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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pitt County, North Carolina

Pitt County, North Carolina has 34 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1979–1998. 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 Pitt 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)
34
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
27
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits7 quadrangle maps, published 1979–1998 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
    14 41.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    20 58.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned27 on register
  1. Andrews Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Carolina Inc · MSHA ID 3101972
    Abandoned
  2. Brewer Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoke Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3101655
    Abandoned
  3. Bunting Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnhill Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3101153
    Abandoned
  4. Carroll Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Carolina Inc · MSHA ID 3101648
    Abandoned
  5. E. R. Lewis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S. T.Wooten Corporation · MSHA ID 3102286
    Abandoned
  6. Greenville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B E Singleton & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3101915
    Abandoned
  7. Greenville Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Materials Company, LLC · MSHA ID 3102282
    Abandoned
  8. H & H Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3102129
    Abandoned
  9. Harrison Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · P B Land Corp · MSHA ID 3101683
    Abandoned
  10. Hatcher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pea Creek Mine LLC · MSHA ID 3102256
    Abandoned
  11. Hurst Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hurst Concrete Products Company Inc · MSHA ID 3100430
    Abandoned
  12. James Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrus Construction Company · MSHA ID 3101978
    Abandoned
  13. Mary Jones Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrus Construction Company · MSHA ID 3100399
    Abandoned
  14. Mason Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Carolina Inc · MSHA ID 3101920
    Abandoned
  15. Mayes Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mayes Sand & Soil Company · MSHA ID 3101924
    Abandoned
  16. Mc Daniel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J L Mc Daniel Sand Company · MSHA ID 3101946
    Abandoned
  17. Mine #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Phoenix Trading Company · MSHA ID 3101974
    Abandoned
  18. Pinner Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Materials Company, LLC · MSHA ID 3102105
    Abandoned
  19. Pitt County Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · N C Dept Of Transportation-Div Of Highways · MSHA ID 3101000
    Abandoned
  20. River Road Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tar River Mining Inc. · MSHA ID 3102272
    Abandoned
  21. Shoe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tar River Sand Company · MSHA ID 3102013
    Abandoned
  22. Sunnybrook Pit (Pitt County Pits)
    Surface metal/non-metal · S. T. Wooten Corporation · MSHA ID 3101701
    Abandoned
  23. Tinger Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Reynolds Company · MSHA ID 3101795
    Abandoned
  24. Tranters Creek Mining Co., Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tranters Creek Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3101984
    Abandoned
  25. Tranters Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tranters Creek Mining Company · MSHA ID 3101318
    Abandoned
  26. WHITE PIT I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ready Mixed Concrete · MSHA ID 3101154
    Abandoned
  27. Wood Farm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rex Smith Farms Inc · MSHA ID 3101895
    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
Disturbed Surface 14
Sand Pit 9
Sand Pit 7
Gravel Pit 2
Gravel Pit 1
Quarry 1
Other counties in North CarolinaAll 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.