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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Franklin County, New York

Franklin County, New York has 221 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1993. MSHA's register carries 43 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Franklin 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)
221
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
43
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits29 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1993 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
    12 5.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    209 94.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned43 on register
  1. Bangor Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bangor Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002495
    Abandoned
  2. BARRETT WESTVILLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002651
    Abandoned
  3. BARTLETT CARRY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trudeau Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003076
    Abandoned
  4. Beaudoin
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malone Quarry · MSHA ID 3002835
    Abandoned
  5. Bombay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bombay Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002492
    Abandoned
  6. Campbell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malone Quarry · MSHA ID 3002726
    Abandoned
  7. Collins & Company Transport, Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Collins & Company Transport, Inc · MSHA ID 3001251
    Abandoned
  8. Constable Or Constable Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Constable Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002493
    Abandoned
  9. Cox Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Dickinson Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002490
    Abandoned
  10. CRUSHER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Village Of Malone · MSHA ID 3002663
    Abandoned
  11. Degon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malone Quarry · MSHA ID 3002839
    Abandoned
  12. Duquette Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Malone Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002719
    Abandoned
  13. Earl's Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bub's Enterprises LLC · MSHA ID 3004099
    Abandoned
  14. EGAN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graymont Materials (NY) Inc. · MSHA ID 3002725
    Abandoned
  15. Fleury Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Phoebe Fleury · MSHA ID 3002476
    Abandoned
  16. FLEURY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002944
    Abandoned
  17. Francis J Paro Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Francis J Paro Concrete Co · MSHA ID 3000921
    Abandoned
  18. FRANKLIN COUNTY CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Franklin County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002722
    Abandoned
  19. Franklin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Franklin Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002502
    Abandoned
  20. Ft Covington Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Ft Covington Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002500
    Abandoned
  21. J.J. & G. Sand & Gravel, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · J.J. & G. Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 3003924
    Abandoned
  22. Legacy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Legton Inc · MSHA ID 3003928
    Abandoned
  23. Malone Mill/Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002597
    Abandoned
  24. MALONE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Upstone Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 3002650
    Abandoned
  25. Moody Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Graystone Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002948
    Abandoned
  26. Moore'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Franklin County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002477
    Abandoned
  27. Nephew Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Duquette & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3002804
    Abandoned
  28. Newell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002484
    Abandoned
  29. Park Street Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Malone Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002478
    Abandoned
  30. PORTABLE PARKER PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · J E Sheehan Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3003191
    Abandoned
  31. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Malone Highway Department · MSHA ID 3003366
    Abandoned
  32. Porter Road
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malone Quarry · MSHA ID 3000926
    Abandoned
  33. Rainbow Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rainbow Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 3002723
    Abandoned
  34. STARK'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Starks Gravel and Excavation LLC · MSHA ID 3003256
    Abandoned
  35. Titus Mountain
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Malone Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002689
    Abandoned
  36. Ton-Da-Lay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Altamont Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002497
    Abandoned
  37. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Waverly Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002488
    Abandoned
  38. Trimm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002391
    Abandoned
  39. Trimm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malone Quarry · MSHA ID 3002834
    Abandoned
  40. Tucker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002398
    Abandoned
  41. Tucker'S Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tucker'S Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3002397
    Abandoned
  42. Tuttle Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Moira Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002593
    Abandoned
  43. Willis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chateaugay Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002499
    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 111
Gravel Pit 45
Sand Pit 19
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 14
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 12
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Disturbed Surface 5
Quarry 5
Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine 1
Sand and Gravel 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.