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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Ulster County, New York

Ulster County, New York has 169 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1900–1982, including 3 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). 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 Ulster 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)
169
Mine openings
3
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
50
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits24 quadrangle maps, published 1900–1982 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 1.8%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    78 46.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    88 52.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned50 on register
  1. 209 Materials LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · 209 Materials LLC · MSHA ID 3001864
    Abandoned
  2. Accord Stone And Lime Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelsen Redi Mix Inc · MSHA ID 3002301
    Abandoned
  3. Barely Heaven
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greg Robinson Sr. · MSHA ID 3003604
    Abandoned
  4. Boice Mill Meadows
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boice Mill Meadows · MSHA ID 3003019
    Abandoned
  5. BUTTLE HOLE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert Lapp Excavating · MSHA ID 3003155
    Abandoned
  6. Cedarapids MVP450 45636
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith's Heavy Equipment, Inc. · MSHA ID 3004075
    Abandoned
  7. Cedarcliff Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon New York, Inc. · MSHA ID 3001372
    Abandoned
  8. Circle S Farms Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Circle S Farms Inc · MSHA ID 3003060
    Abandoned
  9. CLINTONDALE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · L Strongman & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3002000
    Abandoned
  10. Colombo Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph C Colombo · MSHA ID 3001695
    Abandoned
  11. Duffy'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E Mower & Son · MSHA ID 3002445
    Abandoned
  12. Geiger Sand And Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Geiger Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3001985
    Abandoned
  13. H & R Rock Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roger H Davis · MSHA ID 3003583
    Abandoned
  14. H Franco & Sons Sand & Stone Company Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · H Franco & Sons Sand & Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002314
    Abandoned
  15. H. OSTERHOUDT EXCAVATING LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · H Osterhoudt Excavating Llc · MSHA ID 3003259
    Abandoned
  16. Hudson Cement And Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Independent Cement Corp · MSHA ID 3002454
    Abandoned
  17. Hudson Cement And Stone Quarry And Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Independent Cement Corp · MSHA ID 3000059
    Abandoned
  18. Hurley Sand & Stone Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hurley Sand & Stone Corp · MSHA ID 3000892
    Abandoned
  19. Joe's NYS Bluestone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe's NYS Bluestone · MSHA ID 3003580
    Abandoned
  20. Jova Manufacturing Corporation Mine & Mi
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jova Manufacturing Corp · MSHA ID 3000290
    Abandoned
  21. Kenly & Sons
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kenly & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3001530
    Abandoned
  22. KERHONKSON SAND MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Rochester · MSHA ID 3002489
    Abandoned
  23. Kings Town Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kings Town Inc. · MSHA ID 3003459
    Abandoned
  24. Kingston Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon Quarries New York Inc · MSHA ID 3002315
    Abandoned
  25. Kingston Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3000014
    Abandoned
  26. Kingston Quarry & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon New York Inc · MSHA ID 3000286
    Abandoned
  27. Komatsu BR 380 JG
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingston Equipment Rental Inc · MSHA ID 3003628
    Abandoned
  28. KPI-JCI GT125 Jaw CE034
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York Crushing & Recycling · MSHA ID 3003973
    Abandoned
  29. Lawrence Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawrence Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002998
    Abandoned
  30. Lund Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · L Allen Lund Inc · MSHA ID 3003581
    Abandoned
  31. Lurock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mehlon Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3003550
    Abandoned
  32. Marlboro Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fel-Cut Realty Corp · MSHA ID 3002220
    Abandoned
  33. Milton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Milton Sand & Gravel Co Inc · MSHA ID 3002221
    Abandoned
  34. New York Crushing & Recycling
    Surface metal/non-metal · NY Crushing & Recycling · MSHA ID 3003914
    Abandoned
  35. New York Crushing and Recycling, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York Crushing and Recycling, Inc. · MSHA ID 3004089
    Abandoned
  36. Noto Excavating Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Noto Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3001696
    Abandoned
  37. Nytralite Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York Trap Rock Corp · MSHA ID 3000293
    Abandoned
  38. Olive Bank
    Facility metal/non-metal · Town Of Olive Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002512
    Abandoned
  39. Pacama Blue Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacama Blue Stone · MSHA ID 3003582
    Abandoned
  40. Pegson 1000 603B14728
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith's Heavy Equipment, Inc. · MSHA ID 3004074
    Abandoned
  41. RoboTrak
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ulster Farms and Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3004010
    Abandoned
  42. Rock Mountain
    Surface metal/non-metal · Metro Crushing & Recycling · MSHA ID 3003061
    Abandoned
  43. RT 28 MATERIAL SUPPLIES, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · RT 28 MATERIAL SUPPLIES, INC. · MSHA ID 3004061
    Abandoned
  44. Sandvik Crusher QI 341 CE017
    Surface metal/non-metal · NY Crushing & Recycling · MSHA ID 3004029
    Abandoned
  45. Sandvik Screen Plant QA 440 CE003
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York Crushing & Recycling · MSHA ID 3003974
    Abandoned
  46. SAUGERTIES PLANT AND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saugerties Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002594
    Abandoned
  47. Sawyer Shale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sawyer Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3002469
    Abandoned
  48. Town Of Wawarsing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Wawarsing · MSHA ID 3002144
    Abandoned
  49. Ulster Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mardon Orsland Inc · MSHA ID 3002565
    Abandoned
  50. VAN DUSAR PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mehlon Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3002745
    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 52
Quarry 30
Disturbed Surface 22
Gravel Pit 20
Quarry 17
Sand Pit 6
Gravel Pit 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Sand Pit 4
Adit 3
Quarry - Rock 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Borrow 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.