Mining Incidents
Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Idaho County, Idaho

Idaho County, Idaho has 888 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1937–2004, including 335 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 308 prospect pits; 155 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 159 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Idaho 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)
888
Mine openings
335
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
159
155 features carry a name308 prospect pits83 quadrangle maps, published 1937–2004 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
    335 37.7%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    308 34.7%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    91 10.2%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    111 12.5%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    43 4.8%
Named features on the maps155 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Ajax Mine Mine Shaft
Ajax Mine Mine Shaft
Alamance Mine Mine Shaft
Alberta Mine Mine Shaft
Alberta Mine Mine Shaft
Altemont Mine Adit
Altemont Mine Adit
American Eagle Mine Adit
American Mine Adit
Atlas Mine Adit
Badger Shaft Mine Shaft
Banner Mine Mine Shaft
Big Buffalo Mine Mine Shaft
Big Three Mine Adit
Big Three Mine Open Pit Mine
Black Bear Mine Adit
Black Diamond Mine Adit
Black Lady Mine Adit
Blackbird Mine Adit
Blue Jacket Mine Mine Shaft
Blue Ribbon Mine Adit
Bluebird Placer Mine Placer Mine area
Buckhorn Mine Adit
Buffalo Idaho Mine Open Pit Mine area
Bullion Mine Open Pit Mine
Bullion Mine Open Pit Mine
Burpee Mine Adit
Buster Mine Mine Shaft
Cal-Idaho Pit Open Pit Mine
Center Star Mine Adit
Chitwood Mine Mine
Circ Twins Mine Mine Shaft
Clearwater Mine Adit
Coeur d' Alene Mine Adit
Comstock Mine Adit
Crackerjack Mine Adit
Del Rio Mine Adit
Dewey Mine Adit
Diamond Drill Mine Adit
Diamond Hitch Mine Adit
Dillinger Mine Mine Shaft
Dixie Queen Mine Mine Shaft
Dixie Royal Mine Adit
Durden Mine Open Pit Mine
Durden Mine Open Pit Mine
Easter Mine Open Pit Mine area
Eutopia Mine Mine Shaft
Fisher Mine Open Pit Mine
Fourmile Mine Adit
Gnome Mine Adit
Gold Bug Mine Mine Shaft
Gold Leaf Mine Adit
Gold Master Mine Adit
Goldbug Mine Mine Shaft
Golden Anchor Mine Open Pit Mine
Golden Hand Mine Adit
Golden Hand Mine Mine
Golden Hand Mine Prospect Pit
Golden Rule Placer Mine Tailings - Placer area
Golden Rule Placer Mine Tailings - Placer area
Golden Rule Placer Mine Tailings - Placer area
Golder Anchor Mine Adit
Grangeville Mine Adit
Haystack Mine Mine Shaft
Hematite Mine Mine Shaft
Hercules Mine Adit
Hi Yu Mine Mine Shaft
Homestake Mine Adit
Humboldt Mine Open Pit Mine
Humboldt Mine Open Pit Mine
Hyatt Mine Adit
Idaho Champion Group Prospect Pit
Juanita Mine Mine Shaft
Jumbo Mine Adit
Kimberly Mine Adit
Kimberly Mine Open Pit Mine
L & L Mine Mine Shaft
Leadville Mine Adit
Leadville Mine Adit
Leggett Placer Mine Placer Mine area
Little Leggett Placer Mine Placer Mine area
Lone Pine Mine Adit
Lone Pine Mine Adit
Long Tom Mine Adit
Lucile Caves Adit
Lucky Lad Mine Mine Shaft
Lucky Strike Mine Mine Shaft
Mackey Mine Adit
Mammoth Mine Open Pit Mine
McKinley Mine Adit
McKinley Mine Adit
Meador Diggings Diggings area
Meador Diggings Open Pit Mine
Mother Lode Mine Adit
Mother Lode Mine Mine Dump area
Mother Lode Mine Mine Shaft
Mount Marshall Mine Open Pit Mine
New York Mine Adit
North Hill Mine Adit
North Star Mine Adit
North Star Mine Adit
Old Portland Mine Adit
Old Timer Mine Open Pit Mine
Ontario Mine Adit
Oregon Tipton Mine Adit
Orogrande Frisco Mine Open Pit Mine area
Painter Mine Adit
Pasadena Mine Adit
Pell Placer Mine Placer Mine area
Pell Placer Mine Placer Mine area
Penman Mine Mine Shaft
Penn Dixie Mine Adit
Poorman Mine Adit
Prichard Mine Adit
Rescue Mine Adit
Revelation Mine, Nelsons Revelation Mine Mine Shaft
Robinson Dike Mine Adit
Royal Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated
Sentinel Mine Adit
Sheelite Mine Adit
Sherman-Howe Mine Adit
Sherman-Howe Mine Open Pit Mine
Skylark Mine Adit
Slip Easy Mine Adit
Smith Mine Adit
Snowshoe Mine Mine Shaft
South Fork Mine Adit
Spotted Horse Mine Open Pit Mine
St Louis Mine Mine Shaft
Steckner Mine Adit
Sultan Shaft Mine Shaft
Sungold Mine Adit
Swastika Mine Adit
Tiawaka Mine Mine Shaft
Tonopah Mine Adit
Turtle Mine Adit
Tuttle Mine Open Pit Mine
Twin Butte Mine Adit
Umatilla Mine Adit
Una Mine Mine Shaft
Union Group Mines Adit
Unity Mine Mine Shaft
Unity Mine Open Pit Mine
US Mine Adit
Vesuvius Mine Mine Shaft
Wagner Mine Adit
War Eagle Mine Adit
War Eagle Mine Mine
Waverly Mine Adit
Werdenhof Mine Prospect Pit
Wild Hope Mine Mine Shaft
Wiseboy Mine Adit
