Characterization of the Sankamap Metals Epithermal to Porphyry style mineralization at the Kuma Property, Soloman Islands

Steven Del Bel Belluz, 4th year HBSc Geology (supervisor Dr. Pete Hollings) 

The Sankamap Metals Kuma Property, on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, is located on a regional copper-gold trend along the NW-SE trending collisional plate boundary between the Australian Plate and Pacific Plate. I will be investigating drill core from this property through a combination of petrography, short-wavelength infrared analysis, and whole-rock geochemical analysis. My goal is to better understand the style of alteration associated with the deposit.