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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in McKenzie County, North Dakota

McKenzie County, North Dakota has 138 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1959–1997, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 2 problems in the county, 2 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering McKenzie 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)
138
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
2
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits42 quadrangle maps, published 1959–1997 2 OSMRE problems, 0 reclaimed 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    2 1.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    137 97.9%
  3. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 0.7%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems2 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Cartwright P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Cartwright P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned32 on register
  1. 750
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eagle Rock Timber, Inc · MSHA ID 3200929
    Abandoned
  2. Anderson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graham & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3201049
    Abandoned
  3. CMG Bakken PIt
    Surface metal/non-metal · CMG Oil & Gas, Inc. · MSHA ID 3201001
    Abandoned
  4. Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Black Diamond Construction Co · MSHA ID 3201023
    Abandoned
  5. Estvold Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · RS Bennett · MSHA ID 4800297
    Abandoned
  6. Eurocrusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monson Corporation · MSHA ID 3200895
    Abandoned
  7. Extec S-5 Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Root Construction, Inc · MSHA ID 3200947
    Abandoned
  8. Good, Inc. Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Good, Inc · MSHA ID 3200981
    Abandoned
  9. Koski Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Koski Company · MSHA ID 3200917
    Abandoned
  10. Mckenzie County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sundhagen Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3200570
    Abandoned
  11. Norstag Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · William Collins Inc · MSHA ID 3200549
    Abandoned
  12. Park Construction
    Surface metal/non-metal · Park Construction · MSHA ID 3200869
    Abandoned
  13. Pit 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · CHI Industries, LLC · MSHA ID 3200859
    Abandoned
  14. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kuehn Trenching LLC. · MSHA ID 3200899
    Abandoned
  15. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lynx Sand & Gravel, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 3200992
    Abandoned
  16. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakland Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 2402351
    Abandoned
  17. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Concord Field Services LLC · MSHA ID 3200875
    Abandoned
  18. Portable #1-Titan
    Surface metal/non-metal · IVM Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 3200935
    Abandoned
  19. Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakland & Fisher Construction Incorporated · MSHA ID 3200799
    Abandoned
  20. Portable Metso 1110 Impactor
    Surface metal/non-metal · Root Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 3200948
    Abandoned
  21. Portable Metso 1213 Impactor
    Surface metal/non-metal · Root Construction, Inc · MSHA ID 3200940
    Abandoned
  22. Portable Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kelly Pomeroy Trucking, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 3201021
    Abandoned
  23. Portable Plant 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · River Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 3200996
    Abandoned
  24. Portable Plant, Various
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stahl Excavating · MSHA ID 3201014
    Abandoned
  25. Portable Screen Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Hanley Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0405775
    Abandoned
  26. Scoria Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · David Hall Construction LLC · MSHA ID 3200988
    Abandoned
  27. Screen #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Star Energy & Construction, LLC · MSHA ID 4801702
    Abandoned
  28. SP-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Storbakken & Sons Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 3201012
    Abandoned
  29. Stockman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · CMG Oil & Gas · MSHA ID 3200868
    Abandoned
  30. Sundhagen Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sundhagen Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3201026
    Abandoned
  31. T.B. Materials LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Titanium Builders LLC · MSHA ID 3201017
    Abandoned
  32. Track Metso R-1594
    Surface metal/non-metal · MK Weeden Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 3200985
    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
Scoria Pit 75
Gravel Pit 54
Quarry 3
Gravel Pit 2
Scoria Pit 2
P1 Portals 1
P2 Subsidence 1
Sand Pit 1
Adit 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.