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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Berrien County, Michigan

Berrien County, Michigan has 76 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1970–1981. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Berrien 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)
76
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1970–1981 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
    4 5.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    72 94.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned32 on register
  1. 50 V Pioneer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Leasing Company · MSHA ID 2002849
    Abandoned
  2. A/C 736
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002919
    Abandoned
  3. Austin Western Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Construction Company · MSHA ID 2001556
    Abandoned
  4. Austin-Western Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Construction Company · MSHA ID 2001555
    Abandoned
  5. Berrien County
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harris Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 2002627
    Abandoned
  6. Berrien County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sirovica & Hessey · MSHA ID 2002478
    Abandoned
  7. Bridgman Plant & Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Technisand Inc · MSHA ID 2000668
    Abandoned
  8. Cedar Rapids #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002855
    Abandoned
  9. Cedar Rapids Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Construction Company · MSHA ID 2000759
    Abandoned
  10. Dunaetz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Construction Company · MSHA ID 2001557
    Abandoned
  11. Duo King
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harry Fetke & Sons Contractors · MSHA ID 2002828
    Abandoned
  12. El-Jay Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Construction Company · MSHA ID 2001041
    Abandoned
  13. Findly Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002881
    Abandoned
  14. Harroff Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Berrien County Road Commission · MSHA ID 2002343
    Abandoned
  15. Hartman Fabco Plant #489
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002841
    Abandoned
  16. Kalin A/C 945
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002395
    Abandoned
  17. KALIN CON. ORTNER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002900
    Abandoned
  18. KALIN HAZMAG
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2003129
    Abandoned
  19. Kiell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiell Excavating Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2003436
    Abandoned
  20. Lippmann 5165
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 2003474
    Abandoned
  21. Manley Brothers Bridgman South Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manley Brothers Of Indiana Inc · MSHA ID 2000777
    Abandoned
  22. Manley Brothers Of Indiana Pits No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · John G Yerington Transport Company · MSHA ID 2002629
    Abandoned
  23. Nadeau Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Technisand Inc · MSHA ID 2002699
    Abandoned
  24. Oldenburg & Sons
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oldenburg & Sons Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 2002987
    Abandoned
  25. PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pelley Excavating · MSHA ID 2003084
    Abandoned
  26. PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred M Ott & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2002743
    Abandoned
  27. Portable Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Technisand Inc · MSHA ID 2002878
    Abandoned
  28. St Joseph Terminal
    Facility metal/non-metal · National Gypsum Company · MSHA ID 2002301
    Abandoned
  29. TACY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tacy Bros Excavating · MSHA ID 2003136
    Abandoned
  30. Telsmith Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kalin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002790
    Abandoned
  31. Twin Springs Aggregrate Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Twin Springs Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 2003471
    Abandoned
  32. WHITE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alden White & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2000660
    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 29
Sand Pit 21
Gravel Pit 16
Sand Pit 6
Disturbed Surface - Pit 4
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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.