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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Crow Wing County, Minnesota has 191 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1912–1994, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 22 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Crow Wing 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
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
22 features carry a name0 prospect pits26 quadrangle maps, published 1912–1994 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    1 0.5%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    52 27.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    136 71.2%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.0%
Named features on the maps22 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Alstead Mine, Louise Mine, Mahnomen No 2 Mine Open Pit Mine area
Arco Mine Open Pit Mine area
Armour No 2 Mine Open Pit Mine
Carlson Mine Open Pit Mine
Croft Mine Mine Shaft
Hopkins Mine Open Pit Mine area
Huntington Mine, Feigh Mine Open Pit Mine area
Joan Mine Open Pit Mine area
Mahnomen No 1 Mine Open Pit Mine area
Mahnomen No 3 Mine Open Pit Mine area
Mallen Mine Open Pit Mine area
Manuel Mine Open Pit Mine area
Maroco Mine Open Pit Mine area
Musser Mine Open Pit Mine area
Pennington Mine Open Pit Mine area
Portsmouth Mine Open Pit Mine area
Rowa Mine Open Pit Mine
Sagamore Mine Open Pit Mine
Section 6 Mine Open Pit Mine area
Snowshoe Mine Open Pit Mine area
Virginia Mine Open Pit Mine area
Yawkey Mine Open Pit Mine area

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned20 on register
  1. 4509 Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roberts Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 2103207
    Abandoned
  2. Airport Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson Brothers Construction Company · MSHA ID 2102825
    Abandoned
  3. Algoma-Zeno Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pittsburgh Pacific Company · MSHA ID 2100803
    Abandoned
  4. CR-2
    Surface metal/non-metal · ANDERSON BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION Co of Brainerd LLC · MSHA ID 2103308
    Abandoned
  5. Crosslake Demolition
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crosslake Const. Demolition Debris Facility Inc. · MSHA ID 2103716
    Abandoned
  6. Don Stumvoll
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don Stumvoll · MSHA ID 2102886
    Abandoned
  7. Emily Manganese Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooperative Mineral Resources, LLC · MSHA ID 2103715
    Abandoned
  8. Falk Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeland Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102889
    Abandoned
  9. Lakes Area Asphalt Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakes Area Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 2102373
    Abandoned
  10. Marsh Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson Brothers Construction Company · MSHA ID 2102888
    Abandoned
  11. Platte Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Storkamp Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2102788
    Abandoned
  12. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roberts Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 2102998
    Abandoned
  13. Portable Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · D C Kompelien Construction · MSHA ID 2102913
    Abandoned
  14. PORTAGE SAND AND GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Portage Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2102488
    Abandoned
  15. Rock Lake Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dirt Doctor Inc · MSHA ID 2103723
    Abandoned
  16. Skone Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson Brothers Construction Company · MSHA ID 2102853
    Abandoned
  17. Swenson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pequot Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2102912
    Abandoned
  18. Virginia Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Pittsburgh Pacific Company · MSHA ID 2100811
    Abandoned
  19. WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roberts Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2100553
    Abandoned
  20. WP-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · ANDERSON BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION Co of Brainerd LLC · MSHA ID 2103306
    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 93
Gravel Pit 27
Open Pit Mine 21
Disturbed Surface 15
Sand Pit 14
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Open Pit Mine 6
Tailings - Pond 2
Mine Shaft 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Sand Pit 1
Disturbed Surface - 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.