The White Hope property is located just south of Memphis Creek, at the elevation of about 900 metres, 6 kilometres north of Slocan. The property is served by a short access roads connected directly to the Slocan highway.
The property is underlain by banded gneiss and foliated granite on the west boundary of the Nelson batholith. The gneiss carries abundant zenoliths of older country rocks and the banded structures conform to the foliated structures of the intrusion.
The history of the property prior to 1928 is obscure. Cairnes (Memoir 184) reports that it was formerly known as the Paystreak, however the only Paystreak mentioned in the Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines (1897 and 1902) is reported to be on Twelvemile Creek. Maps of the area show Twelvemile and Tenmile creeks as tributaries of Kaslo creek. However, according to the 1906 zinc commission report on the Enterprise mine, Tenmile creek empties into Slocan Lake about 16 kilometres south of New Denver. On maps of the area this creek is called Enterprise creek. The 1897 report listed the Paystreak property on Twelvemile creek under the heading "Tenmile creek". Due to these changes in names, the location of the Paystreak property is not clear.
In 1928 the White Hope group, consisting of 6 claims and a fraction, was owned by Peter Strand and C.W. Tipping of Slocan. During the year a 46-metre tunnel was driven in limestone by leasers C. Hansen and associates of Idaho. The mine was closed in 1929 and remained so except in 1935 and 1942 when it was operated by C.W. Tipping.
In 1947 the Spokane Slocan Co. acquired the White Hope group along with the Homestake (082FNW213), Senator (082FNW164), Get-There-Eli (082FNW191) and V & M (082FNW191) claims. During 1950 and 1951 J.J. McDonell worked the property.
In 1957 the Dolores-Dorothy Exploration and Mining Co. Ltd. of Nelson acquired the White Hope, White Hope No. 1, Homestake and Senator Crown-granted claims and 6 recorded claims.
The target of exploration on the property is a narrow, locally pyritized quartz vein in granite, striking 140 degrees and dipping 50 degrees southwest. The early development consists of three main adits and several open cuts. The principal showing is on No. 2 level which has a total of 150 metres of drifts and crosscuts. The lode here is about 30 metres in length and has an average width of 25 centimetres. Most of the original ore shipments came from the upper adit which is about 25 metres long, with a raise to surface. The best part of the vein shows 5 to 15 centimetres of zinc mineralization. The lower adit is 15 metres long and exposes a wider vein section but with minor mineralization. There is another adit at the elevation of the upper adit which was driven 40 metres as a crosscut to intersect a parallel vein exposed in an open cut above, but no vein was encountered. In 1957, a new adit site was chosen to explore the vein system from a horizon about 15 metres below the lowest workings, however no worthwhile mineralization was encountered. In 1964, the workings were reopened by Western Standard Silver Mines Ltd. In 1986, Manny Consultants Ltd. surveyed the property as the JR claims.
In 1897 and 1902, a total of 12 tonnes was shipped from the Paystreak; recovery was 19,128 grams of silver and 622 grams of gold. The total intermittent production from this property from 1935 to 1964 was 81 tonnes, yielding 155 grams of gold, 25,691 grams of silver, 11,424 kilograms of lead and 11,052 kilograms of zinc.
