Deposit

Christy-Destiny

Christy-Destiny is a rare earth occurrence in North Carolina, recorded in the USGS USMIN rare earth element occurrence database (ver. 4.0, June 2019).

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 12, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: North Carolina, United States (35.588, -81.931 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements (in monazite and xenotime); gold; sand; gravel

Deposit model: monazite-bearing stream placers · unclassified

Geology

Imperial Mining Co. produced minor amounts of a mixed monazite-xenotime-zircon concentrate at a gold and industrial sand and gravel mine in North Carolina. (Hedrick and Templeton (1991))

Exploration and site history

Active — Imperial Mining Co. produced minor amounts of a mixed monazite-xenotime-zircon concentrate at a gold and industrial sand and gravel mine in North Carolina, 1989 (Hedrick and Templeton (1991))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.

Sources

U.S. Geological Survey · published Jun 1, 2019 · retrieved Aug 12, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback snapshot 20260427015518 of the ScienceBase item exists but the archive service returned 503 on verification 2026-08-12; recheck on a weekly pass