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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Garland County, Arkansas

Garland County, Arkansas has 37 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1962–1978; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 49 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Garland 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)
37
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
49
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1962–1978 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
    14 37.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    22 59.5%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 2.7%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Slate Pit Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated

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 Abandoned49 on register
  1. ACP Aggregrates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asphalt Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 0301893
    Abandoned
  2. Arkansas Abrasives Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Arkansas Abrasives Inc · MSHA ID 0300920
    Abandoned
  3. Arkansas Whetstone Quarry & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arkansas Whetstone Company · MSHA ID 0301380
    Abandoned
  4. Avant Mining
    Surface metal/non-metal · Avant Mining LLC · MSHA ID 0302060
    Abandoned
  5. Blue Mountain Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gary Shinkle · MSHA ID 0301701
    Abandoned
  6. BlueGill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Black Bear Cove Mining & Lapidary LLC · MSHA ID 0302094
    Abandoned
  7. Brushy Mtn Crystal Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crystals Unique · MSHA ID 0301658
    Abandoned
  8. BUFFALO GAP MINING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buffalo Gap Mining · MSHA ID 0301856
    Abandoned
  9. Buffalo Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Buffalo Stone Corp · MSHA ID 0301378
    Abandoned
  10. Chc Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chc Inc · MSHA ID 0301622
    Abandoned
  11. CITY OF HOT SPRINGS CITY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Hot Springs Street Dept · MSHA ID 0301490
    Abandoned
  12. COLEMAN MILL
    Facility metal/non-metal · Lascas Products Inc · MSHA ID 0301354
    Abandoned
  13. DeLinde Wavellite Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clear Creek Crystal Mine · MSHA ID 0301978
    Abandoned
  14. Double
    Surface metal/non-metal · B B & B Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 0301829
    Abandoned
  15. Frontier Whetstone Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Frontier Whetstone Cutting Company · MSHA ID 0301395
    Abandoned
  16. G & G GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · G & G Gravel · MSHA ID 0301760
    Abandoned
  17. Garland County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saline County Road Department · MSHA ID 0301733
    Abandoned
  18. Hall'S Oilstone Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · RH Preyda Company · MSHA ID 0301423
    Abandoned
  19. Hamilton Hill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Avant Mining LLC · MSHA ID 0302071
    Abandoned
  20. Hardrock Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hardrock Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301564
    Abandoned
  21. HIRAM QUARRY AND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith Abrasives Inc · MSHA ID 0300529
    Abandoned
  22. Hot Springs
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-State Construction & Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0301128
    Abandoned
  23. Hot Springs Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Quartz Processing Corp · MSHA ID 0301155
    Abandoned
  24. Humphreys #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Humphreys Crystal Mine · MSHA ID 0301698
    Abandoned
  25. James Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0301444
    Abandoned
  26. John Glassford Whetstone Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · John Glassford Whetstone · MSHA ID 0300528
    Abandoned
  27. Lonesome Dove
    Surface metal/non-metal · JSF · MSHA ID 0301965
    Abandoned
  28. Malvern Minerals Sandstone Quarry South
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malvern Minerals Company · MSHA ID 0301551
    Abandoned
  29. Malvern No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malvern Minerals Company · MSHA ID 0301644
    Abandoned
  30. Mc Earl Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coleman'S Crystal Inc · MSHA ID 0301271
    Abandoned
  31. McHenry Aggregates Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · McHenry Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 0301950
    Abandoned
  32. Miller Mt Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coleman's Crystal Mine · MSHA ID 0301272
    Abandoned
  33. MOBILE POWERSCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · B B & B Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301830
    Abandoned
  34. Natural Hones Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Natural Hones Inc · MSHA ID 0301394
    Abandoned
  35. Norton Arkansas Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norton Company · MSHA ID 0301527
    Abandoned
  36. PHILLIPS ORCHARD MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wegner Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0301831
    Abandoned
  37. Pioneer Whetstone Quarry
    Facility metal/non-metal · Pioneer Whetstone · MSHA ID 0301434
    Abandoned
  38. Poor Boy Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Poor Boy Whetstone · MSHA ID 0301539
    Abandoned
  39. REED PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roland Bates Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301620
    Abandoned
  40. Russell Whetstone Cutting Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Russell Whetstone Cutting Co · MSHA ID 0301421
    Abandoned
  41. SALINE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malvern Minerals Company · MSHA ID 0301770
    Abandoned
  42. Short Mountain Mining
    Surface metal/non-metal · Short Mountain Mining · MSHA ID 0301697
    Abandoned
  43. Smith Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pete Smith Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301356
    Abandoned
  44. Spa City Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spa City Gravel · MSHA ID 0301783
    Abandoned
  45. Spanish Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jack Moore Inc · MSHA ID 0301732
    Abandoned
  46. Triple L
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lee Excavation · MSHA ID 0301718
    Abandoned
  47. Uzick Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hall Sharpening Stones · MSHA ID 0302044
    Abandoned
  48. Weyerhauser Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weyerhaeuser Company · MSHA ID 0300929
    Abandoned
  49. Weyerhauser Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weyerhaeuser Company · MSHA ID 0300930
    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
Gravel Pit 7
Open Pit Mine 7
Gravel Pit 6
Disturbed Surface 5
Quarry 5
Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Shale Pit 1
Tailings - Pond 1
Disturbed Surface - Pit 1
Other counties in ArkansasAll 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.