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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana has 30 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1984. MSHA's register carries 34 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 Feliciana 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)
30
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
34
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1984 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
    3 10.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    27 90.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned34 on register
  1. A L F'S Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · A L F Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600478
    Abandoned
  2. Bluff Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bluff Creek Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600811
    Abandoned
  3. CHANEY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Aggregates · MSHA ID 1601241
    Abandoned
  4. Chaney Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600483
    Abandoned
  5. Cucullu
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crawford Aggregate Industries · MSHA ID 1601543
    Abandoned
  6. Dist 61 Pits Jackson
    Surface metal/non-metal · State Of Louisiana Dept Of Trans Dev · MSHA ID 1600835
    Abandoned
  7. DUDLEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & M B Inc · MSHA ID 1601375
    Abandoned
  8. Fleniken Dredge & Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601042
    Abandoned
  9. Fleniken Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fleniken'S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601155
    Abandoned
  10. Frank Hornsby
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-1 Group Inc · MSHA ID 1601216
    Abandoned
  11. G.R. PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · G R Pit · MSHA ID 1601288
    Abandoned
  12. Gause Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Em Jay Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1600803
    Abandoned
  13. Hatcher Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Industrial Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600971
    Abandoned
  14. Hornsby Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Highland Rock Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601415
    Abandoned
  15. JENKINS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fleniken'S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601259
    Abandoned
  16. Kent #2 Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Co LLC · MSHA ID 1601217
    Abandoned
  17. Kent III Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fleniken Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601419
    Abandoned
  18. Long Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Co LLC · MSHA ID 1601325
    Abandoned
  19. Mc Kowen Plant And Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dixie Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600777
    Abandoned
  20. Mckowen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Brick Company · MSHA ID 1600948
    Abandoned
  21. MURDOCK/MCKOWEN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feliciana Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600927
    Abandoned
  22. Naquin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601215
    Abandoned
  23. No 2 Plant And Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600854
    Abandoned
  24. PLAINVIEW LEASE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allgood Inc · MSHA ID 1601328
    Abandoned
  25. Plant 1342 - Duvall
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcosa Aggregates Gulf Coast, LLC · MSHA ID 1601602
    Abandoned
  26. Plant 4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates LLC Delaware · MSHA ID 1601471
    Abandoned
  27. Plant 4 - Anderson
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates of Delaware, LLC · MSHA ID 1601586
    Abandoned
  28. Powers Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Company Llc · MSHA ID 1601248
    Abandoned
  29. Powers Pit No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Powers Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601114
    Abandoned
  30. Red Stick
    Surface metal/non-metal · AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES · MSHA ID 1601444
    Abandoned
  31. Rials Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rials Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1600909
    Abandoned
  32. Rials Pit & Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rials Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1600985
    Abandoned
  33. Scott-Hornsby Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601193
    Abandoned
  34. Tri-State Resources, L.L.C. Mine Site #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-State Resources, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 1601502
    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
Sand and Gravel Pit 7
Gravel Pit 7
Gravel Pit 6
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Sand Pit 2
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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.