The Axel 2 (Gossan zone) occurrence is located between Rennie and Axel creeks at 930 metres elevation, approximately 3 kilometres southeast of the community of Blackpool on the North Thompson River.

The area is underlain by massive, locally brecciated basalt of the Mississippian to Devonian Fennell Formation.

Mineralization consists of pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite hosted in a brecciated, strongly altered basalt. Sulphide mineralization occurs as veins, fracture fillings and local patchy disseminations. Alteration includes bleaching, silicification, chlorite and biotite. In 1991, grab sampling of the zone assayed up to 2520 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 22296).

In 1991, the Axel 2 claims were staked by Teck Exploration to cover an area of alteration exposed by recent logging work. The area was previously explored in 1972 as the Pest claims, by Noranda Exploration, who completed a program of soil sampling and a VLF- EM survey. This work identified several anomalous areas. In 2008 and 2009, Vendetta Mining completed programs of rock and soil sampling on the area as the Honeymoon project. During 2010 through 2012, Black Mountain Mining prospected and soil sampled the area.