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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Anne Arundel County, Maryland has 137 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1993. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Anne Arundel County, 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)
137
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1993 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
    48 35.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    89 65.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned26 on register
  1. Annapolis Junction Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laurel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1800567
    Abandoned
  2. ANNAPOLIS S&G
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chaney Enterprises Lp · MSHA ID 1800278
    Abandoned
  3. Arden Farms Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1800283
    Abandoned
  4. BAYARD SAND & GRAVEL LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bayard Sand & Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 1800741
    Abandoned
  5. BBSS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reliable Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1800318
    Abandoned
  6. BEECH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1800676
    Abandoned
  7. Belle Grove Corporation Belle Grove
    Surface metal/non-metal · Belle Grove Corp · MSHA ID 1800281
    Abandoned
  8. Belle Grove Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · A A Recycle & Sand · MSHA ID 1800706
    Abandoned
  9. BRANDYWINE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brandywine Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1800276
    Abandoned
  10. Chaney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E Stewart Mitchell Inc · MSHA ID 1800651
    Abandoned
  11. Chesapeake Terrace Corp Sand And Gr
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chesapeake Terrace Inc · MSHA ID 1800332
    Abandoned
  12. Cunningham Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1800663
    Abandoned
  13. Davidsonville Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Genstar Stone Products Company · MSHA ID 1800588
    Abandoned
  14. Davidsonville Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redland Genstar Inc · MSHA ID 1800731
    Abandoned
  15. Ed Meyers Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 1800631
    Abandoned
  16. Jessup Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maryland & Virginia Sand Company · MSHA ID 1800613
    Abandoned
  17. Landover Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Landover Sand Company · MSHA ID 1800309
    Abandoned
  18. MEYER PIT OPERATION
    Surface metal/non-metal · Patuxent Aggregate Processors Llc · MSHA ID 1800289
    Abandoned
  19. Patuxent Road Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones & Jones Enterprises · MSHA ID 1800666
    Abandoned
  20. Pepco Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E L Gardner Inc · MSHA ID 1800294
    Abandoned
  21. Reds Dove Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reds Dove Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1800590
    Abandoned
  22. Reliable Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 1800435
    Abandoned
  23. Rising Sons' Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rising Sons' Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1800697
    Abandoned
  24. Stephens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vernon Hardesty Crane Rental · MSHA ID 1800607
    Abandoned
  25. Tolson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Resource Conservation Group · MSHA ID 1800667
    Abandoned
  26. Turner
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chaney Enterprises LP · MSHA ID 1800758
    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
Disturbed Surface 38
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 19
Gravel Pit 19
Gravel Pit 16
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 14
Sand and Gravel Pit 9
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Sand and Gravel Pit 7
Sand Pit 3
Sand Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.