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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Morrison County, Minnesota

Morrison County, Minnesota has 186 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–1994. MSHA's register carries 27 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Morrison 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)
186
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
27
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits31 quadrangle maps, published 1948–1994 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
    30 16.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    156 83.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned27 on register
  1. 43316
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River · MSHA ID 2103339
    Abandoned
  2. 43322
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River · MSHA ID 2103129
    Abandoned
  3. 44250
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River Corporation North Central · MSHA ID 2103335
    Abandoned
  4. 45503
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River North Central · MSHA ID 2102996
    Abandoned
  5. 45970
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River North Central · MSHA ID 2102640
    Abandoned
  6. Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingsway Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2103065
    Abandoned
  7. CRUSHER & WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & K Redi Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2100839
    Abandoned
  8. Crusher 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Paving, Inc. · MSHA ID 2102824
    Abandoned
  9. DLL Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · DLL Excavating · MSHA ID 2103051
    Abandoned
  10. East Zetah Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larry R Smith Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2102693
    Abandoned
  11. Eilers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Paving Inc · MSHA ID 2102652
    Abandoned
  12. Hewitt-Robins Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Helmin Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2103722
    Abandoned
  13. Kowalczyk Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mike Smude · MSHA ID 2103363
    Abandoned
  14. Kowalczyk Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kowalczyk Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2103778
    Abandoned
  15. Loven Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Paving Inc · MSHA ID 2102644
    Abandoned
  16. Maciej Construction-Portable Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maciej Construction · MSHA ID 2102896
    Abandoned
  17. Marshek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Genola Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2101814
    Abandoned
  18. MN Black 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Minnesota Cut Stone · MSHA ID 2103873
    Abandoned
  19. Morrison County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Paving Inc · MSHA ID 2101631
    Abandoned
  20. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & K Redi Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102918
    Abandoned
  21. Schling Pit West
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & K Redi Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102639
    Abandoned
  22. Storkamp Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glen Storkamp Construction · MSHA ID 2102485
    Abandoned
  23. Stukey Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoffman Gravel & Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 2103773
    Abandoned
  24. Swanville Redi Mix
    Surface metal/non-metal · Swanville Redi Mix · MSHA ID 2102895
    Abandoned
  25. Two Rivers Township Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & K Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2102823
    Abandoned
  26. Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fritz Panek Trucking · MSHA ID 2103443
    Abandoned
  27. Wash Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-City Paving, Inc. · MSHA ID 2102935
    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 115
Gravel Pit 33
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 24
Sand Pit 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Disturbed Surface 2
Quarry 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 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.