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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Androscoggin County, Maine

Androscoggin County, Maine has 204 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1941–1981. MSHA's register carries 45 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Androscoggin 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)
204
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
45
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits17 quadrangle maps, published 1941–1981 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
    32 15.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    172 84.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned45 on register
  1. A H Blackstone Jr.
    Surface metal/non-metal · A H Blackstone Jr. · MSHA ID 1700903
    Abandoned
  2. Astec, Crusher #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Comprehensive Land Technologies, Inc. · MSHA ID 1701199
    Abandoned
  3. Auburn City Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Auburn · MSHA ID 1700349
    Abandoned
  4. Auburn Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dennis Brick Company · MSHA ID 1700036
    Abandoned
  5. Auburn Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · G A Peterson Company · MSHA ID 1700128
    Abandoned
  6. Auburn Stone & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Auburn Stone & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700598
    Abandoned
  7. Beckler Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · D L Punch Jr Inc · MSHA ID 1700492
    Abandoned
  8. City Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Lewiston · MSHA ID 1700320
    Abandoned
  9. Danville Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morin Brick Company · MSHA ID 1700039
    Abandoned
  10. Dube Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dube Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1700417
    Abandoned
  11. Durham Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harry C Crooker & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1700333
    Abandoned
  12. Finlay Track Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gendron Aggregate Supply Inc · MSHA ID 1701017
    Abandoned
  13. Halls Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charles Larrabee Jr Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700401
    Abandoned
  14. Houle Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · L R Houle Trucking · MSHA ID 1700569
    Abandoned
  15. Houle'S Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · L R Houle Trucking · MSHA ID 1700510
    Abandoned
  16. JCI JAW CRUSHER-TRACK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gendron Aggregate Supply, Inc. · MSHA ID 1700738
    Abandoned
  17. JCI Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gendron Aggregate Supply Inc · MSHA ID 1701014
    Abandoned
  18. JCI Track Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gendron Aggregate Supply, Inc. · MSHA ID 1701018
    Abandoned
  19. KELLY PARK
    Surface metal/non-metal · PREMIER DEVELOPMENT, LLC · MSHA ID 1700924
    Abandoned
  20. Kinney and Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kinney and Company · MSHA ID 1701078
    Abandoned
  21. Knights Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Knight · MSHA ID 1700457
    Abandoned
  22. L A Quarry, LLC/Auburn Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Quarry, LLC · MSHA ID 1700732
    Abandoned
  23. LARRABEE CONSTR., INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · LARRABEE CONSTR., INC. · MSHA ID 1700636
    Abandoned
  24. Leeds Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · St.Laurent & Son Inc. · MSHA ID 1701047
    Abandoned
  25. Leeds Sand & Gravel C640
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries · MSHA ID 1700114
    Abandoned
  26. Lewiston Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C Jean Excavating Company · MSHA ID 1700122
    Abandoned
  27. Lewiston-Sabattus Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gendron & Gendron General Contractors · MSHA ID 1700170
    Abandoned
  28. Lisbon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dragon Products Company · MSHA ID 1700145
    Abandoned
  29. Lisbon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glen Dube Excavation, Inc. · MSHA ID 1700793
    Abandoned
  30. Mc Allister Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · H Mc Allister Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1700397
    Abandoned
  31. Peter Hemond
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peter Hemond · MSHA ID 1701029
    Abandoned
  32. Pike Industries Incorporated X718
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1700608
    Abandoned
  33. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sargent Corporation · MSHA ID 1700812
    Abandoned
  34. Reed Screen-21694
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eurovia Atlantic Coast LLC · MSHA ID 1700895
    Abandoned
  35. RJF Morin Brick LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · RJF Morin Brick LLC · MSHA ID 1700843
    Abandoned
  36. Route 26 Excavation and Sales, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Route 26 Excavation and Sales, Inc. · MSHA ID 1700840
    Abandoned
  37. Royal River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Emerson Excavating · MSHA ID 1700966
    Abandoned
  38. Sabattus Sand & Gravel Portable Unit 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sabattus Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700746
    Abandoned
  39. Stein Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sabattus Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1700509
    Abandoned
  40. Strout Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · P E Dunn Inc · MSHA ID 1700149
    Abandoned
  41. Town Of Poland Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Poland Highway Department · MSHA ID 1700359
    Abandoned
  42. TUPPER CONSTRUCTION INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tupper Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1700596
    Abandoned
  43. Turkey Lane Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maynard W Robinson & Sons · MSHA ID 1700541
    Abandoned
  44. Walton Mtn. Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Walton's Mtn. Crushing · MSHA ID 1700654
    Abandoned
  45. Wash Plant C611
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1700154
    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 138
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 30
Gravel Pit 18
Sand Pit 8
Clay Pit 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Sand Pit 1
Sand and Gravel 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.