The Gordon Creek asbestos occurrence is described as being situated on Gordon Creek, approximately 800 metres west of the Fraser River.

The area is underlain by gneissic granite of the Cretaceous and/or Tertiary Custer Gneiss in contact with slate assigned to the Mesozoic Settler Schist along the north trending Hope fault. In the vicinity of Gordon Creek, a 150-metre wide slice of ultramafic rocks of unknown age occupies a short segment of the fault. An elongate body of granodiorite assigned to the Cretaceous Spuzzum Intrusions is in fault contact with the ultramafic rocks and has intruded the metasediments to the west.

The ultramafic rocks are dominated by shattered serpentinite, described as being dense and black and hosting minor disseminated chromite. Asbestos, occurring as slip fibre, was reportedly developed in fracture planes within the serpentinite. The only visible cross fibre apparently occurred in minute veins, which were not very abundant.

Development work to 1911 consisted of several opencuts and a few tunnels.