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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Columbia County, New York

Columbia County, New York has 99 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1980. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Columbia 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)
99
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1980 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
    60 60.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    39 39.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned26 on register
  1. ANCRAM CONSTRUCTION CORP SAND&GR
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ancram Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3003159
    Abandoned
  2. Anthony Fabiano & Sons Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anthony Fabiano & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3001808
    Abandoned
  3. Bervy
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bervy Excavation Corp. · MSHA ID 3003887
    Abandoned
  4. BJD DEVELOPMENT CORP.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keil Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3003043
    Abandoned
  5. Blue Stores Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-W Coon & Sons Contracting · MSHA ID 3003590
    Abandoned
  6. BRYANT FARMS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bryant Farms · MSHA ID 3003066
    Abandoned
  7. Bryant Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bryant Mine Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003560
    Abandoned
  8. Chatham's Rawson #48
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Chatham · MSHA ID 3003795
    Abandoned
  9. Den Besten
    Surface metal/non-metal · Den Besten Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3003040
    Abandoned
  10. ELIZAVILLE BANK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock City Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3002920
    Abandoned
  11. ELIZAVILLE SAND & GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elizaville Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002583
    Abandoned
  12. Extec Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Columbia Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003752
    Abandoned
  13. F & A SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · F & A Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002896
    Abandoned
  14. F. H. STICKLES & SON INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · F. H. STICKLES & SON INC · MSHA ID 3000874
    Abandoned
  15. John A. Alvarez & Sons Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · John A. Alvarez & Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003428
    Abandoned
  16. KINDERHOOK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Valente Gravel · MSHA ID 3003181
    Abandoned
  17. KRAFT MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Boll Excavating · MSHA ID 3003293
    Abandoned
  18. LYNK GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Lynk · MSHA ID 3003044
    Abandoned
  19. M. C. R. Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · M. C. R. Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003500
    Abandoned
  20. MCR EAGLE 500 Impactor
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCR Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003595
    Abandoned
  21. NORTH CLAVERACK DEVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Claverack Development Group · MSHA ID 3003298
    Abandoned
  22. Philmont
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranesville Aggregate · MSHA ID 3001712
    Abandoned
  23. Southern Columbia Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Columbia Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002921
    Abandoned
  24. ST. LAWRENCE CEMENT
    Facility metal/non-metal · St Lawrence Cement LLC · MSHA ID 3003320
    Abandoned
  25. TOMARK INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tomark Inc · MSHA ID 3003227
    Abandoned
  26. Turbo Chiefton 800
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gaylord Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003497
    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
Disturbed Surface 24
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 22
Gravel Pit 19
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 10
Gravel Pit 9
Quarry 5
Sand Pit 4
Open Pit Mine 3
Borrow Pit 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.