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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Kenai Peninsula, Alaska has no mine or prospect features in the USGS topographic-map compilation. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Kenai Peninsula, 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)
0
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned26 on register
  1. Airport Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 5001161
    Abandoned
  2. Anchor Point Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anchor Point Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 5001324
    Abandoned
  3. Benson Gravel Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Benson Gravel Sales · MSHA ID 5001165
    Abandoned
  4. Better Concrete Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Better Concrete Products · MSHA ID 5000240
    Abandoned
  5. Cohoe Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 5001160
    Abandoned
  6. Crescent Creek Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crescent Gold Mines · MSHA ID 5001424
    Abandoned
  7. Davis Block Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harley'S Trucking · MSHA ID 5001166
    Abandoned
  8. Diamond Chuitna
    coal · Diamond Alaska Coal Company · MSHA ID 5001482
    Abandoned
  9. Donaldson Creek Material Site #31-2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Dept/Transportation & Pulic Facilities · MSHA ID 5001244
    Abandoned
  10. Eason Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 5001163
    Abandoned
  11. Gold Leaf
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gold Seekers · MSHA ID 5001294
    Abandoned
  12. Golden Horseshoe
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rainbow Mining Company · MSHA ID 5001376
    Abandoned
  13. Herndon And Neal Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Neal & Company Inc · MSHA ID 5001168
    Abandoned
  14. Johnson Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 5001158
    Abandoned
  15. Luk'S Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · K'S Concrete Service · MSHA ID 5001326
    Abandoned
  16. Lynx Creek
    Surface metal/non-metal · United Mining & Mineral Exploration · MSHA ID 5001374
    Abandoned
  17. Mc Cham Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peninsula Redi-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 5000451
    Abandoned
  18. Mccham Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peninsula Redi-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 5000541
    Abandoned
  19. Mcwilliams Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · William A Mcwilliams · MSHA ID 5001373
    Abandoned
  20. Mile No 4
    Underground metal/non-metal · Alaska Standard Mining Inc · MSHA ID 5001488
    Abandoned
  21. Naptowne Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 5001159
    Abandoned
  22. Oteco Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oteco Inc · MSHA ID 5000547
    Abandoned
  23. Pearson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arndt Brothers · MSHA ID 5001245
    Abandoned
  24. Pit No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 5001162
    Abandoned
  25. Soldotna Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alaska Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 5001157
    Abandoned
  26. The Dump
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 5001325
    Abandoned

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

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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.