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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Dickinson County, Michigan

Dickinson County, Michigan has 105 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1986, including 19 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 21 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Dickinson 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
19
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
21 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1986 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    19 18.1%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    21 20.0%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    52 49.5%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    13 12.4%
Named features on the maps21 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Appleton Mine Mine Shaft
Aragon Mine Open Pit Mine area
Bradley Mine Open Pit Mine area
Calumet Mine Open Pit Mine area
Chapin Mine Open Pit Mine area
Chapin Mine Open Pit Mine area
Cundy Mine Mine Shaft
Curry Mine Mine Shaft
Cyclops Mine Mine Shaft
Globe Mine Open Pit Mine area
Indiana Mine Mine Shaft
Keel Ridge Mine Adit
Loretto Mine Mine Shaft
Norway Mine Open Pit Mine
Pewabic Mine Mine Shaft
Quinnesec Mine Mine Shaft
Strippings Mine Dump area
Trader Mine Open Pit Mine area
Walpole Mine Mine Shaft
West Chapin Mine Open Pit Mine area
West Vulcan Mine Mine Shaft

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. Breitung Ave Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Gauthier & Sons · MSHA ID 2003445
    Abandoned
  2. BUTTERFIELD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Butterfield Yard Service · MSHA ID 2002916
    Abandoned
  3. Butterfield Yard Service
    Surface metal/non-metal · Butterfield Yard Service · MSHA ID 2003327
    Abandoned
  4. Dickenson County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Proksch Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002677
    Abandoned
  5. Dickinson County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Champion, Inc. · MSHA ID 2001214
    Abandoned
  6. Dickinson County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paquin & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2002577
    Abandoned
  7. Dickinson County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fox Valley Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002686
    Abandoned
  8. Dickinson County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schinella-Mottes Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002579
    Abandoned
  9. Dickinson County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duffek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002701
    Abandoned
  10. Felch Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Felch Quarry Corp · MSHA ID 2001655
    Abandoned
  11. Groveland Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · M A Hanna Company · MSHA ID 2000424
    Abandoned
  12. Groveland Mine (Plants)
    Facility metal/non-metal · M A Hanna Company · MSHA ID 2001013
    Abandoned
  13. M-95 WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · A. LINDBERG & SONS, INC. · MSHA ID 2000651
    Abandoned
  14. Michigan Marble Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michigan Marble Inc · MSHA ID 2002793
    Abandoned
  15. Miller'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Products & Supply · MSHA ID 2000785
    Abandoned
  16. Ozzelos Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Iron Mountain · MSHA ID 2002363
    Abandoned
  17. Powerscreen Model 1800
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bacco Construction Company · MSHA ID 2003488
    Abandoned
  18. Quick Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · A Lindberg & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2002682
    Abandoned
  19. Rental-Impact Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bacco Construction Company · MSHA ID 2003201
    Abandoned
  20. Sand Screen Rental
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dickinson County Road Commission · MSHA ID 2003659
    Abandoned
  21. Screen Plant One
    Surface metal/non-metal · JBOB LLC · MSHA ID 2003422
    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 31
Mine Shaft 18
Open Pit Mine 12
Mine Dump 10
Gravel Pit 8
Quarry - Rock 7
Disturbed Surface - Pit 6
Quarry - Rock 5
Tailings - Pond 3
Open Pit Mine 2
Sand Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Adit 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.