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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Livingston Parish, Louisiana

Livingston Parish, Louisiana has 31 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1991. MSHA's register carries 52 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Livingston 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)
31
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
52
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits8 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1991 1 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 19.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    25 80.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned52 on register
  1. 4 Inch Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ace Sand & Gravel Of Denham Springs · MSHA ID 1600975
    Abandoned
  2. A-1 Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-1 Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1600831
    Abandoned
  3. ADDISON LEASE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Watson Dirt Sand & Gravel Pit Inc · MSHA ID 1601292
    Abandoned
  4. Addison-St Helena
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amite Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601229
    Abandoned
  5. B & D S & G
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & D S & G · MSHA ID 1601179
    Abandoned
  6. Big B Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big B Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1600988
    Abandoned
  7. Buck'S Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buck'S Dirt Pit · MSHA ID 1600956
    Abandoned
  8. Cone Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · F G Sullivan Jr Contractor · MSHA ID 1601280
    Abandoned
  9. Cutrer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amite Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601180
    Abandoned
  10. Darling Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Darling Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1600556
    Abandoned
  11. Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & L Land Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600801
    Abandoned
  12. Easterly Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cash Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 1601403
    Abandoned
  13. Erwin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amite Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601030
    Abandoned
  14. Esco Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Esco Inc · MSHA ID 1601061
    Abandoned
  15. Florida Boulevard Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ratcliff & Leblanc Inc · MSHA ID 1601319
    Abandoned
  16. G & R PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · D E W Gravel · MSHA ID 1601350
    Abandoned
  17. GOOBER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goober Pit · MSHA ID 1601224
    Abandoned
  18. H & S
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & S Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601262
    Abandoned
  19. Harris Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amite Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600258
    Abandoned
  20. Hwy 1019 Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Sand and Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 1601520
    Abandoned
  21. JOHNSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1601115
    Abandoned
  22. K & G Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & G Materials · MSHA ID 1600915
    Abandoned
  23. LA Aggregate Materials, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · LA Aggregate Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601460
    Abandoned
  24. La Amite Place
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Amite Place Inc · MSHA ID 1601020
    Abandoned
  25. La Amite Place Inc Or La Amite Dredge Po
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Amite Place Inc · MSHA ID 1600797
    Abandoned
  26. Linder Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cash Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601482
    Abandoned
  27. Little-G-Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little-G-Dirt Pit · MSHA ID 1600953
    Abandoned
  28. Longhorn Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Rock Company Incorporated · MSHA ID 1601427
    Abandoned
  29. MCCRAY LEASE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company · MSHA ID 1601372
    Abandoned
  30. MCCRAY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601365
    Abandoned
  31. MORGAN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Em Jay Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601272
    Abandoned
  32. NICHOLS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little D Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601341
    Abandoned
  33. P & D Dredge & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · P & D Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600827
    Abandoned
  34. P And D Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · P & D Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600926
    Abandoned
  35. Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates LLC Delaware · MSHA ID 1601431
    Abandoned
  36. Plant #392
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601244
    Abandoned and Sealed
  37. Plant #9
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601137
    Abandoned
  38. Plant 11
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 1601537
    Abandoned
  39. PLANT 15
    Surface metal/non-metal · SOUTHERN AGGREGATES LLC · MSHA ID 1601550
    Abandoned
  40. Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates LLC Delaware · MSHA ID 1601408
    Abandoned
  41. Plant 7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates, LLC Delaware · MSHA ID 1601519
    Abandoned
  42. PLANT 7.2
    Surface metal/non-metal · SOUTHERN AGGREGATES OF DELAWARE, LLC · MSHA ID 1601551
    Abandoned
  43. Premier Materials, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Premier Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601410
    Abandoned
  44. Quick Sand & Gravel Inc #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quick Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601211
    Abandoned
  45. Quick Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quick Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1600914
    Abandoned
  46. REBEL SAND & GRAVEL PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company Lp · MSHA ID 1601308
    Abandoned
  47. Roe'S Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roe'S Dirt Pit · MSHA ID 1600986
    Abandoned
  48. Sand Hill Aggregates LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand Hill Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 1601456
    Abandoned
  49. Southside Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waste Not Inc · MSHA ID 1600952
    Abandoned
  50. Swindle Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Aggregate Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601438
    Abandoned
  51. TERRAL LEASE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allgood Inc · MSHA ID 1601315
    Abandoned
  52. Toler Roe Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Toler Roe Dirt Pit · MSHA ID 1601234
    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 16
Gravel Pit 7
Disturbed Surface - Pit 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.