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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Renville County, Minnesota

Renville County, Minnesota has 123 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1952–1992. MSHA's register carries 24 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Renville 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)
123
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits24 quadrangle maps, published 1952–1992 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    123 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned24 on register
  1. 4 J's Gravel Crushing Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · 4 J's Gravel Crushing · MSHA ID 2103739
    Abandoned
  2. 40 VE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little Rocks Transfer · MSHA ID 2103747
    Abandoned
  3. Barta Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W Hodgman & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2102862
    Abandoned
  4. Bartel Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duininck Brothers & Gilchrist · MSHA ID 2100995
    Abandoned
  5. Bartel Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gary Sanger · MSHA ID 2101860
    Abandoned
  6. Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stark Brothers Construction · MSHA ID 2100993
    Abandoned
  7. DANUBE WASHED SAND AND GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Allied Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 2100497
    Abandoned
  8. FAIRFAX PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fairfax Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2103273
    Abandoned
  9. Gravel Experss, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gravel Express, Inc. · MSHA ID 2103489
    Abandoned
  10. Hagen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fairway Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102459
    Abandoned
  11. Haney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Haney Construction, LLC · MSHA ID 2103907
    Abandoned
  12. Hawk Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tostenson Road Company Inc · MSHA ID 2101612
    Abandoned
  13. Heil Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fairway Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2101894
    Abandoned
  14. Jaw Roll
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stark Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 2103229
    Abandoned
  15. Kolman Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim's Gravel · MSHA ID 2103618
    Abandoned
  16. PIONEER 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fairfax Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2103272
    Abandoned
  17. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Call Road Surfacing Company · MSHA ID 2102703
    Abandoned
  18. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stark Brothers Construction · MSHA ID 2103015
    Abandoned
  19. Portable Stark #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & D Stark, Inc. · MSHA ID 2103013
    Abandoned
  20. Rainbow Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cold Spring Granite Company · MSHA ID 2100755
    Abandoned
  21. Scheffler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fairway Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2102861
    Abandoned
  22. Serbus Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dave Serbus & Son · MSHA ID 2101686
    Abandoned
  23. Serbus Power Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Serbus Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 2103829
    Abandoned
  24. Valley Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2102699
    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 82
Gravel Pit 32
Quarry 5
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Clay Pit 1
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.