The Tabor Creek placer deposit is located at the mouth of Tabor Creek. The deposit is in a post-glacial reconcentration of glacial debris that consists of granitic material. It immediately overlies a false bedrock formed of a kaolinized layer of granitic material.

"Data from the Cariboo mining district indicate that supergene leaching of gold dispersed within massive sulphides by Tertiary deep weathering followed by Cenozoic erosion is the most likely explanation for the occurrence of coarse gold nuggets in Quaternary sediments" (Exploration in British Columbia 1989, page 147).