Quartzite (Quartz) Creek flows northerly from the Vital Range into Fall River approximately 36 kilometres northeast of Takla Landing. Placer workings extend upstream for 800 metres from a point 2.4 kilometres from its confluence with Fall River.

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 gold 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.

Placer mining efforts were directed at both pre and postglacial gravels and reportedly uncovered boulders of both rhodonite and jade (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 72-53, page 59). The most probable bedrock source for these boulders is the Mount Ogden area (see 093N 165) to the northwest, where nephrite has been located in-situ.