The Tahoots Creek occurrence is located on a spur 12 kilometres northeast of Kedahda Lake, about 129 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Dease Lake.

Narrow veinlets of magnetite several centimetres wide were observed in pegmatitic granite of the Late Cretaceous Glundebery batholith. The diorite adjacent to the granite contains large, disseminated magnetite grains (Bulletin 19). The showing occurs at or near the contact with Upper Triassic Shonektaw Formation (Takla Group) volcanic rocks.