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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana has 73 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1996. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. 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 East Baton Rouge Parish, 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)
73
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
41
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1996 1 OSMRE problems, 1 reclaimed 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
    19 25.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    52 70.3%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 2.7%
  4. Other
    symbols outside the classes above
    1 1.4%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Regulatory Support - AML Grant PH 411(h)(2) Non-Mining Expenditure 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 Abandoned41 on register
  1. Acme Dedge And Plant No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600930
    Abandoned
  2. Acme Dredge & Plant Or Acme Dredge & Pla
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600484
    Abandoned
  3. Acme Gravel Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601063
    Abandoned
  4. ASPHALT PLANT #5 ROCK CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Company Llc · MSHA ID 1601201
    Abandoned
  5. B & B GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601034
    Abandoned
  6. Baton Rouge Alumina & Chemical
    Facility metal/non-metal · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp · MSHA ID 1600222
    Abandoned
  7. Baton Rouge Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Brick Company · MSHA ID 1600031
    Abandoned
  8. Baton Rouge Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Cement Products LLC · MSHA ID 1601294
    Abandoned
  9. BATON ROUGE PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Specialtiesinc · MSHA ID 1601335
    Abandoned
  10. BAYWOOD ASPHALT PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Diamond B Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601279
    Abandoned
  11. Baywood Plant And #1 Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Stick Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600345
    Abandoned
  12. Big River Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big River Dirt Pit · MSHA ID 1601082
    Abandoned
  13. Bunk Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W C Hoyt · MSHA ID 1601131
    Abandoned
  14. Cowan Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J K Cowan Sr Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600954
    Abandoned
  15. Cowan Dirt Pit # 4
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. K. Cowan Sr. Contracting Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 1601391
    Abandoned
  16. Cowan Dirt Pit #1 & #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · J K Cowan Sr Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600761
    Abandoned
  17. COWAN DIRT PIT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · J K Cowan Sr Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601271
    Abandoned
  18. Crowel Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Em Jay Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601198
    Abandoned
  19. Ellerbee Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Boys Gravel Pit · MSHA ID 1600964
    Abandoned
  20. Ellerbee Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Em Jay Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601183
    Abandoned
  21. GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Filter Media, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601278
    Abandoned
  22. J P Messina Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J P Messina Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1600957
    Abandoned
  23. Jackson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1601014
    Abandoned
  24. Jackson Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600480
    Abandoned
  25. Jenkins Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601016
    Abandoned
  26. Joor Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L Higginbotham Inc · MSHA ID 1600885
    Abandoned
  27. L & K Smith E B R
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1600939
    Abandoned
  28. La Amite Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Amite Place Inc · MSHA ID 1600950
    Abandoned
  29. La Asphalt Producers LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Asphalt Producers LLC · MSHA ID 1601333
    Abandoned
  30. Lee'S Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lee'S Dirt Pit Inc · MSHA ID 1600908
    Abandoned
  31. Plant #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601066
    Abandoned
  32. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 1601570
    Abandoned
  33. PORTABLE ROCK CRUSHER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Company Llc · MSHA ID 1601223
    Abandoned
  34. Rodosta Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rodosta Brothers Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 1600980
    Abandoned
  35. Roe'S Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roe'S Inc · MSHA ID 1600951
    Abandoned
  36. Roy Anderson Gravel Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roy Anderson Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601081
    Abandoned
  37. Sand Products Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Easy Crete Inc · MSHA ID 1600799
    Abandoned
  38. Smith Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Em Jay Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601221
    Abandoned
  39. SOUTHERN FILTER MEDIA INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Filter Media Inc · MSHA ID 1601199
    Abandoned
  40. Specialty Aluminas
    Facility metal/non-metal · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp · MSHA ID 1600353
    Abandoned
  41. White Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roberson Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601015
    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
Gravel Pit 15
Sand and Gravel Pit 11
Disturbed Surface - Pit 11
Disturbed Surface 8
Sand Pit 6
Sand Pit 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Gravel Pit 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Clay Pit 2
Settling Pond 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
PH 411(h)(2) Non-Mining Expenditure 1
Other counties in LouisianaAll counties →
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.