The Spring Creek Placer occurrence is located south of Edward Johnny Lake, about 126 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.

The Spring Creek placer was worked from 1876 to 1880 and about 1.6 kilograms (57 ounces) of gold were recovered. The gold probably originated from gold-quartz veins found in the Upper Paleozoic Sylvester Allochton metasediments and greenstones and was transported eastward by glacial ice.