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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pulaski County, Missouri

Pulaski County, Missouri has 27 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1936–1985, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 6 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 22 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Pulaski 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)
27
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
6 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1936–1985 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
    1 3.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    20 74.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    6 22.2%
Named features on the maps6 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Old Indian Lead Mine Mine
Old Indian Lead Mine Open Pit Mine
Old Indian Lead Mine Open Pit Mine
Old Indian Lead Mine Open Pit Mine
Onyx Cave Adit
Onyx Cave Open Pit Mine

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned22 on register
  1. Baker Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baker Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2302429
    Abandoned
  2. BALLARD S & G INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ballard Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2302184
    Abandoned
  3. Bedrock Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bedrock Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 2302233
    Abandoned
  4. BUCKHORN PLANT # 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willard Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2300248
    Abandoned
  5. Captain Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Captain Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2302055
    Abandoned
  6. Captain Sand and Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Captain Sand and Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2302225
    Abandoned
  7. CAVE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cave Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2302144
    Abandoned
  8. Conner Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · All American Materials · MSHA ID 2302333
    Abandoned
  9. Fred Gray Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · William A Mc Dowell Company · MSHA ID 2301570
    Abandoned
  10. Howard Ready Mixed Gravel Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Howard Ready Mixed Concrete Company · MSHA ID 2300697
    Abandoned
  11. JOHNSTON SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnston Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2302227
    Abandoned
  12. Mid County Materials LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid County Materials LLC · MSHA ID 2302038
    Abandoned
  13. MINE #1
    Facility metal/non-metal · Big Piney Sand & Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 2302189
    Abandoned
  14. Piney River Sand & Gravel-LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Piney River Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 2302287
    Abandoned
  15. PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bassett Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2301906
    Abandoned
  16. Pulaski County Sand & Gravel
    Facility metal/non-metal · Pulaski County Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2302054
    Abandoned
  17. Smith Equipment Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith Equipment Company · MSHA ID 2301576
    Abandoned
  18. Ta 256 Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Department Of The Army · MSHA ID 2301548
    Abandoned
  19. Ta-256 Quarry & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Department Of The Army · MSHA ID 2301547
    Abandoned
  20. Waynesville Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Byron Schmidt Inc · MSHA ID 2301571
    Abandoned
  21. Willard Quarries - Hancock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willard Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 2302164
    Abandoned
  22. Willard Sand, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willard Sand, LLC · MSHA ID 2302314
    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 - Pit 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Open Pit Mine 4
Disturbed Surface 4
Quarry 3
Gravel Pit 2
Adit 1
Mine 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.