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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Lapeer County, Michigan

Lapeer County, Michigan has 154 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1945–1991. 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 Lapeer 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)
154
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1945–1991 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
    14 9.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    140 90.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned32 on register
  1. Almont Gravel Co Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · National Asphalt Paving Inc · MSHA ID 2002537
    Abandoned
  2. Anderson Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson Peat Company · MSHA ID 2000394
    Abandoned
  3. Barritt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002531
    Abandoned
  4. Belle River Sand & Gravel Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Belle River Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2003170
    Abandoned
  5. BELLE VALLEY SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayne H Tobey Excavating · MSHA ID 2003034
    Abandoned
  6. Belle Valley Supply L.L.C.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Belle Valley Supply L.L.C. · MSHA ID 2003228
    Abandoned
  7. Belle Valley Supply Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Belle Valley Supply LLC · MSHA ID 2003378
    Abandoned
  8. Castle Road Screw
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002870
    Abandoned
  9. CHURCHILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-Star Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002983
    Abandoned
  10. CHURCHILL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Progressive Mining Corp · MSHA ID 2003093
    Abandoned
  11. Deanville Road
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates of Michigan Inc. · MSHA ID 2003469
    Abandoned
  12. Forrest Aggregate
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forrest Aggregate · MSHA ID 2002777
    Abandoned
  13. I-75 AGGREGATES INC. ELBA RD
    Surface metal/non-metal · I-75 AGGREGATES INC. · MSHA ID 2003424
    Abandoned
  14. Imlay Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates of Michigan Inc · MSHA ID 2003007
    Abandoned
  15. John R Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John R Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2001570
    Abandoned
  16. Ken Measel Sand & Gravel, Inc. Plant 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ken Measel Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003307
    Abandoned
  17. Lapeer County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002496
    Abandoned
  18. Lapeer County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2002640
    Abandoned
  19. Lapeer County Pit Plant 550
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams Brothers Asphalt Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002491
    Abandoned
  20. McCloskey I54
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003253
    Abandoned
  21. Michigan Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michigan Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2003339
    Abandoned
  22. Newark Aggregate & Landscape Supply Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · GFL Environmental USA, Inc. · MSHA ID 2000698
    Abandoned
  23. Pamar Processing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pamar Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 2002991
    Abandoned
  24. Portable NDA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002908
    Abandoned
  25. Power Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodland Trucking · MSHA ID 2002789
    Abandoned
  26. POWER SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schenkel'S Sand Pit · MSHA ID 2002958
    Abandoned
  27. R.G.E. Aggregates Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.G.E. Aggregates Inc. · MSHA ID 2003354
    Abandoned
  28. Spruce Hill Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spruce Hill Aggregates · MSHA ID 2002875
    Abandoned
  29. SUPERIOR SAND & STONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Modular Homes · MSHA ID 2003220
    Abandoned
  30. THREE WAY GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002962
    Abandoned
  31. Vannini Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002532
    Abandoned
  32. VOSS FARM SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Voss Farm · MSHA ID 2002956
    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 102
Gravel Pit 37
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Disturbed Surface - Pit 6
Disturbed Surface 1
Sand 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.