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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in San Saba County, Texas

San Saba County, Texas has 50 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1982. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering San Saba 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)
50
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1982 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    50 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. 4104882 / San Saba
    Surface metal/non-metal · Garza Masonry Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104882
    Abandoned
  2. Bocanegra Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bocanegra Stone · MSHA ID 4105269
    Abandoned
  3. Cervantes Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cervantes Stone · MSHA ID 4104872
    Abandoned
  4. Cervantes Stone (Dolby Ranch)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cervantes Stone · MSHA ID 4104871
    Abandoned
  5. Chocolate Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Estrada Stone · MSHA ID 4104883
    Abandoned
  6. Davila Stone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davila Stone Company · MSHA ID 4104737
    Abandoned
  7. Dyer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Quality Stone Co. · MSHA ID 4104771
    Abandoned
  8. Eddie Harbour
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eddie Harbour · MSHA ID 4105014
    Abandoned
  9. Evans and Sons #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evans and Sons Portable Rock Crushing, LLC · MSHA ID 4105148
    Abandoned
  10. Imperial Products Supply, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Imperial Products Supply, LLC · MSHA ID 4104954
    Abandoned
  11. Martinez Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martinez Stone · MSHA ID 4104848
    Abandoned
  12. Miller #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · D Alacran Stone · MSHA ID 4104744
    Abandoned
  13. NOVA STONE LLC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · NOVA STONE LLC. · MSHA ID 4105629
    Abandoned
  14. Perez Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Perez Stone · MSHA ID 4105270
    Abandoned
  15. Pierce Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lynnwood Pierce Stone Company · MSHA ID 4104886
    Abandoned
  16. PONTOTOC #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwest Earth Resources Inc · MSHA ID 4103970
    Abandoned
  17. Pulatie Ranch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brister Stone · MSHA ID 4104469
    Abandoned
  18. Romo 500 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Romo Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4104955
    Abandoned
  19. Salado Operations, San Saba
    Surface metal/non-metal · Salado Operations · MSHA ID 4104881
    Abandoned
  20. San Saba Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apache Stone Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 4105087
    Abandoned
  21. San Saba Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · V & S Stone, LLC · MSHA ID 4104822
    Abandoned
  22. San Saba Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jarrell Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4104480
    Abandoned
  23. San Saba Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Espinoza Stone Inc. · MSHA ID 4104735
    Abandoned
  24. San Saba Quarry Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bandas Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4103648
    Abandoned
  25. Smith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe C Smith · MSHA ID 4103183
    Abandoned
  26. Sunbelt Stone LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunbelt Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4104769
    Abandoned
  27. Tinney Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Golding Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4105236
    Abandoned
  28. Vega Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vega Stone · MSHA ID 4104880
    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 33
Gravel Pit 6
Quarry 5
Caliche Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.