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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Chesterfield County, South Carolina

Chesterfield County, South Carolina has 131 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1967–1988. MSHA's register carries 12 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Chesterfield 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
12
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1967–1988 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
    5 3.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    126 96.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned12 on register
  1. Barringer Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barringer Sand LLC · MSHA ID 3800713
    Abandoned
  2. BREWER MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brewer Gold Company · MSHA ID 3800580
    Abandoned
  3. Cash Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Becker Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3800118
    Abandoned
  4. CASH MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Furr Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3800571
    Abandoned
  5. Cedar Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cedar Creek Village Inc · MSHA ID 3800345
    Abandoned
  6. Chesterfield County Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prime Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3800216
    Abandoned
  7. Furr Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Furr Grading & Paving Co Inc · MSHA ID 3800538
    Abandoned
  8. HBME - CHESTER FIELD
    Surface metal/non-metal · H B Mellott Estate Inc · MSHA ID 3800697
    Abandoned
  9. JEWEL CITY SAND MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jewel City Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3800684
    Abandoned
  10. PAGELAND MINE AND MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · F T Williams Company Inc · MSHA ID 3800129
    Abandoned
  11. Paver Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pee Dee Ceramic Inc · MSHA ID 3800588
    Abandoned
  12. Plant #0410 Mine Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Carolina Inc · MSHA ID 3800349
    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
Clay Pit 61
Sand Pit 43
Gravel Pit 15
Open Pit Mine 4
Sand Pit 3
Gravel Pit 2
Quarry 1
Open Pit Mine 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.