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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Tompkins County, New York

Tompkins County, New York has 88 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1978. MSHA's register carries 36 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Tompkins 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)
88
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1978 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
    17 19.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    71 80.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned36 on register
  1. #10, Initeria Impactor
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003676
    Abandoned
  2. 12x36 Jaw,#16
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 3003587
    Abandoned
  3. 30x42 Cedar Rapids Jaw, #19
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 3003588
    Abandoned
  4. Baily Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Enfield Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002008
    Abandoned
  5. Cayuga Crushed Stone Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cayuga Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3000018
    Abandoned
  6. Cayuga Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cayuga Crushed Stone · MSHA ID 3003553
    Abandoned
  7. Cone Plant #MVP 280
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 3003537
    Abandoned
  8. Dryden Village Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Dryden · MSHA ID 3001922
    Abandoned
  9. Eagle 15x36 Portable Jaw s/n 11129
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3004034
    Abandoned
  10. Eagle Impactor 1000, #14
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 3003585
    Abandoned
  11. Enfield Falls Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ralph G Carpenter Jr Inc · MSHA ID 3002887
    Abandoned
  12. Hanlik Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Newfield Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001920
    Abandoned
  13. McLean Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · HL Robinson Sand and Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003919
    Abandoned
  14. Mott Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ernest & Mary Bartlett Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002195
    Abandoned
  15. MVP280 # TRXRC280T0KBM0266
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003881
    Abandoned
  16. MVP450 Cone #52124
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003882
    Abandoned
  17. Newfield Gravel Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Newfield Gravel Corporation · MSHA ID 3001921
    Abandoned
  18. Pinney'S Gravel Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pinney'S Gravel Bank Inc · MSHA ID 3002967
    Abandoned
  19. Pioneer 3042 #TRXS6203ADUBF1149
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003883
    Abandoned
  20. Pioneer 30x42 Jaw Crusher, S/N 402719,
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003990
    Abandoned
  21. Plant #7 / PIONEER SN 401976
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS GRAVEL, INC · MSHA ID 3003462
    Abandoned
  22. Portable Pioneer J.C 30x42 153-PRLSE-153
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003515
    Abandoned
  23. PORTABLE PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · R M S Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003190
    Abandoned
  24. PORTABLE PLANT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · R M S Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003375
    Abandoned
  25. PORTABLE PLANT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS GRAVEL INC · MSHA ID 3003424
    Abandoned
  26. PORTABLE PLANT #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS GRAVEL, INC · MSHA ID 3003427
    Abandoned
  27. PORTABLE PLANT #8
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003472
    Abandoned
  28. REEVES BROTHERS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reeves Brothers · MSHA ID 3002965
    Abandoned
  29. RMS #6
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003470
    Abandoned
  30. Spring Street Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Groton · MSHA ID 3001924
    Abandoned
  31. Taber Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hakes Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002778
    Abandoned
  32. Taber Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Economy Paving Company · MSHA ID 3002907
    Abandoned
  33. Talarico-Talsons Joint Venture
    Surface metal/non-metal · Talarico-Talsons Joint Venture · MSHA ID 3002589
    Abandoned
  34. Tompkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Newfield Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001919
    Abandoned
  35. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Caroline · MSHA ID 3002027
    Abandoned
  36. TWIN BRIDGES PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lansing Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001923
    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 37
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 15
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 14
Quarry 11
Gravel Pit 8
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
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.