Mines in Tazewell County, Virginia
214Total
16Active
Tazewell County, Virginia has 214 mine and mineral deposit locations documented in federal records from the USGS and MSHA. 16 of these are currently active mining operations. The most commonly recorded commodity is coal (bituminous), with 105 sites. The table below lists all recorded mines in the county with links to individual site details.
All Mines in Tazewell County
| Mine | Commodity | Type | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Creek Surface | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Active | MSHA |
| Bluefield Plant | Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC | Surface | Active | MSHA |
| Coal Creek Prep Plant | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Active | MSHA |
| Highwall Miner #1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Active | MSHA |
| Hill Creek Auger | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Active | MSHA |
| Limestone Dust Corp. | Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC | Facility | Active | MSHA |
| Pounding Mill Plant | Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC | Surface | Active | MSHA |
| Tazewell County Quarry | Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC | Surface | Active | MSHA |
| Virginia Point No. 1 Surface Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Active | MSHA |
| Bluefield Quarry Number 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Producer | MRDS |
| Limestone Dust Mill No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Processing Plant | Producer | MRDS |
| Limestone Dust Mill No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Processing Plant | Producer | MRDS |
| Mine Nuumber 5 | Clay | Surface | Producer | MRDS |
| Plant Number 3 | Clay | Processing Plant | Producer | MRDS |
| Pounding Mill Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Producer | MRDS |
| Tazewell Clay Products Mine | Clay | Surface | Producer | MRDS |
| Raven Dock | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Temporarily Idled | MSHA |
| #1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| #1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| #16 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| #2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| #2 Surface | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| #3 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| #4 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Adz Ridge Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Altizer Prospect | Surface | Prospect | MRDS | |
| Altizer Prospect | Surface | Prospect | MRDS | |
| Altizer Prospects | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Auger No. 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | NonProducing | MSHA |
| Auger No. 29 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Temporarily Idled | MSHA |
| Bar C Sand #1 | Sand, Industrial NEC | Surface | Intermittent | MSHA |
| Beaver Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Beaver Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Bell Hill Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Big Creek Seaboard No 1 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Big Creek Seaboard No 2 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Big Creek Tiller Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Blair Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Bluefield Quarry Number 1 | Limestone, General | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Buckhorn Mountain Prospect | Iron | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Buckhorn Mt. Prospect | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Capital No 3 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Carter Prospect | Surface | Prospect | MRDS | |
| Cedar Bluff Prospect | Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Cedar Bluff Prospect | Zinc | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Central Shop | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Charles Hale Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Charlie Jones Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Claypool Prospect | Manganese | Surface | Prospect | MRDS |
| Clinch River Operation | Crushed, Broken Sandstone | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Comanche No 9 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Corell Prospect | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Covenant Coal Corp Lower Seaboard E | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Deep Mine #1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Dill Mine | Surface-Underground | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Earl Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Earl Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| East River Mountain Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Fork Ridge No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Fudge Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Fudge Mine and Prospect | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Fudge Prospect | Barium-Barite | Surface-Underground | Prospect | MRDS |
| Genesis Preparation Plant | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Gose Mine | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Greasy Creek Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Harmon Prospect | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Harmon Prospect | Surface | Prospect | MRDS | |
| Harmon Prospect | Surface-Underground | Prospect | MRDS | |
| Henry A. Bowen Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Higgin Bottom Prospect | Surface | Prospect | MRDS | |
| Hite Crabtree Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Hopkins Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Hopkins Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Hopkins Mine | Barium-Barite | Underground | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Hubble Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Hubblle Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Ireson and McMullen Prospects | Iron | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| J P Crockett Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Jawbone #2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| K Peery Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Laura Hurt Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Lower Horsepen Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| M L Peery Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Mack Jones Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Middle Creek Refuge | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Temporarily Idled | MSHA |
| Miles Branch Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine #1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine #2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine #2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine #4 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine #7 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No 3 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No 5 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Mine No. 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Mine No. 41 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Temporarily Idled | MSHA |
| No. 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Nipper Prospect | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Nipper Prospect | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 1 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 1 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 1 Strip | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 11 Dock | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 13 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 15 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 16 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 2 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 2 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No 2 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 3 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 3 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 3 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 3 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 4 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 4 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No 5 Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No. 2 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| No. 5 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| No1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Nye Cove Property | Surface | Prospect | MRDS | |
| Nye Cove Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Nye Cove Prospect | Iron | Surface | Prospect | MRDS |
| Nye Cove Prospect | Manganese | Surface | Prospect | MRDS |
| Peery, K, Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Peery, M L, Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Perry Mine | Surface-Underground | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Pocahontas Central Shop | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Pocahontas Lab | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Pocahontas Mine | Surface-Underground | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Pocahontas Prep Plant | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Preparation Plant | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Reiss Viking Grinding Plant | Iron | Processing Plant | Unknown | MRDS |
| Ringstaff Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Ringstaff Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Robert Anderson Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| S W Bowen Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Seaboard Dock | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Short Mine | Manganese | Underground | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Short Prospect | Surface-Underground | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Silver Creek Mine | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Solus #1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Steele Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Steele Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Surface Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Surface Mine No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Surface Mine No 5 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Taylor Mine | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Taylor Mine | Barium-Barite | Surface | Past Producer | MRDS |
| Taylor Ridge Prospect | Zinc | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| Tazewell Clay Products Mine | Clay | Past Producer | MRDS | |
| Tiller No 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Temporarily Idled | MSHA |
| Tip Top Prospect | Surface-Underground | Unknown | MRDS | |
| Town Hill Creek Surface Mine No. 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | MRDS | |
| V-2 #1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Surface | New Mine | MSHA |
| War Creek No. 1 | Coal (Bituminous) | Underground | Abandoned and Sealed | MSHA |
| Wildcat No 1 Tipple | Coal (Bituminous) | Facility | Abandoned | MSHA |
| Yost Prospect | Surface | Prospect | MRDS |