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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Saline County, Arkansas

Saline County, Arkansas has 128 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1944–1994, including 11 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 35 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Saline 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)
128
Mine openings
11
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
35
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1944–1994 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
    11 8.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    36 28.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    57 44.5%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    24 18.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned35 on register
  1. Alumina Pilot Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Reynolds Metals Company · MSHA ID 0301178
    Abandoned
  2. Arkansas Operations Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alcoa Inc · MSHA ID 0300472
    Abandoned
  3. B&C Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · B&C Abrasives Inc. · MSHA ID 0302024
    Abandoned
  4. Bar Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ira West Construction Company · MSHA ID 0301473
    Abandoned
  5. Bauxite Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · D'Marge Associates · MSHA ID 0301616
    Abandoned
  6. Benton Lignite Mine
    Surface coal · Benton Mining Partnership · MSHA ID 0301628
    Abandoned
  7. Bill Edenington Mines Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Edenington · MSHA ID 0301751
    Abandoned
  8. BRYANT MILL
    Facility metal/non-metal · Milwhite Inc · MSHA ID 0300151
    Abandoned
  9. CROW STONE CO INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crow Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301755
    Abandoned
  10. E. L. SMITH
    Surface metal/non-metal · E L Smith · MSHA ID 0301851
    Abandoned
  11. Eldridge Ranch Proj
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cobar Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0301915
    Abandoned
  12. F.A. II
    Surface metal/non-metal · F.A.M. · MSHA ID 0301865
    Abandoned
  13. F.A. III
    Surface metal/non-metal · F.A.M. · MSHA ID 0302037
    Abandoned
  14. GOOD VIBES
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & N Quartz Mine · MSHA ID 0301660
    Abandoned
  15. Holland Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holland Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0300381
    Abandoned
  16. Horner Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Horner Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301513
    Abandoned
  17. HOT SPGS VIL PIT & PLT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooper Communities Inc · MSHA ID 0301508
    Abandoned
  18. Huber Specialty Hydrates, LLC
    Facility metal/non-metal · Huber Specialty Hydrates, LLC · MSHA ID 0302023
    Abandoned
  19. Hurricane Creek
    Facility metal/non-metal · Reynolds Metals Company · MSHA ID 0300069
    Abandoned
  20. Lost Lake Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cousins Materials · MSHA ID 0301920
    Abandoned
  21. Mudlake Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheridan White Rock Company · MSHA ID 0301621
    Abandoned
  22. OQC-160
    Surface metal/non-metal · Noel R McGrew · MSHA ID 0301877
    Abandoned
  23. Pit And Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · E L Smith · MSHA ID 0300547
    Abandoned
  24. Saline County Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds Metals Company · MSHA ID 0300262
    Abandoned
  25. Section 13
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant Garrett Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 0301977
    Abandoned
  26. Section 20 Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · McGeorge Contracting Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0302033
    Abandoned
  27. SHOP EAST PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc George Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301759
    Abandoned
  28. Stand On Your Head
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jimmy D Mc Neil · MSHA ID 0301665
    Abandoned
  29. Sweet Surrender #6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forgotten Aye Mines · MSHA ID 0301699
    Abandoned
  30. WASHITA STONE CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Taylor-Made Crafts Inc · MSHA ID 0301803
    Abandoned
  31. Willis Crystal Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · R H L Enterprises · MSHA ID 0301639
    Abandoned
  32. Willis Green Phantom Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willis Green Phantom Mine · MSHA ID 0301991
    Abandoned
  33. Winona East
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert Kuhn · MSHA ID 0301879
    Abandoned
  34. WINONA MINES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lascas Products Inc · MSHA ID 0301777
    Abandoned
  35. WINOWA MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lascas Products Inc · MSHA ID 0301784
    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 31
Tailings - Pond 22
Open Pit Mine 21
Gravel Pit 13
Mine Shaft 11
Quarry 10
Disturbed Surface 10
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine 2
Mine Dump 1
Tailings - Undifferentiated 1
Disturbed Surface - 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.