The Bedingfield South occurrence is located on the southwestern end of the Bedingfield Range, approximately 2.6 kilometres northeast of the Cypre River mouth, and 16 kilometres north of Tofino, B.C.

The area is underlain primarily by metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Paleozoic Sicker Group. These are overlain by limestone which is correlative with the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Azure Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group) of the Buttle Lake uplift, which in turn are overlain by basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. See Bedingfield 18 (092F 227), for a more comprehensive geologic description. Also see H-W (092F 330) for a summary of revisions with respect to Paleozoic strata within the Cowichan and Buttle Lake uplifts.

Chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite are reported to occur in basalt (Karmutsen Formation?) at an elevation of 480 metres. Chalcopyrite is reported to occur 600 metres to the southwest at 280 metres elevation, also in basalt (Assessment Report 15152, Plate 3).

A trace of chalcopyrite in basalt or gabbro occurs 400 metres further to the southwest at about 100 metres elevation (Assessment Report 14500, Plate 3).

During 1985 through 1988, BHP-Utah Mines completed programs of geological mapping, rock, silt and soil sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the area immediately south as the Cypress, Maypay and Whitecliff claims. 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. In 2010, 2011 and 2012, Catface Copper Mines Limited completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling on their large Catface NE property on the Bedingfield Peninsula.