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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Perry County, Mississippi

Perry County, Mississippi has 85 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1947–2000. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Perry 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)
85
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1947–2000 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    6 7.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    79 92.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. BUCK CREEK #60
    Surface metal/non-metal · Standard Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200673
    Abandoned
  2. Buck Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westmoreland Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200434
    Abandoned
  3. Buck Creek Plant No 50
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Brothers Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200545
    Abandoned
  4. COOK PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Perry County Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200684
    Abandoned
  5. Fairchild Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hattiesburg Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200400
    Abandoned
  6. Great Southern Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & G Gravel · MSHA ID 2200607
    Abandoned
  7. Hard Rock Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hard Rock Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2200805
    Abandoned
  8. Mathis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blain Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200559
    Abandoned
  9. MATHIS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bush Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200592
    Abandoned
  10. Matthews Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Perry County Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2200501
    Abandoned
  11. Mc Callum Sand & Gravel Company Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Callum Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200511
    Abandoned
  12. Mc Ree Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Ree Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2200595
    Abandoned
  13. Moffitt Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westmoreland Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200608
    Abandoned
  14. New Augusta Ready Mix Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New Augusta Ready Mix · MSHA ID 2200500
    Abandoned
  15. Old River Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Old River Rd S G & Land Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200495
    Abandoned
  16. Perry County D2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tanner Construction · MSHA ID 2200785
    Abandoned
  17. Pit #2
    Facility metal/non-metal · A L Williams Jr · MSHA ID 2200636
    Abandoned
  18. Pit No I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westmoreland Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200394
    Abandoned
  19. Plant U
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200121
    Abandoned
  20. Richton Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bush Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 2200579
    Abandoned
  21. Watkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buck Creek Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200588
    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 27
Gravel Pit 24
Sand Pit 14
Clay Pit 4
Borrow Pit 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 4
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Clay Pit 2
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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.