Wonder Mine Adit
Yakima Mine Adit
Zenith Mine Adit

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 Abandoned159 on register
  1. #4 Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Sentinel Mines Corp · MSHA ID 1001533
    Abandoned
  2. 5 Spot Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zain Wilcox · MSHA ID 1001462
    Abandoned
  3. 7 Mile Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L Prince Construction · MSHA ID 1001891
    Abandoned
  4. Abie Welch Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Abie O Welch · MSHA ID 1001381
    Abandoned
  5. Altman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wickes Forest Industries · MSHA ID 1001229
    Abandoned
  6. American Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Miles Painter · MSHA ID 1001333
    Abandoned
  7. Baker'S Lode
    Underground metal/non-metal · Virgil L Baker · MSHA ID 1001485
    Abandoned
  8. Bald Eagle Claim
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mel Fjield · MSHA ID 1001653
    Abandoned
  9. Banner Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Donald Alm Mining & Construction · MSHA ID 1001617
    Abandoned
  10. Big Buffalo Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big Buffalo LLC · MSHA ID 1002219
    Abandoned
  11. Big Foot Mine #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Billie Wilson · MSHA ID 1001492
    Abandoned
  12. Blue Angel Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Blue Angel Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001508
    Abandoned
  13. Bluebird Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · John F & William R Brown · MSHA ID 1001654
    Abandoned
  14. Boulder Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 1001259
    Abandoned
  15. Brinkerhoff Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Justin Brinkerhoff Trucking and Excavating LLC · MSHA ID 1002327
    Abandoned
  16. Bucher Bar Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lamar Burnett · MSHA ID 1001258
    Abandoned
  17. Buffalo Gulch
    Facility metal/non-metal · Idaho Gold Corp · MSHA ID 1001584
    Abandoned
  18. Buffalo Gulch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Gold Corp · MSHA ID 1001794
    Abandoned
  19. Bullion Silver Lode
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mine Service Corp · MSHA ID 1000429
    Abandoned
  20. Buster Leach Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hws Gold & Silver Ltd · MSHA ID 1001612
    Abandoned
  21. Calumet Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southworth Mining · MSHA ID 1001578
    Abandoned
  22. Camco Incorporated Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camco Inc · MSHA ID 1001752
    Abandoned
  23. Carpenter Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camas Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1000807
    Abandoned
  24. Center Star Gold Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Raymond F Robinson Inc · MSHA ID 1001534
    Abandoned
  25. CH 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beco Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 1001907
    Abandoned
  26. Charla Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manning & Sanford · MSHA ID 1001651
    Abandoned
  27. Clearwater Forest Industries Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clearwater Forest Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1001289
    Abandoned
  28. Clearwater Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 1000967
    Abandoned
  29. Colonel Sellers
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jongault Mines Inc · MSHA ID 1001097
    Abandoned
  30. CR3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lurre Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1002292
    Abandoned
  31. Crooked River Project
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 1001544
    Abandoned
  32. Crystal Lode & Gold Hill Lode
    Underground metal/non-metal · Crystal & Gold Hill Partnership · MSHA ID 1002384
    Abandoned
  33. Crystal Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · War Eagle Trust · MSHA ID 1001577
    Abandoned
  34. Dandy O
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fault Line Mining LLC. · MSHA ID 1002329
    Abandoned
  35. Deadhawk Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Blue Angel Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001554
    Abandoned
  36. Deadwood Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & T Mining · MSHA ID 1001614
    Abandoned
  37. Double Diamond Hitch #1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Hungry Ore Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001414
    Abandoned
