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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Greene County, Missouri

Greene County, Missouri has 55 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1935–1996, including 6 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 13 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Greene 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)
55
Mine openings
6
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
13
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1935–1996 1 OSMRE problems, 1 reclaimed 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    7 12.5%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    17 30.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    32 57.1%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Northwest Springfield Camp P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

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 Abandoned13 on register
  1. Bailey Quarries Inc Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bailey Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2302219
    Abandoned
  2. Conco Fair Grove Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Conco Quarries Inc. · MSHA ID 2302590
    Abandoned
  3. Conco Quarries - Galloway
    Surface metal/non-metal · Conco Quarries · MSHA ID 2302244
    Abandoned
  4. Graystone Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graystone Quarry Company · MSHA ID 2300087
    Abandoned
  5. Griesemer Stone Company Plant No 4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Griesemer Stone Company · MSHA ID 2301629
    Abandoned
  6. Journagan Portable #42 Mo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301792
    Abandoned
  7. Journagan Portable #45
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302125
    Abandoned
  8. Journagan Portable #48
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302129
    Abandoned
  9. Mississippi Lime Co Springfield Div
    Facility metal/non-metal · Mississippi Lime Company · MSHA ID 2302241
    Abandoned
  10. Phoenix Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carmar Inc · MSHA ID 2300029
    Abandoned
  11. PLANT NO 1 MINE & MILL
    Underground metal/non-metal · Springfield Underground Inc · MSHA ID 2300094
    Abandoned
  12. SPRINGFIELD SURFACE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ash Grove Cement Company · MSHA ID 2300008
    Abandoned
  13. SPRINGFIELD UNDERGROUND
    Underground metal/non-metal · Ash Grove Cement Company · MSHA ID 2301007
    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
Quarry 24
Quarry 8
Open Pit Mine 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Adit 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Mine Shaft 1
P1 Vertical Openings 1
Disturbed Surface 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.