Deposit

Little Talbot Island

Little Talbot Island is a rare earth occurrence in Florida, 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: Florida, United States (30.459, -81.411 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements (in monazite); thorium (in monazite)

Deposit model: coastal heavy-mineral sands

Geology

The whole island (6.9 square km) is mineralized, whereby average dune sand thickness of approx. 3 m is reached. (Elsner (1997))

Closed to Mineral Entry — Protected Florida State Park; Not very likely to be mined again/protected by its conversion into a recreation area, 1950 (Elsner (1997))

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