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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Livingston County, Michigan

Livingston County, Michigan has 151 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1965–1983. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Livingston 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)
151
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1965–1983 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
    24 15.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    127 84.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. American Concrete Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Freedom Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 2003165
    Abandoned
  2. Brighton Plant #810
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Of Michigan · MSHA ID 2000662
    Abandoned
  3. BRIGHTON SAND & GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brighton Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002893
    Abandoned
  4. BURROUGHS SCREEN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burroughs Materials Corp · MSHA ID 2003106
    Abandoned
  5. CHILSON RD. PIT
    Facility metal/non-metal · D & J Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002885
    Abandoned
  6. CULVER EXCAVATING INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Culver Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2003055
    Abandoned
  7. Culver Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Culver Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2003413
    Abandoned
  8. D & J Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & J Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2000700
    Abandoned
  9. Delta Sand and Gravel, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delta Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2003213
    Abandoned
  10. El Jay Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Side Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002744
    Abandoned
  11. Fenton Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fenton Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2003414
    Abandoned
  12. Fowlerville Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Albert Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2000659
    Abandoned
  13. Herbst Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reyhl Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2001979
    Abandoned
  14. J & D Aggregate
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & D Aggregate LLC · MSHA ID 2003222
    Abandoned
  15. Livingston Aggregate, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Livingston Aggregate, Inc. · MSHA ID 2002492
    Abandoned
  16. Livingston County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molesworth Contracting Company · MSHA ID 2002419
    Abandoned
  17. Livingston County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yarnell Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002466
    Abandoned
  18. Livingston County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2002512
    Abandoned
  19. Livingston County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ron Weaver Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002616
    Abandoned
  20. MC CABE RD.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Metro Transport Inc · MSHA ID 2003113
    Abandoned
  21. Milford Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Natural Aggregates Corporation · MSHA ID 2001051
    Abandoned
  22. MORGAN SAND & GRAVEL CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morgan Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2000788
    Abandoned
  23. Northern Materials Co., Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Material Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 2003300
    Abandoned
  24. PIONEER #6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waterland Trucking Service Inc · MSHA ID 2002869
    Abandoned
  25. Rehyl'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002618
    Abandoned
  26. Rock Solid Quarries - Howell
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Solid Quarries · MSHA ID 2003252
    Abandoned
  27. Sunset Sand & Gravel, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunset Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 2003042
    Abandoned
  28. T.T. & G. INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · T T & G Inc · MSHA ID 2003192
    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 87
Gravel Pit 31
Disturbed Surface - Pit 19
Disturbed Surface 5
Sand and Gravel Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Sand Pit 2
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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.