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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Barnstable County, Massachusetts has 139 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1951–1974. MSHA's register carries 31 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Barnstable 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)
139
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
31
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1951–1974 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
    2 1.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    137 98.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned31 on register
  1. BOURNE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 1901058
    Abandoned
  2. Carverside Plant #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · A.D. Makepeace Co. · MSHA ID 1901228
    Abandoned
  3. CEC-3
    Surface metal/non-metal · P A Landers · MSHA ID 1901279
    Abandoned
  4. De Pontes Topsoil Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Pontes Topsoil · MSHA ID 1900942
    Abandoned
  5. Echo Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bortolotti Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1901068
    Abandoned
  6. Falmouth Concrete & Building Supplies P/
    Surface metal/non-metal · Falmouth Concrete & Building Supplies Inc · MSHA ID 1900556
    Abandoned
  7. Gil Pam Construction Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gil Pam Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1900975
    Abandoned
  8. Hard Rock Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ondrick Portable Crushing & Paving, LLC · MSHA ID 1901259
    Abandoned
  9. Lawrence Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawrence-Lynch Materials Corp · MSHA ID 1900309
    Abandoned
  10. Lebco Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lebco Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1900599
    Abandoned
  11. Leveritt Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Max Antes Inc · MSHA ID 1900983
    Abandoned
  12. Lower Cape Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lower Cape Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1901221
    Abandoned
  13. M F Roach Co Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M F Roach Company · MSHA ID 1900962
    Abandoned
  14. Marstons Mills Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thew Contractors · MSHA ID 1900602
    Abandoned
  15. McKnight Excavation
    Surface metal/non-metal · McKnight Excavating · MSHA ID 1901158
    Abandoned
  16. MET-03
    Surface metal/non-metal · P A Landers · MSHA ID 1901278
    Abandoned
  17. Moniz Crushing Inc Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moniz Crushing Corp · MSHA ID 1900499
    Abandoned
  18. North Truro Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John F Noons Inc · MSHA ID 1900498
    Abandoned
  19. norton 16
    Surface metal/non-metal · RYCO excavating contractor inc. · MSHA ID 1901268
    Abandoned
  20. Paddocks Path Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Dennis · MSHA ID 1901252
    Abandoned
  21. PLANT NO. 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Byrne Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1900982
    Abandoned
  22. QE341 Sandvik Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · P.A. Landers, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901253
    Abandoned
  23. R J Bevilacqua Construction
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Bevilacqua Construction · MSHA ID 1901078
    Abandoned
  24. RCS Westford
    Surface metal/non-metal · A.D. Makepeace Co. · MSHA ID 1901227
    Abandoned
  25. Ron's Excavating Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ron's Excavating Inc. · MSHA ID 1901273
    Abandoned
  26. Sandvik Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · P.A. Landers, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901213
    Abandoned
  27. Sandwich Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 1900993
    Abandoned
  28. SVSP-04
    Surface metal/non-metal · P A Landers inc. · MSHA ID 1901281
    Abandoned
  29. T W Nickerson Inc Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T W Nickerson Inc · MSHA ID 1900901
    Abandoned
  30. T.W. Nickerson Inc. Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T.W. Nickerson Inc. · MSHA ID 1901112
    Abandoned
  31. Trommel Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert B. Our Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 1901328
    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 70
Sand and Gravel Pit 27
Gravel Pit 26
Sand Pit 6
Quarry 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.