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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Bristol County, Massachusetts

Bristol County, Massachusetts has 271 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1888–1979; 3 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1 problems in the county, 1 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 29 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Bristol 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)
271
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
1
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
3 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1888–1979 1 OSMRE problems, 0 reclaimed 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 4.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    259 95.2%
  3. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 0.4%
Named features on the maps3 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Bluestone Quarry Quarry area
Loam Pit Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated
Loam Pit Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated

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.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Mansfield P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned29 on register
  1. Adamsdale Mine And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Courtois Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1900296
    Abandoned
  2. As&G-Assonet
    Facility metal/non-metal · Assonet Washed Sand & Stone Company · MSHA ID 1900283
    Abandoned
  3. Brockton Sand And Gravel Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Brockton Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1900772
    Abandoned
  4. Copicut Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J.R.D. Inc. · MSHA ID 1901242
    Abandoned
  5. COUNTY STREET MINE AND MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Road Trucking Corp · MSHA ID 1900508
    Abandoned
  6. Dartmouth Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fernandes Trucking Company · MSHA ID 1900826
    Abandoned
  7. Del Soullier And Son Sand And Grave
    Surface metal/non-metal · Soullier Trucking · MSHA ID 1900788
    Abandoned
  8. Easton Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Easton Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1900305
    Abandoned
  9. FREETOWN QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · A A Will Materials Corp · MSHA ID 1901016
    Abandoned
  10. Freetown Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Freetown Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1900974
    Abandoned
  11. G Lopes Construction Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · G Lopes Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1900333
    Abandoned
  12. Greenys 79 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · K R Rezendes Inc · MSHA ID 1900507
    Abandoned
  13. J & J MATERIALS CORP.
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & J Materials Corp · MSHA ID 1900339
    Abandoned
  14. Landfill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raynham Highway Department · MSHA ID 1900958
    Abandoned
  15. Lanzisera Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · K R Rezendes Inc · MSHA ID 1900931
    Abandoned
  16. MC15 Thunderbird
    Surface metal/non-metal · G. Lopes Construction · MSHA ID 3700214
    Abandoned
  17. Morse Sand And Gravel Co Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morse Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 1900340
    Abandoned
  18. Pegson 26x44 Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · New England Gravel Haulers · MSHA ID 1901239
    Abandoned
  19. PINE HILL SAND & GRAVEL CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pine Hill Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1900351
    Abandoned
  20. Plain Street Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dorrance Inc · MSHA ID 1900688
    Abandoned
  21. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · AJ Potter Jr & Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901272
    Abandoned
  22. PORTABLE PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Crushing Corp · MSHA ID 1901044
    Abandoned
  23. PS-30 Chieftain
    Surface metal/non-metal · G. Lopes Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901217
    Abandoned
  24. Randy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · K R Rezendes Inc · MSHA ID 1900966
    Abandoned
  25. Raynham Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T L Edwards Inc · MSHA ID 1900968
    Abandoned
  26. Raynham Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Simeone Corp · MSHA ID 1900294
    Abandoned
  27. Sandvik QJ341_Sandvik QH331
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rykor Concrete & Civil, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901325
    Abandoned
  28. Westport Sand & Gravel Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westport Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 1900297
    Abandoned
  29. Westport Stone & Sand Corporation
    Facility metal/non-metal · Westport Stone & Sand Corp · MSHA ID 1900279
    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 154
Gravel Pit 67
Sand and Gravel Pit 15
Disturbed Surface 9
Borrow Pit 6
Sand and Gravel Pit 5
Quarry 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Sand Pit 1
P3 Mine Opening 1
Borrow Pit 1
Sand Pit 1
Disturbed Surface - 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.