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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Essex County, New York

Essex County, New York has 195 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1950–1999, including 29 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 82 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Essex 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)
195
Mine openings
29
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
82
2 features carry a name0 prospect pits26 quadrangle maps, published 1950–1999 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
    29 14.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    43 22.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    120 61.5%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 1.5%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Fisher Hill Iron Mine Mine
Spar Mine Open Pit Mine

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 Abandoned82 on register
  1. Adirondack Mine And Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · Republic Steel Corp · MSHA ID 3001098
    Abandoned
  2. ADIRONDACK SAND AND GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adirondack Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3001586
    Abandoned
  3. ADOLF WOLF GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Manley Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3000932
    Abandoned
  4. Airport Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schroon Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002043
    Abandoned
  5. Alcon Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alcon Gravel · MSHA ID 3002854
    Abandoned
  6. Barton Hill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Essex County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002686
    Abandoned
  7. Berebe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schroon Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002319
    Abandoned
  8. Bessey Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R Bessey & Sons · MSHA ID 3002498
    Abandoned
  9. Brannon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Minerva Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002344
    Abandoned
  10. Cassavaugh Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002377
    Abandoned
  11. CASSAVAUGH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saranac Lake Quarry · MSHA ID 3002733
    Abandoned
  12. CEC 400 Cone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Point Equipment & Supply · MSHA ID 3004079
    Abandoned
  13. Cheever Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Essex County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002307
    Abandoned
  14. County Crusher Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Essex County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 3002337
    Abandoned
  15. Crowley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Essex County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002308
    Abandoned
  16. Dalton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Moriah Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001827
    Abandoned
  17. Deerhead Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Essex County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002687
    Abandoned
  18. Deighan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delia Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3002335
    Abandoned
  19. Dickinson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002136
    Abandoned
  20. Essex Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · J-Mar Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002787
    Abandoned
  21. Gibbs Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawrence Huestis Inc · MSHA ID 3002853
    Abandoned
  22. Granite Mining Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Granite Mining LLC · MSHA ID 3003608
    Abandoned
  23. Gregorie Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of North Hudson · MSHA ID 3002672
    Abandoned
  24. Harlow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harlow Excavating & Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3002861
    Abandoned
  25. High Peaks Sand and Gravel, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · High Peaks Sand and Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 3003982
    Abandoned
  26. Jacques Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Art Jacques Inc · MSHA ID 3001851
    Abandoned
  27. Joyce Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Moriah Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002604
    Abandoned
  28. KOLLER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dobie Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3002376
    Abandoned
  29. Lavallee Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Victor A Lavallee · MSHA ID 3001832
    Abandoned
  30. Letsonville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Essex County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002616
    Abandoned
  31. Lewis Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · NYCO Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 3002299
    Abandoned
  32. Lewis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lewis · MSHA ID 3001874
    Abandoned
  33. Lewis Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Upstone Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 3001529
    Abandoned
  34. Lobdell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martha Egglefield · MSHA ID 3001871
    Abandoned
  35. Lyons Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Olympic Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 3001845
    Abandoned
  36. MABLES PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cloverlands Farm · MSHA ID 3003240
    Abandoned
  37. MAC INTYRE DEVELOPMENT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kronos Inc · MSHA ID 3000589
    Abandoned
  38. MACEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Crown Point · MSHA ID 3002864
    Abandoned
  39. MACKAY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Crown Point · MSHA ID 3002852
    Abandoned
  40. Manley Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Manley Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3002677
    Abandoned
  41. Manley Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Manley Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3001869
    Abandoned
  42. Martin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Chesterfield · MSHA ID 3002266
    Abandoned
  43. Mobile Cone Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graymont Materials (NY) Inc. · MSHA ID 3003481
    Abandoned
  44. Mobile Primary Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graymont Materials (NY) Inc. · MSHA ID 3003480
    Abandoned
  45. MUNSON GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Westport · MSHA ID 3002973
    Abandoned
  46. NORDBERG JAW
    Surface metal/non-metal · CROWN POINT EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY · MSHA ID 3004078
    Abandoned
  47. Palmer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charles Palmer · MSHA ID 3001828
    Abandoned
  48. Perkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Floyd Perkins · MSHA ID 3002345
    Abandoned
  49. Portable Mobile Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graymont Materials (NY) Inc · MSHA ID 3003549
    Abandoned
  50. Portable Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Granite Mining LLC · MSHA ID 3003952
    Abandoned
  51. Portable Power Screen & Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peckham Materials Corp · MSHA ID 3003205
    Abandoned
  52. Portable Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · A P Reale & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002901
    Abandoned
  53. RAWSON SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · CROWN POINT EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY · MSHA ID 3004080
    Abandoned
  54. Reale Construction Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reale Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3001748
    Abandoned
  55. Residency Screening Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002588
    Abandoned
  56. Rodicks Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bud Rodick · MSHA ID 3002675
    Abandoned
  57. RT 73 PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lake Placid Village · MSHA ID 3002941
    Abandoned
  58. SAWYER'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Point Equipment & Supply · MSHA ID 3001663
    Abandoned
  59. Schroon Lake Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002697
    Abandoned
  60. Sears Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sears Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 3002859
    Abandoned
  61. Sheehan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002261
    Abandoned
  62. Soper Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Chesterfield · MSHA ID 3002630
    Abandoned
  63. South Ti Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Armstrong Trucking · MSHA ID 3003206
    Abandoned
  64. SPRUCE HILL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wade Whitney Inc · MSHA ID 3002959
    Abandoned
  65. Stowell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3001830
    Abandoned
  66. Straight Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Jay-Ny · MSHA ID 3002479
    Abandoned
  67. Street Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawrence Huestis Inc · MSHA ID 3001661
    Abandoned
  68. Sucarski Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Farrar Landscaping Inc · MSHA ID 3002137
    Abandoned
  69. Tahawus Stone Plant 702-4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002303
    Abandoned
  70. Town Of Keene Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Keene Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001870
    Abandoned
  71. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Newcomb Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001846
    Abandoned
  72. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Wilmington Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001847
    Abandoned
  73. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schroon Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002042
    Abandoned
  74. Trudeau Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trudeau Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3000982
    Abandoned
  75. Underwood Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002135
    Abandoned
  76. VINEYARD ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawrence Huestis Inc · MSHA ID 3001662
    Abandoned
  77. Vinyard Rd Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rafferty Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 3003501
    Abandoned
  78. Whitney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schroon Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002318
    Abandoned
  79. Will Rogers Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Village of Saranac Lake · MSHA ID 3003724
    Abandoned
  80. Wilmington Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Jay-Ny · MSHA ID 3001848
    Abandoned
  81. Wilmington Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northland Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3002348
    Abandoned
  82. Wilson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delia Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3002336
    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 56
Open Pit Mine 31
Sand Pit 30
Mine Shaft 27
Quarry 15
Gravel Pit 9
Sand Pit 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Strip Mine 3
Disturbed Surface 2
Adit 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Mine 1
Tailings - Pond 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.