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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Lowndes County, Mississippi

Lowndes County, Mississippi has 101 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1960–1987. MSHA's register carries 33 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Lowndes 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)
101
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
33
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1960–1987 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    101 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned33 on register
  1. 180 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bacco Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2200631
    Abandoned
  2. AFB Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200738
    Abandoned
  3. AL-14
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bulldog Sand and Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 2200794
    Abandoned
  4. Artesia Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · United Cement Company · MSHA ID 2200509
    Abandoned
  5. Baldwin Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baldwin Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200724
    Abandoned
  6. Bowlin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Mississippi Inc · MSHA ID 2200122
    Abandoned
  7. Columbus Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbus Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200177
    Abandoned
  8. Columbus Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Limestone Red Bay, Inc. · MSHA ID 2200748
    Abandoned
  9. Columbus Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Columbus Brick Company · MSHA ID 2200019
    Abandoned
  10. Day River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Gravel · MSHA ID 2200182
    Abandoned
  11. Ellicott Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waverly Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200497
    Abandoned
  12. Grant Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Contractors Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200185
    Abandoned
  13. Grant Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lowndes County Pit · MSHA ID 2200426
    Abandoned
  14. GRANT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hattiesburg Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2200677
    Abandoned
  15. HAMILTON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Golden Triangle Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200619
    Abandoned
  16. Holcim Artesia Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holcim (US) Incorporated · MSHA ID 2200313
    Abandoned
  17. LAVENDER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lavender Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200616
    Abandoned
  18. LOWNDES CO. GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lowndes County Road Department · MSHA ID 2200597
    Abandoned
  19. Phillips Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prairie Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200576
    Abandoned
  20. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200577
    Abandoned
  21. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mississippi-Alabama Sand Company · MSHA ID 2200401
    Abandoned
  22. PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pryor Hot Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2200681
    Abandoned
  23. Robinson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac Mississippi Inc · MSHA ID 2200672
    Abandoned
  24. S-3 Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Warren Brothers Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200449
    Abandoned
  25. SAND RD. PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Golden Triangle Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200621
    Abandoned
  26. Sand Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Point Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200451
    Abandoned
  27. Sanders Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200570
    Abandoned
  28. Sanders Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ellis Construction Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 2200626
    Abandoned
  29. Sanders Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bacco Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2200674
    Abandoned
  30. Shea Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cook Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200533
    Abandoned
  31. Shea Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200620
    Abandoned
  32. Williams Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & F Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200496
    Abandoned
  33. Williamson Gravel Company Of Columbus In
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williamson Gravel Company Of Columbus Inc · MSHA ID 2200524
    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 72
Gravel Pit 27
Quarry 1
Clay Pit 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.