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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Kanabec County, Minnesota

Kanabec County, Minnesota has 119 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1961–1983. MSHA's register carries 19 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Kanabec 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)
119
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
19
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits19 quadrangle maps, published 1961–1983 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    119 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned19 on register
  1. Aggregate Washing and Classification Sys
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Washing Systems LLC · MSHA ID 2103664
    Abandoned
  2. Big Red
    Surface metal/non-metal · Preferred Crushing · MSHA ID 2103475
    Abandoned
  3. CRUSHER I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buckley Construction · MSHA ID 2102928
    Abandoned
  4. Crusher Ii
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buckley Construction · MSHA ID 2102870
    Abandoned
  5. Economy Ready Mix Braham Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Economy Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2100854
    Abandoned
  6. Gardner Denver
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray's Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 2103477
    Abandoned
  7. Knife Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Economy Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102859
    Abandoned
  8. Knife Lake Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Economy Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102785
    Abandoned
  9. Ostman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richard F Schuh Company · MSHA ID 2102654
    Abandoned
  10. Pinz Pit And Mill #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pinz Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2100858
    Abandoned
  11. Pinz Pit And Mill No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mark Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2102880
    Abandoned
  12. Pioneer 35S
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray's Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 2103674
    Abandoned
  13. Road Runner
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northland Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 2103614
    Abandoned
  14. Road Runner Screen-It
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & H Material Co. · MSHA ID 2103350
    Abandoned
  15. Sheryls Const., Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richard R Grand · MSHA ID 2103724
    Abandoned
  16. Smith Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · P O Pederson Inc · MSHA ID 2102554
    Abandoned
  17. Stromberg Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peterson Brothers Blacktop Inc · MSHA ID 2102448
    Abandoned
  18. Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buckley Construction II · MSHA ID 2103512
    Abandoned
  19. Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northland Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 2103617
    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 101
Gravel Pit 14
Quarry 2
Quarry 2
Other counties in MinnesotaAll counties →
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.