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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Marion County, Florida

Marion County, Florida has 202 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1892–1993; 5 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 44 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Marion 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)
202
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
44
5 features carry a name0 prospect pits30 quadrangle maps, published 1892–1993 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
    20 9.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    177 87.6%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    5 2.5%
Named features on the maps5 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Baker Mine Mine
Eagle Mines Mine
Excelsior Mine Mine
French Phosphate Mines Mine
Phosphate Mines Mine

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 Abandoned44 on register
  1. 42 MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rainey Construction Company · MSHA ID 0801056
    Abandoned
  2. Boutwell Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boutwell Limerock Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0801057
    Abandoned
  3. Citra Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Springs Construction Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 0800927
    Abandoned
  4. Citra Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bedrock Resources · MSHA ID 0801088
    Abandoned
  5. CITRA MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bedrock Resources · MSHA ID 0801199
    Abandoned
  6. Clifton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allstar Materials LLC · MSHA ID 0801078
    Abandoned
  7. Counts 441 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Counts Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 0801309
    Abandoned
  8. Counts Limerock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Counts Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0801153
    Abandoned
  9. CUMMER MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ocala Lime Rock Corp · MSHA ID 0800796
    Abandoned
  10. Diamondback Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Counts Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0801210
    Abandoned
  11. Dixie Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ocala Bedrock Inc · MSHA ID 0800920
    Abandoned
  12. Finch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steven Counts Inc · MSHA ID 0801305
    Abandoned
  13. Kendrick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marion Rock Company · MSHA ID 0800928
    Abandoned
  14. Kendrick Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ocala Lime Rock Corp · MSHA ID 0800062
    Abandoned
  15. Little Rock Mine Incorporated #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little Rock Mine Inc · MSHA ID 0801137
    Abandoned
  16. Lowell Mine & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Materials Corp · MSHA ID 0800070
    Abandoned
  17. Lynne Clay
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clyde Flowers Company · MSHA ID 0800883
    Abandoned
  18. Lynne Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edgar Minerals, Inc. · MSHA ID 0800298
    Abandoned
  19. Marion County Clay Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marion County Highway Department · MSHA ID 0800815
    Abandoned
  20. Marion County Limerock Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marion County Highway Department · MSHA ID 0800737
    Abandoned
  21. MARION ROCK, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marion Rock Inc · MSHA ID 0801242
    Abandoned
  22. Marion Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Florida Rock Industries Inc · MSHA ID 0800979
    Abandoned
  23. MFM Industries Inc
    Facility metal/non-metal · Mfm Industries Inc · MSHA ID 0800116
    Abandoned
  24. Mine #8
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rainbow Marion Mine Inc · MSHA ID 0801059
    Abandoned
  25. Mine Three
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boutwell Limerock Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0801030
    Abandoned
  26. Mine Two
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boutwell Limerock Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0800988
    Abandoned
  27. MINEHEAD
    Facility metal/non-metal · Loncala Inc · MSHA ID 0800181
    Abandoned
  28. Monroe Mine #41
    Surface metal/non-metal · Londen Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0801032
    Abandoned
  29. No 8 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Road Company Inc · MSHA ID 0800963
    Abandoned
  30. No 8 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · All-American Mines Inc · MSHA ID 0801047
    Abandoned
  31. O'Neal Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Neal Construction · MSHA ID 0800814
    Abandoned
  32. Ocala Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Ocala · MSHA ID 0800060
    Abandoned
  33. ONEAL QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triple T Construction Products, LLC · MSHA ID 0801229
    Abandoned
  34. Pedro Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little Rock Mine Inc · MSHA ID 0800634
    Abandoned
  35. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Junie Counts Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0800933
    Abandoned
  36. R O Camp Clay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ctc Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0800885
    Abandoned
  37. Randolph Mining
    Surface metal/non-metal · Randolph Mining · MSHA ID 0801093
    Abandoned
  38. Randolph Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boutwell Construction Company · MSHA ID 0801232
    Abandoned
  39. Ride Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boutwell Limerock Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0801066
    Abandoned
  40. Stavola Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M J Stavola Industries · MSHA ID 0800019
    Abandoned
  41. Stevenson Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Del Zotto Products of Florida Inc. · MSHA ID 0801383
    Abandoned
  42. STEVENSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Counts Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0801230
    Abandoned
  43. Zuber Hi-Cal Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dixie Lime & Stone Company · MSHA ID 0800779
    Abandoned
  44. Zuber Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Rock Company · MSHA ID 0800797
    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
Quarry 60
Quarry 38
Clay Pit 35
Sand Pit 14
Clay Pit 12
Sand Pit 11
Mine 8
Disturbed Surface 8
Tailings - Pond 5
Gravel Pit 4
Gravel Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine 1
Open Pit Mine 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.