  38. Doumecq Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camas Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1001455
    Abandoned
  39. Dream 1 and 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Industries, LLC. · MSHA ID 1002102
    Abandoned
  40. Eagle 32
    Underground metal/non-metal · Silver Crystal Mines Inc · MSHA ID 1001810
    Abandoned
  41. Eagle Consolidated Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Eagle Consolidated · MSHA ID 1001121
    Abandoned
  42. Echo Group Ii
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Rock · MSHA ID 1001744
    Abandoned
  43. ECKERT'S HILL MINE & MILL SITE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Consolidated Metals Corp · MSHA ID 1001843
    Abandoned
  44. Elmer Wolff Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Elmer Wolff · MSHA ID 1001494
    Abandoned
  45. Emarald Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Emarald Mines · MSHA ID 1001684
    Abandoned
  46. Erickson Reef Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Erickson Reef Placer Ltd · MSHA ID 1001650
    Abandoned
  47. Fiddle Creek Drift Placer
    Underground metal/non-metal · Fiddle Creek Associates Ltd · MSHA ID 1001516
    Abandoned
  48. Fortune Lode
    Surface metal/non-metal · Drumlummon Gold Mines Corp · MSHA ID 1001809
    Abandoned
  49. Four Mile Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Robert C Pound · MSHA ID 1001560
    Abandoned
  50. Frozen Assets Claim
    Surface metal/non-metal · Strategic Mineral Investment Inc · MSHA ID 1001545
    Abandoned
  51. Gehring Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 1001371
    Abandoned
  52. Geronimo Mining Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Geronimo Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1001757
    Abandoned
  53. Gold Springs
    Surface metal/non-metal · Earl Johnson-Ownr · MSHA ID 1001687
    Abandoned
  54. Golden Anchor Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bagdad Chase Inc · MSHA ID 1001848
    Abandoned
  55. Golden Eagle Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Golden Eagle Mines Inc · MSHA ID 1001116
    Abandoned
  56. Grouse Creek Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grouse Creek Mining · MSHA ID 1001622
    Abandoned
  57. GTM Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grangeville Transit Mix Inc · MSHA ID 1002063
    Abandoned
  58. Haener Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 1001356
    Abandoned
  59. Haystack Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Haystack Mine Inc · MSHA ID 1001311
    Abandoned
  60. Heritage Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Heritage Mine · MSHA ID 1001751
    Abandoned
  61. Highland Enterprises Inc Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Highland Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1002041
    Abandoned
  62. Horsefly Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Blue Angel Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001553
    Abandoned
  63. Humbolt Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Humboldt Associates Ltd · MSHA ID 1001424
    Abandoned
  64. I D K Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Jack Cochran Partner · MSHA ID 1001237
    Abandoned
  65. Id 1075
    Surface metal/non-metal · Materne Brothers Company · MSHA ID 1001079
    Abandoned
  66. Idaho County Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 1001452
    Abandoned
  67. Jackpot Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · William Fry Owner · MSHA ID 1001257
    Abandoned
  68. John Day Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camas Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1001509
    Abandoned
  69. John Day Hope
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dave Cereghino · MSHA ID 1001853
    Abandoned
  70. John Day Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & T Mining · MSHA ID 1001677
    Abandoned
  71. Johnson Mining
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Mining · MSHA ID 1001488
    Abandoned
  72. Key Milling Company
    Facility metal/non-metal · Key Milling Company · MSHA ID 1001483
    Abandoned
  73. Kidder Ridge Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kidder Harris Highway District · MSHA ID 1001228
    Abandoned
  74. Kimberly Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Gold Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1001423
    Abandoned
  75. LIME MT. QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Lime · MSHA ID 1001725
    Abandoned
  76. Little Mallard Creek Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Black Sands Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001628
