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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana

St. Helena Parish, Louisiana has 54 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1984. MSHA's register carries 72 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering St. Helena 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)
54
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
72
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1984 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    54 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned72 on register
  1. Anderson Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amite Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600618
    Abandoned
  2. Ark Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ark Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600978
    Abandoned
  3. B & B Gravel Incorporated #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601039
    Abandoned
  4. Beach Co LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beach Co LLC · MSHA ID 1601390
    Abandoned
  5. Bert'S Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bert'S Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1600944
    Abandoned
  6. BILLUPS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lambert Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601140
    Abandoned
  7. Bluff Creek WAM Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bluff Creek WAM · MSHA ID 1601432
    Abandoned
  8. BULK RESOURCES LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bulk Resources LLC · MSHA ID 1601378
    Abandoned
  9. CALMES LEASE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mears Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601276
    Abandoned
  10. Carter #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fleniken'S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601210
    Abandoned
  11. CARTER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Aggregates · MSHA ID 1601264
    Abandoned
  12. Carter Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601088
    Abandoned
  13. Cummings Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601057
    Abandoned
  14. Darling Dredge & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Darling Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601080
    Abandoned
  15. Darlington Division
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & C Marine, LLC · MSHA ID 1601526
    Abandoned
  16. DENKMAN DREDGE & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Industries · MSHA ID 1601222
    Abandoned
  17. Dennis Mills Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dennis Mills Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 1600941
    Abandoned
  18. Falcon Frac
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lewis Resource Management, LLC · MSHA ID 1601524
    Abandoned
  19. Fleniken Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fleniken'S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601068
    Abandoned
  20. GOOBER PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goober Pit · MSHA ID 1601316
    Abandoned
  21. Harrell
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Aggregate Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1601265
    Abandoned
  22. Hartner Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601270
    Abandoned
  23. Harvel Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Stick Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600917
    Abandoned
  24. Harvell Dredge & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1600919
    Abandoned
  25. Harvell, Hartner, Dunnise
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI Operations LP · MSHA ID 1601342
    Abandoned
  26. Hatcher Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1601056
    Abandoned
  27. HORNSBY DREDGE & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1601089
    Abandoned
  28. Hornsby Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601181
    Abandoned
  29. Hornsby Pit A
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601176
    Abandoned
  30. INDUSTRIAL GRAVEL CONTRACTORS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Industrial Gravel Contractors · MSHA ID 1601160
    Abandoned
  31. JONES PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601309
    Abandoned
  32. Kent #1 Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Co LLC · MSHA ID 1601076
    Abandoned
  33. Magnolia Gravel Co Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1600476
    Abandoned
  34. Magnolia Soil Depot LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Magnolia Soil Depot LLC · MSHA ID 1601399
    Abandoned
  35. Martin Marietta Materials Inc. Plant #11
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601352
    Abandoned
  36. Martin Marietta Materials Inc. Plant #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1601406
    Abandoned
  37. Material Producers Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Material Producers Inc · MSHA ID 1600867
    Abandoned
  38. Mc's Trucking
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc's Trucking · MSHA ID 1601461
    Abandoned
  39. McCray Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Rock · MSHA ID 1601488
    Abandoned
  40. MCCRAY LEASE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601310
    Abandoned
  41. Monroe Price Gravel Co Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Price Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600942
    Abandoned
  42. No 1 Plant And Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · S E Hornsby & Sons Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1600473
    Abandoned
  43. ODOM DREDGE & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 1601029
    Abandoned
  44. OTT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mears Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601349
    Abandoned
  45. Pelican #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pelican Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601052
    Abandoned
  46. Petty Pit A
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601064
    Abandoned
  47. PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Industrial Gravel Contractors · MSHA ID 1601261
    Abandoned
  48. Plant # 6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials · MSHA ID 1601423
    Abandoned
  49. Plant #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rebel Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600477
    Abandoned
  50. Plant #7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rebel Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601197
    Abandoned
  51. Plant #8
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rebel Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601232
    Abandoned
  52. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates LLC Delaware · MSHA ID 1601388
    Abandoned
  53. Plant 12
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates of Delaware, LLC · MSHA ID 1601546
    Abandoned
  54. Plant 16 - Price Family
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates of Delaware, LLC · MSHA ID 1601563
    Abandoned
  55. Plant 6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Aggregates LLC Delaware · MSHA ID 1600336
    Abandoned
  56. POWERS DREDGE & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Powers Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1600880
    Abandoned
  57. Powers Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Aggregate Materials · MSHA ID 1601555
    Abandoned
  58. Powers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cobb Petroleum Products · MSHA ID 1601218
    Abandoned
  59. POWERS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES · MSHA ID 1601493
    Abandoned
  60. REBEL S & G PLANT 6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company Lp · MSHA ID 1601132
    Abandoned
  61. S & G Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & G Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601079
    Abandoned
  62. Small Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Small Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600767
    Abandoned
  63. St Helena Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quick Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601116
    Abandoned
  64. St. Helena Sand and Gravel Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolese Bros Co · MSHA ID 1601435
    Abandoned
  65. Stanley Hornsby Dredge &Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI Operations LP · MSHA ID 1601382
    Abandoned
  66. T & W Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & W Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601166
    Abandoned
  67. TRIPLE C TRUCKING INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triple C Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 1601327
    Abandoned
  68. Tynes Island Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Brothers Contracting Co LLC · MSHA ID 1601094
    Abandoned
  69. U.S. Sports Field Sand- Greensburg Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · U.S. Sports Field Sand, LLC · MSHA ID 1601581
    Abandoned
  70. Wales Dredge & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1601048
    Abandoned
  71. Walker Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601087
    Abandoned
  72. Watson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Industries · MSHA ID 1601362
    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 23
Sand and Gravel Pit 11
Gravel Pit 9
Sand and Gravel Pit 8
Sand Pit 2
Clay Pit 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.