The Hope occurrence is located west of Humbird Creek, approximately 3.5 kilometres east- south east of the Lara (MINFILE 092B 129) occurrence and has been explored in conjunction with it.

The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Sicker Group) intruded by gabbroic bodies (informally called the Mount Hall Gabbro) that are coeval with the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group (Massey, Personal Communication, 1991). See Lara (092B 129) for a discussion of the regional geology.

Mineralization consists of pyrite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite(?), and chalcopyrite in a narrow quartz vein. The vein occurs at the sheared contact between andesite-rhyolite tuffs and a gabbro sill. Disseminated pyrite also occurs along the foliation within volcanics.

In 1982, Aberford Resources completed a program of geochemical sampling, geological mapping, trenching and ground geophysical surveys. Sampling of cherty and baritic tuffs yielded up to 0.2 per cent copper, 0.85 per cent lead, 2.95 grams per tonne gold, 25.03 grams per tonne silver; barium averages about 2 per cent (Assessment Report 11123, page 18).

In 1999, Laramide Resources completed a 12 hole diamond drilling program, totalling 2550.5 metres on the Laramide Property.

In 2006, three grab samples (926 to 928) taken during a site visit yielded from 0.03 to 0.15 per cent zinc, 2.4 to 25.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.04 to 0.10 per cent copper, 0.01 to 0.015 per cent lead and 0.07 to 0.40 gram per tonne gold (Kelso, L. (2007-11-15): Independent Technical Report and Mineral Resource Estimation – Lara Polymetallic Propert).

In 2007, Laramide Resources, for Treasury Metals Inc., completed a program of airborne geophysical surveys, totalling 500.1 line kilometres, drill core resampling and a resources estimate of the Coronation Trend. In 2009, Treasury Metals completed a program of structural mapping and whole rock geochemical sampling on the Lara property.