Abandoned mines in Lincoln County, Nevada

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   781 37.5%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   1,109 53.3%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   37 1.8%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   118 5.7%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   35 1.7%

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. Advanced Pozzolan Products LLC

   Surface metal/non-metal · Advanced Pozzolan Products LLC · MSHA ID 2602494
   Abandoned 2007-12-24
2. Alamo Service

   Surface metal/non-metal · Alamo Service · MSHA ID 2601922
   Abandoned 1986-06-05
3. Atlanta Mine And Mill

   Surface metal/non-metal · Standard Slag Company · MSHA ID 2601143
   Abandoned 1986-01-14
4. Bunee Materials Corporation

   Surface metal/non-metal · Bunee Materials Corporation · MSHA ID 2602503
   Abandoned 2003-09-08
5. Caselton Mill

   Facility metal/non-metal · Bunker Hill Company · MSHA ID 2600211
   Abandoned 1978-03-31
6. Caselton Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Kerr-Mc Gee Corp · MSHA ID 2601146
   Abandoned 1982-07-01
7. Caselton Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Oxidor Corporation Inc · MSHA ID 2602516
   Abandoned 2003-11-14
8. Caselton Tailings

   Facility metal/non-metal · Mountain Mines Inc · MSHA ID 2602015
   Abandoned 1989-03-06
9. Emerson Mill

   Facility metal/non-metal · Umetco Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 2601429
   Abandoned 1986-02-19
10. Franks Lease

    Underground metal/non-metal · Franks Lease · MSHA ID 2601917
    Abandoned 1987-03-06
11. Frieberg Mine & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Frieberg Mining Corp · MSHA ID 2601548
    Abandoned 1981-10-01
12. High Desert Aggregates

    Surface metal/non-metal · High Desert Aggregrates, LLC · MSHA ID 2602700
    Abandoned 2011-07-31
13. Hollingshead Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Hollingshead Mining & Milling · MSHA ID 2602113
    Abandoned 1991-05-13
14. Jackrabbit Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Nevada State Highway Department · MSHA ID 2601470
    Abandoned 1978-08-07
15. Johnston Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Merodach Consulting · MSHA ID 2601495
    Abandoned 1989-04-03
16. M K Pit & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim Wilkin Trucking & Redi-Mix · MSHA ID 2600703
    Abandoned 1991-04-16
17. MACKIE PERLITE MINE

    Underground metal/non-metal · Wilkin Mining & Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 2600117
    Abandoned 1999-06-16
18. Pan American Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Bunker Hill Company · MSHA ID 2600229
    Abandoned 1981-02-05
19. Pioche Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Hollingshead Mining & Milling · MSHA ID 2601035
    Abandoned 1983-11-09
20. Pioche Mill Or Pioche Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · R J Dalton & Sons · MSHA ID 2600682
    Abandoned 1985-09-26
21. Pioche Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim Wilkin Trucking · MSHA ID 2601502
    Abandoned 1979-09-27
22. Rip Rap Operation

    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim Wilkin Trucking LLC · MSHA ID 2602683
    Abandoned 2012-08-07
23. Sea Trace Minerals Incorporated

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sea Trace Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 2601909
    Abandoned 1985-05-17
24. Service Rock Products-Coyote Springs

    Surface metal/non-metal · Service Rock Products Corp · MSHA ID 2602342
    Abandoned 2012-04-19
25. Sierra Chemical Caselton Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Sierra Chemical Company · MSHA ID 2601034
    Abandoned 1982-11-15
26. Sierra Chemical Lime Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sierra Chemical Company · MSHA ID 2601497
    Abandoned 1982-02-05
27. Silver Park Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Silver Park Limited · MSHA ID 2601557
    Abandoned 1981-05-01
28. Silverhorn Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Silverhorn Research Mill Inc · MSHA ID 2601854
    Abandoned 1985-03-27
29. Silverhorn Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Silverhorn Research Mill Inc · MSHA ID 2601469
    Abandoned 1984-07-10
30. TEMPIUTE

    Underground metal/non-metal · Tempiute Inc. · MSHA ID 2600340
    Abandoned 1994-01-11
31. Tempiute Metals Company Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Tempiute Metals Company · MSHA ID 2601436
    Abandoned 1987-12-22
32. TENACITY PERLITE MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilkin Mining & Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 2602389
    Abandoned 2007-06-25
33. The Ranch

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ron Williams Construction · MSHA ID 2602222
    Abandoned 1994-03-10
34. TURTLEWALK

    Surface metal/non-metal · Turtle Walk Sand Llc · MSHA ID 2602410
    Abandoned 2003-03-26
35. Wide Awake Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Iron Triangle Mines · MSHA ID 2601670
    Abandoned 1982-01-01

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

• Nye County 18,876
• Esmeralda County 17,520
• White Pine County 9,347
• Mineral County 8,599
• Humboldt County 8,385
• Elko County 7,657
• Lander County 6,751
• Pershing County 6,611
• Lyon County 6,309
• Churchill County 5,527
• Clark County 5,392
• Eureka County 4,664

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.