Abandoned mines in Gogebic County, Michigan

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   14 7.2%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   32 16.5%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   125 64.4%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   23 11.9%

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.

1. Bolich Excavation Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Bolich Excavation · MSHA ID 2002639
   Abandoned 1984-08-21
2. Cebolski Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Cebolski Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2002405
   Abandoned 1985-05-07
3. Gogebic County Gravel Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · A Lindberg & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2002447
   Abandoned 1980-09-19
4. Gogebic County Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · R H Huhtala Construction · MSHA ID 2002591
   Abandoned 1985-08-26
5. Gogebic County Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Schinella-Mottes Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002641
   Abandoned 1985-05-28
6. Gogebic County Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Ken Wichman Inc · MSHA ID 2002698
   Abandoned 1985-06-03
7. GOGEBIC COUNTY PITS

   Surface metal/non-metal · Gogebic County Road Commission · MSHA ID 2000782
   Abandoned 1998-09-22
8. Gogebic County Quarries & Mill

   Surface metal/non-metal · A Lindberg & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2002446
   Abandoned 1980-09-19
9. Gogebic County Sand & Gravel

   Surface metal/non-metal · George Hocking Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002563
   Abandoned 1985-04-26
10. Ironwood Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ironwood Concrete Products · MSHA ID 2001038
    Abandoned 1981-06-25
11. Kimberly Clark Lake Gogebic Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Proksch Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002465
    Abandoned 1982-09-29
12. Les Johnson And Son

    Surface metal/non-metal · Les Johnson & Son · MSHA ID 2002445
    Abandoned 1989-06-01
13. Packys Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ironwood Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2002657
    Abandoned 1989-05-23
14. Peterson Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Bessemer Iron Ore Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003372
    Abandoned 2026-06-10
15. Portable Crusher #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Globe Industries, Inc. · MSHA ID 2002672
    Abandoned 2015-05-18
16. Portable Crusher No 107

    Surface metal/non-metal · Fox Valley Construction Company · MSHA ID 2000715
    Abandoned 1985-12-04
17. Portable Screener No. 2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Globe Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2003432
    Abandoned 2011-08-04
18. Rooni Lane Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ruotsala Construction, LLC. · MSHA ID 2003551
    Abandoned 2019-07-17
19. Wedenoja Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Melvin Wedenoja · MSHA ID 2002038
    Abandoned 1994-09-21

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Tuscola County 512
• Kent County 405
• Menominee County 353
• Houghton County 303
• Marquette County 290
• Saginaw County 237
• Sanilac County 235
• Montcalm County 232
• Washtenaw County 223
• Delta County 222
• Oakland County 221
• Mackinac County 207

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.