Abandoned mines in Perry County, Illinois

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   90 35.7%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   49 19.4%
3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   42 16.7%
4. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   11 4.4%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   60 23.8%

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.

…and 41 more problems not listed here.

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. A M No 3

   Surface coal · Auger Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1103119
   Abandoned 2020-07-17
2. Arch Of Illinois Preparation Plant

   Facility coal · Arch Of Illinois · MSHA ID 1102948
   Abandoned 1999-12-30
3. Burning Star #2 Mine

   Surface coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 1100610
   Abandoned 1997-01-21
4. Burning Star #4

   Surface coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 1102024
   Abandoned and Sealed 2002-07-26
5. Captain Mine

   Surface coal · Arch Of Illinois · MSHA ID 1100609
   Abandoned 2001-11-26
6. Central Repair Shop

   Facility coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 1101834
   Abandoned 1996-12-20
7. Coal Carbon Inc #2

   Surface coal · Coal Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 1103032
   Abandoned 2003-06-27
8. Conant Mine

   Underground coal · Arch Of Illinois · MSHA ID 1102886
   Abandoned and Sealed 2000-04-03
9. Conti #15

   Surface coal · Continental Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1102953
   Abandoned 1994-08-22
10. Conti Horse #5

    Surface coal · Continental Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1102961
    Abandoned 1995-01-19
11. Continental Star Mine

    Surface coal · Continental Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1102970
    Abandoned 1995-05-17
12. Denmark Mine

    Surface coal · Arch Of Illinois · MSHA ID 1102843
    Abandoned 1993-09-15
13. DuQuoin Carbon Recovery

    Surface coal · K. D. Crain & Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 1103240
    Abandoned 2018-08-07
14. Fidelity Mine

    Facility coal · Energy Recovery, LLC · MSHA ID 1103254
    Abandoned 2016-03-22
15. Fidelity Mine No 11

    Surface coal · Elk Land Holdings, LLC · MSHA ID 1100611
    Abandoned 2009-07-09
16. Galum Creek Mine

    Surface coal · Arch Of Illinois · MSHA ID 1102860
    Abandoned 1987-10-15
17. Horse Creek Mine

    Surface coal · Arch Of Illinois · MSHA ID 1102835
    Abandoned 1995-11-03
18. Kathleen Mine

    Underground coal · Arch Of Illinois · MSHA ID 1102790
    Abandoned and Sealed 1999-09-08
19. Leahy

    Surface coal · Amax Coal Company · MSHA ID 1101526
    Abandoned 1986-05-23
20. Midwest Resources #1

    Facility coal · Midwest Resources #1 Inc · MSHA ID 1102838
    Abandoned 1987-09-08
21. Mine #1

    Facility coal · Surefire Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1102839
    Abandoned 1987-12-18
22. No 14 Slurry Pit

    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 1102602
    Abandoned 1978-08-31
23. Pioneer Auger

    Surface coal · Black Hawk Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1103082
    Abandoned 2002-12-10
24. Prairie Eagle South Underground Mine

    Underground coal · Knight Hawk Coal LLC · MSHA ID 1103205
    Abandoned and Sealed 2013-12-31
25. Pyramid Energy Ltd

    Facility coal · Pyramid Energy Ltd · MSHA ID 1102826
    Abandoned 1985-05-04
26. Quadstar No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Quadstar Mining Corp Inc · MSHA ID 1201640
    Abandoned 1978-04-01
27. Razorback 2 Auger

    Surface coal · Black Hawk Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1103073
    Abandoned 2003-11-17
28. Walker Creek

    Surface coal · Freeman Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1103014
    Abandoned 2001-03-28
29. West City Feed And Fuel Co

    Facility coal · West City Feed & Fuel Company · MSHA ID 1102785
    Abandoned 1985-04-25

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

• Will County 220
• LaSalle County 192
• McHenry County 191
• Winnebago County 187
• Kane County 184
• St. Clair County 136
• Hardin County 136
• Fulton County 131
• Stephenson County 127
• Williamson County 124
• Peoria County 122
• Cook County 114

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.