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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Rockingham County, New Hampshire has 361 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1944–1989, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 43 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Rockingham 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)
361
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
43
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1944–1989 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 0.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    23 6.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    336 93.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned43 on register
  1. ARGO
    Surface metal/non-metal · M. BRADSHER CO., INC. · MSHA ID 2700397
    Abandoned
  2. Atom Contracting
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atom Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 2700256
    Abandoned
  3. Big Green
    Surface metal/non-metal · Groundhog Landscaping & Property Maintenance, Inc · MSHA ID 2700511
    Abandoned
  4. Chester E Bearce Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chester E Bearce Inc · MSHA ID 2700170
    Abandoned
  5. Continental Paving-Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Continental Paving Inc · MSHA ID 2700438
    Abandoned
  6. Danville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · AL. Hoyt & Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 2700418
    Abandoned
  7. Deerfield Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deerfield Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2700481
    Abandoned
  8. Exeter Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · L C Simpson Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2700059
    Abandoned
  9. Exeter Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Iafolla Company Inc · MSHA ID 2700127
    Abandoned
  10. Exeter Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Exeter Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2700207
    Abandoned
  11. Freemont Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Freemont Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2700290
    Abandoned
  12. FREMONT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chester E Bearce Inc · MSHA ID 2700348
    Abandoned
  13. Hewitt Robbin Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & B Crushing Equipment, LLC · MSHA ID 2700366
    Abandoned
  14. Hewitt-Robins Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith Brothers Heavy Equipment Inc · MSHA ID 2700286
    Abandoned
  15. Hoyt'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Al Hoyt & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2700242
    Abandoned
  16. Kensington Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camillieri Corp · MSHA ID 2700199
    Abandoned
  17. Komatsu Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Excavating Corp · MSHA ID 2700412
    Abandoned
  18. LBMC -2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ledge Bound Mobile Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 2700399
    Abandoned
  19. LBMC 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ledgebound Mobile Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 2700389
    Abandoned
  20. Londonderry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Derry Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2700068
    Abandoned
  21. Merrimack Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Merrimack Paving Corp · MSHA ID 2700180
    Abandoned
  22. Pegson Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Excavating Corporation · MSHA ID 2700415
    Abandoned
  23. Phoenix Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · J H Rolfe Construction Co LLC · MSHA ID 2700484
    Abandoned
  24. PJP Company Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · PJP Company Inc · MSHA ID 2700347
    Abandoned
  25. Plaistow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peter H Arakelian & Son Inc · MSHA ID 2700234
    Abandoned
  26. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Therrien & Sons · MSHA ID 2700304
    Abandoned
  27. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · THIBEAULT CORPORATION OF N.E · MSHA ID 2700380
    Abandoned
  28. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rome Construction · MSHA ID 2700386
    Abandoned
  29. PORTABLE SANDSCREEN C654
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2700253
    Abandoned
  30. Portsmouth Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · National Gypsum Company · MSHA ID 2700027
    Abandoned
  31. Portsmouth Quarry/Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Iafolla Company Inc · MSHA ID 2700001
    Abandoned
  32. Primary Supply
    Surface metal/non-metal · Primary Supply Inc · MSHA ID 2700134
    Abandoned
  33. Ralph L Buzzell Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ralph L Buzzell Inc · MSHA ID 2700159
    Abandoned
  34. Raymond Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2700325
    Abandoned
  35. Roadstone Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Galloway Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 2700261
    Abandoned
  36. Robert Dow Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert Dow Inc · MSHA ID 2700155
    Abandoned
  37. ROCKY RIDGE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dean A Smith & Son · MSHA ID 2700308
    Abandoned
  38. Saturno
    Surface metal/non-metal · M Bradsher Co Inc · MSHA ID 2700400
    Abandoned
  39. Seabrook Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seabrook Hardrock · MSHA ID 2700439
    Abandoned
  40. SPE Real Estate LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · SPE Real Estate LLC · MSHA ID 2700450
    Abandoned
  41. Torromeo Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Merrimack Paving Corp · MSHA ID 2700189
    Abandoned
  42. VIPER 301 SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bar Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2700361
    Abandoned
  43. Webb Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W Beard Jr Trucking Company · MSHA ID 2700218
    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 123
Sand Pit 97
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 81
Gravel Pit 23
Disturbed Surface 19
Quarry 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Adit 2
Sand Pit 2
Quarry - Rock 1
Clay Pit 1
Quarry 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Other counties in New HampshireAll 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.