Abandoned mines in Catron County, New Mexico

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   58 26.5%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   35 16.0%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   2 0.9%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   111 50.7%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   13 5.9%

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.

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.

1. AGTIN MINE

   Surface metal/non-metal · Agtin Inc · MSHA ID 2902176
   Abandoned 1998-10-01
2. Bearup Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Rico Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 2900341
   Abandoned 1992-09-14
3. Bismarck Claim

   Surface metal/non-metal · C & M Mining Co · MSHA ID 2901542
   Abandoned 1980-04-02
4. Coker

   Surface metal/non-metal · Spears Pipe & Welding, Inc. · MSHA ID 2902242
   Abandoned 2004-03-16
5. Deadwood Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Royal Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 2902102
   Abandoned 1995-07-27
6. Eberle Mine

   Facility metal/non-metal · Challenge Venture Inc · MSHA ID 2901699
   Abandoned 1987-12-07
7. Fence Lake Mine

   Surface coal · Salt River Proj Agricultrl Improvmt & Power Dist · MSHA ID 2902156
   Abandoned 2006-04-14
8. Fence Lake No 1

   Surface coal · Williams Fork Mining Company · MSHA ID 2901997
   Abandoned and Sealed 1987-07-31
9. Greenwood Crusher

   Surface metal/non-metal · Greenwood Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2902023
   Abandoned 1987-11-30
10. Mogollon Enterprises Sand and Gravel

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mogollon Enterprises · MSHA ID 2902249
    Abandoned 2005-05-23
11. Mogolon Enterprises Sand and Gravel

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mogollon Enterprises · MSHA ID 2902251
    Abandoned 2003-05-20
12. Portable Crusher #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Russell Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2902288
    Abandoned 2016-09-28
13. RED HILL COMMUNITY PIT AKA CIMMA

    Surface metal/non-metal · New Mexico Department of Transportation · MSHA ID 2902184
    Abandoned 2018-08-01
14. SCREENING PLANT

    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 2902143
    Abandoned 1999-08-01
15. STARKWEATHER PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · Gravel & Sand · MSHA ID 2902206
    Abandoned 2001-07-24
16. Swapp Custom Crushing

    Surface metal/non-metal · S & M Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2902153
    Abandoned 2006-09-20
17. Williams Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 2901685
    Abandoned 1978-01-20

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Grant County 5,221
• Hidalgo County 1,747
• Sierra County 1,497
• Socorro County 1,259
• Luna County 1,164
• Lea County 890
• Lincoln County 803
• Sandoval County 650
• McKinley County 621
• Eddy County 591
• Santa Fe County 566
• Doña Ana County 482

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.