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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Goodhue County, Minnesota

Goodhue County, Minnesota has 178 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1950–1994. MSHA's register carries 25 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Goodhue 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)
178
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
25
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits26 quadrangle maps, published 1950–1994 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
    3 1.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    175 98.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned25 on register
  1. Bryan Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luhmans Construction Company · MSHA ID 2100559
    Abandoned
  2. Carlson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holm Brothers Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102943
    Abandoned
  3. Fields Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Star Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 2101483
    Abandoned
  4. Fillmore County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Patterson Quarries-Div/Mathy Construction Co · MSHA ID 2102978
    Abandoned
  5. Flueger Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & C Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 2102738
    Abandoned
  6. Flueger Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Flueger Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 2103550
    Abandoned
  7. Freiheit Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holm Brothers Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102584
    Abandoned
  8. Goodhue County Quarrys
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarve & Anderson Company · MSHA ID 2100091
    Abandoned
  9. Hader Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Limestone Company · MSHA ID 2100089
    Abandoned
  10. Holst Portable No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holst Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2102857
    Abandoned
  11. Keller Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knapp Excavating · MSHA ID 2102856
    Abandoned
  12. Kielmeyer Goodhue County Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kielmeyer Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2100129
    Abandoned
  13. Knapp Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knapp Excavating · MSHA ID 2102832
    Abandoned
  14. Law Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarve & Anderson Company · MSHA ID 2102670
    Abandoned
  15. Lokens Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zumbrota Sand & Aggregate · MSHA ID 2100663
    Abandoned
  16. Oconnor Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holm Brothers Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102474
    Abandoned
  17. Oconnor Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holm Brothers Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102520
    Abandoned
  18. Pine Island Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pine Island Pit · MSHA ID 2102675
    Abandoned
  19. PORTABLE CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Industries · MSHA ID 2102963
    Abandoned
  20. Red Wing Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kinyon Concrete Products · MSHA ID 2100582
    Abandoned
  21. Red Wing Ready Mix Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knapp'S Excavating · MSHA ID 2101300
    Abandoned
  22. Steffeanhagen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holst Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2101516
    Abandoned
  23. SUPERIOR WASH PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Industries - MWR, Inc. · MSHA ID 2102967
    Abandoned
  24. Thomford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarve & Anderson Company · MSHA ID 2102871
    Abandoned
  25. WAGNER QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelrock Inc · MSHA ID 2103071
    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 99
Gravel Pit 32
Quarry 28
Clay Pit 8
Quarry 4
Sand Pit 3
Disturbed Surface 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine or 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.