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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Copiah County, Mississippi

Copiah County, Mississippi has 131 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1962–1972. 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 Copiah 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)
131
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits17 quadrangle maps, published 1962–1972 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    131 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned22 on register
  1. Brent Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Brothers Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200796
    Abandoned
  2. BS&G Crystal Springs
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baldwin Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2200806
    Abandoned
  3. CRYSTAL SPRINGS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials · MSHA ID 2200119
    Abandoned
  4. Dees Rocks
    Surface metal/non-metal · LAN Farms LLC · MSHA ID 2200859
    Abandoned
  5. Harmony Mine & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Brothers Gravel Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 2200650
    Abandoned
  6. Harris Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blain Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200513
    Abandoned
  7. Harris Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blain Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200526
    Abandoned
  8. Jones Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blain Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200544
    Abandoned
  9. KING PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · King Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200430
    Abandoned
  10. KING PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · AKT MATERIALS, INC. · MSHA ID 2200646
    Abandoned
  11. Krystal Gravel-Coor Springs
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krystal Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200788
    Abandoned
  12. Krystal Gravel-Harmony
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krystal Gravel · MSHA ID 2200585
    Abandoned
  13. Krystal Gravel-Hwy 27
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krystal Gravel · MSHA ID 2200776
    Abandoned
  14. LOFLIN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Loflin Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200492
    Abandoned
  15. Marx Plant #22
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Brothers Gravel Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 2200692
    Abandoned
  16. MOON PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blain Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200103
    Abandoned
  17. Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krystal Gravel · MSHA ID 2200774
    Abandoned
  18. Skipper Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · King Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200431
    Abandoned
  19. Sojourner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Ready-Mix Concrete · MSHA ID 2200578
    Abandoned
  20. Sojourner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krystal Gravel · MSHA ID 2200623
    Abandoned
  21. Trawick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trawick Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200352
    Abandoned
  22. WILLIAMS-PLT 5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200106
    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
Gravel Pit 117
Gravel Pit 12
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Other counties in MississippiAll 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.