the San Jorge deposit are currently underway.
West Guadalcanal Project (copper-gold)
Located in the west of Guadalcanal Island. The tenement is adjacent to known Au-Ag deposits, including the Gold Ridge Mine and boasts potential for epithermal Au and porphyry Cu-Au style deposits. The exploration targets of Taho, Polo and Mt Tanjili lie within a 10 km long carbonate base metal gold epithermal corridor.
Axiom obtained a Prospecting Licence for the project in January 2014, and subsequently renewed the prospecting licence in May 2017. In 2014, 2050m of diamond drilling occurred, amongst 12 holes.
Following a recent technical review of the West Guadalcanal Project, Axiom has now commenced a work program to advance the West Guadalcanal project. The work program is a combination of reconnaissance and detailed surface exploration activities to assess highly ranked prospects. This is mostly through trenching and geological mapping which has yielded encouraging results. Axiom has identified a number of targets lying within a 10km long base metal and gold corridor. Following compilation of historical open-file data, a thorough review of Axiom’s previous exploration the Company has focused efforts on a prospect known as Humvee.
The Humvee mineralisation is hosted in hydrothermally altered tuffs, andesite porphyry and volcanic breccia. Completion of early stage field exploration comprising geological mapping and sampling revealed a 300 m by 700 m mineralised zone, coincident with the wide geophysical (magnetics) and radiometric (potassium) anomalies. This area is now the current focus of exploration for this tenement.
The company has established a camp and exploration operations which include a significant amount of civil works for the upgrade and maintenance of access roads to some logistically challenging locations in the mountains of Guadalcanal Island.
Axiom is conducting further exploration over other areas of the tenement with the objective of revealing the full extent of mineralisation, providing guidance for drill targets and exploring the extent of what Axiom believes to be a far larger mineralised system.
Updated October 2018
Disclaimer
Statements in this document that are forward-looking and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results are based on the Company’s current beliefs and assumptions regarding a large number of factors affecting its business, including litigation outcomes in the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal. There can be no assurance that (i) the Company has correctly measured or identified all of the factors affecting its business or their extent or likely impact; (ii) the publicly available information with respect to these factors on which the Company’s analysis is based is complete or accurate; (iii) the Company’s analysis is correct; or (iv) the Company’s strategy, which is based in part on this analysis, will be successful.
