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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pearl River County, Mississippi

Pearl River County, Mississippi has 96 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1993. MSHA's register carries 27 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Pearl River 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)
96
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
27
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits19 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1993 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    96 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned27 on register
  1. C & D Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & D Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200760
    Abandoned
  2. Crossroads Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ancient Rivers Mining Company · MSHA ID 2200472
    Abandoned
  3. Crossroads Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vicon Inc · MSHA ID 2200491
    Abandoned
  4. CROWN ZELLERBACH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200535
    Abandoned
  5. Davis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Gravel Pit · MSHA ID 2200747
    Abandoned
  6. Dixie Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ms Dixie · MSHA ID 2200695
    Abandoned
  7. East Pearl Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Pearl Sand And Gravel · MSHA ID 2200761
    Abandoned
  8. Frierson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frierson Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200482
    Abandoned
  9. M & M Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200586
    Abandoned
  10. Mikes Island Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fore Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200693
    Abandoned
  11. Murphy Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M · MSHA ID 2200534
    Abandoned
  12. Nicholson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Field Energy Technologies, LLC · MSHA ID 2200792
    Abandoned
  13. Pearl River Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hot Mix Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 2200628
    Abandoned
  14. PICAYUNE ASPHALT PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dunn Roadbuilders Llc · MSHA ID 2200653
    Abandoned
  15. Picayune Concrete Company Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Picayune Concrete Company · MSHA ID 2200489
    Abandoned
  16. Picayune Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vicon Inc · MSHA ID 2200490
    Abandoned
  17. Plant A
    Surface metal/non-metal · W & B Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200627
    Abandoned
  18. Quikrete Aggregates of Picayune
    Surface metal/non-metal · The Quikrete Companies · MSHA ID 2200752
    Abandoned
  19. Quikrete Aggregates of Picayune
    Surface metal/non-metal · The Quikrete Companies · MSHA ID 2200787
    Abandoned
  20. River Rock and Sand
    Facility metal/non-metal · River Rock and Sand · MSHA ID 2200820
    Abandoned
  21. SANROC, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sanroc Inc · MSHA ID 2200694
    Abandoned
  22. Santa Rosa Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Huey P Stockstill LLC · MSHA ID 2200809
    Abandoned
  23. Shale Energy Support
    Surface metal/non-metal · Geosol Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 2200835
    Abandoned
  24. Smith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200508
    Abandoned
  25. SMITH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Saunders Inc · MSHA ID 2200532
    Abandoned
  26. Starkey Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200481
    Abandoned
  27. Twelve Oaks Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Huey P Stockstill LLC · MSHA ID 2200547
    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 50
Gravel Pit 36
Borrow Pit 3
Clay Pit 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Sand 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.