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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Dubois County, Indiana

Dubois County, Indiana has 25 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1946–1990, including 7 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 24 problems in the county, 1 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 41 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Dubois 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)
25
Mine openings
7
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
1
MSHA mines marked abandoned
41
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits6 quadrangle maps, published 1946–1990 24 OSMRE problems, 23 reclaimed 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
    25 51.0%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    15 30.6%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    3 6.1%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 6.1%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    1 2.0%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    2 4.1%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems24 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
D'esposito Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dixon Present Pit #1 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Dubois Stream #1 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Hasenour Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hasenour-sternberg P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Hasenour-sternberg P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Huntigburg Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Huntigburg Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Jeff Tunks Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Keith Souders Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Killian Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mendel Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
P.v. Corp - Small Pit P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Saint Anthony P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Saint Anthony P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Schwenck Subsidence #4 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Schwenck Subsidence #4 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Schwenk Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Schwenk Subsidence #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Souders Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Tom Jahn Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Tunks P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Tunks P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Uppencamp - Vertical Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned41 on register
  1. 3 States Trucking Inc Strip
    Surface coal · Three States Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 1201612
    Abandoned
  2. Amini Mine
    Surface coal · Matco Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1201831
    Abandoned
  3. B & E Inc Auger #1
    Surface coal · B & E Inc · MSHA ID 1201927
    Abandoned
  4. B&E Inc Auger #2
    Facility coal · B & E Inc · MSHA ID 1201928
    Abandoned
  5. Big I Incorporated
    Surface coal · Big I Inc · MSHA ID 1201780
    Abandoned
  6. Blackfoot Auger
    Surface coal · Blackfoot Inc · MSHA ID 1201915
    Abandoned
  7. Bourbon Mining Corporation
    Surface coal · Bourbon Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1201793
    Abandoned
  8. Carroll Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Carroll Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201835
    Abandoned
  9. Cedar Hill Mine
    Surface coal · Energy Supply Inc · MSHA ID 1201998
    Abandoned
  10. Dixon Present Strip
    Surface coal · Dixon Present Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201587
    Abandoned
  11. Ell Creek Mine
    Surface coal · Contract Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1201868
    Abandoned
  12. Ellis Pit
    Surface coal · Abbott Coal & Energy Company · MSHA ID 1201819
    Abandoned
  13. Fuhs Mine
    Surface coal · 3 States Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 1201782
    Abandoned
  14. Hilsmeyer Mine
    Surface coal · Sun Energy Group, LLC · MSHA ID 1202425
    Abandoned
  15. Holland Excavating Inc
    Surface coal · Holland Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1201709
    Abandoned
  16. Holland Stone Company Of Indiana Incorpo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holland Stone Company Of Indiana Inc · MSHA ID 1201845
    Abandoned
  17. Hopf Mining Corporation Strip
    Surface coal · Hopf Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1201601
    Abandoned
  18. Hunley Creek
    Surface coal · Super Block Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1201986
    Abandoned
  19. J & S Pit
    Surface coal · United Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1201976
    Abandoned
  20. Jasper Processing Facility
    Facility coal · Clarkson Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201827
    Abandoned
  21. Keiffner
    Surface coal · Green Bay Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 1201826
    Abandoned
  22. Lords Pit #1 Strip
    Surface coal · Shaw Contractors & Builders · MSHA ID 1201703
    Abandoned
  23. Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Action Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1201864
    Abandoned
  24. Mohawk Mining Incorporated Strip
    Surface coal · Mohawk Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1201730
    Abandoned
  25. Old Erin #3 Strip
    Surface coal · Old Erin Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201448
    Abandoned
  26. Pioneer Pit No 1
    Surface coal · Pioneer Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1201719
    Abandoned
  27. Powell Pit No 1
    Surface coal · Green Hill Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1201874
    Abandoned
  28. Regal Energies No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Regal Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1201626
    Abandoned
  29. Scheidler No 1 (Strip)
    Surface coal · Scheidler Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1201746
    Abandoned
  30. Scherle Mine
    Surface coal · Green Bay Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 1201830
    Abandoned
  31. Shamrock Mine
    Surface coal · Solar Sources Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1202374
    Abandoned
  32. South Mine
    Surface coal · Phoenix Natural Resources · MSHA ID 1201018
    Abandoned
  33. Superior #4
    Surface coal · Superior Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1201892
    Abandoned
  34. Terry F Embry Inc Strip
    Surface coal · Jerry F Embry Inc · MSHA ID 1201624
    Abandoned
  35. The Clarkson Company Mine #1 Inc
    Surface coal · Clarkson Company Mine #1 Inc · MSHA ID 1201951
    Abandoned
  36. Unimin
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knies Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1202395
    Abandoned
  37. United Minerals Inc Mine No 1
    Surface coal · United Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1201739
    Abandoned
  38. Wagner Pit
    Surface coal · Abbott Coal & Energy Company · MSHA ID 1201828
    Abandoned
  39. Wahl Mine
    Surface coal · Green Bay Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 1201833
    Abandoned
  40. Whitten No 1
    Surface coal · T K Jessup Inc · MSHA ID 1201751
    Abandoned
  41. Woodco Mine No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Woodco Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201632
    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
P2 Vertical Openings 10
P1 Vertical Openings 8
Disturbed Surface 7
Mine Shaft 7
Strip Mine 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
P3 Spoil Area 2
Clay Pit 1
P3 Equipment Facility 1
P3 Gobs 1
P3 Water Problems 1
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
Gravel Pit 1
Quarry 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.