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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Hawaii County, Hawaii

Hawaii County, Hawaii has 184 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1997, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 3 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 61 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Hawaii 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)
184
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
61
3 features carry a name0 prospect pits40 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1997 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    1 0.5%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    5 2.7%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    178 96.7%
Named features on the maps3 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Former Cinder Pit Cinder Pit area
Former Cinder Pit Cinder Pit area
Keanakakoi (Ancient Quarry) Quarry

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned61 on register
  1. #2-4 25' Secondary Cone Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Isemoto Contracting Company Ltd · MSHA ID 5100209
    Abandoned
  2. 120 Kue Ken
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keauhou Kona Construction Corp · MSHA ID 5100238
    Abandoned
  3. 38 x 58 Telsmith
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keauhou Kona Construction Corp. · MSHA ID 5100252
    Abandoned
  4. 400 TPH Mobil Crushing and Screening Plt
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hawaiian Dredging Construction · MSHA ID 5100269
    Abandoned
  5. Big Island Concrete & Aggregate
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big Island Concrete & Aggregate · MSHA ID 5100235
    Abandoned
  6. Cedar Rapids
    Surface metal/non-metal · M Sonomura Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 5100221
    Abandoned
  7. Contract Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5100212
    Abandoned
  8. Contract Plant Ii
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5100186
    Abandoned
  9. Crusher A
    Surface metal/non-metal · Isemoto Contracting Company Ltd · MSHA ID 5100208
    Abandoned
  10. Crusher B
    Surface metal/non-metal · Isemoto Contracting Company Ltd · MSHA ID 5100239
    Abandoned
  11. Crusher C
    Surface metal/non-metal · Isemoto Contracting Company Ltd · MSHA ID 5100243
    Abandoned
  12. Crusher D
    Surface metal/non-metal · Isemoto Contracting Co., Ltd. · MSHA ID 5100249
    Abandoned
  13. Crusher E
    Surface metal/non-metal · Isemoto Contracting Co., Ltd. · MSHA ID 5100262
    Abandoned
  14. Crusher G
    Surface metal/non-metal · Isemoto Contracting Co., Ltd. · MSHA ID 5100309
    Abandoned
  15. Finley Screen GBI #7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 5100255
    Abandoned
  16. GBI #4 LP 121
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100227
    Abandoned
  17. GBI #6 LP 178
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100260
    Abandoned
  18. GBI #9 Kleeman K0 236
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100257
    Abandoned
  19. Hamakua Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamakua Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 5100183
    Abandoned
  20. Hawaii Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiewit Pacific Co. · MSHA ID 5100214
    Abandoned
  21. Hcpc Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hilo Coast Processing Company · MSHA ID 5100179
    Abandoned
  22. Honokohau Quarry & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5100061
    Abandoned
  23. Iilewa Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Puna Sugar Company Ltd · MSHA ID 5100083
    Abandoned
  24. Jaw Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Hawaii Concrete Ltd · MSHA ID 5100161
    Abandoned
  25. K K K Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · K K K Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 5100188
    Abandoned
  26. Kamehameha Schools Project
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5100237
    Abandoned
  27. Kawaihae Coral Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Brewer Chemical Corp · MSHA ID 5100052
    Abandoned
  28. Keauhou Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · R M Tanaka Construction Inc · MSHA ID 5100043
    Abandoned
  29. Kiyosaki Tractor Works Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiyosaki Tractor Works Inc · MSHA ID 5100210
    Abandoned
  30. Kohala Ranch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiewit Pacific Co. · MSHA ID 5100191
    Abandoned
  31. Mobile 3 Crawler Jaw
    Surface metal/non-metal · CTS Earthmoving Inc · MSHA ID 5100287
    Abandoned
  32. Mobile Crusher One Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nan, Inc. · MSHA ID 5100254
    Abandoned
  33. Mobile Crusher Two
    Surface metal/non-metal · CTS Earthmoving Inc · MSHA ID 5100253
    Abandoned
  34. Mobile One Cone Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nan, Inc. · MSHA ID 5100267
    Abandoned
  35. Mobile Rock Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delta Construction Corp. · MSHA ID 5100304
    Abandoned
  36. Mobile Rock Crusher #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delta Construction · MSHA ID 5100312
    Abandoned
  37. P R L #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Rim Land Inc · MSHA ID 5100201
    Abandoned
  38. Pioneer
    Surface metal/non-metal · M Sonomura Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 5100194
    Abandoned
  39. Plant 1 Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bolton Inc · MSHA ID 5100233
    Abandoned
  40. Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willocks Construction Corp · MSHA ID 5100288
    Abandoned
  41. Plant 2 Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bolton Inc · MSHA ID 5100234
    Abandoned
  42. Plant One
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willocks Construction Corporation · MSHA ID 5100265
    Abandoned
  43. Portable Plant - 2 (#1117)
    Surface metal/non-metal · E M Rivera & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 5100261
    Abandoned
  44. Portable Plant - 4 ( #1148 - Secondary )
    Surface metal/non-metal · E.M. Rivera & Sons, Inc · MSHA ID 5100264
    Abandoned
  45. Portable Plant - 5 (#1184)
    Surface metal/non-metal · E.M. Rivera & Sons, Inc · MSHA ID 5100220
    Abandoned
  46. Portable Plant-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · E M Rivera & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 5100236
    Abandoned
  47. Portable Plant-3 (#1150-P & #1192-S )
    Surface metal/non-metal · E.M. Rivera & Sons, Inc · MSHA ID 5100263
    Abandoned
  48. Portable Telsmith Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · William C. Loeffler Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 5100290
    Abandoned
  49. Portable-2
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Hawaii Concrete · MSHA ID 5100241
    Abandoned
  50. PTA Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Liana Construction, LLC · MSHA ID 5100314
    Abandoned
  51. Pu'u Hinai Cinder Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edwin Deluz Trucking & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 5100240
    Abandoned
  52. Puuheihei Cinder Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edwin Deluz Trucking & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 5100225
    Abandoned
  53. Quarry 2 - Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiyosaki Tractor Works Inc · MSHA ID 5100222
    Abandoned
  54. REK-PP2
    Surface metal/non-metal · REK ASSOCIATES · MSHA ID 5100308
    Abandoned
  55. Saddle Road Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5100211
    Abandoned
  56. Santana's Project 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kahuku Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 5100299
    Abandoned
  57. Terex-Finlay Self-Propelled Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nan, Inc. · MSHA ID 5100230
    Abandoned
  58. Volcanite
    Surface metal/non-metal · Volcanite Limited · MSHA ID 5100086
    Abandoned
  59. Waikoloa Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5100168
    Abandoned
  60. West Hawaii Landfill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waste Management of Hawaii · MSHA ID 5100276
    Abandoned
  61. West Hawaii Sanitary Landfill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waste Management Of Hawaii Inc · MSHA ID 5100229
    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
Cinder Pit 65
Quarry 59
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 19
Quarry 10
Borrow Pit 9
Cinder Pit 6
Gravel Pit 6
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Borrow Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Adit 1
Other counties in HawaiiAll counties →
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.