The Hope occurrence is located in a col on the crest of a ridge 4 kilometres northeast of Blackpine Lake, about 77 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

Hostrocks are uniformly banded quartz-mica-feldspar gneiss, quartzite, and quartz-feldspar-actinolite amphibolite of the Wolverine Metamorphic Complex, metamorphic equivalents of the Neoproterozoic Ingenika Group.

The showing consists of a mineralized zone between 4 to 8 metres wide, and a 100 metres or more long in amphibolite tremolite skarn. The mineralized zone consists of fragments up to 60 centimetres in diameter of gneiss and bluish grey, massive quartzite containing varying amounts of pyrrhotite, pyrite and arsenopyrite, with very minor chalcopyrite, as well as fragments of crystalline massive sulphides, all in a matrix of massive to crystalline pyrrhotite, massive hematite and earthy, friable limonite. In other parts of the deposit, bands of crystalline sulphide minerals occur along the foliation planes of the quartz-mica-feldspar schist. Assays of samples yielded only traces of gold and silver (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 274, page 222). Scheelite has also been identified in the gossan (Exploration in British Columbia 1975, page E159). In 1988, grab samples assayed low in gold and silver and up to 0.26 per cent copper and 0.23 per cent tungsten (Assessment Reports 17743, 17744).

The old Hope group of claims were prospected in the mid-1940s by O. Schmidt, and in 1975 by Union Carbide Canada Ltd. In 1987, Skylark Resources Ltd. conducted reconnaissance prospecting, rock chip sampling and mapping on the Ice, Matel and Black Gold claims.