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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pulaski County, Arkansas

Pulaski County, Arkansas has 143 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1935–1994. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1 problems in the county, 1 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 22 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Pulaski 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)
143
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
1
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1935–1994 1 OSMRE problems, 0 reclaimed 0 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
    1 0.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    63 43.8%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    78 54.2%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.4%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Kellogg Creek P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned22 on register
  1. 3M Arch Street Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company · MSHA ID 0300542
    Abandoned
  2. 3M Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Souter Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301725
    Abandoned
  3. 65th Street Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Mid-State Construction & Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0301643
    Abandoned
  4. ARCH ST QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0301657
    Abandoned
  5. ARKANSAS CALCINE MILL
    Facility metal/non-metal · Harbison-Walker Refractories Company · MSHA ID 0300481
    Abandoned
  6. Berger Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Porocel Corp · MSHA ID 0300470
    Abandoned
  7. Bierman-Coe
    Surface metal/non-metal · Porocel Corp · MSHA ID 0300145
    Abandoned
  8. Big Sandy Iii
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dredging Inc · MSHA ID 0300388
    Abandoned
  9. Cabot Quarry And Mill No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Freshour Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0300543
    Abandoned
  10. Central Arkansas Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Arkansas Sand · MSHA ID 0301814
    Abandoned
  11. College Station Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little Rock Quarry Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301299
    Abandoned
  12. Congo Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warner Trucking Company · MSHA ID 0300185
    Abandoned
  13. Construction Products Division
    Facility metal/non-metal · W R Grace & Company · MSHA ID 0301448
    Abandoned
  14. Elkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc George Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301361
    Abandoned
  15. Little Rock Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · G2O Technologies · MSHA ID 0300537
    Abandoned
  16. Pulaski County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds Metals Company · MSHA ID 0301141
    Abandoned
  17. Rauch Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · McGeorge Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 0300715
    Abandoned
  18. Sweet Home Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sweet Home Stone Company · MSHA ID 0301415
    Abandoned
  19. SWN SAND COMPANY
    Surface metal/non-metal · SWN PRODUCTION (ARKANSAS), LLC · MSHA ID 0301976
    Abandoned
  20. Taylor Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-State Construction & Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0301579
    Abandoned
  21. Taylor Quarry & Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Pulaski County Road Commission · MSHA ID 0300854
    Abandoned
  22. WHITE ROCK BAGGING
    Facility metal/non-metal · White Rock Inc · MSHA ID 0301819
    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 23
Quarry 19
Gravel Pit 16
Quarry 15
Disturbed Surface - Pit 11
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Disturbed Surface 8
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Sand Pit 6
Open Pit Mine 6
Open Pit Mine 5
Gravel Pit 5
Sand Pit 5
Shale Pit 4
Mine Dump 1
Mine Dump 1
Strip Mine 1
P2 Vertical Openings 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.