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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County, Florida has 16 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1970–1988. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Brevard 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)
16
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits8 quadrangle maps, published 1970–1988 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 87.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    2 12.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned20 on register
  1. Atlantic Earth Materials Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlantic Earth Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0801295
    Abandoned
  2. BLACKHAWK QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blackhawk Quarry Company Of Florida Inc · MSHA ID 0800992
    Abandoned
  3. Boruch - David
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brevard Land Materials · MSHA ID 0801315
    Abandoned
  4. Brevard Road Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brevard Road Materials · MSHA ID 0801241
    Abandoned
  5. City Point Terminal
    Facility metal/non-metal · Cemex Construction Materials Florida LLC · MSHA ID 0801303
    Abandoned
  6. Cocoa Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M K S Investors Inc · MSHA ID 0801108
    Abandoned
  7. Cocoa Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T R W Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 0801185
    Abandoned
  8. INDIAN RIVER MINING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Indian River Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0801274
    Abandoned
  9. Kings Park Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Public Works Division-Brevard County · MSHA ID 0800828
    Abandoned
  10. Malabar Rd Borrow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Precision Rock & Dredge · MSHA ID 0801394
    Abandoned
  11. Melbourne Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Melbourne Sand & Supply Company · MSHA ID 0800416
    Abandoned
  12. National Growers Products Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · National Growers Products Inc · MSHA ID 0801170
    Abandoned
  13. Pluckeybaum Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Public Works Division-Brevard County · MSHA ID 0800829
    Abandoned
  14. Rifle Range Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Public Works Division-Brevard County · MSHA ID 0800827
    Abandoned
  15. Rockledge Rock Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brevard Cnty Board Of Comm-Road & Bridge Dept · MSHA ID 0800700
    Abandoned
  16. Valkaria Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Public Works Division-Brevard County · MSHA ID 0800830
    Abandoned
  17. WATSON ROAD MATERIALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Watson Paving Inc · MSHA ID 0801187
    Abandoned
  18. Wayne's Aggregate & Material's LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayne's Aggregate & Material's LLC · MSHA ID 0801420
    Abandoned
  19. Wwg Shell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wwg Asphalt Company Inc · MSHA ID 0801016
    Abandoned
  20. Yates Borrow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elmo Greer & Sons, LLC · MSHA ID 0801346
    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 14
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Other counties in FloridaAll 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.