The Hope property is located about 30 kilometres south-southwest of Gold Bridge. The showings were discovered in 1997 by T. Illidge and sampled and surveyed by W. Gruenwald in 1998.

The area lies on the east flank of the Coast Plutonic Complex. Several large roof pendants of upper Triassic Cadwallader Group sediments and volcanic rocks are encompassed and intruded by large granitic intrusions. Lithologies include chloritic metavolcanics, likely derived from tuffaceous rocks. These are intruded by feldspar porphyry dikes.

Two types of mineralization include disseminated to semi-massive pyrite-sphalerite and skarn hosted magnetite-copper zones. The sulphide rich zone appears to be conformable to the schistosity of the host chloritic metavolcanics; narrow rhodonite veins occur. A 2.3-metre rock chip sample returned 0.4 gram per tonne gold, 24 grams per tonne silver, 0.024 per cent copper, 0.05 per cent lead and 0.9 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 25645). The second type of mineralization, 150 metres to the northwest, is related to a zone of strongly epidotized metavolcanics that hosts a north-northwest trending, steeply dipping band of semi-massive magnetite-garnet-epidote with chalcopyrite and malachite. A 2-metre chip sample yielded 0.168 per cent copper. Another magnetite occurrence, discovered 78 metres northerly, returned 0.236 per cent copper and 0.14 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 25645).

In the 1990’s, Teck completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area. The area was explored in 1997 by T. Illidge and sampled and surveyed by W. Gruenwald in 1998. In 2003, the area was staked as the Gold King property by J.T. Shearer. During 2004 through 2006, Goldking Mining Ltd. (later Wolverine Minerals Corp.) completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and an induced polarization survey on the area.