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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Elbert County, Georgia

Elbert County, Georgia has 66 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1958–1985. MSHA's register carries 41 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Elbert 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)
66
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
41
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits8 quadrangle maps, published 1958–1985 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
    6 9.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    60 90.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned41 on register
  1. Adams Granite Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adams Granite Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 0901226
    Abandoned
  2. Adams Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adams Granite Quarry · MSHA ID 0900965
    Abandoned
  3. Allen Blue Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Granite Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0901032
    Abandoned
  4. Beaverdam Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holliday Construction Company · MSHA ID 0900073
    Abandoned
  5. Blue Diamond Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holliday Construction Company · MSHA ID 0900005
    Abandoned
  6. BLUE MIST QUARRIES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blue Mist Quarries · MSHA ID 0901072
    Abandoned
  7. Blue Ribbon Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Doves Creek Granite Company Inc · MSHA ID 0900017
    Abandoned
  8. BLUE RIBBON QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blue Ribbon Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0901131
    Abandoned
  9. BLUE STEEL QUARRY INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blue Steel Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 0901115
    Abandoned
  10. Boyd
    Surface metal/non-metal · Savannah Valley Quarries, LLC · MSHA ID 0900057
    Abandoned
  11. Broad River Stone LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Broad River Stone · MSHA ID 0901182
    Abandoned
  12. Childs Brothers Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Childs Brothers Granite Company Inc · MSHA ID 0900891
    Abandoned
  13. Continental Blue Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Royalty Granite Corp · MSHA ID 0900991
    Abandoned
  14. Continental Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Continental Granite Inc · MSHA ID 0900898
    Abandoned
  15. Continental Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Continental Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0901092
    Abandoned
  16. Coronet Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coronet Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0900295
    Abandoned
  17. Crushing Division
    Facility metal/non-metal · McCannon Granite Co Inc · MSHA ID 0901181
    Abandoned
  18. D & H QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 0901057
    Abandoned
  19. Dravo-Groves Rock Processing Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dravo-Groves Rock Processing Company · MSHA ID 0900933
    Abandoned
  20. Elberta Pink
    Surface metal/non-metal · Childs & Childs Granite Company Inc · MSHA ID 0901052
    Abandoned
  21. Fendley Enterprises Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fendley Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0900019
    Abandoned
  22. Gibraltar Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willis Dimension Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 0901158
    Abandoned
  23. Keystone Granite Co Hedquist Pink Q
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keystone Granite Company · MSHA ID 0900041
    Abandoned
  24. Mc Lanahan Crushed Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Georgia Stone Products, LLC · MSHA ID 0900050
    Abandoned
  25. Neal Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Neal Stone, LLC · MSHA ID 0901138
    Abandoned
  26. North Ridge Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Ridge Granite Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0900076
    Abandoned
  27. OCEAN BLUE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Architectural Stone Inc · MSHA ID 0901136
    Abandoned
  28. Oglesby Blue Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Royalty Granite Corp · MSHA ID 0900990
    Abandoned
  29. Old Harper Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gran-Quartz International Inc · MSHA ID 0900896
    Abandoned
  30. PACIFIC BLUE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Blue Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 0901078
    Abandoned
  31. Quarry Enterprise, Inc. Mine-2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarry Enterprise, Inc. · MSHA ID 0901200
    Abandoned
  32. Reagin And Tate Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reagin & Tate Quarry · MSHA ID 0900989
    Abandoned
  33. ROCK OF GIBRALTA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Georgia Structural Stone Llc · MSHA ID 0901118
    Abandoned
  34. RUCKERSVILLE QUARRY,LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ruckersville Quarry Llc · MSHA ID 0901123
    Abandoned
  35. Sapphire Blue Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & C Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0900993
    Abandoned
  36. Scales Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scales Granite Company · MSHA ID 0900300
    Abandoned
  37. Sky Blue
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adams Granite Quarry · MSHA ID 0900861
    Abandoned
  38. Sweet City Quarries Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sweet City Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0900518
    Abandoned
  39. Turner Sand Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Turner Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 0900370
    Abandoned
  40. Veal Blue Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Veal Blue Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 0900066
    Abandoned
  41. WILLIS BLUE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willis Mining Inc · MSHA ID 0901058
    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 56
Disturbed Surface 5
Quarry 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Sand 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.