The Alpha 4 occurrence is located on a south west facing ridge, north east of Kinsman Creek and approximately 7 kilometres east- south east of the creek mouth.

North striking Upper Triassic Vancouver Group carbonates of the Quatsino Formation overlie Karmutsen Formation tholeiitic basalts. Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics are coeval with, or genetically related to granodiorite of the Nimpkish batholith of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. Strong regional north to northwest trending faults, often defining intrusive and lithological contacts, traverse the area.

Locally, a 9 by 3.6 metre long massive pyrrhotite lens lying along a northeast trending steep mafic porphyry dike in granodiorite, 60 metres from its contact with Quatsino lime- stone. The lens contains pyrrhotite, considerable zinc and minor copper.

Four samples assayed from 4.3 to 9.6 per cent zinc and up to 0.38 per cent copper, with only a trace of silver and gold (Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1931A, page 27).

In 1966, Empire Development completed a program of ground geophysical surveys and geological mapping on the area as the Alpha, Hazel and Pie claims, Kinman property. In 1998 and 1999, Doublestar Resources completed programs of prospecting and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the 2Star claim group. In 2008, Homegold Resources completed a program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and prospecting on the area as the Bonanza 1 claim.