The Ideal West occurrence is located on the east side of Bookhout Creek, approximately 800 metres north-northwest of the creek mouth at Sproat Lake.

The area is underlain by propylitically altered pillowed to massive andesite flows and tuffs of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) intruded by quartz diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. A series of sub- parallel shear/fault zones strike northwest. Locally, small highly deformed shale/slate bands occur between pillows and several of the bands are cut by a stockwork of carbonate veinlets. The propylitic alteration assemblage in the pillow lavas comprises chlorite, local carbonate and pyrite.

Locally, a gossanous diorite hosts mineralized (pyrite-chalcopyrite) quartz stringers. In 2006, a sample (Aztek 1) assayed 0.561 gram per tonne gold, 21.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.323 per cent copper and greater than 1 per cent lead (Property File - L. Sookochoff [2006-04-03]: Letter Re: Ideal Property).

In 1984, Royalon Petroleum completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Ideal 1-4 claims. In 1987, Stetson Resources and Metaxa Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock and silt sampling. In 2015, the area was prospected as the Vancouver Island Gold 1-4 claims.