This placer gold deposit occurs on the Barrington River approximately five kilometres north of its confluence with the Chutine River. Upstream from this deposit the river drains an area of Upper Triassic volcanics and sediments of the Stuhini Group. A stock of Juro-Cretaceous granitic rock has intruded these volcanics and sediments several kilometres north of the occurrence.

A series of terraces were formed during high water levels just below where the Barrington River leaves a canyon and the topography flattens out. The base of each terrace is the base of the old river channel and the main production pit lies in one such position. A hole drilled in 1928 or 1929 to a depth of 30.5 metres is reported to have intersected 28.6 metres of "good pay". In 1932 a dredge failed to recover any gold and the operation was halted after 30 days due to boulder conditions. A drag-line shovel was set up in 1933 and 3400 grams of gold was recovered that year. About 7450 grams of gold was recovered by drag-line in 1935.

During the early 1930's individual workers recovered $2 to $6 worth of gold per day (gold = $15 per ounce). The ground worked by them consisted of 30 centimetres of gravel occurring above a clay horizon along the bank of the river. Some patches could be worked, with a maximum of 1.2 metres of stripping along a narrow strip of the bank.