Abandoned mines in Sullivan County, Indiana

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   212 37.3%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   98 17.2%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   15 2.6%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   106 18.6%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   12 2.1%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   126 22.1%

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.

…and 159 more problems not listed here.

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.

1. Ajax Strip Mine

   Surface coal · B T U Mining Company · MSHA ID 1201439
   Abandoned 1980-03-28
2. Birdsong #1

   Surface coal · Tri-Quality Mining Div/Tri-Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1201995
   Abandoned 1988-07-19
3. Buck Creek

   Underground coal · Indiana Coal Company · MSHA ID 1202033
   Abandoned and Sealed 1998-02-02
4. Bucktown Pit No 1

   Surface coal · Central Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1201906
   Abandoned 1983-09-01
5. Busseron Mine

   Underground coal · S & G Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1201958
   Abandoned 1984-09-01
6. Carlisle Mine

   Underground coal · Sunrise Coal, LLC. · MSHA ID 1202349
   Abandoned and Sealed 2020-07-02
7. Comet No 1 Mine (Strip)

   Surface coal · Comet Coal & Clay Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201452
   Abandoned 1981-10-23
8. Continental Augering Inc

   Surface coal · Continental Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1202142
   Abandoned 1994-03-30
9. Cousins Pit No 2

   Surface coal · Cousins Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201705
   Abandoned 1980-09-12
10. Dugger

    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200333
    Abandoned 1986-01-10
11. Garrett Coal Company Mine

    Surface coal · Garrett Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201540
    Abandoned 1980-01-30
12. Graysville Pit & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · S & G Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1200891
    Abandoned 1983-07-05
13. Graysville Sand & Gravel

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1200630
    Abandoned 2008-07-28
14. Hymera Mine

    Surface coal · Coal Field Development Company · MSHA ID 1202367
    Abandoned 2007-10-23
15. JC #1

    Surface coal · Jarvis Coal LLC · MSHA ID 1202398
    Abandoned 2009-05-30
16. JC #3

    Surface coal · Jarvis Coal LLC · MSHA ID 1202414
    Abandoned 2015-11-09
17. Kixmiller Lime Incorporated

    Surface metal/non-metal · Kixmiller Lime Inc · MSHA ID 1200061
    Abandoned 1988-07-07
18. Little Car-Buck

    Underground coal · Cousins Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201753
    Abandoned 1980-07-31
19. Max Tatlock Mine

    Surface coal · M & L Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201435
    Abandoned 1980-05-19
20. Old Ben 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Old Ben Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200331
    Abandoned 1974-12-23
21. Penndiana

    Surface coal · Ayrshire Land Company · MSHA ID 1202061
    Abandoned 1990-04-09
22. S & G RIVERTON PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · S & G Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1202172
    Abandoned 1998-11-12
23. Sullivan Auger #1

    Surface coal · Tri-State Auger Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1202148
    Abandoned 1995-03-27
24. Sullivan County Sand & Gravel

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1202101
    Abandoned 1991-07-24
25. Sullivan North

    Surface coal · Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 1200332
    Abandoned 2006-06-08

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Clay County 323
• Vigo County 217
• Greene County 194
• Lawrence County 132
• Pike County 122
• Elkhart County 92
• Warrick County 88
• Steuben County 79
• Knox County 78
• Spencer County 74
• Kosciusko County 73
• St. Joseph County 72

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.