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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Kane County, Illinois

Kane County, Illinois has 184 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1949–1993. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Kane 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)
184
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1949–1993 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
    12 6.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    172 93.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned32 on register
  1. AURORA QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Conco-Western Stone Company · MSHA ID 1100040
    Abandoned
  2. Baldmound Pit Site No 5
    Surface metal/non-metal · E & E Hauling Inc · MSHA ID 1102066
    Abandoned
  3. Batavia Bog Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Batavia Soil Builders Inc · MSHA ID 1100840
    Abandoned
  4. Big Rock Quarry #10
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Material Company · MSHA ID 1100397
    Abandoned
  5. Consolidated Materials, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1103068
    Abandoned
  6. Dundee North
    Surface metal/non-metal · Road Materials Corp · MSHA ID 1102722
    Abandoned
  7. DUNDEE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Material Service Corp · MSHA ID 1101116
    Abandoned
  8. Fox Flagstone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fox Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1103194
    Abandoned
  9. Fox River Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lafarge Fox River Inc · MSHA ID 1100061
    Abandoned
  10. Frasz Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · A E Frasz Inc · MSHA ID 1102888
    Abandoned
  11. Gifford Road
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bluff City Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 1103118
    Abandoned
  12. Hoffman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bakley Construction Corp · MSHA ID 1102728
    Abandoned
  13. HUNTLEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hampshire Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1103007
    Abandoned
  14. Kane County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Terry Maier Gravel & Trucking · MSHA ID 1100916
    Abandoned
  15. KANE COUNTY SEAVEY ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feltes Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1102979
    Abandoned
  16. Kane Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kane County Concrete Company · MSHA ID 1101195
    Abandoned
  17. Kaneland Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kaneland Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1103053
    Abandoned
  18. Kaneville Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 1101789
    Abandoned
  19. Leiseberg Gravel Co. Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leiseberg Gravel Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 1103006
    Abandoned
  20. Mc Graw Pit #14
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Material Company · MSHA ID 1102027
    Abandoned
  21. Meyer Material Co-Dundee Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Material Company · MSHA ID 1102028
    Abandoned
  22. Middle Street
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bluff City Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 1103040
    Abandoned
  23. Raymond St
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bluff City Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1102962
    Abandoned
  24. Schuetz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elmhurst-Chicago Stone · MSHA ID 1101705
    Abandoned
  25. Screening Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feltes Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1102356
    Abandoned
  26. Square Barn Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beverly Materials LLC · MSHA ID 1103044
    Abandoned
  27. SQUARE BARN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bakley Construction Corp · MSHA ID 1102994
    Abandoned
  28. Twin Apache Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feltes Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1102352
    Abandoned
  29. Van Acker Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Van Acker Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1102383
    Abandoned
  30. Yard 91 - Elburn
    Surface metal/non-metal · VCNA Prairie LLC · MSHA ID 1102610
    Abandoned
  31. Yard 92 - Dundee
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prairie Material Sales, Inc. - Aggregate Division · MSHA ID 1101626
    Abandoned
  32. Yard 93 - Elgin
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prairie Material Sales, Inc. - Aggregate Division · MSHA ID 1102374
    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 102
Gravel Pit 59
Disturbed Surface - Pit 10
Quarry 6
Strip Mine 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Sand Pit 2
Sand Pit 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.