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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Sussex County, New Jersey

Sussex County, New Jersey has 81 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1891–1995, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 6 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 34 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Sussex 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)
81
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
34
6 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1891–1995 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
    1 1.2%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    48 59.3%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    32 39.5%
Named features on the maps6 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Green Mines Mine
Green Mines Open Pit Mine
Green Mines Open Pit Mine
Layton Mines Mine
Parker Mine Mine
Williams Mine 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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned34 on register
  1. American Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2800990
    Abandoned
  2. Andover Concrete Industries Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Andover Concrete Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2800478
    Abandoned
  3. Baldwin Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baldwin Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2801024
    Abandoned
  4. Diamond Sand & Gravel
    Facility metal/non-metal · Diamond Sand and Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2800949
    Abandoned
  5. F Gonnello Trucking S & G Division
    Surface metal/non-metal · F Gonnello Trucking Corp Sand & Gravel Div · MSHA ID 2800519
    Abandoned
  6. Frank Little Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ogdensburg Industrial Park Inc · MSHA ID 2800705
    Abandoned
  7. Garden State Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Garden State Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 2800768
    Abandoned
  8. Grinnel Enterprises Inc Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grinnell Recycling Inc. · MSHA ID 2800518
    Abandoned
  9. GVC Contractors, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · GVC Contractors, LLC · MSHA ID 2801039
    Abandoned
  10. Hamburg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wanaque Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2800543
    Abandoned
  11. Havens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Havens Trucking, Incorporated · MSHA ID 2801026
    Abandoned
  12. High Point Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · High Point Humus Inc · MSHA ID 2800812
    Abandoned
  13. Hilltop Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hilltop Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2801022
    Abandoned
  14. Kat-Tex Enterprises Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kat-Tex Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 2800991
    Abandoned
  15. Lafayette Mine And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hyper-Humus Company Inc · MSHA ID 2800413
    Abandoned
  16. Lafayette Plant Oldcastle Stone Products
    Facility metal/non-metal · Oldcastle Stone Products · MSHA ID 2801011
    Abandoned
  17. Lakeside Const. - Sparta
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Construction · MSHA ID 2801037
    Abandoned
  18. Lime Crest Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lime Crest Mining Company · MSHA ID 2800969
    Abandoned
  19. Limestone Sand Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Limestone Products Corp · MSHA ID 2800885
    Abandoned
  20. Mc Afee Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Afee Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2800677
    Abandoned
  21. North Church Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Church Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2800730
    Abandoned
  22. Oxford Sand And Gravel Plant & Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anthony Ferrante & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2800668
    Abandoned
  23. Penn Crusher Sand System
    Facility metal/non-metal · Penn Crusher Corp · MSHA ID 2800960
    Abandoned
  24. Space Farms Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wantage Excavating Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 2801023
    Abandoned
  25. Sterling Mine & Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · New Jersey Zinc Company Inc · MSHA ID 2800393
    Abandoned
  26. Stillwater Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stillwater Sand & Stone Inc · MSHA ID 2800957
    Abandoned
  27. Sussex Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mt Bethel Humus Company Inc · MSHA ID 2800415
    Abandoned
  28. Tanis Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tanis Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2800974
    Abandoned
  29. Trans-Mix Aggregate Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trans-Mix Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 2800989
    Abandoned
  30. Turco Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jeryl Industries · MSHA ID 2800707
    Abandoned
  31. United Sand & Aggregate
    Surface metal/non-metal · United Sand & Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 2800777
    Abandoned
  32. United Sand & Aggregate Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · United Sand & Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 2800981
    Abandoned
  33. Van Decker Brothers Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Van Decker Bros Inc · MSHA ID 2800966
    Abandoned
  34. Wallkill Valley Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri County Asphalt Corp · MSHA ID 2800924
    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
Disturbed Surface 34
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 15
Quarry 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Mine 5
Gravel Pit 3
Quarry 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine 2
Adit 1
Quarry - Rock 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Gravel 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.