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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Charlevoix County, Michigan

Charlevoix County, Michigan has 105 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1986. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Charlevoix 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)
105
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1986 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    105 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned20 on register
  1. 721 Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 2002538
    Abandoned
  2. 7916 Portable Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 2003381
    Abandoned
  3. BELLS BAY SHALE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Poquette Leasing Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002769
    Abandoned
  4. C.H. SMITH CO. PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · C H Smith Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002506
    Abandoned
  5. CEC SCREEN-IT
    Surface metal/non-metal · MDC Contracting LLC · MSHA ID 2003324
    Abandoned
  6. Charlevoix County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Halliday Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002610
    Abandoned
  7. Charlevoix County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 2002505
    Abandoned
  8. Cheboygan County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Halliday Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002609
    Abandoned
  9. DIAMOND PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manthei Development Corp · MSHA ID 2002729
    Abandoned
  10. Ellsworth Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hilltop Incorporated · MSHA ID 2003390
    Abandoned
  11. Jeremys Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · White Mountain Enterprises · MSHA ID 2003618
    Abandoned
  12. LIPPMAN GRAVEL PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · C H Smith Company Inc · MSHA ID 2003134
    Abandoned
  13. Log Washer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Drenth Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 2003407
    Abandoned
  14. Manthei Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · MDC Contracting LLC · MSHA ID 2002503
    Abandoned
  15. Medusa Cement Company (Quarry)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Medusa Cement Company · MSHA ID 2002514
    Abandoned
  16. ORTNER 4661
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & D Inc · MSHA ID 2003171
    Abandoned
  17. Portable Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · MDC Contracting LLC · MSHA ID 2003123
    Abandoned
  18. SHALE HAUL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manthei Development Corp · MSHA ID 2003180
    Abandoned
  19. Smith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D L Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2000701
    Abandoned
  20. Whitaker Construction Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitaker Construction Services · MSHA ID 2003315
    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 42
Gravel Pit 34
Sand Pit 11
Sand Pit 9
Sand and Gravel Pit 4
Quarry 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Clay 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.