Mining Incidents
Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in New London County, Connecticut

New London County, Connecticut has no mine or prospect features in the USGS topographic-map compilation. MSHA's register carries 58 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering New London 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)
0
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
58
0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned58 on register
  1. 1502 Route 85
    Surface metal/non-metal · Daniels and Sons Construction LLC · MSHA ID 0600845
    Abandoned
  2. B And O Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & O Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0600391
    Abandoned
  3. B&R Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · B&R Holding Company, LLC. · MSHA ID 0600804
    Abandoned
  4. BAY MOUNTAIN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bay Mountain Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 0600672
    Abandoned
  5. Bison Brook Farms
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bison Brook Farms · MSHA ID 0600741
    Abandoned
  6. Chesterfield Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of New London-Div Of Highways · MSHA ID 0600504
    Abandoned
  7. Deep River (Haynes)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bove Brothers LLC · MSHA ID 0600846
    Abandoned
  8. Dunning South
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dunning Industries Inc · MSHA ID 0600767
    Abandoned
  9. Edmond'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlas Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600608
    Abandoned
  10. Geer Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Geer Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600397
    Abandoned
  11. Getty Granite Montville
    Surface metal/non-metal · CT Superior Stone · MSHA ID 0600816
    Abandoned
  12. GRISWOLD/165 PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mashantucket Pequot Tribe · MSHA ID 0600645
    Abandoned
  13. Groton Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon Connecticut Inc · MSHA ID 0600680
    Abandoned
  14. Groton Reservoir Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Groton · MSHA ID 0600388
    Abandoned
  15. Groton Reservoir Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Groton Highway Department · MSHA ID 0600507
    Abandoned
  16. Groton Reservoir Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · New London Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600246
    Abandoned
  17. Groton Reservoir Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · New London Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600384
    Abandoned
  18. Hewitt'S Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Austin Hewitt & Son'S Inc · MSHA ID 0600585
    Abandoned
  19. HOPEVILLE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Neri Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0600675
    Abandoned
  20. J V Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jeff Vullo Trucking & Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 0600637
    Abandoned
  21. Janowicz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Janowicz Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0600398
    Abandoned
  22. Johnson Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-J Inc-Johnson Sand & Gravel Div · MSHA ID 0600258
    Abandoned
  23. K5 Aggregates Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · K5 Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 0600167
    Abandoned
  24. Kurt Barnes
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kurt Barnes · MSHA ID 0600766
    Abandoned
  25. Ledyard Pit And Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Soneco Service Inc · MSHA ID 0600323
    Abandoned
  26. Ledyard Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Silica Company · MSHA ID 0600018
    Abandoned
  27. Lewis Farm
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peter J Hock · MSHA ID 0600780
    Abandoned
  28. Lewis Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greenman Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0600389
    Abandoned
  29. MARK A. MOORE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mark A Moore · MSHA ID 0600652
    Abandoned
  30. Miller Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carlton Miller Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0600395
    Abandoned
  31. Montville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kobyluck Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0600588
    Abandoned
  32. Montville Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon Connecticut Inc · MSHA ID 0600677
    Abandoned
  33. Montville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hubert E Butler Construction Co, LLC · MSHA ID 0600813
    Abandoned
  34. Moran Sand And Gravel Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moran Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0600377
    Abandoned
  35. Morgan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Romanella & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0600498
    Abandoned
  36. North Stonington Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cherenzia & Nigrelli Inc · MSHA ID 0600390
    Abandoned
  37. Oakwood Farm
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakwood Farm · MSHA ID 0600742
    Abandoned
  38. Old Hartford Road Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Fedus & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600611
    Abandoned
  39. OUS CONST.
    Surface metal/non-metal · OUS CONST. · MSHA ID 0600704
    Abandoned
  40. PEGSON
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Industries · MSHA ID 0600720
    Abandoned
  41. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moran Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0600599
    Abandoned
  42. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nutmeg Gravel & Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 0600724
    Abandoned
  43. Portable Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coit Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 0600795
    Abandoned
  44. PRZEKOPSKI SAND & GRAVEL & FARM
    Surface metal/non-metal · Przekopski Sand Gravel & Farm · MSHA ID 0600647
    Abandoned
  45. Rattlesnake Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hillcraft Company · MSHA ID 0600386
    Abandoned
  46. Richard E White Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richard E White · MSHA ID 0600380
    Abandoned
  47. Route 138 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Federal Paper Board Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600600
    Abandoned
  48. SALEM EARTH PRODUCTS, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Salem Earth Products Inc · MSHA ID 0600625
    Abandoned
  49. SDB Trucking LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · SDB Trucking LLC · MSHA ID 0600738
    Abandoned
  50. Sprague Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sprague Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0600396
    Abandoned
  51. Stillman Road Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Romanella & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0600322
    Abandoned
  52. Uncasville Plant And Leffingwell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John J Doyle Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600233
    Abandoned
  53. Waterford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rudy Fogg & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0600589
    Abandoned
  54. Westerly Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westerly Ready Mixed Concrete Co In · MSHA ID 0600260
    Abandoned
  55. Wilkenson Pit
    Facility metal/non-metal · James Romanella & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0600321
    Abandoned
  56. Willow Springs Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittle Brothers Farm · MSHA ID 0600261
    Abandoned
  57. Woodco Properties
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woodco Properties LLC · MSHA ID 0600838
    Abandoned
  58. Yurechko Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · G & Y Inc · MSHA ID 0600417
    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.