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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Sullivan County, New York

Sullivan County, New York has 130 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1994, including 3 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 29 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Sullivan 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)
130
Mine openings
3
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1994 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
    3 2.3%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    21 16.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    106 81.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned29 on register
  1. American Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003108
    Abandoned
  2. Benson'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Mamakating · MSHA ID 3002387
    Abandoned
  3. CRUSADER SERIAL # 7000920
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamlin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003330
    Abandoned
  4. E Tetz & Sons Inc Bloomingburg Sand & Gr
    Surface metal/non-metal · E Tetz & Sons LLC · MSHA ID 3001999
    Abandoned
  5. Fosterdale Plant #73
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3000101
    Abandoned
  6. Gala Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gala Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3001540
    Abandoned
  7. GOODWIN SAND AND GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodwin Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002386
    Abandoned
  8. HASBROUCK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Fallsburg · MSHA ID 3003178
    Abandoned
  9. JML QUARRIES INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jml Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 3003116
    Abandoned
  10. Jml Quarries Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jml Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 3002962
    Abandoned
  11. L & S Thompson & Sons Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & S Thompson & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3003014
    Abandoned
  12. Little Joseph Realty LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · 97 Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3003702
    Abandoned
  13. Mamakating Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mamakating Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002655
    Abandoned
  14. MARK II SERIAL # 2727648
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamlin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003331
    Abandoned
  15. McIntosh Gravel Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamlin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003453
    Abandoned
  16. MCINTOSH SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamlin Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002919
    Abandoned
  17. Mongaup Valley Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lema Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 3003475
    Abandoned
  18. Mongaup Valley Sand & Gravel Incorporate
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mongaup Valley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3000986
    Abandoned
  19. Monticello Mining Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monticello Mining Inc. · MSHA ID 3003749
    Abandoned
  20. North Branch Sand and Gravel Pit/Zieres
    Surface metal/non-metal · Poley Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003589
    Abandoned
  21. PHILLIPSPORT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Metro Recycling & Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 3003197
    Abandoned
  22. Poley Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · TSR Materials Corp. · MSHA ID 3003323
    Abandoned
  23. Riato Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woodstock Landscaping and Excavating, LLC · MSHA ID 3003695
    Abandoned
  24. SPRING GLEN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dick'S Concrete Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002653
    Abandoned
  25. Summittville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L Finkle & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3000916
    Abandoned
  26. Town of Bethel Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Bethel · MSHA ID 3003688
    Abandoned
  27. Town Of Delaware Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Delaware · MSHA ID 3002385
    Abandoned
  28. Woodbourne Lawn & Garden South Falls Min
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woodbourne Lawn & Garden Inc · MSHA ID 3003041
    Abandoned
  29. Woodbourne Materials Woodburne Plt Rt42
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woodburne Materials · MSHA ID 3002812
    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 47
Quarry 35
Gravel Pit 12
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 11
Disturbed Surface 10
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Sand Pit 2
Adit 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Air Shaft 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Quarry 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.