The Skeena Crossing coal occurrence is located 22 kilometres southwest of Hazelton, south of Highway 16.

The area is underlain by Lower Cretaceous Kitsuns Creek Formation (Skeena Group) feldspathic and volcanic sandstone, siltstone, shale, polymictic volcaniclastic conglomerate and carbonaceous sediments.

Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 69 (page 158) refers to a 30-centimetre layer of impure coal in crushed, deformed rocks.