Abandoned mines in Bates County, Missouri

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   9 7.1%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   21 16.7%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   11 8.7%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   25 19.8%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   3 2.4%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   57 45.2%

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

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.

1. Adrian Quarry LLC

   Surface metal/non-metal · Adrian Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 2302248
   Abandoned 2008-11-13
2. Amoret Mine #1

   Surface coal · Amoret Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301970
   Abandoned 1997-04-04
3. Amsterdam #6 Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Bates County Rock Division · MSHA ID 2301071
   Abandoned 1981-04-30
4. Appleton Quarry #2

   Surface metal/non-metal · Batesco Quarries · MSHA ID 2300016
   Abandoned 1985-07-23
5. B & B Quarry And Mill

   Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Rock & Lime Company · MSHA ID 2301501
   Abandoned 1985-04-29
6. Bates County Mine

   Surface coal · Continental Coal Inc · MSHA ID 2301920
   Abandoned 1996-01-03
7. Butler Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Wade Crushed Stone · MSHA ID 2301757
   Abandoned 1985-07-19
8. Butler Quarry #1

   Surface metal/non-metal · Batesco Quarries · MSHA ID 2300538
   Abandoned 1985-07-23
9. Cottonwood Creek Mine

   Surface coal · Continental Coal Inc · MSHA ID 2302277
   Abandoned 2012-11-07
10. Cullor Portable

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ash Grove Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2302337
    Abandoned 2006-09-30
11. Foster Mine

    Surface coal · J L S Inc · MSHA ID 2302114
    Abandoned 1999-07-26
12. Island Pit

    Surface coal · Continental Coal, Inc. · MSHA ID 2302412
    Abandoned 2012-11-07
13. Judy Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · B-Jay Rock Products · MSHA ID 2301904
    Abandoned 1985-11-15
14. Midway Mine

    Surface coal · Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company · MSHA ID 2300881
    Abandoned 1995-01-03
15. Panther Creek Mine

    Surface coal · Continental Coal Inc · MSHA ID 2302186
    Abandoned 2004-12-23
16. Rip Rap Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ash Grove Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2302365
    Abandoned 2014-10-27
17. Tiger Mine

    Surface coal · Midwest Coal Llc · MSHA ID 2302163
    Abandoned 2005-08-31
18. Underwood Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · George E Underwood · MSHA ID 2300769
    Abandoned 1985-08-20
19. UNIVERSAL PORTABLE PLANT

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ash Grove Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2302127
    Abandoned 2019-08-05
20. Wash Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ash Grove Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2302342
    Abandoned 2011-05-18
21. Wood Coal Company Mine #2

    Surface coal · Wood Coal Company · MSHA ID 2301998
    Abandoned 1998-10-26

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

• Jasper County 1,320
• Gasconade County 843
• Washington County 275
• Montgomery County 259
• Franklin County 236
• Callaway County 233
• Newton County 217
• Henry County 201
• Warren County 191
• Jackson County 144
• Dunklin County 141
• Phelps County 134

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.