The Bedingfield 5 occurrence is located on an east facing slope of Herbert Inlet, approximately 1.2 kilometres east- south east of Binns Island.

The area is underlain primarily by metavolcanic and meta- sedimentary rocks of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Sicker Group) and/or rocks of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group). These are overlain by limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Formation, Buttle Lake Group, which in turn are overlain by basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group (Assessment Report 15152). See Minfile occurrence 92F 227 for a more comprehensive geologic description.

Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite are reported to occur in Karmutsen basalt (Assessment Report 14500, Plate 3). No other details of the showing were recorded.

In 1986 and 1987, Cominco completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling and ground electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Bedingfield claims. In 1989 and 1990, Falconbridge completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling and airborne and ground geophysical surveys on the area.