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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Rensselaer County, New York

Rensselaer County, New York has 99 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1944–1980. MSHA's register carries 50 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Rensselaer 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)
99
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
50
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1944–1980 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
    82 82.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    17 17.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned50 on register
  1. #50208
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rifenburg Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3003328
    Abandoned
  2. Alps Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valente Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002031
    Abandoned
  3. B & C Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · D Condron Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3003871
    Abandoned
  4. B & E Land Development
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & E Land Development · MSHA ID 3003765
    Abandoned
  5. Beberwyck Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schodack · MSHA ID 3002403
    Abandoned
  6. Bissonnette Gravel Bank Mechanic Street
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Hoosick · MSHA ID 3002527
    Abandoned
  7. Burrello Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stephen Burrello · MSHA ID 3002032
    Abandoned
  8. Center Berlin Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Berlin · MSHA ID 3002282
    Abandoned
  9. CONE CRUSHER & SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rifenburg Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3003202
    Abandoned
  10. Cranston Leveling Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranston Leveling Operation · MSHA ID 3001713
    Abandoned
  11. Cropseyville Plant 8
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002954
    Abandoned
  12. Delesio Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · CWG Excavation · MSHA ID 3003701
    Abandoned
  13. DUNN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Valente Gravel · MSHA ID 3003032
    Abandoned
  14. Eagle Mills Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Calhoun Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3000823
    Abandoned
  15. Extec T-289 & S-4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Troy Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003743
    Abandoned
  16. HAIGHT PIT & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schodack · MSHA ID 3002520
    Abandoned
  17. HUNT MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · BLAIR CONSTRUCTION · MSHA ID 3003994
    Abandoned
  18. Lot 11R Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · EJP Inc. · MSHA ID 3004001
    Abandoned
  19. METSO 1213 LT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 3004044
    Abandoned
  20. Morris Development
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morris Development Inc · MSHA ID 3001996
    Abandoned
  21. PECKHAM MATERIALS CORP. #83B
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peckham Materials Corp · MSHA ID 3003318
    Abandoned
  22. PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Metro Recycling & Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 3003307
    Abandoned
  23. PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · A Servidone Inc / B Anthony Const Corp J/V · MSHA ID 3003308
    Abandoned
  24. portable mine 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warren W. Fane Inc. · MSHA ID 3003811
    Abandoned
  25. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Valente Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003184
    Abandoned
  26. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warren W. Fane Inc. · MSHA ID 3003844
    Abandoned
  27. Rawson3618 Portable screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Poestenkill · MSHA ID 3004018
    Abandoned
  28. Reed Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · Calhoun Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3001997
    Abandoned
  29. Route 150 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wm J Keller & Sons Realty Corp · MSHA ID 3001809
    Abandoned
  30. Route 66 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valente Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3001228
    Abandoned
  31. RT. 67 PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Troy Topsoil Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003211
    Abandoned
  32. RYAN & GROSS GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Pittstown · MSHA ID 3003223
    Abandoned
  33. Schodack Gravel Pit-Lucey Property
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Valente Gravel · MSHA ID 3002987
    Abandoned
  34. Schodack Pit - Plant 58
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valente Gravel-Div/Callanan · MSHA ID 3002983
    Abandoned
  35. Schodack Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schodack · MSHA ID 3002332
    Abandoned
  36. Schwartz Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Schodack · MSHA ID 3001709
    Abandoned
  37. Shale Hill Farm
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Hanson · MSHA ID 3003703
    Abandoned
  38. Showers Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Valente Gravel · MSHA ID 3003074
    Abandoned
  39. Shufelt Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wm J Keller & Sons Realty Corp · MSHA ID 3001810
    Abandoned
  40. Springer Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ackner-Hunt Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3000801
    Abandoned
  41. Sweeney Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jack Sweeney Owner · MSHA ID 3001971
    Abandoned
  42. T.C. SAND & GRAVEL INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tommy Corellis Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003009
    Abandoned
  43. Tanner'S Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson D Tanner · MSHA ID 3002621
    Abandoned
  44. Tilleys Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002684
    Abandoned
  45. Troy Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Scolite International Corp · MSHA ID 3002572
    Abandoned
  46. Troy Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Albany Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3001231
    Abandoned
  47. Valente Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3000985
    Abandoned
  48. Van Slyke Gravel Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Valente Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 3002917
    Abandoned
  49. WAGNER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rifenburg Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3002947
    Abandoned
  50. WICKS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · James H Maloy Inc · MSHA ID 3001070
    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 39
Disturbed Surface 32
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 11
Gravel Pit 5
Quarry 4
Clay Pit 3
Quarry - Rock 2
Gravel Pit 2
Clay 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.