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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Talladega County, Alabama

Talladega County, Alabama has 64 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1915–2001; 6 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 13 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Talladega 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)
64
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
13
6 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1915–2001 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
    28 43.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    36 56.2%
Named features on the maps6 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Gantts Quarry Quarry
Gantts Quarry Quarry
Gantts Quarry Quarry area
Gantts Quarry Quarry
Gantts Quarry Quarry area
Gantts Quarry Quarry area

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned13 on register
  1. ALPINE MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 0100433
    Abandoned
  2. Alpine Pilot Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Cyprus Mines Corp · MSHA ID 0102514
    Abandoned
  3. Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · MSHA ID 0100038
    Abandoned
  4. ECCI SYLACAUGA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ecci Calcium Products Inc · MSHA ID 0100640
    Abandoned
  5. Evans Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac Alabama Inc · MSHA ID 0102006
    Abandoned
  6. Goose Creek Coal Transportation Fac
    Facility coal · Shurette Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0103017
    Abandoned
  7. Moretti Harrah Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moretti-Harrah Marble Company · MSHA ID 0100026
    Abandoned
  8. ROCK PRODUCTS QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · A Team Mining LLC · MSHA ID 0102086
    Abandoned
  9. Rumsey Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Omya Alabama Inc · MSHA ID 0102074
    Abandoned
  10. Sycamore Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sycamore Marble Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0103228
    Abandoned
  11. Sycamore Quarry And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Omya Alabama Inc · MSHA ID 0101278
    Abandoned
  12. Sylacauga Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated · MSHA ID 0103187
    Abandoned
  13. Sylacauga Quarry And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ralph Rogers & Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101735
    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 21
Gravel Pit 11
Gravel Pit 8
Quarry 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Quarry 6
Chert Pit 2
Quarry - Rock 1
Quarry - Rock 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Other counties in AlabamaAll counties →
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.