The Eagle River occurrence is located about 32 kilometres northeast of Dease Lake.

The Eagle River drains a large area underlain by Paleozoic rocks of Ancestral North America, Mississippian to Jurassic rocks of the Cache Creek Terrane, Early Jurassic plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane and Cretaceous intrusions of the Cassiar batholith.

Bulletin 28 records gold production on Eagle River of 124.4 grams between 1941 and 1945. The same publication gives a location plot (Figure 2, location number 53) for the occurrence but this may be only a random location point along the river.