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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in St. Clair County, Alabama

St. Clair County, Alabama has 155 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1947–1978, including 10 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 105 problems in the county, 61 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 45 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering St. Clair 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)
155
Mine openings
10
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
61
MSHA mines marked abandoned
45
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1947–1978 105 OSMRE problems, 44 reclaimed 1 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    26 10.0%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    101 38.8%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    41 15.8%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    32 12.3%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    3 1.2%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    57 21.9%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems105 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Acmar P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Acmar P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Acmar P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Acmar P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Acmar P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Acmar P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Acmar P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Acmar P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Acmar P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Acmar P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Acmar P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Acmar P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Beulah P1 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Beulah P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Beulah P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Beulah P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Beulah P2 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Beulah P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Beulah P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Beulah P3 Gobs In Reclamation
Beulah P3 Other In Reclamation
Beulah P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Beulah P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Big Black Creek P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Big Black Creek P3 Other Reclamation Pending
Big Black Creek P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Coal City School P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Coal City School P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Copper Springs P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Copper Springs, W P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Copper Springs, W P2 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Fairview P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Low Gap P1 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Low Gap P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Low Gap P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Low Gap P3 Other Reclamation Pending
Low Gap P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Low Gap South P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Low Gap South P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Low Gap South P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Low Gap, North P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Low Gap, North P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Low Gap, North P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Low Gap, North P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Low Gap, North P3 Pits In Reclamation
Low Gap, North P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Margaret P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Margaret P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Margaret P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Margaret P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Margaret P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Margaret P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Margaret P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Margaret P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Margaret P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Margaret P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Margaret P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Margaret P3 Industrial/Residential Waste In Reclamation
Margaret P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Margaret P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Margaret P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Margaret P3 Water Problems In Reclamation
Markeeta P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Pending
Markeeta P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Markeeta P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Markeeta P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Markeeta P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Markeeta P3 Industrial/Residential Waste In Reclamation
Markeeta P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Mitchell Cemetery P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Mitchell Cemetery P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Mitchell Cemetery P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Mitchell Cemetery P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
New Acton P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
New Acton P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Owens Mountain P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Owens Mountain P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Owens Mountain, N. P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Owens Mountain, N. P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Ragland P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Ragland P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Ragland P1 Subsidence In Reclamation
Ragland P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ragland P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Robinson School P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Sanie P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Simmons Mountain P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Simmons Mountain P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Turnbough Town P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Turnbough Town P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Turnbough Town P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Turnbough Town P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Turnbough Town P3 High Wall In Reclamation
Turnbough Town P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Turnbough Town P3 Slurry In Reclamation
