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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Albany County, New York

Albany County, New York has 132 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1980; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 29 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Albany County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
132
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1980 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    104 78.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    27 20.5%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 0.8%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Mossy Hill Quarry Quarry

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned29 on register
  1. Cedar Rapids 380 Cone Crusher #967
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carver Sand and Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3003698
    Abandoned
  2. Dennis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · James H Maloy Inc · MSHA ID 3000901
    Abandoned
  3. Eagle 1200 Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · SM Gallivan, LLC · MSHA ID 3004007
    Abandoned
  4. Fintec 640
    Surface metal/non-metal · SM Gallivan, LLC · MSHA ID 3004016
    Abandoned
  5. Fort Ferry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph R Wunderlich Inc · MSHA ID 3001821
    Abandoned
  6. GRIPPEE QUARRY #1 NORTH
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heldeberg Bluestone & Marble Inc · MSHA ID 3002330
    Abandoned
  7. GRIPPEE QUARRY #2 CENTER CUTTING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heldeberg Bluestone & Marble Inc · MSHA ID 3003036
    Abandoned
  8. GRIPPEE QUARRY #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heldeberg Bluestone & Marble Inc · MSHA ID 3003037
    Abandoned
  9. Harris Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harris Stone · MSHA ID 3003664
    Abandoned
  10. HELDEBERG BLUESTONE AND MARBLE INC KNOX
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heldeberg Bluestone & Marble Inc · MSHA ID 3000058
    Abandoned
  11. Lime Rock Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 3002709
    Abandoned
  12. McCloskey R230
    Surface metal/non-metal · SM Gallivan, LLC · MSHA ID 3004017
    Abandoned
  13. North Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · William M Larned & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002259
    Abandoned
  14. Olivers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · James H Maloy Inc · MSHA ID 3002349
    Abandoned
  15. Pioneer 4240
    Surface metal/non-metal · William Biers · MSHA ID 3003836
    Abandoned
  16. POLLOCK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph R Wunderlich Inc · MSHA ID 3001820
    Abandoned
  17. PORTABLE PLANT NO. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Island Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003042
    Abandoned
  18. POWELL & MINNOCK PLANT AND GEDNE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Powell & Minnock Brick Works Inc · MSHA ID 3000296
    Abandoned
  19. Power Grid
    Surface metal/non-metal · William M Larned & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3001001
    Abandoned
  20. Ravena Plant #2
    Facility metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3003029
    Abandoned
  21. Ravena Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlantic Cement Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002453
    Abandoned
  22. Rupert Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clemente Latham Concrete Corp · MSHA ID 3000765
    Abandoned
  23. Rupert Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · James H Maloy Inc · MSHA ID 3001026
    Abandoned
  24. Rupert Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bethlehem Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002029
    Abandoned
  25. SCREEN II ROADRUNNER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Island Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003173
    Abandoned
  26. Skedaddle Ridge Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph R Wunderlich Inc · MSHA ID 3002666
    Abandoned
  27. Starr Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Armada Associates Inc · MSHA ID 3002331
    Abandoned
  28. Stitts Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond Gillespie Trucking · MSHA ID 3001993
    Abandoned
  29. Wagner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred Wagner · MSHA ID 3002399
    Abandoned

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

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 57
Disturbed Surface 39
Gravel Pit 12
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 8
Clay Pit 4
Quarry 3
Sand Pit 3
Quarry 2
Sand Pit 1
Gravel Pit 1
Tailings - Pond 1
Clay Pit 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  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.