    Abandoned
  77. Little Moose Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Little Moose Consolidated · MSHA ID 1000678
    Abandoned
  78. Llorain Lode #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Micro Gold #2 Partnership · MSHA ID 1000976
    Abandoned
  79. Lone Pine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lone Pine · MSHA ID 1001421
    Abandoned
  80. Lone Pine Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Global Development Corporation International · MSHA ID 1001351
    Abandoned
  81. Lost Irishman
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lost Irishman Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001526
    Abandoned
  82. Lucile Lime
    Underground metal/non-metal · Hubert Hillman Company · MSHA ID 1001670
    Abandoned
  83. M&M Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · M&M Enterprises LLC · MSHA ID 1002348
    Abandoned
  84. Majestic Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Doug Hughes · MSHA ID 1001493
    Abandoned
  85. Mary K Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · M J Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1002323
    Abandoned
  86. Maxwell Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Mining & Development Company · MSHA ID 1001618
    Abandoned
  87. Mc Laughlin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camas Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1001384
    Abandoned
  88. Mill Quartz
    Underground metal/non-metal · Alfred A Reed · MSHA ID 1001556
    Abandoned
  89. Moose Creek Placer'S
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & T Mining · MSHA ID 1001325
    Abandoned
  90. New York
    Surface metal/non-metal · Audyne U S A Inc · MSHA ID 1001359
    Abandoned
  91. Norstrand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norstrand · MSHA ID 1002334
    Abandoned
  92. Nugget Creek Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · David L Mendenhall · MSHA ID 1001495
    Abandoned
  93. Nut Basin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Matthews Maintenance-Florence Idaho · MSHA ID 1001360
    Abandoned
  94. O'Hara Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1001468
    Abandoned
  95. O'Hara Rock Source
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1001350
    Abandoned
  96. Ola Mill & Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Donoho & Johnson · MSHA ID 1000998
    Abandoned
  97. Ozark Extension
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bruno Krause · MSHA ID 1000993
    Abandoned
  98. Penman
    Underground metal/non-metal · Penman Usa · MSHA ID 1001615
    Abandoned
  99. Petsite Group
    Underground metal/non-metal · Idaho Mining & Development Company · MSHA ID 1001616
    Abandoned
  100. Ponderosa
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tara Minerals Corporation · MSHA ID 1002237
    Abandoned
  101. Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leroy Howell · MSHA ID 1001838
    Abandoned
  102. PORTABLE CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camas Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1001966
    Abandoned
  103. Portable Crusher No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 1001666
    Abandoned
  104. Portable Crusher No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 1001655
    Abandoned
  105. Portable Crusher No. 5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 1001906
    Abandoned
  106. Portland Mines
    Underground metal/non-metal · Portland Mines · MSHA ID 1001551
    Abandoned
  107. Red Fox
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Fox Ltd · MSHA ID 1001620
    Abandoned
  108. Rescue Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Rescue Mining Company · MSHA ID 1000877
    Abandoned
  109. Rescue Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Shoshone Silver / Gold Mining Co · MSHA ID 1001875
    Abandoned
  110. Riener Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riener's Crushing · MSHA ID 1000352
    Abandoned
  111. RIO DE ORO MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · M C W · MSHA ID 1001947
    Abandoned
  112. Rock Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 1001393
    Abandoned
  113. Rock Solid
    Surface metal/non-metal · Timber Savers, Inc · MSHA ID 1002190
    Abandoned
  114. Russell Bar
    Surface metal/non-metal · Better Way Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1001841
    Abandoned
  115. Salmon River Gold
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shannon Lindsey · MSHA ID 1002226
    Abandoned
  116. SALMON RIVER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Salmon River Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1000355
