The LOST FIDDLE 1-4 occurrence location is taken as the centre of the Lost Fiddle claims (1-4), 600 metres west of the confluence of Enchantment Creek and Ottarasko Creek, 9.5 kilometres northeast of Cloud-Drifter Peak,10 kilometres west of Tatlayoko Lake, 43 kilometres south of the community of Tatla Lake on Highway 20 and 181 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, B.C.

The geological setting is difficult to define, as it is in a complex area of thrusts and steep faults involving Lower, Middle and Upper Cretaceous sedimentary and volcanic rocks, in the overlap assemblages near the northeastern margin of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1163; Papers 68-33, 88-1E, 89-1E; Map 1713A; Geology 1991). The contacts between these units apparently follow the Ottarasko Creek Valley in the vicinity of the Lost Fiddle occurrence. Of the stratigraphic units involved, the Lower Cretaceous Taylor Creek Group contains rhyolitic volcanics, so it may be the most likely host for the occurrence. Other overlap formations in the area include the Lower Cretaceous Cloud Drifter Formation and the Upper Cretaceous Powell Creek Formation. Granodioritic stocks of the Tertiary to Paleocene Bendor suite intrude within a few kilometres west of the Lost Fiddle showings.

The showing consists of quartz veins, containing chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite, in rhyolite. The mineralization contains gold and silver as well as copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1967, 1968). Work completed by owner E.R. Flesher on the showing included 1 hand-trench, 9 metres long; 3 hand-trenches, 3 metres long each; and 44 metres of drilling in 7 diamond-drill holes. Mineralization encountered in 3 trenches was defined by Kingfisher Metals in 2021 as sulphide-cemented quartz breccias that contain primarily arsenopyrite in addition to chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and other unidentifiable dark grey sulphides.

The best rock sample (S4047951) collected from historical trenches in 2021 returned values of 42.8 grams per tonne gold, 1097 grams per tonne silver, 25.1 per cent arsenic, 1.56 per cent bismuth, 1.14 per cent copper and 0.2 per cent antimony. Back-pack hole BP-LF-21-05 was drilled through oxidized vein material in a chlorite-altered volcaniclastic conglomerate. The interval from 0 to 0.45 metres intersected values of 17.1 grams per tonne gold, 431 grams per tonne silver, 10.5 per cent arsenic, 4.12 per cent copper, 1.01 per cent bismuth and 0.06 per cent antimony.

Kingfisher Metals Corp. prospected the area of the Lost Fiddle historical showing in 2021 and outlined an area of 3 hand trenches with quartz-sulphide breccias. A total of 27 rock samples were taken for analysis. Gold values returned ranged from 1.1 grams per tonne gold to 42.8 grams per tonne gold; other sampling yielded values up to 1097 grams per tonne silver, 4.5 per cent copper, 0.95 per cent lead, 1.56 per cent bismuth, and 0.32 per cent cobalt (Press Release, Kingfisher Metals Corp., September 28, 2021). Back-pack drilling was completed over 9 shallow holes in this area in addition to a tightly spaced soil survey (Assessment Report 39734). No ground work in the Lost Fiddle 1-4 area was conducted in 2022, but structural interpretations were made from airborne data collected in 2020 over the large Goldrange project area.

Refer to the Cloud Drifter prospect (MINFILE 092N 095) or Langara (092N 036) for related geological and work history details.