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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Fulton County, New York

Fulton County, New York has 146 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1944–1970. MSHA's register carries 22 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Fulton 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)
146
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1944–1970 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
    69 47.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    77 52.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned22 on register
  1. BROADALBIN BANK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranesville Aggregates Company Inc · MSHA ID 3000846
    Abandoned
  2. C G Tanner & Son Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · C G Tanner & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3003611
    Abandoned
  3. Cedar Rapids Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · CFI Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3003665
    Abandoned
  4. CEMETERY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · E J Simek General Contractor Inc · MSHA ID 3003271
    Abandoned
  5. City Of Johnstown Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Johnstown · MSHA ID 3002652
    Abandoned
  6. EAGLE PORTABLE CRUSHING PLANT 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delaney Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3003267
    Abandoned
  7. Finlay Portable Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · CFI Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3003874
    Abandoned
  8. Fulton County Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fulton County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002670
    Abandoned
  9. HERBERT GULLIVER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bresnahan Excavating · MSHA ID 3002992
    Abandoned
  10. LOTVILLE MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · B AND B SAND AND GRAVEL LLC · MSHA ID 3004127
    Abandoned
  11. P. W. T.
    Surface metal/non-metal · P W T · MSHA ID 3003284
    Abandoned
  12. Pig Farm
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranesville Aggregates Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003129
    Abandoned
  13. PORTABLE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sacandaga Lumber · MSHA ID 3003278
    Abandoned
  14. Portable Power Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Stratford Highway Department · MSHA ID 3003855
    Abandoned
  15. PORTALBE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranesville Aggregates Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003315
    Abandoned
  16. POWERSCREEN CHIEFTAIN PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delaney Development Inc · MSHA ID 3003008
    Abandoned
  17. Rex Paving Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rex Paving Corp · MSHA ID 3002832
    Abandoned
  18. Santos Construction Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Santos Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3001684
    Abandoned
  19. Telesmith Crushing Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Island Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003120
    Abandoned
  20. West Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Mayfield Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002601
    Abandoned
  21. Winney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · William M Larned & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3003258
    Abandoned
  22. Woods Hollow Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woods Hollow Mine · MSHA ID 3004023
    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 68
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 66
Gravel Pit 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Sand 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.