Deposit

Cumberland Island

Cumberland Island is a rare earth occurrence in Georgia, 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: Georgia, United States (30.846, -81.426 approx.)

Commodities: titanium; rare earth elements (in monazite)

Deposit model: coastal heavy-mineral sands

Geology

Large areas of heavy-mineral concentrations occur at Folkston, Cumberland Island…. (Smith and others (1967))

Closed to Mineral Entry — Not very likely to be mined again/protected by its conversion into a recreation area, 1972 (Georgia Conservancy (2016))

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

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