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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Burnet County, Texas

Burnet County, Texas has 275 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1995, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 30 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Burnet 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)
275
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
30
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1995 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    1 0.4%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    8 2.9%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    265 96.4%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 0.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned30 on register
  1. America #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Solid Rock Crushing, LLC · MSHA ID 4105414
    Abandoned
  2. AUSTIN AGGR MARBLE FALLS EAST
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4102773
    Abandoned
  3. Bilbrough Marble Division
    Facility metal/non-metal · Bilbrough Marble Division · MSHA ID 4101256
    Abandoned
  4. Billy Jack's Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Billy Jack's Sand And Gravel · MSHA ID 4104844
    Abandoned
  5. Buckner Boys Ranch Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Americas Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103318
    Abandoned
  6. Cameron Ranch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cameron Ranch Stone Sales · MSHA ID 4103792
    Abandoned
  7. Challenger Portable Mining Services
    Surface metal/non-metal · Challenger Services, Inc · MSHA ID 4104967
    Abandoned
  8. Coastal Rose Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cold Spring Granite Company · MSHA ID 4104699
    Abandoned
  9. Collier Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Collier Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4103456
    Abandoned
  10. COLLIER TOP SOIL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4103457
    Abandoned
  11. DIXON/SOUTHWESTERN GRAPHITE CO.
    Facility metal/non-metal · Southwestern Graphite Company · MSHA ID 4100937
    Abandoned
  12. Doggert Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B K S Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4103777
    Abandoned
  13. DOW QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dean Word Company · MSHA ID 4101334
    Abandoned
  14. Fowler Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fowler Materials · MSHA ID 4103426
    Abandoned
  15. GRANITE MTN CR LLC
    Facility metal/non-metal · Granite Mountain Crushing Llc · MSHA ID 4103932
    Abandoned
  16. Heartland Aggregates Granite Shoals Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heartland Quarries, LLC · MSHA ID 4104894
    Abandoned
  17. Huber Engineered Materials
    Facility metal/non-metal · J M Huber Corp · MSHA ID 4101925
    Abandoned
  18. Lampasas Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Transit Mix Concrete & Materials Company · MSHA ID 4103055
    Abandoned
  19. Lampasas Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4104111
    Abandoned
  20. Lampasas Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Austin Aggregates · MSHA ID 4104693
    Abandoned
  21. Marble Falls Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baron Corp · MSHA ID 4103085
    Abandoned
  22. MOBILE CRUSHER #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Texas Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4104118
    Abandoned
  23. Naruna Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC Texas, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104468
    Abandoned
  24. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hill Country Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4103503
    Abandoned
  25. ROPER QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bilbrough Marble · MSHA ID 4101684
    Abandoned
  26. Savage Ranch
    Surface metal/non-metal · WHITTLESEY LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES & RECYCLING, INC. · MSHA ID 4105037
    Abandoned
  27. Scobee
    Surface metal/non-metal · Colaska Production Company · MSHA ID 4103651
    Abandoned
  28. Summit Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Crushers Inc · MSHA ID 4104243
    Abandoned
  29. Sunset Beige Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Granite Corp · MSHA ID 4101672
    Abandoned
  30. Texas Pearl Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Granite Corp · MSHA ID 4101217
    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 165
Gravel Pit 65
Quarry 17
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Caliche Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Quarry 2
Disturbed Surface 2
Quarry - Rock 1
Tailings - Pond 1
Open Pit Mine 1
Mine Shaft 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.