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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Clinton County, New York

Clinton County, New York has 246 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1993, including 13 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 9 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 53 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Clinton 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)
246
Mine openings
13
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
53
9 features carry a name0 prospect pits23 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1993 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    13 5.3%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    10 4.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    219 89.0%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    4 1.6%
Named features on the maps9 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft
Ore Mines Mine Shaft

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 Abandoned53 on register
  1. 272 Metso Screen Rental
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woodfalls Industries LLC · MSHA ID 3003848
    Abandoned
  2. ADCOCK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plattsburgh Quarries · MSHA ID 3002211
    Abandoned
  3. Alex Lamkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Saranac · MSHA ID 3003384
    Abandoned
  4. Baker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norman Baker & Sons · MSHA ID 3003517
    Abandoned
  5. Barber-Greene PX550X576
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Peru · MSHA ID 3003302
    Abandoned
  6. Barcomb Development
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leonard F Barcomb · MSHA ID 3002275
    Abandoned
  7. Boas Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002353
    Abandoned
  8. C & L Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & L Well Drilling Inc · MSHA ID 3002682
    Abandoned
  9. Cannons Corners Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Fave's Trucking · MSHA ID 3003727
    Abandoned
  10. CEC ROADRUNNER #710
    Surface metal/non-metal · Casella Const. Inc. · MSHA ID 3003347
    Abandoned
  11. Champlain Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002624
    Abandoned
  12. CHAMPLAIN MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · R DESO INC · MSHA ID 3002679
    Abandoned
  13. Chauvin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kenneth Chauvin Trucking · MSHA ID 3002329
    Abandoned
  14. Clinton Mills Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · The Delaney Group, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003629
    Abandoned
  15. Clinton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graymont Materials (NY) Inc · MSHA ID 3003603
    Abandoned
  16. COLE GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clinton Farms · MSHA ID 3003234
    Abandoned
  17. Colton Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · J.E. Sheehan Contracting Corp. · MSHA ID 3003408
    Abandoned
  18. Darrah Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002354
    Abandoned
  19. Dashnaw Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dashnaw Logging Inc · MSHA ID 3002309
    Abandoned
  20. Erin Trommel Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steven E. Fuller Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003557
    Abandoned
  21. Grasshopper Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Torrington Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002281
    Abandoned
  22. GRATTO PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plattsburgh Quarries · MSHA ID 3002838
    Abandoned
  23. Jubert Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graystone Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002837
    Abandoned
  24. LECLAIR PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plattsburgh Quarries · MSHA ID 3002836
    Abandoned
  25. Lyon Sand Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lyon Sand Products Inc · MSHA ID 3003457
    Abandoned
  26. M&R Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & R Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003606
    Abandoned
  27. Master Joseph Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Saranac Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002569
    Abandoned
  28. Mc Kinney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luck Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3002744
    Abandoned
  29. MCKINNEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plattsburgh Quarries · MSHA ID 3003067
    Abandoned
  30. Menard Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clinton County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002567
    Abandoned
  31. Merry-Go-Round-Hunting Club Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Les Agregats G & N Inc · MSHA ID 3004025
    Abandoned
  32. MOBILE SCREENING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Upstone Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 3003479
    Abandoned
  33. Mooers Forks Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R Deso Inc · MSHA ID 3002734
    Abandoned
  34. MOOERS QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · GRAYMONT MATERIALS (NY) INC. · MSHA ID 3003158
    Abandoned
  35. MOOERS STONE PRODUCTS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mooers Quarry · MSHA ID 3003317
    Abandoned
  36. OAKVALE NO. 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakvale Construction Company · MSHA ID 3002950
    Abandoned
  37. OAKVALE NO. 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakvale Construction Company · MSHA ID 3002951
    Abandoned
  38. Old Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas R Rushford Trucking · MSHA ID 3002212
    Abandoned
  39. Ore Tailing Pile
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Dannemora · MSHA ID 3002568
    Abandoned
  40. PERYEA PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michael Peryea Paving & Trucking · MSHA ID 3002817
    Abandoned
  41. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Neil Chauvin Development Corp · MSHA ID 3002831
    Abandoned
  42. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jointa Galusha LLC · MSHA ID 3003992
    Abandoned
  43. Portable Screen Machine #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas A West · MSHA ID 3003400
    Abandoned
  44. Prospect Hill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · R Deso Inc · MSHA ID 3003571
    Abandoned
  45. Rafferty Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rafferty Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3003498
    Abandoned
  46. RUGER STREET PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Nor-Co Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3002482
    Abandoned
  47. SEARS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luck Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3002743
    Abandoned
  48. SEYMOUR ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas R Rushford Trucking · MSHA ID 3002851
    Abandoned
  49. Shelters Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond R Bushey Inc · MSHA ID 3002327
    Abandoned
  50. Shelters Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plattsburgh Quarries · MSHA ID 3002840
    Abandoned
  51. SHINGLE STREET PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas R Rushford Trucking · MSHA ID 3003012
    Abandoned
  52. Town Of Beekmantown Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Beekmantown · MSHA ID 3002311
    Abandoned
  53. Trombley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kenneth Chauvin Trucking · MSHA ID 3002328
    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
Gravel Pit 161
Sand Pit 31
Gravel Pit 15
Mine Shaft 11
Sand and Gravel Pit 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Open Pit Mine 3
Quarry 3
Mine Dump 2
Mine Dump 2
Adit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Strip Mine 1
Quarry 1
Sand Pit 1
Open Pit Mine 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.