The Hope showing area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics of the Telkwa Formation comprised of variegated red, green, maroon to grey andesitic to rhyolitic flows, tuffs and breccia. The volcanics have undergone extensive faulting and shearing. They are intruded by a Late Cretaceous to Eocene intrusions comprised of granodiorite with associated felsite dikes.

A quartz vein with a maximum exposed width of 0.75 metre strikes 320 degrees and dips steeply northeast in the andesitic volcanics. The vein is mineralized with chalcopyrite and pyrite. A sample of the best mineralization assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 171.4 grams per tonne silver and 10 per cent copper. A sample of the oxidized portion of the vein assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 185.1 grams per tonne silver and 1.0 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1932, page 85).

Work History

The Hope group was owned in 1932 by W.S. Duncan and associates, of Telkwa.

The Hope was held within the El Toro property of Lions Gate Lions Gate Energy Inc. The showing was not visited by the company to 2012.

See Old Tom (093L 034) for details of related work history.