The Kitkat showing is located near the Nitinat River, 20 kilometres east of Alberni Inlet.

The property is underlain by a sequence of basalt, pillowed basalt and pyroclastic rocks of the Devonian Duck Lake Formation.

Mineralization consists of massive sulphide lenses containing pyrite, and lesser chalcopyrite, magnetite plus/minus pyrrhotite and anomalous gold values hosted in basaltic rocks. The rocks have been chloritized and epidotized.

The Kitkat showings were first explored by Gunnex Ltd. between 1963 and 1966. This work involved regional silt sampling and prospecting. In 1985 and 1986, JBL Resources completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, prospecting and VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys. This work identified the five Kit Kat occurrences: Kitkat (MINFILE 092F 282), Kitkat 2 (MINFILE 092F 284), Kitkat 3 (MINFILE 092F 149), Kitkat 4 (MINFILE 092F 218), Kit Kat 5 (MINFILE 092F 461). In 2011, Gold Ridge Explorations Inc. completed a regional program of litho-geochemical sampling, helicopter-borne versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) and aeromagnetic geophysical surveys, totalling 34 square kilometres, on the area as the Columbia Shear property. In 2012 and 2013, Golden Peak Minerals Inc. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (soil, rock and silt) sampling and a 24.35 line-kilometre ground magnetometer survey on the area. In 2017, New Point Exploration Corp. completed a program of rock, soil, silt and moss mat sampling on the area as the Columbia Shear property.