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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Midland County, Texas

Midland County, Texas has 165 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1964–1974. 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 Midland 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)
165
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits20 quadrangle maps, published 1964–1974 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 3.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    160 97.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned23 on register
  1. 1788 Viking Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Equi-Nex Energy Services LLC · MSHA ID 4105796
    Abandoned
  2. Counts
    Surface metal/non-metal · S T C C Inc · MSHA ID 4101238
    Abandoned
  3. Crusher #6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones Bros Manufacturing Inc · MSHA ID 4104645
    Abandoned
  4. Eagle Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Texas Aggregates LLC. · MSHA ID 4105342
    Abandoned
  5. Greenwood
    Surface metal/non-metal · MAC Real Estate Inc · MSHA ID 4105503
    Abandoned
  6. Ingrham,
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Texas Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 4105314
    Abandoned
  7. Kerr Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H B Zachry Company · MSHA ID 4103135
    Abandoned
  8. KGC Portable Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kevin Glass Construction, LLC · MSHA ID 4105338
    Abandoned
  9. Marsh Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thompson Materials · MSHA ID 4105682
    Abandoned
  10. Midland
    Facility metal/non-metal · Agri-Empresa, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 4104593
    Abandoned
  11. Midland 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & P Construction Company · MSHA ID 4104709
    Abandoned
  12. Midland Agg
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crockett County Mining Venture No.1 Ltd. · MSHA ID 4104376
    Abandoned
  13. Mobile 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jensco Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105216
    Abandoned
  14. Moreland
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Construction · MSHA ID 4105129
    Abandoned
  15. Nobles Jaw
    Surface metal/non-metal · Permian Basin Materials · MSHA ID 4105386
    Abandoned
  16. Portable #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hornet Services LLc · MSHA ID 4105053
    Abandoned
  17. Red Deer Construction LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · RED DEER CONSTRUCTION LLC · MSHA ID 4105502
    Abandoned
  18. S L Briley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S L Briley Construction Company · MSHA ID 4102872
    Abandoned
  19. SBM Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · SBM Earthmoving & Construction · MSHA ID 4105098
    Abandoned
  20. Spanish Trail Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Slope Oil Services, LLC · MSHA ID 4105043
    Abandoned
  21. Unit #7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones Bros. Mfg · MSHA ID 4104780
    Abandoned
  22. Vines Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Troy Vines Inc · MSHA ID 4103607
    Abandoned
  23. Wes-Tex Materials #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wes-Tex Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4102835
    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 75
Gravel Pit 65
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Borrow Pit 5
Quarry 5
Disturbed Surface 4
Quarry 4
Open Pit Mine 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.