Deposit

Altama

Altama 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 (31.250, -81.500 approx.)

Commodities: titanium; zircon; rare earth elements (in monazite)

Deposit model: coastal heavy-mineral sands

Geology

The Altama heavy mineral deposits are present just north of Brunswick, Georgia, in north-south-trending dune ridges of quartz sand that accumulated along a Pamlico shoreline in Pleistocene time. (Pirkle and others (1989))

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