The Taylor Burson Coal mine is located on the west-central part of district Lot 88, 1.4 kilometres southwest of the Tulameen River and 6 kilometres west-southwest of Princeton.

This coal deposit occurs along the western margin of the Princeton Basin, a northerly trending half-graben superimposed on volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The basin is separated into a northern and southern area by the gentle, northwest-striking Rainbow Lake anticline. The southern area, in which this deposit occurs, is a structural depression with beds dipping 10 to 20 degrees south near Princeton, and gently east between Asp (China) Creek and the Tulameen River. South of Princeton are two major east-striking asymmetric anticlines with gentle to moderate southerly dips continuing to the south. On the western margin of the basin, the strata dips approximately 50 degrees east. In the southern part of the basin, two north to northwest plunging anticlines are present. The basin is bounded and cut in places by a number of approximately north to northeast-striking, westerly dipping faults. The main faults are the Asp Creek fault and the Boundary fault.

The deposit is hosted in a sequence of sandstone, shale, waterlain rhyolite tephra (tuff) and coal, up to 2000 metres thick, comprising the Eocene Allenby Formation (Princeton Group). The mine is developed in the Pleasant Valley-Jackson coal zone, one of four significant coal-bearing zones in a 530-metre section in the Allenby Formation. This zone was also mined at the Pleasant Valley No. 1 mine (092HSE211), and the Jackson mine (092HSE214). It is best represented in the Bromley Vale area where it consists of two to three seams of variable thickness (approximately 1.8 metres of coal in total) in a 30-metre stratigraphic interval.

The coal-bearing strata at the Taylor Burson mine strikes 048 degrees and dip 55 degrees southeast. The seam has been traced downdip in the underground mine for 75 metres and along strike for 160 metres. The mined seam is 1.2 metres thick, and contains several thin partings of shale and dirty coal. A total of 0.94 metre of clean coal are present in this seam (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 52-12, Figure 2). The deposit is overlain by dirty coal with minor interbedded shale and underlain by sandstone.

This colliery was operated by Taylor Burson Coal Company Ltd. between 1946 and 1948. The company produced 6212 tonnes of coal during this time.