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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Beltrami County, Minnesota

Beltrami County, Minnesota has 191 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1968–1996. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Beltrami 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)
191
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits42 quadrangle maps, published 1968–1996 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
    9 4.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    182 95.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned18 on register
  1. 43526
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northstar Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 2103110
    Abandoned
  2. Bemidji Blacktop Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bemidji Blacktop Inc · MSHA ID 2100465
    Abandoned
  3. Crusher #43519
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northstar Materials Incorporated · MSHA ID 2102908
    Abandoned
  4. Crusher #43524
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northstar Materials Incorporated · MSHA ID 2102773
    Abandoned
  5. Crusher #43526
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River Materials · MSHA ID 2103871
    Abandoned
  6. Joe Reller Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thorson Inc · MSHA ID 2101326
    Abandoned
  7. Nebish Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thorson Inc · MSHA ID 2102618
    Abandoned
  8. No 277 Tfl Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thorson Inc · MSHA ID 2100317
    Abandoned
  9. Opsahl Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bemidji Blacktop Inc · MSHA ID 2102529
    Abandoned
  10. Portable Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northstar Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 2102791
    Abandoned
  11. Screen/Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Todd Poxleitner Trucking · MSHA ID 2103839
    Abandoned
  12. Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gary Kelm Dirt Service · MSHA ID 2103517
    Abandoned
  13. Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Aggregate Inc. · MSHA ID 2103450
    Abandoned
  14. U S Forestry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thorson Inc · MSHA ID 2102779
    Abandoned
  15. Wash Plant 45720
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River Materials · MSHA ID 2103358
    Abandoned
  16. WASH SCREW #45723
    Surface metal/non-metal · NORTHSTAR MATERIALS INC DBA KNIFE RIVER MATERIALS · MSHA ID 2103627
    Abandoned
  17. Winan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rockall Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 2102890
    Abandoned
  18. Winan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Starry Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 2102891
    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 122
Gravel Pit 24
Sand Pit 19
Disturbed Surface 9
Sand Pit 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Quarry 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.