The Hoop showing is located just south of Mount Hooper, about 30 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by northwest trending Sicker Group rocks, including mafic to inter- mediate flows and pyroclastics of the Devonian Nitinat Formation and cherts and tuffs of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Myra Formation).

A 200 metre wide, northwest trending carbonatized shear zone cuts the volcanics. Associated with the shear are abundant quartz and carbonate veinlets which contain disseminations and pods of pyrite. Anomalous gold values occur in and around the shear zone.

A 2 metre channel sample across a shear in chloritic basalt/schist assayed 0.09 per cent copper and 0.1 gram per tonne gold. A nearby sample of a diorite dyke, cut by quartz stringers with disseminated pyrite, assayed 0.267 per cent copper and 0.072 per cent nickel (Assessment Report 14461).

The area was first explored by Gunnex Ltd. between 1963 and 1966. This work involved regional silt sampling and prospecting. In 1985, Gator Resources completed a program of rock sampling and geological mapping. 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.