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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Ingham County, Michigan

Ingham County, Michigan has 132 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1965–1981. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 5 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 35 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Ingham 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)
132
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
35
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1965–1981 5 OSMRE problems, 5 reclaimed 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
    7 5.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    125 91.2%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.5%
  4. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    3 2.2%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems5 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Williamston = Cedar Run P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Williamston = Cedar Run P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Williamston = Cedar Run P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Williamston = Cedar Run P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Williamston = Cedar Run P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned35 on register
  1. Arend Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sherrell's Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2003151
    Abandoned
  2. BARR SAND & GRAVEL INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barr Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002929
    Abandoned
  3. CAPITOL 41-42
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capitol Excavating & Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002818
    Abandoned
  4. Capitol Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capitol Excavating & Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002707
    Abandoned
  5. CAPITOL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capitol Excavating & Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002453
    Abandoned
  6. Eaton County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ron Weaver Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001533
    Abandoned
  7. FINLAY PORTABLE SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bachman & Clark Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2003056
    Abandoned
  8. Fiser Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fiser Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2000712
    Abandoned
  9. Gravel Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gravel Pit Inc · MSHA ID 2002451
    Abandoned
  10. High Street Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · High Street Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002526
    Abandoned
  11. Ingham County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ron Weaver Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001534
    Abandoned
  12. Ingham County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spartan Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2001640
    Abandoned
  13. Ingham County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cole Brothers Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 2002410
    Abandoned
  14. Ingham County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002425
    Abandoned
  15. Ingham County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Schlegel Inc · MSHA ID 2002622
    Abandoned
  16. Ingham County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams Brothers Asphalt Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002632
    Abandoned
  17. Ives Rd.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunrise Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 2003396
    Abandoned
  18. Jolly R64d Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jolly Rd Sand Company · MSHA ID 2002047
    Abandoned
  19. KOLBERG WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spartan Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002809
    Abandoned
  20. Majestic
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson-Fischer & Associates, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003576
    Abandoned
  21. MCCLOSKEY TRAMMEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 2003221
    Abandoned
  22. Pioneer Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spartan Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2001146
    Abandoned
  23. Pioneer Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spartan Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2001142
    Abandoned
  24. Pioneer Plant 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spartan Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2001143
    Abandoned
  25. PLANT #1004
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spartan Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002887
    Abandoned
  26. PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Schlegel Inc · MSHA ID 2003216
    Abandoned
  27. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peters Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002821
    Abandoned
  28. R Weaver Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ron Weaver Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002898
    Abandoned
  29. Snider Farms Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bedrock Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2001614
    Abandoned
  30. TELSMITH
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 2003202
    Abandoned
  31. Telsmith I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Crushed Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003110
    Abandoned
  32. Telsmith III
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Crushed Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003231
    Abandoned
  33. Thor/Osborne Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Schlegel, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003341
    Abandoned
  34. Wickers Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wicker'S Inc · MSHA ID 2000414
    Abandoned
  35. Zeitz Farms, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zeitz Farms, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003313
    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 99
Gravel Pit 22
Disturbed Surface - Pit 7
Sand Pit 3
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 1
P3 Spoil Area 1
P3 Gobs 1
P3 Haul Road 1
Sand Pit 1
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 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.