The Hampton's Pit showing area is located approximately 4 kilometres south of the village of Likely. The area is the site of past and present placer mining operations and is criss-crossed by a fairly dense network of gravel roads, cuts and old trails. Access to the southern portion is gained via a logging road connecting the little settlement of Winkley Creek with the paved road leading from Likely to Cedar Point Provincial Park. The northern area can be accessed by gravel roads leading from Likely to several placer operations located toward Spanish Lake. Many old tote roads or trails start off from these roads and can be followed over short distances.

The majority of bedrock found throughout the showing area consists of Upper Triassic Nicola Group andesitic to basaltic volcanic rocks that are intruded by coeval dioritic rocks. Near the large “Hampton’s pit”, a small gossanous outcrop of diorite and andesite occurs close to an old wood platform that is probably a drill site apparently drilled by Cedarmine Resources Inc. in the late 1980s. Rock sample SM-03-13 of epidote altered diorite with disseminated pyrite associated with quartz analyzed 0.6 gram per tonne gold, 0.25 per cent zinc and 0.05 per cent copper (Assessment Report 27245).

Cedarmine Resources Inc. conducted extensive soil geochemical, magnetometer and induced polarization surveys from 1986 to 1990. See Joy (093A 072) for a detailed work history. In 2003, geological reconnaissance, mapping and prospecting was conducted on behalf of AN-Kobra Resources Inc.