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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Orleans Parish, Louisiana has no mine or prospect features in the USGS topographic-map compilation. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Orleans 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)
0
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. A W Shucks
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600517
    Abandoned
  2. Aggregate Crusher & Sizer/France Road
    Facility metal/non-metal · Boh Brothers Construction Company Llc · MSHA ID 1601099
    Abandoned
  3. Aggregate Crusher & Sizer/Westbank
    Facility metal/non-metal · Boh Brothers Construction Company Llc · MSHA ID 1601102
    Abandoned
  4. Chickasaw
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600515
    Abandoned
  5. Dredge A-306
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600516
    Abandoned
  6. Dredge Albatross
    Surface metal/non-metal · Radcliff Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1600925
    Abandoned
  7. Dredge Avocet
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600464
    Abandoned
  8. Dredge Kenner
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontchartrain Dredging Corp · MSHA ID 1600519
    Abandoned
  9. Dredge Lacombe
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontchartrain Dredging Corp · MSHA ID 1600001
    Abandoned
  10. Dredge Maurepas
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontchartrain Dredging Corp · MSHA ID 1600518
    Abandoned
  11. Dredge Sheldrake
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600052
    Abandoned
  12. Halliburton
    Facility metal/non-metal · Halliburton · MSHA ID 1600257
    Abandoned
  13. Lone Star Industries New Orleans Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Lone Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1600188
    Abandoned
  14. New Orleans Abrasive Products
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601093
    Abandoned
  15. NEW ORLEANS BARITE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Excalibar Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1601336
    Abandoned
  16. New Orleans Cement Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Lone Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1600189
    Abandoned
  17. New Orleans Grinding Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · M-I Drilling Fluids Company · MSHA ID 1600255
    Abandoned
  18. NEW ORLEANS GRINDING PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Baker Hughes Inteq · MSHA ID 1600256
    Abandoned
  19. PARISH SAND LLC - Lower Coast Algiers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · MURPHY CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. · MSHA ID 1601344
    Abandoned
  20. SAND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontchartrain Materials Corp · MSHA ID 1601252
    Abandoned
  21. United States Gypsum Company
    Facility metal/non-metal · United States Gypsum Company · MSHA ID 1600190
    Abandoned

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

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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.