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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Greene County, New York

Greene County, New York has 83 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1980. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Greene 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)
83
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1980 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
    55 66.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    28 33.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. Alsen Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lehigh Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 3002455
    Abandoned
  2. Athens Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · The Blue Rock Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 3003755
    Abandoned
  3. Bronk Mill Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manley Hillicoss Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3002254
    Abandoned
  4. Catskill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marquette Company · MSHA ID 3002456
    Abandoned
  5. Catskill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alpha Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 3002460
    Abandoned
  6. Catskill Quarry And Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Alpha Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 3000002
    Abandoned
  7. Catskill Quarry Plant #51
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peckham Materials Corp · MSHA ID 3000017
    Abandoned
  8. Eagle 1200
    Surface metal/non-metal · Galusha and Sons LLC · MSHA ID 3003527
    Abandoned
  9. F & J Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Earl Halsted & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002465
    Abandoned
  10. Gary's Eagle Crusher 1200
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gary's RT 81 Stone Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 3003899
    Abandoned
  11. Grande Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grande Stone Quarry · MSHA ID 3003532
    Abandoned
  12. GUILDO'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · G & L Construction · MSHA ID 3003007
    Abandoned
  13. HIGH HILL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Matter Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3000928
    Abandoned
  14. Holcim (US) Inc
    Facility metal/non-metal · Holcim (US) Inc · MSHA ID 3000073
    Abandoned
  15. HUNTER GRAVEL BANK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunter Gravel Bank · MSHA ID 3003034
    Abandoned
  16. Mellott-C.L. Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mellott Company · MSHA ID 3609813
    Abandoned
  17. MIKE'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Mower · MSHA ID 3002620
    Abandoned
  18. NTM MATERIALS, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ntm Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002943
    Abandoned
  19. Paul Blum Company Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paul Blum Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002097
    Abandoned
  20. Peckham Mats Corp #49 Ashland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peckham Materials Corp · MSHA ID 3003623
    Abandoned
  21. Power Screen 720 Tromell
    Surface metal/non-metal · Borwegen Excavation & Repair Inc · MSHA ID 3003741
    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
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 27
Disturbed Surface 19
Quarry 11
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Quarry 6
Gravel Pit 5
Gravel Pit 4
Sand Pit 2
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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.