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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Duval County, Texas

Duval County, Texas has 200 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1974; 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Duval 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)
200
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
2 features carry a name0 prospect pits33 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1974 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    200 100.0%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Lime Quarry Quarry
Lime Quarry Quarry

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned20 on register
  1. Benavides Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saratoga Services, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104707
    Abandoned
  2. Brelum-Piedre Lumbre
    Facility metal/non-metal · Nufuels Corp · MSHA ID 4102801
    Abandoned
  3. Bruni Leach Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Uranium Resources Inc · MSHA ID 4102809
    Abandoned
  4. Carillo Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Texas Construction Company · MSHA ID 4103240
    Abandoned
  5. Driscoll Foundation Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hurst Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4103472
    Abandoned
  6. Freer Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & S Materials LLC · MSHA ID 4105719
    Abandoned
  7. Garcia Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Asphalt · MSHA ID 4105012
    Abandoned
  8. Hoffman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Texas Construction Co · MSHA ID 4103203
    Abandoned
  9. HOLIDAY/EL MESQUITE
    Facility metal/non-metal · Cogema Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4102807
    Abandoned
  10. Las Palmas Project
    Facility metal/non-metal · Everest Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 4103054
    Abandoned
  11. Mcbryde Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Caithness Mining Corp · MSHA ID 4103032
    Abandoned
  12. Mobil Crusher # 3-9922
    Surface metal/non-metal · Val-Tex Asphalt & Environmental Inc · MSHA ID 4104684
    Abandoned
  13. Mobil Crusher #7-0208
    Surface metal/non-metal · Val-Tex Asphalt & Environmental Inc. · MSHA ID 4104805
    Abandoned
  14. Mobil Screen #1-6210
    Surface metal/non-metal · Val-Tex Asphalt & Environmental Inc. · MSHA ID 4104754
    Abandoned
  15. Palaganna Project
    Facility metal/non-metal · Chevron Resources Company · MSHA ID 4102460
    Abandoned
  16. ROSITA PROJECT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Uri Inc · MSHA ID 4103629
    Abandoned
  17. Saenz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · David Longoria Trucking & Construction LLC · MSHA ID 4104870
    Abandoned
  18. Sweet 16
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bay Ltd · MSHA ID 4103487
    Abandoned
  19. Trevino Uranium Insitu Leach Project
    Facility metal/non-metal · Conoco Inc · MSHA ID 4103075
    Abandoned
  20. Vasquez
    Surface metal/non-metal · URI Inc · MSHA ID 4104481
    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 120
Gravel Pit 70
Quarry 5
Quarry 4
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.