    Abandoned
  117. Salmon River Rock Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camas Gravel · MSHA ID 1002067
    Abandoned
  118. Santiam Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richard Boyd · MSHA ID 1001486
    Abandoned
  119. Secesh Basin Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Fox Mining · MSHA ID 1001576
    Abandoned
  120. Seubert Pit - Ferdinand
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 1001535
    Abandoned
  121. Seven Grand Mining Operation
    Underground metal/non-metal · Leland T Daugherty · MSHA ID 1001413
    Abandoned
  122. Seven Mile Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ida-Lew Construction Company · MSHA ID 1001300
    Abandoned
  123. Seven Mile Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho County Road Department · MSHA ID 1001343
    Abandoned
  124. Sherwin Bar
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mining Specialties & Equipment Inc · MSHA ID 1001557
    Abandoned
  125. Silver Eagle Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Silver Eagle Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001582
    Abandoned
  126. Six Mile Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lawrence Lemire · MSHA ID 1001310
    Abandoned
  127. Slaughter Creek Placer Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Silver King Ltd · MSHA ID 1001621
    Abandoned
  128. Snowstorm Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Art Peterson · MSHA ID 1001600
    Abandoned
  129. Solesberg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Solberg · MSHA ID 1001280
    Abandoned
  130. South Fork Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Clearwater Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1001434
    Abandoned
  131. Spare Time Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Spare Time Mining Co · MSHA ID 1001324
    Abandoned
  132. State Pit 425-048
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Transportation Department · MSHA ID 1001076
    Abandoned
  133. State Pit 425-099
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Transportation Department · MSHA ID 1001265
    Abandoned
  134. State Pit 425-166
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Transportation Department · MSHA ID 1001213
    Abandoned
  135. Station 1509 To 1525
    Surface metal/non-metal · Federal Highway Administration · MSHA ID 1001288
    Abandoned
  136. Sue Q Placers
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dennis Erickson · MSHA ID 1001487
    Abandoned
  137. Sumerod Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Roirdon L Doremus · MSHA ID 1001301
    Abandoned
  138. Taylor Bar
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Horn Mining · MSHA ID 1001602
    Abandoned
  139. The Argonaut
    Surface metal/non-metal · Llonnie Knie · MSHA ID 1000991
    Abandoned
  140. The Dream
    Underground metal/non-metal · Calvin Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1001524
    Abandoned
  141. The Golden Rule
    Facility metal/non-metal · Golden Rule Dredges · MSHA ID 1001238
    Abandoned
  142. Top Ten
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bannak Top Ten Mines Ltd · MSHA ID 1001096
    Abandoned
  143. Twin Cabin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 1000997
    Abandoned
  144. U S Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Douglas E Swick · MSHA ID 1001420
    Abandoned
  145. Unit #3 - Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 3503259
    Abandoned
  146. Unity Gold Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Unity Gold Mines Inc · MSHA ID 1001865
    Abandoned
  147. Unity GoldSilver
    Facility metal/non-metal · Walker Lane Gold LLC · MSHA ID 1002128
    Abandoned
  148. Upper Siegal Creek Mine #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lloyd E Cochran · MSHA ID 1001491
    Abandoned
  149. Vaux
    Underground metal/non-metal · Vaux Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001791
    Abandoned
  150. Verne G Hiskey Mining Claim Group
    Underground metal/non-metal · Verne G Hiskey · MSHA ID 1001589
    Abandoned

…and 9 more mines not listed here.

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
Prospect Pit 308
Adit 276
Open Pit Mine 62
Mine Shaft 59
Gravel Pit 49
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 25
Tailings - Dredge 22
Borrow Pit 19
Tailings - Undifferentiated 16
Quarry 14
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 12
Open Pit Mine 8
Placer Mine 5
Mine 3
Tailings - Placer 3
Mine Dump 2
Borrow Pit 2
Sand Pit 1
Gravel Pit 1
Diggings 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.