Critical Minerals Factbook
Deposit

Thicketty Creek

Thicketty Creek is a rare earth occurrence in South 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: South Carolina, United States (35.084, -81.727 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements (in monazite); rutile; ilmenite; zircon

Deposit model: monazite-bearing stream placers · unclassified

Geology

The stream sediments containing the monazite placers are remarkedly similar from the Catawba River on the north to the Savannah River on the south. Monazite is generally found in all [alluvium] units, but commonly is most abundant in the gravel at the bottom of the deposit and least abundant in the clay." (Staatz and others (1979))

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

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