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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Taney County, Missouri

Taney County, Missouri has 14 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1989. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 34 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Taney 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)
14
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
34
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits4 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1989 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
    1 6.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    1 6.7%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    13 86.7%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Ava - Bateman Shaft 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 Abandoned34 on register
  1. 11-001
    Surface metal/non-metal · Journagan Construction Company · MSHA ID 2302370
    Abandoned
  2. Beaver Creek Aggregate Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beaver Creek Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 2302097
    Abandoned
  3. Beaver Creek Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beaver Creek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2301538
    Abandoned
  4. Big R Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big R Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2302040
    Abandoned
  5. Branson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC-Central, Inc · MSHA ID 2302138
    Abandoned
  6. Buchanan Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Rock & Concrete LLC · MSHA ID 2302349
    Abandoned
  7. Bull Creek
    Surface metal/non-metal · WMK Materials · MSHA ID 2302272
    Abandoned
  8. Compton Pierson
    Underground metal/non-metal · Compton Pierson Development · MSHA ID 2302179
    Abandoned
  9. Foley Materials Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Foley Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2301837
    Abandoned
  10. Hunter Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Welton Gravel & Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 2301847
    Abandoned
  11. Hwy 376 Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eagle Claw Construction · MSHA ID 2302300
    Abandoned
  12. Journagan Portable #02
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301422
    Abandoned
  13. Journagan Portable #12
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302068
    Abandoned
  14. Journagan Portable #16
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302111
    Abandoned
  15. Journagan Portable #18
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302115
    Abandoned
  16. Journagan Portable #20
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302128
    Abandoned
  17. Koenig Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Koenig Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2301969
    Abandoned
  18. Kortes Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Korte Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 2301706
    Abandoned
  19. Midwest Mining Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midwest Mining Inc · MSHA ID 2302375
    Abandoned
  20. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Missouri Portable Stone Inc · MSHA ID 2301829
    Abandoned
  21. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · WMK Materials · MSHA ID 2302256
    Abandoned
  22. Portable Eagle 1200
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Journagan Construction Company · MSHA ID 2302534
    Abandoned
  23. Quarry One East
    Underground metal/non-metal · Table Rock Asphalt Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302217
    Abandoned
  24. Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock · MSHA ID 2302095
    Abandoned
  25. RWCK Quarry, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · RWCK Quarry, LLC · MSHA ID 2302388
    Abandoned
  26. Strain Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Strain Excavating · MSHA ID 2302575
    Abandoned
  27. Swan Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Val Cope Excavating · MSHA ID 2301677
    Abandoned
  28. Table Rock Gravel Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Table Rock Asphalt Const Inc · MSHA ID 2300928
    Abandoned
  29. Table Rock Quarry No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Table Rock Asphalt Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2300654
    Abandoned
  30. Table Rock Quarry No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Table Rock Asphalt Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301553
    Abandoned
  31. Table Rock Underground Shop
    Underground metal/non-metal · Table Rock Asphalt Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301683
    Abandoned
  32. Tri County Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri County Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2302091
    Abandoned
  33. WMK Materials LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · WMK Materials LLC · MSHA ID 2302293
    Abandoned
  34. Yeary Trucking Sand and Gravel Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yeary Trucking Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2302512
    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 7
Quarry 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 1
Borrow Pit 1
P1 Vertical Openings 1
Other counties in MissouriAll counties →
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.