Quartzite (Quartz) Creek flows northerly from the Vital Range into Fall River approximately 36 kilometres northeast of Takla Landing. The placer leases extended upstream for 800 metres from a point 2.4 kilometres from its confluence with Fall River and, in part, encompassed a steep-walled canyon.

The earliest recorded work on the creek appears to have taken place in the late 1800s. Further work was again referenced in the 1913 Minister of Mines Annual Report, although it was not until the 1930s that any production was recorded.

The creek drains an area underlain by schistose sediments assigned to the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex, which in this area is dominated by quartz-rich phyllite. These sediments host numerous barren-looking, locally rusty, white quartz veins varying up to a metre in width.

A preglacial channel is reported to be buried in the right(?) bank of the creek, except at a point approximately 600 metres above the canyon, where it is exposed in the left(?) bank. Placer mining efforts were directed at both pre and postglacial gravels. Boulders of both rhodonite and jade were also reportedly discovered in the placer diggings along the creek (see 093N 188).

Recorded production between 1931 and 1945 totalled 13,530 grams (Bulletin 28, page 45).