Abandoned mines in Storey County, Nevada

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   259 26.4%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   611 62.3%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   40 4.1%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   22 2.2%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   48 4.9%

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.

1. Big Comstock Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Rule Resources Usa Inc · MSHA ID 2601608
   Abandoned 1985-04-09
2. Bright Star Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · 2 B Partnership · MSHA ID 2601919
   Abandoned 1987-03-05
3. Clark Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · EP Minerals LLC · MSHA ID 2601439
   Abandoned 2014-08-01
4. Comstock Joint Venture

   Surface metal/non-metal · Art Wilson Co · MSHA ID 2602558
   Abandoned 2005-03-16
5. Comstock Mining LLC

   Surface metal/non-metal · Comstock Mining LLC · MSHA ID 2601871
   Abandoned 2018-04-01
6. Consolidated Imperial Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · W E Vining Company Inc · MSHA ID 2601450
   Abandoned 1982-06-28
7. East Yellow Jacket Lease

   Facility metal/non-metal · Gabler-Worthington · MSHA ID 2601552
   Abandoned 1980-02-21
8. GOLDEN EAGLE MINE

   Surface metal/non-metal · American Eagle Resources Inc · MSHA ID 2601905
   Abandoned 1999-04-06
9. GOOSEBERRY

   Underground metal/non-metal · Pallas Resource Corp · MSHA ID 2600249
   Abandoned 1999-04-01
10. J L Porawski

    Surface metal/non-metal · J L Porawski · MSHA ID 2601671
    Abandoned 1984-08-08
11. Justice Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Richard C Bentinck M D · MSHA ID 2601897
    Abandoned 1985-03-19
12. LOCKWOOD PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · T E Bertagnolli & Associates · MSHA ID 2601489
    Abandoned 2000-09-27
13. Mccarren Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Easton Inc · MSHA ID 2600733
    Abandoned 1979-06-04
14. Meri'S Con Virginia #1

    Underground metal/non-metal · Marshall Earth Resources Inc · MSHA ID 2601969
    Abandoned 1988-09-08
15. New Savage Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · United Mining Company Of Nevada Inc · MSHA ID 2601522
    Abandoned 1986-02-12
16. New York Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Cal-Denver Resources Ltd · MSHA ID 2601381
    Abandoned 1984-04-09
17. New York Shaft

    Underground metal/non-metal · The Plum Mining Company LLC · MSHA ID 2602577
    Abandoned 2006-03-30
18. Portable Crusher No 1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Nevada Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 2600445
    Abandoned 1989-09-13
19. Reno Rock & Asphalt

    Surface metal/non-metal · Gopher Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2601913
    Abandoned 2007-12-11
20. River Canyon

    Surface metal/non-metal · Wes Construction · MSHA ID 2602549
    Abandoned 2008-10-07
21. S H & N Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Intermountain Exploration Company · MSHA ID 2601331
    Abandoned 1978-03-31
22. SUTRO MINE

    Underground metal/non-metal · Consolidated Virginia Mining Company · MSHA ID 2602220
    Abandoned 2016-10-21
23. Sutro Tunnel

    Underground metal/non-metal · Houston Oil & Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 2601512
    Abandoned 1980-11-25
24. Umc American Flat Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · United Mining Company Of Nevada Inc · MSHA ID 2601451
    Abandoned 1986-02-12
25. Umc Loring/Obester Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · United Mining Company Of Nevada Inc · MSHA ID 2601893
    Abandoned 1986-02-12
26. Upper Ophir

    Underground metal/non-metal · Marshall Earth Resources Inc · MSHA ID 2602076
    Abandoned 1992-03-24
27. Washoe Rock Products Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Washoe Rock Products · MSHA ID 2601363
    Abandoned 1986-11-26
28. Wells Merger Tunnel

    Underground metal/non-metal · Houston Oil & Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 2601448
    Abandoned 1978-07-07

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.