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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Oakland County, Michigan

Oakland County, Michigan has 221 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1991. MSHA's register carries 68 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Oakland 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)
221
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
68
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits26 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1991 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
    40 18.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    181 81.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned68 on register
  1. Ajax Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ajax Materials Corp · MSHA ID 2001355
    Abandoned
  2. American Aggregate Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molesworth Contracting Company · MSHA ID 2002489
    Abandoned
  3. Andersonville Road Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oxford Mining Company · MSHA ID 2000805
    Abandoned
  4. Bald Mt Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Underwood Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000864
    Abandoned
  5. Cedar Rapids
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002840
    Abandoned
  6. Constine, Inc. - Grange Hall Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Constine, Incorporated · MSHA ID 2003266
    Abandoned
  7. Deanville
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Sand and Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 2002981
    Abandoned
  8. Dixie Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Thumb Lawnscaping Inc. · MSHA ID 2003561
    Abandoned
  9. Dnr Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002614
    Abandoned
  10. Eagle #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002811
    Abandoned
  11. Fenton Gravel Company Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fenton Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2000710
    Abandoned
  12. Finlay
    Surface metal/non-metal · Messina Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 2003308
    Abandoned
  13. Fletcher & Rikard Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fletcher & Rickard · MSHA ID 2000401
    Abandoned
  14. Grand River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakland Transport Inc · MSHA ID 2001809
    Abandoned
  15. GREAT LAKES GRAVEL CO. INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Lakes Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002977
    Abandoned
  16. Great Lakes Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002519
    Abandoned
  17. Hewitt Robins Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Associated Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002758
    Abandoned
  18. Hewitt-Robins 425 Cone
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Hill Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002817
    Abandoned
  19. HO-2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Screeners Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 2002757
    Abandoned
  20. Kent Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hayes Washed Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001914
    Abandoned
  21. LIPPMAN CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2001821
    Abandoned
  22. LYON CRUSHING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lyon Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002948
    Abandoned
  23. LYON SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lyon Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000773
    Abandoned
  24. Maceaday Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002508
    Abandoned
  25. Mickelson Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burroughs Materials Corp · MSHA ID 2000783
    Abandoned
  26. MIDDLETON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Middleton Gravel · MSHA ID 2002357
    Abandoned
  27. MIDWAY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midway Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2003068
    Abandoned
  28. Milford Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Napier Sand Company · MSHA ID 2002617
    Abandoned
  29. MILFORD PLANT #815
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Of Michigan · MSHA ID 2001768
    Abandoned
  30. MILFORD- KENT LAKE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Milford Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002815
    Abandoned
  31. Milford-New Hudson
    Surface metal/non-metal · Milford Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2000793
    Abandoned
  32. MILFORD-WALKER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Milford Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000794
    Abandoned
  33. MUIR ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Angelo'S Crushed Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 2002472
    Abandoned
  34. Oakland County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molesworth Contracting Company · MSHA ID 2001168
    Abandoned
  35. Oakland County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001437
    Abandoned
  36. Oakland County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spartan Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2001820
    Abandoned
  37. Oakland County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yarnell Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002467
    Abandoned
  38. Oakland County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002568
    Abandoned
  39. Oakland County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & M Development Company · MSHA ID 2002695
    Abandoned
  40. OAKLAND SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lyon Sand & Gravel Co. · MSHA ID 2002615
    Abandoned
  41. Oxford 311 Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 2000663
    Abandoned
  42. Oxford Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Of Michigan Inc · MSHA ID 2002688
    Abandoned
  43. OXFORD SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · RECYCLED AGGREGATES LLC · MSHA ID 2003029
    Abandoned
  44. PIONEER
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Hill Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2001972
    Abandoned
  45. PIONEER CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2000756
    Abandoned
  46. Pioneer Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beagle Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002697
    Abandoned
  47. Pioneer Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Aggregates · MSHA ID 2002787
    Abandoned
  48. PIONEER SCREENING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Messina Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 2002972
    Abandoned
  49. Plant 3 HWP62 Sleet Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hayes Washed Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2000738
    Abandoned
  50. Portable A A Cone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 2002959
    Abandoned
  51. Portable Aggre Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molesworth Contracting Company · MSHA ID 2001518
    Abandoned
  52. Portable McCloskey
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003304
    Abandoned
  53. Portable Pep Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002963
    Abandoned
  54. Portable Telesmith I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2003005
    Abandoned
  55. RAY ROAD SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Road Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2002994
    Abandoned
  56. Salem Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burroughs Materials Corp · MSHA ID 2000831
    Abandoned
  57. Sandhill Investments
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sandhill Investments, LLC · MSHA ID 2003234
    Abandoned
  58. Sandman, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sandman, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003028
    Abandoned
  59. SECO
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002971
    Abandoned
  60. Sleeth Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001683
    Abandoned
  61. Sleeth Road Plant #818
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 2000816
    Abandoned
  62. Springfield Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burroughs Materials Corp · MSHA ID 2003211
    Abandoned
  63. TELLSMITH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Crushing · MSHA ID 2003070
    Abandoned
  64. Underwood Gale Road Plant #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Underwood Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000863
    Abandoned
  65. Underwood Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malery & Melton Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2001356
    Abandoned
  66. Waterford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waterford Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002507
    Abandoned
  67. Webers Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2000874
    Abandoned
  68. WHITE LAKE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Angelo'S Crushed Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 2003031
    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 104
Gravel Pit 76
Disturbed Surface - Pit 30
Disturbed Surface 10
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.