Tom Creek drains the north slopes of Mount Tom and flows into Kenny Creek approximately 24 kilometres northeast of Takla Landing. Placer gold was initially discovered in the creek in 1889, 20 years after it was discovered on Vital Creek (093N 044), 15 kilometres to the northeast.

The creek drains an area underlain by a north-northwest striking, steeply dipping sequence of interbedded phyllite, andesitic tuff and minor limestone assigned to the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex. These rocks host numerous barren-looking, locally rusty, white quartz veins varying up to a metre in width.

The creek was worked profitably from 1899 to 1904 starting upstream from a point 1.6 kilometres from its confluence with Kenny Creek. Gold was originally recovered by means of a deep bedrock flume, but by 1935, tunnelling was employed. Tom Creek Placers, Limited later used a large steam shovel, which was left after operations ceased in 1940.

Recorded production from Tom Creek up until 1949 is 50,512 grams of gold (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 252, page 139). Production of 74,710 grams of gold up to 1945 is also reported (Bulletin 28, page 46). It is not known which figure is correct.

In 1981, Placer Dome Ltd. conducted a soil sampling program on the Tom Creek area. Slightly anomalous, but insignificant, results were reported (Assessment Report 09676).

In 1983 and 1985, Golden Porphyrite Ltd. completed geological and geochemical surveys on the property containing the occurrence. Slightly anomalous gold values were observed in soil samples but no defined zone or samples were reported.

In 2015, Vern Mann completed a magnetometer survey on the area surrounding the occurrence. Results did not highlight bedrock but possibly outlined the previously mined area.