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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Williams County, North Dakota

Williams County, North Dakota has 196 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–1997, including 6 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 3 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 23 problems in the county, 19 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 56 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Williams 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)
196
Mine openings
6
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
19
MSHA mines marked abandoned
56
3 features carry a name0 prospect pits45 quadrangle maps, published 1948–1997 23 OSMRE problems, 4 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
    6 2.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    18 8.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    172 78.5%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 1.4%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    1 0.5%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    19 8.7%
Named features on the maps3 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Bublitz Mine Open Pit Mine
Erke Mine Open Pit Mine
Fulveg Mine Open Pit Mine

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems23 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Cedar Coulee P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Grenora P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Hanks P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Hanks P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Love Joy P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Love Joy P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Love Joy P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Nd - Williams - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Scenic East P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Scenic East P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Southwest Tioga P1 Dangerous Impoundments In Reclamation
Southwest Tioga P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Southwest Tioga P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Southwest Tioga P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Southwest Tioga P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Southwest Tioga P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
West Williston A P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
West Williston A P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
West Williston A P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Williams County 9 P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Zahl P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Zahl P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Zahl P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation

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 Abandoned56 on register
  1. 5 Star Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · 5 Star Contracting LLC · MSHA ID 3200881
    Abandoned
  2. 60th Street Crusher #304
    Surface metal/non-metal · Las Vegas Paving Corp · MSHA ID 2602146
    Abandoned
  3. AM Dirtworks & Aggregate Sales
    Surface metal/non-metal · AM Dirtworks & Aggregate Sales · MSHA ID 4801789
    Abandoned
  4. Bakken Group Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bakken Group Inc. · MSHA ID 3200986
    Abandoned
  5. Billings County
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hexco, LLC · MSHA ID 3200882
    Abandoned
  6. C05
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources · MSHA ID 3201042
    Abandoned
  7. Cactus B & S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cactus Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 3200528
    Abandoned
  8. Cactus Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cactus Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 3200137
    Abandoned
  9. Christensens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cactus Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 3200572
    Abandoned
  10. CO1
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources Inc · MSHA ID 3200838
    Abandoned
  11. CO2
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources Inc · MSHA ID 3200871
    Abandoned
  12. CO4
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources · MSHA ID 3201034
    Abandoned
  13. CO6
    Surface metal/non-metal · JMAC Resources Inc. · MSHA ID 3200800
    Abandoned
  14. Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crushed Rock Sales, LLC · MSHA ID 3201047
    Abandoned
  15. Crusher # 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · J3 Advanced Engineering Technologies Inc. · MSHA ID 3200961
    Abandoned
  16. Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J3 Advanced Engineering Technologies Inc. · MSHA ID 3200968
    Abandoned
  17. Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · MK Weeden Construction · MSHA ID 2402576
    Abandoned
  18. Crusher Spread #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Matheney Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3200925
    Abandoned
  19. Daniels
    Surface metal/non-metal · McCody Concrete Products, Inc. · MSHA ID 3201076
    Abandoned
  20. EAST FORK GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Fork Gravel · MSHA ID 3200754
    Abandoned
  21. Emil Stensland Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mertons Excavating · MSHA ID 3200621
    Abandoned
  22. Gleaves #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Gleaves Construction · MSHA ID 3201087
    Abandoned
  23. GO Aggregates Crusher 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · GO Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 3201029
    Abandoned
  24. Greg Quarne Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · HEXCO, LLC · MSHA ID 3200930
    Abandoned
  25. Hoffelt Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nobel K Erickson · MSHA ID 3200235
    Abandoned
  26. Hughes Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williston Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 3200558
    Abandoned
  27. JRC-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Storbakken & Sons Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3200941
    Abandoned
  28. K Kulland Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · K Kulland Excavating & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 3200552
    Abandoned
  29. Kettle Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crosby Redi-Mix · MSHA ID 3200635
    Abandoned
  30. Knudsen Pit 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schriock Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3200349
    Abandoned
  31. Livona Station Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Livona Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3200623
    Abandoned
  32. McGregor
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Aggregate LLC · MSHA ID 3200991
    Abandoned
  33. Mondak I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Above All Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 3201005
    Abandoned
  34. Montana Aggregate Williston Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Montana Aggregate Company, LLC · MSHA ID 3201033
    Abandoned
  35. Nordberg Omnicone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westby Rock · MSHA ID 3200904
    Abandoned
  36. Pit 1- Above All Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Above All Sand And Aggregate · MSHA ID 3200980
    Abandoned
  37. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Golden West LLC · MSHA ID 3201040
    Abandoned
  38. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Gleaves Construction · MSHA ID 3200814
    Abandoned
  39. Portable #11
    Surface metal/non-metal · Strata Corporation · MSHA ID 3201035
    Abandoned
  40. Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Concord Field Services, LLC · MSHA ID 3200914
    Abandoned
  41. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Max Trax Transport · MSHA ID 3201079
    Abandoned
  42. Portable Jaw #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ell Dirt Works LLC. · MSHA ID 3200860
    Abandoned
  43. Portable Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maverick Logistics, Inc. · MSHA ID 3201018
    Abandoned
  44. Portable Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · River Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 3200942
    Abandoned
  45. Portable Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Minot Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3200622
    Abandoned
  46. Pro Safe Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pro Safe Services INC · MSHA ID 3200937
    Abandoned
  47. River Basin #1 Myer/Trenton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Las Vegas Paving Corp. · MSHA ID 3200993
    Abandoned
  48. Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crushed Rock Sales LLC · MSHA ID 3201032
    Abandoned
  49. Strandland Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holm Construction · MSHA ID 3200573
    Abandoned
  50. Summit/Stevens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Summit Energy Services · MSHA ID 3200923
    Abandoned
  51. Sundhagen Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sundhagen Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3201036
    Abandoned
  52. Tuboscope
    Surface metal/non-metal · HEXCO, LLC · MSHA ID 3200873
    Abandoned
  53. Weyrauch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schriock Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3200340
    Abandoned
  54. WILLISTON MASONARY #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williston Masonary Inc · MSHA ID 3200614
    Abandoned
  55. Williston Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Construction Company · MSHA ID 3200617
    Abandoned
  56. WILLISTON WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Susag Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3200425
    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 128
Gravel Pit 24
Scoria Pit 17
P2 Subsidence 9
Disturbed Surface - Pit 8
Open Pit Mine 7
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 5
Adit 5
P3 Spoil Area 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
P1 Subsidence 2
Sand Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 1
P1 Surface Burning 1
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
Mine Shaft 1
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 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.