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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Charlotte County, Florida

Charlotte County, Florida has 36 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1987. 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 Charlotte 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)
36
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1987 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
    7 19.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    29 80.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned22 on register
  1. BABCOCK MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Earth Source Inc · MSHA ID 0801026
    Abandoned
  2. Barclay Hall Ranch
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & M Mining LLC · MSHA ID 0801228
    Abandoned
  3. Bermont Excavating, LLC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bermont Excavating, LLC · MSHA ID 0801403
    Abandoned
  4. County Line Shell Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · County Line Shell Company · MSHA ID 0801002
    Abandoned
  5. FDS Farabee Shell Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · FDS Farabee LLC · MSHA ID 0801321
    Abandoned
  6. Frisch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Shore Seafood Inc · MSHA ID 0800977
    Abandoned
  7. G.B.K
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mack'S Loader Service Inc · MSHA ID 0801247
    Abandoned
  8. Gulf Shore Seafood Inc-Shell Pit Div
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Shore Seafood Inc · MSHA ID 0800825
    Abandoned
  9. Handy Phil Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Handy Phil Inc. · MSHA ID 0801168
    Abandoned
  10. Hurricane Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Mining & Industries Corp · MSHA ID 0801126
    Abandoned
  11. Jones Loop Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Rigby Inc · MSHA ID 0800978
    Abandoned
  12. Limerock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fort Myers Aggregates · MSHA ID 0801178
    Abandoned
  13. Oaklea Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ellis Enterprises Of Fort Myers Inc · MSHA ID 0800876
    Abandoned
  14. PIT 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forsberg Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0801193
    Abandoned
  15. Pit 31
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lee-Mar · MSHA ID 0800953
    Abandoned
  16. PIT NO 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Desrosiers Brothers Enterprises · MSHA ID 0801020
    Abandoned
  17. Quality Material Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · I. C. S. Contractors, LLC · MSHA ID 0801367
    Abandoned
  18. Ridgewood Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Continental Mining Ltd · MSHA ID 0801063
    Abandoned
  19. Southwest Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwest Aggregates · MSHA ID 0801250
    Abandoned
  20. Steak & Stone Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steak & Stone Inc · MSHA ID 0801169
    Abandoned
  21. Sunland Shell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunland Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 0800999
    Abandoned
  22. Wilderness Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frederick Derr & Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0801339
    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
Borrow Pit 18
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 11
Disturbed Surface 7
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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.