Turnbough Town P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Turnbough Town P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Wattsville P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Whites Chapel P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Whites Chapel P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Whites Chapel P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Whites Chapel P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Whites Chapel, North P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Whites Chapel, North P3 Other In Reclamation
Whites Chapel, North P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned45 on register
  1. Acmar
    Surface coal · Keller Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0102163
    Abandoned
  2. Acmar
    Surface coal · Calvert & Marsh Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102391
    Abandoned
  3. Acmar Mine
    Surface coal · M T Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0101023
    Abandoned
  4. Acmar Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Pine Ridge Corp Inc · MSHA ID 0102192
    Abandoned
  5. Acmar No 1
    Underground coal · Apex Industries · MSHA ID 0101830
    Abandoned and Sealed
  6. Acmar Pit No 1
    Surface coal · Renfroe Grading Inc · MSHA ID 0101448
    Abandoned
  7. Acmar Strip
    Surface coal · Tele Corp Inc · MSHA ID 0101794
    Abandoned
  8. Acmar Washer
    Facility coal · U S Coals Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102250
    Abandoned
  9. Acmar Washer
    Facility coal · Solitaire Leasing Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0102389
    Abandoned
  10. Black Creek
    Facility coal · Peoples Salvage · MSHA ID 0102714
    Abandoned
  11. C And D Strip
    Surface coal · Jon Tom Corp · MSHA ID 0101704
    Abandoned
  12. Clifty Mine No 4
    Surface coal · Clifty Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101489
    Abandoned
  13. Coal Branch Strip
    Surface coal · Hallmark & Son Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101721
    Abandoned
  14. Coal City Mine
    Surface coal · Calvert & Marsh Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102390
    Abandoned
  15. Coal City Pit No 1
    Surface coal · Coal City Coal & Iron Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101710
    Abandoned
  16. Coal Prep Plant
    Facility coal · M T Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101797
    Abandoned
  17. Compliance Pit 8-1
    Surface coal · Compliance Coal Processors Inc · MSHA ID 0102185
    Abandoned
  18. Fairview Pit
    Surface coal · Larry Terry Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 0102405
    Abandoned
  19. Hebble Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · National Cement Company of Alabama, Inc. · MSHA ID 0102169
    Abandoned
  20. Inman Strip
    Surface coal · Richey Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101454
    Abandoned
  21. J-1 Strip
    Surface coal · Triple J Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101777
    Abandoned
  22. Mammoth Pit #1
    Surface coal · Compliance Coal Processors Inc · MSHA ID 0102073
    Abandoned
  23. Mammoth Pit No 1
    Surface coal · M T Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102137
    Abandoned
  24. Margaret
    Surface coal · Calvert & Marsh Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102459
    Abandoned
  25. Margaret 59-1 Strip
    Surface coal · Robison Mining Company · MSHA ID 0101461
    Abandoned
  26. Margaret Mine
    Surface coal · Robison & Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101901
    Abandoned
  27. Margaret Strip
    Surface coal · Tele Corp Inc · MSHA ID 0101483
    Abandoned
  28. Margaret-Sanie
    Surface coal · M S & R Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102608
    Abandoned
  29. Mine No 14
    Surface coal · Tele Corp Inc · MSHA ID 0102061
    Abandoned
  30. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Surface Mine & Reclamation Corp · MSHA ID 0101846
    Abandoned
  31. No 8 Margaret Mine 59-3
    Surface coal · Robison & Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101913
    Abandoned
  32. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coosa Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0101826
    Abandoned
  33. Pope'S Chapel Surface
    Surface coal · Smr Mining Ltd · MSHA ID 0101931
    Abandoned
  34. Ragland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · National Cement Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102147
    Abandoned
  35. RAGLAND QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · National Cement Co., of AL, Inc. · MSHA ID 0102216
    Abandoned
  36. Sanie Strip
    Surface coal · Robison & Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101728
    Abandoned
  37. Sanie Strip
    Surface coal · Robison Mining Company · MSHA ID 0101851
    Abandoned
  38. Springville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · MSHA ID 0103218
    Abandoned
  39. St Clair Mine #1
    Surface coal · Panther Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102683
    Abandoned
  40. St Clair No 1
    Surface coal · Basin Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102246
    Abandoned
  41. St Clair No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Vulcan Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 0101760
    Abandoned
  42. St Clair Strip
    Surface coal · By-Mac Mining & Excavating Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101853
    Abandoned
  43. Talley Property Pit No 1
    Surface coal · Rosa Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 0101513
    Abandoned
  44. Whites Chapel Mine
    Surface coal · Carboco Inc · MSHA ID 0102698
    Abandoned
  45. Wolf Creek Mine
    Surface coal · Thomas Duckett Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102349
    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
Strip Mine 66
P3 Spoil Area 21
Disturbed Surface - Pit 21
Gravel Pit 14
Adit 10
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 10
Open Pit Mine 9
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 8
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
P3 Gobs 7
P3 High Wall 6
Gravel Pit 6
P3 Other 6
Disturbed Surface 5
Chert Pit 5
P1 Portals 5
P1 Vertical Openings 5
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 4
P2 Portals 4
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 3
Tailings - Undifferentiated 3
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 3
Sand Pit 3
P2 Vertical Openings 2
Chert Pit 2
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 2
P3 Equipment Facility 2
Quarry 2
P1 Subsidence 2
Quarry 2
P1 Surface Burning 2
P2 Clogged Streams 2
P3 Mine Opening 2
P3 Slurry 1
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
P3 Water Problems 1
P2 Dangerous Slides 1
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 1
P3 Pits 1
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
P2 Surface Burning 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.