The Port Hope claim is situated 1 kilometre northwest of the confluence of Scorpion and Springer creeks, 2 kilometre northeast of Slocan. Access is from the Slocan highway via a switchback road leading to the northwest slopes of Ottawa Hill.

Little is known about the Port Hope claim (Lot 5493) other than it was Crown granted in 1903 and 10 tonnes of ore was shipped the following year. Recovery was 46,530 grams of silver and 246 grams of gold. In 1935 and 1937, production from 4 tonnes, yielded 8149 grams of silver and 31 grams of gold.

The property is underlain by mineralized granitic rocks of the Nelson batholith. In 1969, work done in the area by Red Metal Mines included six open cuts and 132 metres of diamond drilling. In 2011, Moose Mountain Technical Services, on the behalf of Rainbow Resources Inc., completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Big Strike property.