Sounds more like you are desperately blowing your trumpet under...

Sounds more like you are desperately blowing your trumpet under the banner of colonialism.
Hardly a platform worth standing on when the SI Government relies on Australian and New Zealand Taxpayer dollars for virtually everything, including the food on the table, even for the security to stop Solomon Islanders from killing each other.
OK, good on them for trying, but when they fail, they are likely to re-evaluate and go with the best workable mining company model.

50% of the profit ... hahah.... a worldwide first .... If that is even true, they have set themselves up for failure.