Abandoned mines in Bibb County, Alabama

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   27 9.6%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   47 16.7%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   55 19.5%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   42 14.9%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   5 1.8%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   106 37.6%

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

…and 27 more problems not listed here.

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. Blockton Pit #2

   Surface coal · C & W Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101999
   Abandoned 1981-01-06
2. Blocton #9 Washer

   Facility coal · Black Diamond Coal Mining Company · MSHA ID 0102456
   Abandoned 1984-11-16
3. Blocton Pit

   Surface coal · C & W Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101749
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
4. Blocton Strip Operation

   Surface coal · Burgess Mining & Construction Corp · MSHA ID 0101492
   Abandoned 1980-01-19
5. Caffee Creek Mine

   Surface coal · Sunbelt Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0103033
   Abandoned 1998-07-29
6. Coosa River Clay Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · W S Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company · MSHA ID 0100123
   Abandoned 1982-11-15
7. D & A Mine #1

   Surface coal · D & A Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102511
   Abandoned 1985-01-08
8. Filler Products Company Inc

   Facility metal/non-metal · Filler Products Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103147
   Abandoned 2008-07-01
9. Forest Service Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Hardin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100740
   Abandoned 1987-08-28
10. Hargrove Mine Site

    Surface coal · Vulcan Hargrove, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 0103377
    Abandoned 2009-08-10
11. Hebron Mine

    Surface coal · Birmingham Coal & Coke Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102838
    Abandoned 2002-07-23
12. Hebron Mine

    Underground coal · Camellia Met Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 0103388
    Abandoned 2011-09-08
13. Herborn Pit

    Surface coal · West Blocton Clay & Shale Company · MSHA ID 0102576
    Abandoned 1984-10-17
14. Marvel Mine

    Surface coal · Camellia Met Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 0103441
    Abandoned 2024-07-01
15. Mcculley Mine

    Surface coal · Apex Coal Corp · MSHA ID 0102665
    Abandoned 1986-02-05
16. Nichols Construction Mine No 1

    Facility coal · Nichols Construction Company · MSHA ID 0102255
    Abandoned 1985-10-07
17. Piper No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Seminole Coal Corp · MSHA ID 0101708
    Abandoned 1978-06-15
18. Piper No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Davis-Terrell-Killian & Associates · MSHA ID 0100983
    Abandoned 1978-01-09
19. Pit #3

    Surface coal · Osborn Coal Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0102713
    Abandoned 1988-03-15
20. Pit No 3

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Sisco Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102046
    Abandoned 1985-04-22
21. Portable Aglime Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials. LP · MSHA ID 0103306
    Abandoned 2006-02-10
22. Primitive Ridge

    Surface coal · Apex Coal Corp · MSHA ID 0102672
    Abandoned 1986-04-09
23. Reclamation Projct No 1

    Facility coal · C B M Coal Company Ltd · MSHA ID 0102252
    Abandoned 1981-07-15
24. Salem 1600 Auger #1 S/N 27

    Surface coal · Capcon Inc · MSHA ID 1103146
    Abandoned 2007-06-05
25. Secondary Recovery System

    Surface coal · Serec Inc · MSHA ID 0101819
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
26. Seymour Mine

    Surface coal · Camellia Met Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 0103295
    Abandoned 2013-11-25
27. Seymour No 186 Strip

    Surface coal · Burgess Mining & Construction Corp · MSHA ID 0100628
    Abandoned 1972-03-03
28. T C 1 No 7 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Surface Mining Company · MSHA ID 0100726
    Abandoned 1975-09-02
29. Thompson #2 Mine

    Underground coal · Tacoa Minerals, LLC. · MSHA ID 0103391
    Abandoned 2011-09-08
30. Thompson South Mine

    Surface coal · Thompson South 1 LLC · MSHA ID 0103335
    Abandoned 2014-08-04
31. Warco #7

    Surface coal · Apex Coal Corp · MSHA ID 0102877
    Abandoned 1990-10-09
32. Waste Recovery Site No 1

    Surface coal · Thompson South 1 LLC. · MSHA ID 0103263
    Abandoned 2014-08-21
33. West Blocton #1

    Facility coal · B W S Technology Inc · MSHA ID 0102570
    Abandoned 1989-09-28
34. West Blocton No 116

    Surface coal · Tsm Service Corp · MSHA ID 0102417
    Abandoned 1984-10-22
35. West Blocton Pit

    Surface coal · J & S Corp · MSHA ID 0102839
    Abandoned 1991-02-20
36. West Blocton Test Pit

    Surface coal · B & G Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102709
    Abandoned 1987-01-15
37. West Blocton Washer

    Facility coal · Cahaba Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 0100511
    Abandoned 1980-05-22
38. Woodstock Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Cobern Mining Company · MSHA ID 0100583
    Abandoned 1977-07-21
39. Woodstock Pit #1

    Surface coal · Allied Products Company · MSHA ID 0102638
    Abandoned 1985-10-24
40. Woodstock Quarry & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100031
    Abandoned 1981-02-09
41. Woodstock-2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Woodstock Trucking Co., Inc · MSHA ID 0102937
    Abandoned 2016-10-05
42. Yeshic

    Surface coal · Costain Coal Inc · MSHA ID 0102868
    Abandoned 1995-01-06

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Walker County 763
• Jefferson County 653
• Marion County 397
• Tuscaloosa County 229
• Escambia County 216
• Mobile County 191
• Franklin County 174
• Jackson County 162
• Baldwin County 159
• St. Clair County 155
• Blount County 154
• Montgomery County 144

1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
   597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
   States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
   One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
   Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
   Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
   Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
   The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
   Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.