Abandoned mines in Socorro County, New Mexico

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   245 18.9%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   842 64.9%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   86 6.6%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   103 7.9%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   16 1.2%
6. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   1 0.1%
7. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   4 0.3%

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. Aguilar Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Silver State Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2901987
   Abandoned 1987-12-30
2. Anchor Mill

   Facility metal/non-metal · G L G Development Corp · MSHA ID 2901816
   Abandoned 1982-05-24
3. Bingham Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Western General Resources Inc · MSHA ID 2900960
   Abandoned 1983-01-04
4. Black Hills Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · J W Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 2902042
   Abandoned 1990-12-31
5. Blue Springs Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Rocky Mountain Stone Company · MSHA ID 2900024
   Abandoned 1989-09-07
6. Chupadera

   Surface metal/non-metal · Cactus Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2901754
   Abandoned 1980-12-01
7. Crusher #3

   Surface metal/non-metal · James Hamilton Construction Company · MSHA ID 2902129
   Abandoned 2012-01-31
8. Crusher Nos 802 814 817 828

   Surface metal/non-metal · J W Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 2901943
   Abandoned 1984-03-16
9. DONALDSON QUARRY

   Surface metal/non-metal · New Mexico Travertine · MSHA ID 2902200
   Abandoned 2001-09-30
10. Draco Gypsum (Mill)

    Facility metal/non-metal · Draco Gypsum · MSHA ID 2901897
    Abandoned 1983-02-01
11. Drake Mine And Mill

    Underground metal/non-metal · Bscco Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 2901762
    Abandoned 1980-01-02
12. Elaine Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ranger Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2901750
    Abandoned 1980-12-01
13. Extec #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · PG Enterprises, LLC · MSHA ID 2902495
    Abandoned 2018-04-24
14. Extec C-12 Jaw Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · AUI Inc · MSHA ID 2902342
    Abandoned 2007-05-30
15. Hefner Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Hefner'S Inc · MSHA ID 2902057
    Abandoned 1995-06-21
16. Impactor #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · PG Enterprises, LLC · MSHA ID 2902490
    Abandoned 2018-03-05
17. Jackfrost Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · G L G Development Corp · MSHA ID 2901830
    Abandoned 1982-05-26
18. JARAMILLO PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · Frontier Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2902048
    Abandoned 2011-12-07
19. Jaw #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · PG Enterprises, LLC · MSHA ID 2902492
    Abandoned 2018-03-05
20. Jones Camp Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwest Mineral Corp Inc · MSHA ID 2901774
    Abandoned 1980-10-23
21. LEMITAR PORTABLE

    Facility metal/non-metal · A 1 Quality Redi-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2902197
    Abandoned 2010-02-17
22. Linchburg Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Cobb Resources Corp · MSHA ID 2900757
    Abandoned 1982-05-26
23. Medicine Man

    Surface metal/non-metal · Draco Gypsum · MSHA ID 2901896
    Abandoned 1983-05-23
24. Melba Mines

    Underground metal/non-metal · Missouri Mines · MSHA ID 2901843
    Abandoned 1981-09-21
25. Mount Baldy

    Underground metal/non-metal · Resources America Inc · MSHA ID 2901791
    Abandoned 1981-09-30
26. Pit 57-105-S

    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 2901356
    Abandoned 1989-11-14
27. Pit 84-5-S Ext

    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 2902003
    Abandoned 1986-04-01
28. Pit 87-7-S

    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 2902021
    Abandoned 1988-10-01
29. Polvadera Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Polvadera Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2901671
    Abandoned 1979-03-26
30. Queen Mine #1 & 2

    Underground metal/non-metal · Pan American Trust · MSHA ID 2901829
    Abandoned 1982-06-09
31. Ranger Mine & Processing Plant #1

    Facility metal/non-metal · Ranger Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2901749
    Abandoned 1980-12-01
32. Ranger White Ridge

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ranger Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2901808
    Abandoned 1980-12-01
33. Resources America Incorporated-Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Resources America Inc · MSHA ID 2901603
    Abandoned 1981-09-30
34. RIBBLE CRUSHER #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ribble Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 2901999
    Abandoned 2002-07-22
35. S & S SAND & GRAVEL

    Surface metal/non-metal · S & G Sand & Gravel Products · MSHA ID 2902056
    Abandoned 1999-09-02
36. San Antonio

    Surface metal/non-metal · T Brown Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 2901826
    Abandoned 1988-03-08
37. SAN JUAN CLAIM

    Underground metal/non-metal · Lost Canyon Llc · MSHA ID 2902185
    Abandoned 2001-07-25
38. Sloan Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · New Mexico State Highway Department · MSHA ID 2901725
    Abandoned 1978-09-05
39. Socorro

    Surface metal/non-metal · Wheeler Construction Company · MSHA ID 2901912
    Abandoned 1992-08-05
40. Socorro Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mountain Gravel & Construction Company · MSHA ID 2901888
    Abandoned 1990-06-07
41. South Polvadera

    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverview Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2901353
    Abandoned 1979-03-30
42. Tres Hermanos

    Surface coal · Cactus Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2901815
    Abandoned 1980-04-01
43. Vequitas Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · New Mexico State Highway Department · MSHA ID 2901705
    Abandoned 1978-01-16

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
• 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
• 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.