The Tent Mountain-CanAus occurrence is located approximately 22.5 kilometres southeast of Sparwood British Columbia in the Michel Creek Valley. The past producing Tent Mountain Mine (MINFILE 082GNE004) is located approximately 3 kilometres to the southeast. As of around 2013, the Tent Mountain-CanAus occurrence is being explored as part of the Michel Creek Coking Coal Project by CanAus Coal Ltd. which also includes the Loop Ridge (MINFILE 082GNE009) and Michel Head (MINFILE 082GSE027) occurrences.

The Tent Mountain-CanAus occurrence comprises coal-bearing seams interbedded with sandstone, siltstone, shale, and mudstone that form the Mist Mountain Formation of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Kootenay Group. The occurrence is located on the eastern margin of the Crowsnest coalfield, a complex synclinorium in the Lewis thrust sheet. The major compressional features of the basin are the synclines linked en echelon by low-amplitude anticlines. A series of west dipping thrust faults dominate the structure in the north half of the basin. The major extensional feature is the Erikson fault system, which juxtaposes Mississippian limestone and the Kootenay Group. The fault has a minimum, west side down, displacement of 1200 metres (Coal Assessment Report 922).

Coal at Tent Mountain-CanAus is medium volatile bituminous rank and has been encountered in 9 seams based on drilling in 2013. Only 7 coal seams are reported as resources as seams 8 and 10 are too thin. The drilled section is approximately 120 metres thick with an average cumulative thickness of the coal being 21 metres. The overall section thickness is not known from the 2013 data (Coal Assessment Report 922).

In 1972, Kaiser Resources completed an exploration program of road building, geological mapping, and coal outcrop sampling in the area between Tent Mountain and Michel Creek, just west of the Alberta-British Columbia border. A preliminary resource estimate for the area indicated 11.3 million tonnes of coal.

In 2013, CanAus Coal Ltd. a subsidiary of CoalMont Pty Ltd., drilled 6 reverse circulation holes at the Tent Mountain-CanAus occurrence for a total of 622 metres. These are the first recorded drillholes for the area (Coal Assessment Report 922).