The Maud Creek placer is located near the junction of Maud Creek and the Quesnel River in the Cariboo district.

This placer is located within the historical Cariboo goldfields, where these deposits occur in glacial, interglacial fluvial and till deposits of Pleistocene age. These lie unconformably on rocks belonging to the Slide Mountain, Cariboo, Barkerville and Quesnellia terranes which range in age from the Precambrian to the Jurassic.

The Maud Creek placer occurs in an area underlain by rocks of the Quesnellia terrane, primarily Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Group volcanic rocks.

There has been no recorded production from this showing but it was evaluated between 1968 and 1970 by Maud Creek Explorations Co. Ltd.

A buried river channel 213 metres long, 15 metres wide and estimated to be 15 metres deep was located on Lease 6937. Samples taken from the surface over the full length of the channel assayed 3.428 grams per tonne gold and 13.712 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Kiepprien, A.J., 1971, Progress Report from Maud Creek Explorations Co. Ltd.).

Testing on the other leases resulted in assays of between 2.057 to 20.225 grams per tonne gold and between 6.857 to 13.712 grams per tonne silver. Several of these assays (unspecified) contained 0.1714 gram per tonne platinum (Property File - Kiepprien, A.J. 1971 Progress Report from Maud Creek Explorations Co. Ltd.).

"Data from the Cariboo mining district indicate that supergene leaching of gold dispersed within massive sulphides by Tertiary deep weathering followed by Cenozoic erosion is the most likely explanation for the occurrence of coarse gold nuggets in Quaternary sediments" (Exploration in British Columbia 1989, page 147).