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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Fillmore County, Minnesota

Fillmore County, Minnesota has 139 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1980. MSHA's register carries 31 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Fillmore 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)
139
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
31
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1980 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
    28 20.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    109 78.4%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned31 on register
  1. Anderson Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Torgerson Quarries · MSHA ID 2102629
    Abandoned
  2. Baiers Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seegmiller Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2101640
    Abandoned
  3. Blahniks Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seegmiller Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2102622
    Abandoned
  4. Bly Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kappers Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2102940
    Abandoned
  5. Boyum Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hans Torgerson Construction · MSHA ID 2102735
    Abandoned
  6. Boyum Quarry/Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102934
    Abandoned
  7. Brumm Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2101512
    Abandoned
  8. Choice Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102938
    Abandoned
  9. Christensen Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seegmiller Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2102883
    Abandoned
  10. Fillmore County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarve & Anderson Company · MSHA ID 2102617
    Abandoned
  11. Fossum Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L J'S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2102687
    Abandoned
  12. Franks Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2101622
    Abandoned
  13. Grabau Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kappers Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2100219
    Abandoned
  14. Grebin Quarry & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hans Torgerson Construction · MSHA ID 2101898
    Abandoned
  15. Hector Filimore County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hector Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2101397
    Abandoned
  16. Hoag Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Omarve & Anderson Company · MSHA ID 2102573
    Abandoned
  17. L & J Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & J Sand & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 2100550
    Abandoned
  18. Lanesboro Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hans Torgerson Construction · MSHA ID 2102577
    Abandoned
  19. Le Fleur Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2101444
    Abandoned
  20. Newberg Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102441
    Abandoned
  21. Peterson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2101445
    Abandoned
  22. Portable Crusher #100
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Crescent Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102919
    Abandoned
  23. Rauk Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pederson Brothers Of Harmony Inc · MSHA ID 2102914
    Abandoned
  24. Rifle Hill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kappers Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2100034
    Abandoned
  25. Ruen Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Torgerson Quarries · MSHA ID 2102620
    Abandoned
  26. Sorum Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Orval Sorum & Sons · MSHA ID 2102941
    Abandoned
  27. Thatcher Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seegmiller Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2102920
    Abandoned
  28. Thompson Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thompson and Thompson · MSHA ID 2103954
    Abandoned
  29. Whalan Ready-Mix Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whalan Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2101651
    Abandoned
  30. Whalen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Crescent Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102430
    Abandoned
  31. Wykoff Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kappers Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2100128
    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
Quarry 52
Strip Mine 26
Gravel Pit 26
Gravel Pit 13
Sand Pit 10
Quarry 7
Disturbed Surface 2
Tailings - Pond 2
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.