The Hook Bay copper occurrence is located at 700 metres elevation on a ridge separating the Nahmint River and Cook Creek, approximately 1.5 kilometres northwest of Hook Bay.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) basalts, in association with underlying granodiorites of the Lower Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Locally, a 25-metre wide zone of highly sheared and iron-stained basalt, bounded by two faults striking 50 degrees, contains several quartz-chalcopyrite-pyrite-hematite veinlets spaced 0.5 to 1 metre apart. On the west side of the zone a 30-centimetre wide vein or lens of massive chalcopyrite-pyrite-pyrrhotite appears to follow a similar strike.

Work History

In 2011, the area was prospected as the Hook Bay Copper property. A grab sample of the lens (DD-1) assayed 5.995 per cent copper and 18.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 33232).

In 2012, Nahminto Resources completed a satellite remote sensing survey and analysis on the Macktush group. In 2014, D.W. Ferguson completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Hook Bay Cu property.

In 2020, Langford Exploration, on the behalf of Canadian International Pharma Corp., completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical (rock, soil and stream sediment) sampling on the area as the Hook Bay property. This work identified two narrow veins, located approximately 470 to 650 metres southeast of the Hook Bay 1 occurrence, which yielded 1.41 and 1.76 per cent copper (samples 3294582 and 3294583), respectively. A sample (3294556) taken approximately 30 metres south of the Hook Bay occurrence yielded 1.3 per cent copper (van der Meer, L. [2020-11-18]: NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Hook Bay Property, Alberni Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada).