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Mines in Benton County, Tennessee

Benton County, Tennessee has 22 mines on MSHA's register: 5 active, 16 abandoned. 1 are coal mines and 21 metal or non-metal. 2 miners have died and 127 accidents have been reported at these mines between 1983 and 2025. Inspectors have issued 475 citations.

Every mine MSHA has registered in Benton County, working or not, with the accident, fatality and citation record each one carries on this site. Active mines are listed first, then the rest by the weight of their record.

Abandoned and historical mine features in Benton County →

Mines on register
22
Active
5
Fatalities on record
2
Citations issued
475
0 underground · 21 surface · 0 facilities 1 coal · 21 metal and non-metal 16 abandoned 127 reported accidents, 1983–2025
Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Benton County, Tennessee · Population 15,948
1.3%
Mining share of county employment
$50,435
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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MSHA-registered mine, any status

Mines plot only where MSHA holds a surveyed coordinate for the site; mines the agency locates to a town, county or state centroid are in the counts and the list above but not drawn. Click a point for the mine's status and record.

Operators with the most mines herecurrent operator of record
Operator Mines Active Fatalities
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC 2 1 2
Benton County Highway Department 2 0 0
B L Flowers Gravel Company 1 0 0
Camden Gravel Company 1 1 0
Covia Solutions LLC 1 0 0
Dixie Pine Coal Company Inc 1 0 0
Hawkins and Price, LLC 1 1 0
Jesse S Morie & Son Inc 1 0 0
Lewys sod 1 1 0
M & M Gravel, LLC 1 0 0
Mines in Benton County22 on register
  1. Benton County Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4000098
    Active
  2. Camden Mine & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camden Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4000781
    Active
  3. Hwy 64 Pond Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hawkins and Price, LLC · MSHA ID 4003645
    Active
  4. Miles Materials LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miles Materials LLC · MSHA ID 4003603
    Active
  5. Chert rock quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lewys sod · MSHA ID 4003634
    Active
  6. Camden Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Covia Solutions LLC · MSHA ID 4000793
    Abandoned
  7. Holladay North
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4003039
    Abandoned
  8. Cypress Creek Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wright Gravel Co. LLC · MSHA ID 4000803
    Abandoned
  9. M & M Gravel, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 4002955
    Abandoned
  10. CAMDEN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Unimin Corp · MSHA ID 4000792
    Abandoned
  11. North Benton
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norwood Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 4003257
    Abandoned
  12. Camden
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-State Sand Company · MSHA ID 4000820
    Abandoned
  13. Benton County Highway Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Benton County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4002273
    Abandoned
  14. BIG SANDY MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Benton Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 4003136
    Abandoned
  15. O'Neal Melton & Sons, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Neal Melton & Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 4003188
    Abandoned
  16. Covia
    metal/non-metal · MaxSteel Fabrication, LLC · MSHA ID 4003635
    New Mine
  17. Flowers Mine And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Flowers Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4002263
    Abandoned
  18. Limestone Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Benton County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4002723
    Abandoned
  19. MRS INC., CAMDEN TN PILOT PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mineral Recovery Systems Inc · MSHA ID 4003160
    Abandoned
  20. No 3 Strip
    Surface coal · Dixie Pine Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000937
    Abandoned
  21. River Bend Chert
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rocky Point Rock, Inc. · MSHA ID 4003414
    Abandoned
  22. Tennessee Silica Division
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jesse S Morie & Son Inc · MSHA ID 4001316
    Abandoned

Status, type and operator are as reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts are MSHA's reportable accident records for the mine; citations are inspector-issued violations on record. Each mine's own page carries the full detail.

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How to read these numbers

The register is MSHA's Mine Data Retrieval System: every operation ever assigned a mine ID, including ones abandoned decades ago, so the count is a history of mining in the county, not a count of working mines. A mine's county is the one its operator reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts start with MSHA's reportable-accident records (1983 onward); citation counts are inspector-issued violations on record. We are an independent research tool, not MSHA.