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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Kootenai County, Idaho

Kootenai County, Idaho has 242 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1950–1996, including 43 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 21 prospect pits; 18 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 71 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Kootenai 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)
242
Mine openings
43
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
71
18 features carry a name21 prospect pits37 quadrangle maps, published 1950–1996 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
    43 17.8%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    21 8.7%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    5 2.1%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    173 71.5%
Named features on the maps18 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Bradbury Mine Adit
Bradbury Mine Adit
Burnt Cabin Mine Adit
Burnt Cabin Mine Adit
Caribou Mine Adit
Caribou Mine Adit
Commonwealth Mine Adit
Dandy Mine Adit
Dandy Mine Adit
Grey Wolf Mine Adit
Homebuilder Mine Open Pit Mine
New Rainbow Mine Adit
Palisade Mine Adit
Palisade Mine Mine Shaft
Red Horse Mine Adit
Shamrock Mine Adit
Silver Tip Mine Adit
State Pit Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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 Abandoned71 on register
  1. Amex Incorporated Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amex Inc · MSHA ID 1001396
    Abandoned
  2. B & N Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1000165
    Abandoned
  3. B & N Switchyard Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 1001425
    Abandoned
  4. Cedar Mountain Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Merger Mines Corp · MSHA ID 1000869
    Abandoned
  5. Chilco Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · FLI Forest and Construction · MSHA ID 1002159
    Abandoned
  6. Coeur D Alene Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 1001014
    Abandoned
  7. Coeur D'Alene Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coeur D'Alene Gravel · MSHA ID 1001779
    Abandoned
  8. COEUR D'ALENE-PRE MIX #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. · MSHA ID 1000310
    Abandoned
  9. Crusher/WP Portable-Post Falls Home Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1002251
    Abandoned
  10. Dalton Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1000749
    Abandoned
  11. Deno Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant Construction Company · MSHA ID 1001532
    Abandoned
  12. Elk Mountain Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1001426
    Abandoned
  13. Fighting Creek Materials Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fighting Creek Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1001915
    Abandoned
  14. Ford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1000918
    Abandoned
  15. Freeman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Concrete & Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 1002299
    Abandoned
  16. Garwood Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakes Highway District · MSHA ID 1000895
    Abandoned
  17. Gish Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lynn Nelson Construction · MSHA ID 1001349
    Abandoned
  18. Haman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norm's Utility Contractor, Inc. · MSHA ID 1002087
    Abandoned
  19. Harrison Flats Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Side Highway District · MSHA ID 1000927
    Abandoned
  20. Hayden Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 1000727
    Abandoned
  21. Hayden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Post Falls Highway District · MSHA ID 1001383
    Abandoned
  22. Hayden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · K C Construction · MSHA ID 1001671
    Abandoned
  23. Jerry Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Worley Highway District · MSHA ID 1000776
    Abandoned
  24. Kathleen Facility
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Concrete and Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 1000343
    Abandoned
  25. Kt-110-S
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant Construction Company · MSHA ID 1001353
    Abandoned
  26. Lake Highway Pit Shop
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakes Highway District · MSHA ID 1000922
    Abandoned
  27. Lane Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Side Highway District · MSHA ID 1000928
    Abandoned
  28. Louis Deno Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Worley Highway District · MSHA ID 1000919
    Abandoned
  29. Magnum Tin
    Underground metal/non-metal · Magnum Tin Corp · MSHA ID 1001316
    Abandoned
  30. Market Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Concrete & Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 1002298
    Abandoned
  31. Master Mine #1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Donnenwirth Company · MSHA ID 1001489
    Abandoned
  32. Moen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 1001022
    Abandoned
  33. Murphy Brothers Stateline Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Murphy Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1001397
    Abandoned
  34. Palouse Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Palouse Asphalt Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 1000696
    Abandoned
  35. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiewit Pacific Co. · MSHA ID 1001663
    Abandoned
  36. Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Conmat, Inc. · MSHA ID 1002216
    Abandoned
  37. Port Of Entry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Worley Highway District · MSHA ID 1000917
    Abandoned
  38. Portable 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources · MSHA ID 1002301
    Abandoned
  39. Portable 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources · MSHA ID 1002300
    Abandoned
  40. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Murphy Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1001624
    Abandoned
  41. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Post Falls Highway District · MSHA ID 1001778
    Abandoned
  42. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Wilson · MSHA ID 1001783
    Abandoned
  43. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Side Highway District · MSHA ID 1001858
    Abandoned
  44. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · K. C. Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1002042
    Abandoned
  45. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glen Waddells Trucking · MSHA ID 1001693
    Abandoned
  46. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leeson Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1001746
    Abandoned
  47. Portable Crusher #1
    metal/non-metal · Washington Construction Co. · MSHA ID 1001799
    Abandoned
  48. Portable Crusher Unit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ellensburg Cement Products Inc · MSHA ID 1001664
    Abandoned
  49. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Construction Management & Forensic, Inc. · MSHA ID 1002263
    Abandoned
  50. PORTABLE PLANT 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'CONNELL TRUCKING INC · MSHA ID 1002073
    Abandoned
  51. Powder Horn Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1001377
    Abandoned
  52. Prairie Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Post Falls Highway District · MSHA ID 1000287
    Abandoned
  53. Prairie Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gish Concrete Products · MSHA ID 1001641
    Abandoned
  54. Ramsey Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Side Highway District · MSHA ID 1000926
    Abandoned
  55. Rathdrum Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Transportation Department · MSHA ID 1000748
    Abandoned
  56. RockTech
    Surface metal/non-metal · RockTech Corporation · MSHA ID 1002113
    Abandoned
  57. Rose Lake Quarry 528-139
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Transportation Department · MSHA ID 1000795
    Abandoned
  58. SANDSTONE MATERIALS, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · SANDSTONE MATERIALS, LLC · MSHA ID 1001680
    Abandoned
  59. Shamrock Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Shamrock · MSHA ID 1001461
    Abandoned
  60. Silver Strand Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Silver Hammer Mining Corporation · MSHA ID 1001354
    Abandoned
  61. Silver Strand Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · New Jersey Mining Company · MSHA ID 1002094
    Abandoned
  62. Silver Strand Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · New Jersey Mining Co. · MSHA ID 1002118
    Abandoned
  63. Springston Rock Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Union Pacific Railroad · MSHA ID 1001073
    Abandoned
  64. State Pit 528-001
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Transportation Department · MSHA ID 1000959
    Abandoned
  65. State Pit 528-151
    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho Transportation Department · MSHA ID 1001071
    Abandoned
  66. Stateline Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Empire Concrete · MSHA ID 1001197
    Abandoned
  67. Sutherland'S Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · W R Sutherland General Contractors · MSHA ID 1001626
    Abandoned
  68. Trent Frasure Construction
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trent Frasure Construction LLC · MSHA ID 1001868
    Abandoned
  69. Unit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 1001633
    Abandoned
  70. Wics Mix Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wics Mix Concrete Products · MSHA ID 1000581
    Abandoned
  71. Wolf Lodge Mountain Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1001566
    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
Gravel Pit 84
Borrow Pit 42
Adit 36
Prospect Pit 21
Gravel Pit 14
Quarry 14
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Mine Shaft 7
Borrow Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Sand Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine 2
Sand Pit 1
Disturbed Surface 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.