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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Glasscock County, Texas

Glasscock County, Texas has 102 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1963–1973. MSHA's register carries 23 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Glasscock 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)
102
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits17 quadrangle maps, published 1963–1973 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    102 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned23 on register
  1. Crusher - LU200
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laredo Paving Inc · MSHA ID 4102926
    Abandoned
  2. Crusher #1 Roving
    Surface metal/non-metal · Strain Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4103520
    Abandoned
  3. Crusher LU130
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laredo Paving Inc · MSHA ID 4104027
    Abandoned
  4. DA #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Victory Rock Texas, LLC · MSHA ID 4202633
    Abandoned
  5. GLASS PROPERTIES
    Surface metal/non-metal · ROGERS CONSTRUCTION · MSHA ID 4105128
    Abandoned
  6. Holeshire
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Construction · MSHA ID 4105130
    Abandoned
  7. K Q Construction LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · K Q Construction LLC · MSHA ID 4105145
    Abandoned
  8. Longshore Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Basin Rock Products, LLC · MSHA ID 4105455
    Abandoned
  9. LSS10/L110
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laredo Paving Inc · MSHA ID 4104129
    Abandoned
  10. LU100
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laredo Paving, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105090
    Abandoned
  11. LU824
    Surface metal/non-metal · Laredo Paving, Inc · MSHA ID 4104874
    Abandoned
  12. Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bartlett Construction · MSHA ID 4105028
    Abandoned
  13. Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Texas Rock Resources, LLC · MSHA ID 4105250
    Abandoned
  14. Portable 1 P500
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Crushing & Screening Inc · MSHA ID 4105029
    Abandoned
  15. Portable 2 P1412
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Crushing & Screening Inc. · MSHA ID 4105030
    Abandoned
  16. Portable 4 Kleemann
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Crushing & Screening Inc. · MSHA ID 4105032
    Abandoned
  17. Portable 5 J400
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Crushing & Screening Inc. · MSHA ID 4105156
    Abandoned
  18. Portable 6 C1000
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Crushing & Screening Inc. · MSHA ID 4105155
    Abandoned
  19. Portable 7 FT4250
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Crushing & Screening Inc. · MSHA ID 4105214
    Abandoned
  20. Powerscreen 320
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jam Material · MSHA ID 4105261
    Abandoned
  21. RC#6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chuck's Dozer Service, Inc · MSHA ID 4105078
    Abandoned
  22. Schreader Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Texas Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105501
    Abandoned
  23. Tubbs Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Limestone Company · MSHA ID 4103656
    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 63
Gravel Pit 34
Quarry 3
Quarry 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.