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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Genesee County, New York

Genesee County, New York has 91 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1949–1978, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 16 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Genesee 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)
91
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
16
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1949–1978 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
    2 2.2%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    40 44.0%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    49 53.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned16 on register
  1. Alexander Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & R Day Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3003766
    Abandoned
  2. Bethany Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Genesee County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002251
    Abandoned
  3. Creek Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Soccio & Della Penna Inc · MSHA ID 3001956
    Abandoned
  4. Diehl Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diehl Development Inc. · MSHA ID 3003646
    Abandoned
  5. Gilhooly Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Alexander · MSHA ID 3002451
    Abandoned
  6. Gilhooly Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bethany · MSHA ID 3002452
    Abandoned
  7. Kleeman MR130 Impact K0780203 #905
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cold Spring Construction Company · MSHA ID 3004100
    Abandoned
  8. Lake Road Gravel Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tom Mc Ginnis Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3002629
    Abandoned
  9. LEDGE RD. QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buffalo Crushed Stone Inc. · MSHA ID 3001686
    Abandoned
  10. LEROY - CIRCULAR HILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · DOLOMITE GROUP · MSHA ID 3002800
    Abandoned
  11. LEROY - SELDON
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolomite Products Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003124
    Abandoned
  12. Leroy (P-463)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York Inc. · MSHA ID 3000069
    Abandoned
  13. Leroy Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Crushed Stone Company · MSHA ID 3000047
    Abandoned
  14. OAKFIELD MINE
    Underground metal/non-metal · United States Gypsum Company · MSHA ID 3000593
    Abandoned
  15. Pembroke Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lancaster Stone Products Llc · MSHA ID 3002343
    Abandoned
  16. WESTERN N Y CONCRETE CORP
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western New York Concrete Corp · MSHA ID 3000996
    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/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 38
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 22
Disturbed Surface 10
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 8
Gravel Pit 6
Gravel Pit 4
Mine Shaft 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.