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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Mackinac County, Michigan

Mackinac County, Michigan has 207 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1982. MSHA's register carries 19 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Mackinac 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)
207
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
19
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits33 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1982 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
    13 6.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    194 93.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned19 on register
  1. A C Cone Crusher ( Unit #3)
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Peterson Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2002741
    Abandoned
  2. A-O Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · A O Company · MSHA ID 2000988
    Abandoned
  3. AROCO AGG., INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aroco Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002004
    Abandoned
  4. Borgstrom Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · CSI Sands NE LTD. · MSHA ID 2003606
    Abandoned
  5. Carmeuse, Port Inland - Corinne Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · O-N Minerals (Michigan) Company · MSHA ID 2003638
    Abandoned
  6. Cedarapids
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duval Developments USA Limited · MSHA ID 2003295
    Abandoned
  7. Duncan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mackinaw Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002487
    Abandoned
  8. East Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred W Vertz · MSHA ID 2001785
    Abandoned
  9. Ferrari Construction Materials Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ferrari Construction Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2003399
    Abandoned
  10. Gould City Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Newberry Ready Mix · MSHA ID 2002007
    Abandoned
  11. Graymont Borgstrom Road Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graymont (MI), LLC. · MSHA ID 2003525
    Abandoned
  12. Graymont Eastern Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graymont (MI), LLC. · MSHA ID 2003571
    Abandoned
  13. Mackinac County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schworm Inc · MSHA ID 2002549
    Abandoned
  14. Mackinac County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schinella-Mottes Construction Company · MSHA ID 2002567
    Abandoned
  15. Mackinac County Road Comm-East District
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mackinac County Road Commission · MSHA ID 2003385
    Abandoned
  16. Rudy Sherlund
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rudy Sherlund Inc · MSHA ID 2002452
    Abandoned
  17. Rueben Abram Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rueben Abram Excavating · MSHA ID 2002006
    Abandoned
  18. SCREEN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · HESSEL BLOCK CO. INC. · MSHA ID 2003242
    Abandoned
  19. Taylor Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Taylor Lumber Company · MSHA ID 2001432
    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 121
Gravel Pit 44
Disturbed Surface - Pit 12
Sand Pit 11
Quarry 9
Quarry 7
Sand Pit 2
Disturbed Surface 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.