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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Maui County, Hawaii

Maui County, Hawaii has 32 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1952–1997, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 38 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Maui 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)
32
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
38
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1952–1997 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 3.1%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    3 9.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    28 87.5%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Puu Hele Cinder Pit Cinder Pit area

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 Abandoned38 on register
  1. Aukaina
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aukaina Inc · MSHA ID 5100207
    Abandoned
  2. Extec S3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Topsoil LLC · MSHA ID 5100316
    Abandoned
  3. Fong'S Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fong Construction Company Ltd · MSHA ID 5100204
    Abandoned
  4. G B I #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 5100200
    Abandoned
  5. GBI #1 K0 232 Metso LT120
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers, LLC · MSHA ID 5100198
    Abandoned
  6. GBI #10 - K0 237 Metso LT120
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100258
    Abandoned
  7. GBI #11- K0 245 Metso LT106
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100259
    Abandoned
  8. GBI #12 K0 213 Warrior 2400
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100266
    Abandoned
  9. GBI #13 - K0 243 Metso LT 120
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100271
    Abandoned
  10. GBI #16
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 5100282
    Abandoned
  11. GBI #18 K0 183
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100280
    Abandoned
  12. GBI #20 K0 228
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. LLC · MSHA ID 5100256
    Abandoned
  13. GBI #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 5100228
    Abandoned
  14. GBI 15
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 5100273
    Abandoned
  15. K231 FT 3055 Jaw #17
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros., LLC · MSHA ID 5100281
    Abandoned
  16. Kaunakakai Pit Or K'Kai
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molokai Ranch · MSHA ID 5100180
    Abandoned
  17. Kihei Base Yard
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Bros. Inc. · MSHA ID 5100283
    Abandoned
  18. Komatsu Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Castle & Cooke Resorts LLC · MSHA ID 5100247
    Abandoned
  19. Lime Kiln
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company · MSHA ID 5100177
    Abandoned
  20. Manawainui Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5100154
    Abandoned
  21. Manawainui Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-L Construction, Inc., Q.D. · MSHA ID 5100268
    Abandoned
  22. Maui Blocks Incorporated
    Facility metal/non-metal · Maui Blocks Inc · MSHA ID 5100169
    Abandoned
  23. Meyer Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molokai Construction Inc · MSHA ID 5100181
    Abandoned
  24. Olawalu Cinder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ameron H C & D · MSHA ID 5100137
    Abandoned
  25. Olowalu Cinder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fong Construction Company Ltd · MSHA ID 5100066
    Abandoned
  26. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Castle & Cooke Resorts LLC · MSHA ID 5100246
    Abandoned
  27. Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Castle & Cooke Resorts LLC · MSHA ID 5100205
    Abandoned
  28. Pohakulepo Recycling Llc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pohakulepo Recycling Llc · MSHA ID 5100231
    Abandoned
  29. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seacon Tech Corp. · MSHA ID 5100284
    Abandoned
  30. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seacon Technologies Corp. · MSHA ID 5100285
    Abandoned
  31. Pulehunui Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · E T Ige Construction Inc · MSHA ID 5100178
    Abandoned
  32. Red Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maui County Public Works Department · MSHA ID 5100182
    Abandoned
  33. Rojac Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rojac Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 5100203
    Abandoned
  34. Site 9 Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · HC&D LLC · MSHA ID 5100315
    Abandoned
  35. Waieli Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ameron H C & D · MSHA ID 5100074
    Abandoned
  36. Waikapu Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hawaiian Cement · MSHA ID 5100120
    Abandoned
  37. Waikapu Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hawaiian Cement · MSHA ID 5100296
    Abandoned
  38. Wailea Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 5100185
    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 9
Quarry 8
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
Gravel Pit 2
Cinder Pit 2
Adit 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Borrow Pit 1
Quarry 1
Borrow Pit 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.