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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Mobile County, Alabama

Mobile County, Alabama has 191 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1982. MSHA's register carries 37 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Mobile County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
191
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
37
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits20 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1982 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    55 28.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    129 67.5%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    7 3.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned37 on register
  1. A & S Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & S Inc · MSHA ID 0103400
    Abandoned
  2. Abrasive Products Mobile Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Parr Industries Inc · MSHA ID 0102691
    Abandoned
  3. Alabama Asphalt Paving Co Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Asphalt Paving Co Inc · MSHA ID 0100775
    Abandoned
  4. Axis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ideal Basic Industries-Cement Division · MSHA ID 0102148
    Abandoned
  5. AXIS QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holcim (US) Incorporated · MSHA ID 0100109
    Abandoned
  6. Blakeley Island Sales Yard
    Facility metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LP · MSHA ID 0103314
    Abandoned
  7. Boe Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coastal Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0102794
    Abandoned
  8. Chickasaw Terminal
    Facility metal/non-metal · Wiregrass Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0103474
    Abandoned
  9. Dredge Albatross
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 0100605
    Abandoned
  10. Gull Dredge Or Dredge Gull
    Surface metal/non-metal · Radcliff Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0100029
    Abandoned
  11. H E Busby Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H E Busby Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0100844
    Abandoned
  12. Harrison Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dirt Inc · MSHA ID 0100776
    Abandoned
  13. HOWELLS FERRY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rocart Sand Company · MSHA ID 0101304
    Abandoned
  14. Jackson Creek
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Creek Sand · MSHA ID 0102803
    Abandoned
  15. Jackson Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Creek Sand · MSHA ID 0100695
    Abandoned
  16. Jackson Creek Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Creek Sand · MSHA ID 0102958
    Abandoned
  17. Joe Moore Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe Moore · MSHA ID 0101325
    Abandoned
  18. John H Maples Hauling Company Incorporat
    Surface metal/non-metal · John H Maples Hauling Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101283
    Abandoned
  19. Laidlaw Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laidlaw Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101263
    Abandoned
  20. Laidlaw Pit No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laidlaw Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101979
    Abandoned
  21. Laidlaw Pit No I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laidlaw Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100774
    Abandoned
  22. Mc Duffie Island Sand & Gravel
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102664
    Abandoned
  23. Mcconnell And Moore Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tate Mcmullin · MSHA ID 0101324
    Abandoned
  24. Mobile Abrasives Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Abrasives Inc. · MSHA ID 0103483
    Abandoned
  25. Mobile Abrasives, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Abrasives, Inc. · MSHA ID 0102950
    Abandoned
  26. Mobile Aluminum Refining Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Aluminum Company Of America · MSHA ID 0100650
    Abandoned
  27. Mobile Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lowery Sand & Fill · MSHA ID 0100843
    Abandoned
  28. Nicholson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C E Colquett General Contractor · MSHA ID 0101397
    Abandoned
  29. OYSTER SHELL PRODUCTS
    Facility metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Magnesia Specialties · MSHA ID 0100032
    Abandoned
  30. Pierre Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Radcliff Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0101426
    Abandoned
  31. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitehead Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102795
    Abandoned
  32. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manning Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 0103287
    Abandoned
  33. Saraland Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 0103317
    Abandoned
  34. Snow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile County Road & Bridge Department · MSHA ID 0100995
    Abandoned
  35. Tommy Graham Pit No 1 Camp No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile County Road & Bridge Department · MSHA ID 0100996
    Abandoned
  36. Tommy Graham Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frank Jordan Construction Co · MSHA ID 0100994
    Abandoned
  37. Whitehead Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitehead Const Co Whitehead Clay P · MSHA ID 0100777
    Abandoned

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

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Disturbed Surface - Pit 52
Sand Pit 40
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 26
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 25
Sand Pit 23
Clay Pit 9
Tailings - Pond 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Borrow Pit 3
Gravel Pit 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 1
Clay Pit 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  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.