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Abandoned mines in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana has 86 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1950–1994. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 3 problems in the county, 3 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 60 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. Tammany 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)
86
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
3
MSHA mines marked abandoned
60
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1950–1994 3 OSMRE problems, 0 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
    5 5.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    81 91.0%
  3. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    3 3.4%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems3 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
St051102 - Brushy Fork P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
St051102 - Brushy Fork P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
St051102 - Brushy Fork P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned60 on register
  1. Accardo'S Lake
    Surface metal/non-metal · Accardo'S Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 1601108
    Abandoned
  2. B B Development Inc Isabel La Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B B Development Inc · MSHA ID 1600991
    Abandoned
  3. Bb Dredge & Plant Or B & B Development
    Surface metal/non-metal · B B Development Inc · MSHA ID 1600766
    Abandoned
  4. Bdt Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bdt Inc · MSHA ID 1600362
    Abandoned
  5. Bill Garrett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L L Humphrey & Son · MSHA ID 1600906
    Abandoned
  6. Boh Brothers Northshore Asphalt Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Boh Brothers Construction Company Llc · MSHA ID 1601205
    Abandoned
  7. BOX #9
    Surface metal/non-metal · Standard Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601281
    Abandoned
  8. Canal Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kivett Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1601191
    Abandoned
  9. CANDIES EXCAVATION, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · CANDIES EXCAVATION, INC. · MSHA ID 1601567
    Abandoned
  10. Clairain Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crow Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600976
    Abandoned
  11. Clay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnny F Smith Truck & Dragline Service Inc · MSHA ID 1601247
    Abandoned
  12. Crowes Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crowes Trucking & Dirt Pit Services · MSHA ID 1601106
    Abandoned
  13. Daton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Daton Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1601170
    Abandoned
  14. Donaldson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · St Joe Brick Works Inc · MSHA ID 1600828
    Abandoned
  15. Garrett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L L Humphrey & Son · MSHA ID 1600945
    Abandoned
  16. Glass Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Doyle Glass Inc · MSHA ID 1601171
    Abandoned
  17. Guilott Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Guilott Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1601051
    Abandoned
  18. Guilott Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Guilott Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1601254
    Abandoned
  19. Guilott Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Guilott Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600922
    Abandoned
  20. Guilott Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Guilott Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1600998
    Abandoned
  21. Hickory Aggregates Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1601008
    Abandoned
  22. Highway 21 Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Highway 21 Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601184
    Abandoned
  23. HONEY ISLAND SAND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pearl Aggregate Materials · MSHA ID 1601186
    Abandoned
  24. Honey Island Wet Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontchartrain Materials Corp LLC · MSHA ID 1601414
    Abandoned
  25. Houser Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Core Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600370
    Abandoned
  26. Huey Stockstill Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Huey Stockstill Inc · MSHA ID 1600955
    Abandoned
  27. Hunt Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunt Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601401
    Abandoned
  28. Jenkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crow Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600912
    Abandoned
  29. Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saucier Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601092
    Abandoned
  30. Lake Shore Materials Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lake Shore Materials LLC · MSHA ID 1601434
    Abandoned
  31. Lowe Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leon Lowe & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1600899
    Abandoned
  32. Lowe Dirt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leon Lowe & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1601049
    Abandoned
  33. Magee Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Core Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600377
    Abandoned
  34. Mitchell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steve Knight Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1601144
    Abandoned
  35. Murphy Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · L Murphy Trucking Service Inc · MSHA ID 1600750
    Abandoned
  36. MURPHY SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Phoenix Associates Land Syndicate · MSHA ID 1601192
    Abandoned
  37. Murphy's Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Murphy's Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601450
    Abandoned
  38. NICHOLSON PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Standard Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600386
    Abandoned
  39. No 2 Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mississippi Valley Silica Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600875
    Abandoned
  40. Pearl River Sand & Gravel (Pit #2)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1601212
    Abandoned
  41. Pearl River Sand & Gravel (Pit #3)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1601026
    Abandoned
  42. PEARL RIVER SAND & GRAVEL(PIT#1)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1600872
    Abandoned
  43. PEARL RIVER TURN A ROUND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Saunders Inc · MSHA ID 1601025
    Abandoned
  44. Pierce Plant And Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Core Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600772
    Abandoned
  45. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & M Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1601100
    Abandoned
  46. PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & W Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1601187
    Abandoned
  47. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnny F Smith Truck & Dragline Service Inc · MSHA ID 1601101
    Abandoned
  48. Plant 1327-Hickory/Pearl River
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcosa Aggregates Gulf Coast, LLC · MSHA ID 1601334
    Abandoned
  49. Plant 1349-E. H. Mitchell
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcosa Aggregates Gulf Coast, LLC · MSHA ID 1601506
    Abandoned
  50. PMC Wet Plant @ B&W Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontchartrain Material Corporation, LLC · MSHA ID 1601464
    Abandoned
  51. Sand Preparation Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Mississippi Valley Silica Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600380
    Abandoned
  52. Spell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spell Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 1601024
    Abandoned
  53. Spell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spell Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 1601135
    Abandoned
  54. St Joe Brick Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · St Joe Brick Works Inc · MSHA ID 1600937
    Abandoned
  55. State Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · St Joe Brick Works Inc · MSHA ID 1600044
    Abandoned
  56. Sun Industries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sun Industry Inc · MSHA ID 1600996
    Abandoned
  57. United Soils Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · United Soils Inc. · MSHA ID 1601440
    Abandoned
  58. W R Core Incorporated Hot Mix Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · W R Core Inc · MSHA ID 1601096
    Abandoned
  59. Waldheim Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Branco Inc · MSHA ID 1601174
    Abandoned
  60. Wholesale Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wholesale Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 1601517
    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 34
Gravel Pit 20
Sand Pit 11
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Clay Pit 4
Sand Pit 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Strip Mine 2
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 1
Clay Pit 1
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 1
Disturbed Surface 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Disturbed Surface - 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.