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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Dade County, Georgia

Dade County, Georgia has 58 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1935–1983, including 16 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 26 problems in the county, 5 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Dade 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)
58
Mine openings
16
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
5
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits6 quadrangle maps, published 1935–1983 26 OSMRE problems, 21 reclaimed 3 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
    30 35.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    34 40.5%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    8 9.5%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 1.2%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    11 13.1%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems26 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Castle Rock P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Castle Rock P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Charbone P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Charbone P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Charbone P3 Bench In Reclamation
Charbone P3 High Wall In Reclamation
Charbone P3 Pits In Reclamation
Charbone P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Dade Slope P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Dade Slope P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
E. Tatum Gulf/n. Squirrel Trail P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Ellison P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Ne Scratchankle P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Ne Scratchankle P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
New Camp Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
New Home P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
New Home P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Raccoon Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Raccoon Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Rattlesnake P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Rattlesnake P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Scratch Ankle P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Wells Road P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Wells Road P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Wells Road P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Wells Road P3 Pits Reclamation Completed

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 Abandoned18 on register
  1. A & K
    Facility coal · John K Irish & Company Inc · MSHA ID 0900816
    Abandoned
  2. Barnwell Collieries
    Facility coal · Barnwell Collieries Inc · MSHA ID 0900841
    Abandoned
  3. Dade County Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Dade County Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0900956
    Abandoned and Sealed
  4. Dade County Mine No 2
    Underground coal · Dade County Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0900952
    Abandoned and Sealed
  5. Dade County No 1
    Surface coal · K & C Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0900922
    Abandoned
  6. Dade No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Charbon Inc · MSHA ID 0900770
    Abandoned
  7. Dade No 2 Strip
    Surface coal · Charbon Inc · MSHA ID 0900747
    Abandoned
  8. Dega Tipple
    Facility coal · Doraville Enterprises Of Georgia · MSHA ID 0900859
    Abandoned
  9. No 1
    Underground coal · J & J Contracting · MSHA ID 0900944
    Abandoned and Sealed
  10. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Coal Producers Of America Inc · MSHA ID 0900809
    Abandoned
  11. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Black Falcon Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0900839
    Abandoned
  12. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Ramsey Trucking Company · MSHA ID 0900714
    Abandoned
  13. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Turner & Ussery Mining Company · MSHA ID 0900757
    Abandoned
  14. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Black Falcon Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0900838
    Abandoned
  15. Pullen Mine
    Surface coal · Jackson County Mining Corp · MSHA ID 0900951
    Abandoned
  16. Pullen No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Galaten Key Mining Company · MSHA ID 0900835
    Abandoned
  17. Sims Pit
    Surface coal · Slimp Construction Company · MSHA ID 0900872
    Abandoned
  18. Snake River No 8 Strip
    Surface coal · Snake River Mining Corp · MSHA ID 0900869
    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
Adit 16
Strip Mine 14
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 14
P2 Portals 10
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 4
Quarry 4
Gravel Pit 4
P2 Vertical Openings 3
Strip Mine 3
P3 Pits 2
P3 High Wall 2
P3 Other 2
Open Pit Mine 1
P3 Spoil Area 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Disturbed Surface 1
P3 Bench 1
P1 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.