The Golden Glow mine is on the west end of district lot 406, 300 metres west-northwest of the confluence of Bromley and White creeks, and 7 kilometres southwest of Princeton.

This coal deposit lies near the western margin of the Princeton Basin, a northerly trending fault-bounded trough filled by Eocene volcanic rocks of mainly intermediate composition, comprising the Lower Volcanic Formation, and an overlying Eocene sedimentary sequence of sandstone, shale, waterlain rhyolite tephra (tuff) and coal, up to 2000 metres thick, comprising the Allenby Formation. The seam is part of the Golden Glow coal zone, one of four significant coal-bearing zones in a 530-metre section in the Allenby Formation (Princeton Group). This zone was also mined at the Bromley Vale No. 2 mine (092HSE215).

The seam at the Golden Glow mine is approximately 2.5 metres thick. The limited amount of development work conducted on the seam suggested it was too dirty to exploit (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 52-12, page 20). The underground workings had followed the seam for 140 metres.

Golden Glow Coal Mining Company explored the deposit in 1937 and 1938.