The Vid 4 occurrence is located on the east side of Vidette Lake, about 1 kilometre east of the Vidette mine (092P 086). The area is accessible on a good-quality gravel road which leads north from the Trans-Canada Highway approximately 7.4 kilometres west of Savona.
The Vidette Lake area is underlain by mafic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group exposed in a window eroded through flat-lying Miocene sedimentary rocks and plateau basalts of the Chilcotin Group. The uppermost Chilcotin Group strata comprise an extensive layer of plateau basalts of the Chasm Formation, underlain by volcanic ash and fluviatile and lacustrine sedimentary strata of the Deadman River Formation which occupy a northwest trending Miocene channel. The Nicola rocks are intruded by biotite-hornblende granodiorite plugs which are possibly related to the Triassic to Jurassic Thuya batholith. Nicola rocks are generally augite andesites commonly altered to chlorite-rich or calcareous greenstones, however contact metamorphism has developed garnet-diopside-actinolite skarn or tactite adjacent to the intrusive rocks.
The Vid 4 occurrence is located 1000 metres east of the Vidette mine (092P 086). Assessment Report 4257 (page 9) states that "molybdenite was noted in two places on the Vid #4 claim. Near the mutual boundary of Vid #3 and Vid #4, two long trenches have been cut in greenstone. Traces of fine-grained molybdenite were found in a narrow quartz vein in one of these trenches. About 700 feet (225 metres) northeast of these trenches, disseminated flakes of molybdenite are found in two narrow quartz veins in a slightly porphyritic granodiorite". See Minfile 092P 086 for related production.
The first record of work (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 179) was in the 1930s on the Shelley property (092P 088) when the property was explored by several pits and an adit. More recently the property has been covered by several soil geochemical and geophysical surveys (Assessment Reports 4257, 12021, 17810, 18492, 19136).
In 2020, Kermode Resources Ltd. completed a minor program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area.
