The Bedingfield 10 occurrence in the bed of a road that runs along the west side of Herbert Inlet, approximately 2.5 kilometres south west of Gibson Cove.

The area is underlain primarily by metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Paleozoic Sicker Group. In the area of interest these rocks are reported to consist of: a rhyolitic volcanic waterlain tuff and wacke sequence, frequently pyritic and graphitic and having a 135 degree strike with 65 degree west dip; a middle rhyolite pyroclastic sequence characterized by waterlain tuffs, lapilli ash flows, rhyolite flows, dykes and breccia; and an upper rhyolite lapilli breccia unit. These are overlain by limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Buttle Lake Group, which in turn are overlain by basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group (Assessment Report 15152).

An early report describes the showing as a polymetallic occurrence associated with a quartz stockwork near the "Sediment-Sill Unit" (Assessment Report 14500, page 5). This unit consists of interbedded argillite and siltstone, inter-layered with basic sills (Muller, Geological Survey of Canada Paper 79-30).

Later reports state that the mineralization comprises fracture-filling brown sphalerite, fine-grained galena and pyrite in silicified rhyolite lapilli tuff. One sample (RC-5) taken at this site assayed 2.04 per cent zinc, 0.16 per cent lead, 15.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.31 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17670).

During 1986 through 1988, Cominco completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling and ground electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Bedingfield claims.