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<strong>Rare</strong> <strong>Earth</strong> <strong>Elements</strong> <strong>Review</strong> Appendix B – REE Mines and Mineral Deposits in the U.S.<br />
State /<br />
Province Deposit Type<br />
New York Hydrothermal Fe-<br />
Oxide<br />
North<br />
Carolina<br />
North<br />
Carolina<br />
South<br />
Carolina<br />
Georgia<br />
Map<br />
Reference<br />
No (Figure<br />
3-1) Deposit Name Status Company Comments<br />
272 Mineville<br />
dumps<br />
Past Fe<br />
producer;<br />
REE resource<br />
Placer, Alluvial 654 Marion Past<br />
byproduct<br />
producer<br />
Placer, Alluvial Location n/a Carolina<br />
monazite belt<br />
Rhône-<br />
Poulenc<br />
Imperial<br />
Mining Co.<br />
(1990)<br />
Orris, et<br />
al. a<br />
Long, et<br />
al. b<br />
Gupta,<br />
et al. c<br />
Schüler,<br />
et al. d<br />
Apatite in mill tailings averages from 4 to more than<br />
11% REO. Magnetite-hematite orebody in<br />
metamorphic rocks.<br />
� � — —<br />
— � — — —<br />
— — — � — — —<br />
Oregon Carbonatite 23 Deep Creek Occurrence — SE <strong>of</strong> Crane Mountain. � — — —<br />
Placer Location n/a Aiken County Occurrence National<br />
Kaolin Co.<br />
Closed in 1958. — — � —<br />
South<br />
Carolina<br />
Placer, Alluvial 634 Horse Creek<br />
(Aiken County)<br />
Past producer<br />
<strong>of</strong> monazite<br />
— Flood plain. Reconcentration <strong>of</strong> heavy minerals from<br />
Tuscaloosa Fmt. Includes Hollow (Holley) Creek and<br />
other drainages.<br />
� — — —<br />
Placer, Shoreline 451 Hilton Head Potential<br />
— Mining unlikely, resort area. � — � —<br />
Island<br />
resource<br />
662 Oak Grove Occurrence — Alluvial terrace. � — � —<br />
Placer, Alluvial<br />
675 Silica Mine Producer, but<br />
does not<br />
recover REO<br />
— HM stockpiled from past production <strong>of</strong> silica sand. � — � —<br />
Placer,<br />
662 Oak Grove Occurrence Ethyl Corp.<br />
— � — � —<br />
Paleoplacer<br />
(1989)<br />
Tennessee<br />
511 Natchez Trace<br />
deposit<br />
Occurrence — Marine placer. � — — —<br />
518 North Camden Occurrence Kerr-<br />
— � — — —<br />
Placer, Shoreline<br />
(Kerr-McGee<br />
McGee<br />
deposit)<br />
(1971)<br />
473 Kerr-McGee<br />
deposit<br />
Occurrence — Marine placer. — — — —<br />
Texas Other Igneous- 291 Llano County Small Past — Several tons <strong>of</strong> pegmatite were mined prior to 1909. � — — —<br />
Affiliated<br />
(Williams Mine, Producer<br />
(including<br />
Pegmatites and<br />
Veins)<br />
others)<br />
B-7