Placer gold occurs in a cut on a low bench of the Tahltan River about 30 metres above the bridge, on Indian Reserve 1, just north of the confluence of Tahltan and Stikine rivers, approximately 36 kilometres northeast of the community of Telegraph Creek.

The cut exposed 2.4 metres of stratified and imbricated gravel. The upper section of the gravel is loose and easily picked and is superimposed on 0.45 metre of clayey gravel. Coarse colours were panned by the Resident Engineer from this basal streak and one test pan calculated out to 7.7 grams gold per 0.76 cubic metre. Up to the time of examination (August 29, 1933) John Carlick reported a recovery of over 279 grams gold. The last clean-ups, representing five and three days, yielded 1 ounce 9.5 grains and 13 dwt. 23 grains of gold, respectively. Work on this ground was very intermittent (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1933, page A62).

Bedrock in the vicinity are Pleistocene to Holocene olivine basalt, and porphyritic augite basalt, feldspar porphyry and basalt of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group.

Recorded production from the Tahltan River from about 1911 to 1945 totalled 3669 grams of gold (Bulletin 28, page 60).