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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Clinton County, Iowa

Clinton County, Iowa has 43 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1991; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Clinton 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)
43
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1991 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    17 39.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    25 58.1%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 2.3%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Goose Lake 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 Abandoned28 on register
  1. Barbers Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · John J Manikowski · MSHA ID 1301892
    Abandoned
  2. Behr Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300099
    Abandoned
  3. Beneficial Technologies-Gooselake
    Facility metal/non-metal · Beneficial Technologies LLC · MSHA ID 1302359
    Abandoned
  4. BOWSER TUNNELL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1302225
    Abandoned
  5. Clark Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300100
    Abandoned
  6. Determan Sand & Gravel Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Determan Blacktop Inc · MSHA ID 1300818
    Abandoned
  7. Doyle Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301279
    Abandoned
  8. Elwood Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300105
    Abandoned
  9. Gateway Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1300640
    Abandoned
  10. Gateway Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Concrete Co. · MSHA ID 1302065
    Abandoned
  11. Goose Lake Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300101
    Abandoned
  12. King Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300102
    Abandoned
  13. Lyons Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300103
    Abandoned
  14. Manikowski Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · John J Manikowski · MSHA ID 1301695
    Abandoned
  15. Miles Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301981
    Abandoned
  16. Murray Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300104
    Abandoned
  17. Portable Crushing Dept 439
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries Inc. · MSHA ID 1302075
    Abandoned
  18. Portable Crushing Dept 440
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1301524
    Abandoned
  19. PORTABLE DRILL DEPT 505
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 1302493
    Abandoned
  20. PORTABLE DRILL DEPT 524
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 1302495
    Abandoned
  21. PORTABLE DRILL DEPT 526
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 1302496
    Abandoned
  22. PORTABLE DRILL DEPT 527
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 1302497
    Abandoned
  23. PORTABLE DRILL DEPT 528
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 1302498
    Abandoned
  24. Schneckloth Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301658
    Abandoned
  25. Shaffton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300106
    Abandoned
  26. Techau Limestone Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Techau Limestone Co · MSHA ID 1300217
    Abandoned
  27. Teeds Grove Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300107
    Abandoned
  28. Toronto Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300108
    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
Quarry 11
Disturbed Surface - Pit 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Quarry 4
Gravel Pit 4
Gravel Pit 4
Sand Pit 2
Tailings - Pond 1
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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.