Abandoned mines in Randolph County, Missouri

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   18 11.5%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   44 28.2%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   6 3.8%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   30 19.2%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   5 3.2%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   53 34.0%

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. Aeci - Mining Division

   Surface coal · Associated Electric Cooperative Inc · MSHA ID 2300465
   Abandoned 1998-05-21
2. ASHWORTH LIMESTONE LLC

   Surface metal/non-metal · Ashworth Limestone Llc · MSHA ID 2302200
   Abandoned 2001-03-13
3. Hess No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · G & P Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301191
   Abandoned 1977-08-18
4. Huntsville Mining Corp

   Facility coal · Huntsville Mining Corp · MSHA ID 2301870
   Abandoned 1984-07-30
5. Huntsville Quarry

   Underground metal/non-metal · Mertens Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301919
   Abandoned 1987-04-10
6. Huntsville Stone Incorporated

   Underground metal/non-metal · Huntsville Rock · MSHA ID 2301893
   Abandoned 1993-05-06
7. Hwm - Job #4

   Surface coal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 2302066
   Abandoned 1993-02-17
8. Nemo Coal Inc

   Facility coal · Nemo Coal Inc · MSHA ID 2301701
   Abandoned 1991-08-13
9. No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Mid Missouri Coal Company · MSHA ID 2301676
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
10. Norris Aggregate Products

    Underground metal/non-metal · Norris Asphalt Paving Company · MSHA ID 2302105
    Abandoned 2006-12-07
11. NORRIS AGGREGATE PRODUCTS

    Surface metal/non-metal · Norris Asphalt Paving Company · MSHA ID 2301785
    Abandoned 2001-10-11
12. Prairie Hill Dragline Construction Site

    Surface coal · Associated Electric Cooperative Inc · MSHA ID 2301746
    Abandoned 1980-02-08
13. Prairie Hill No 2

    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 2301652
    Abandoned 1977-08-02
14. Quality Stone & Materials Co-Quarry & Mi

    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Stone Materials Company · MSHA ID 2301721
    Abandoned 1982-11-18
15. Quality Stone Quarry & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Stone Materials Company · MSHA ID 2300247
    Abandoned 1979-09-25
16. Randolph Auger

    Surface coal · Sun Coal Augering Inc · MSHA ID 2302112
    Abandoned 1995-11-07
17. Renick Coal Mine

    Surface coal · Renick Coal Inc · MSHA ID 2301432
    Abandoned 1994-10-15
18. Roanoke Quarry & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2300088
    Abandoned 1990-01-09
19. S & S Mining #1 Strip

    Surface coal · S & S Realty Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301483
    Abandoned 1978-01-23
20. Silver Creek Resources Inc

    Surface coal · North American Resources Inc · MSHA ID 2302078
    Abandoned 2002-01-16
21. Simpco Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · Simpco Stone Inc · MSHA ID 2301744
    Abandoned 1981-04-24
22. Thomas Hill Energy Center

    Facility coal · Associated Electric Cooperative Inc · MSHA ID 2302155
    Abandoned 1999-10-27
23. Yates Energy & Development No 1

    Surface coal · Yates Energy & Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301423
    Abandoned 1985-03-25

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.