Abandoned mines in Valley County, Idaho

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   103 26.5%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   205 52.7%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   20 5.1%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   44 11.3%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   17 4.4%

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.

1. 4TH OF JULY

   Underground metal/non-metal · American Independence Mines & Minerals Company · MSHA ID 1001864
   Abandoned 1997-09-29
2. Antimony Rainbow Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · American Independence Mines & Minerals Company · MSHA ID 1001585
   Abandoned 1989-07-26
3. Dewey Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Golden Reef Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001565
   Abandoned 1984-08-01
4. Fourth Of July Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · American Independence Mines & Minerals Company · MSHA ID 1001586
   Abandoned 1982-09-20
5. Golden Gate Tungsten

   Facility metal/non-metal · Golden Gate Corp · MSHA ID 1000671
   Abandoned 1979-11-06
6. Golden Gate Tungsten

   Underground metal/non-metal · Moneca Mine Development Ltd · MSHA ID 1000672
   Abandoned 1982-06-07
7. Heather/Kaydee Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Lazy 7 Inc · MSHA ID 1001249
   Abandoned 1992-06-08
8. Lake Fork County Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Rambo Crushing Company · MSHA ID 1001400
   Abandoned 1980-01-01
9. Lake Fork Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Clearwater Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 1002098
   Abandoned 2009-08-11
10. McBride Sand and Gravel

    Surface metal/non-metal · McBride Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 1001998
    Abandoned 2004-05-18
11. Meckel Mining Portable Rock Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · Meckel Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 1002001
    Abandoned 2024-09-25
12. Meckel Mining Wash Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Meckel Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 1002002
    Abandoned 2024-09-25
13. Nissula Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Granite Excavation, Inc. · MSHA ID 1002315
    Abandoned 2019-10-23
14. Portable Crusher #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Olson Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 1001862
    Abandoned 2006-08-15
15. Profile Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Profile Mines & Metals Incorporat · MSHA ID 1001000
    Abandoned 1978-09-06
16. Quartz Creek Mine & Mill

    Underground metal/non-metal · Ward & Korth · MSHA ID 1000530
    Abandoned 1978-11-22
17. Skipper Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Skipper Mine Company · MSHA ID 1001583
    Abandoned 1983-08-30
18. Soulen Pit And Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rowland Bros · MSHA ID 1000878
    Abandoned 1980-06-03
19. STIBNITE MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · D H Blattner & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1001738
    Abandoned 1999-06-01
20. Sunnyside

    Surface metal/non-metal · Coeur-Thunder Mountain Inc · MSHA ID 1001475
    Abandoned 1991-07-23
21. Thunder Mountain-Lightning Peak Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Argee Corp · MSHA ID 1001740
    Abandoned 1991-08-05
22. Valley Rock

    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Rock · MSHA ID 1001587
    Abandoned 1983-08-30
23. WEST END MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Stibnite Mine Inc · MSHA ID 1001375
    Abandoned 1999-06-01
24. Yellow Pine Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Hecla Mining Company · MSHA ID 1001849
    Abandoned 1991-10-26
25. Yellow Pine Oxide

    Surface metal/non-metal · Argee Corp · MSHA ID 1001822
    Abandoned 1991-09-05

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Shoshone County 2,127
• Lemhi County 1,932
• Blaine County 1,606
• Owyhee County 1,364
• Custer County 1,282
• Idaho County 888
• Butte County 661
• Bonner County 412
• Boise County 353
• Elmore County 345
• Adams County 298
• Cassia County 274

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.