Abandoned mines in Luna County, New Mexico

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   324 27.5%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   653 55.4%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   37 3.1%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   158 13.4%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   5 0.4%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   2 0.2%

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. 3 L Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · 3 L Crushing · MSHA ID 2902130
   Abandoned 1995-11-01
2. AMERICAN MINERALS INC

   Facility metal/non-metal · American Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 2901582
   Abandoned 2004-02-18
3. Boa #1

   Underground metal/non-metal · Barite Of America · MSHA ID 2901759
   Abandoned 1981-07-13
4. Deming Sand & Gravel LLC

   Surface metal/non-metal · Deming Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 2902250
   Abandoned 2025-09-01
5. Florida Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Deming Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2902352
   Abandoned 2015-11-20
6. Goat Ridge

   Surface metal/non-metal · Lucina Mining Inc · MSHA ID 2901880
   Abandoned 1991-05-28
7. Hale Crusher #2

   Surface metal/non-metal · J R Hale Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 2901713
   Abandoned 1987-09-14
8. Hobbs Quality Service

   Surface metal/non-metal · Hobbs Quality Service · MSHA ID 2900470
   Abandoned 2021-05-17
9. Hooper Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · St. Cloud Mining Co. · MSHA ID 2902328
   Abandoned 2011-05-09
10. Johnson Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Construction · MSHA ID 2901461
    Abandoned 1994-03-11
11. Nafta Materials & Construction

    Surface metal/non-metal · Nafta Materials & Construction · MSHA ID 2901234
    Abandoned 1996-07-15
12. Nicholas One

    Facility metal/non-metal · Border Mining-Okla · MSHA ID 2902001
    Abandoned 1986-04-11
13. PE 315 CONE CRUSHER

    Surface metal/non-metal · C S Mc Crossan Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2901933
    Abandoned 2001-02-12
14. Peru Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Deming Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 2901760
    Abandoned 2023-07-28
15. Pinos Altos Deming Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Cyprus Pinos Altos Corp · MSHA ID 2900767
    Abandoned 1995-09-21

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
• Lea County 890
• Lincoln County 803
• Sandoval County 650
• McKinley County 621
• Eddy County 591
• Santa Fe County 566
• Doña Ana County 482
• Colfax County 343

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.