The Kitkat 3 showing is located east of Alberni Inlet on the slopes of Mt. Logan.

The area is underlain mainly by basalt, pillowed basalt, basalt- ic tuff and agglomerate of the Devonian Duck Lake Formation, Sicker Group. The mafic volcanics contain gabbroic sills probably related to the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Discontinuous shearing and fracturing tend to parallel large scale regional structures, specifically the fault zone forming the Nitinat River valley. Gossans are associated with the mineralized shears, which occur mainly in coarse-grained, hornblende-rich basalt. Pyrite occurs as a replacement of hornblende. The basalt is typical- ly chloritized and less altered to pyrite, sericite and epidote. Areas of intense shearing contain quartz veins with pods of massive sulphides (mainly pyrite).

A lens of semi-massive pyrite and minor pyrrhotite occur in a gabbroic flow (Showing C). The lens contained low assay values, however, a 20 centimetre sample, 400 metres to the south, assayed 0.17 per cent copper and 0.05 per cent cobalt, and a 20 centimetre sample of massive pyrite in hornblendite, 400 metres to the west, assayed 2.94 grams per tonne gold, 1.4 grams per tone silver and 0.11 per cent cobalt (Assessment Report 13945).

The Kitkat showings were first explored by Gunnex Ltd. between 1963 and 1966. This work involved regional silt sampling and prospecting. In 1985 and 1986, JBL Resources completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, prospecting and VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys. This work identified the five Kit Kat occurrences: Kitkat (MINFILE 092F 282), Kitkat 2 (MINFILE 092F 284), Kitkat 3 (MINFILE 092F 149), Kitkat 4 (MINFILE 092F 218), Kit Kat 5 (MINFILE 092F 461). In 2011, Gold Ridge Explorations Inc. completed a regional program of litho-geochemical sampling, helicopter-borne versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) and aeromagnetic geophysical surveys, totalling 34 square kilometres, on the area as the Columbia Shear property. In 2012 and 2013, Golden Peak Minerals Inc. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (soil, rock and silt) sampling and a 24.35 line-kilometre ground magnetometer survey on the area. In 2017, New Point Exploration Corp. completed a program of rock, soil, silt and moss mat sampling on the area as the Columbia Shear property.