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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Warren County, New York

Warren County, New York has 105 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1898–1990, including 3 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 1 of the features carry a name on the map. 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 Warren 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)
105
Mine openings
3
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits22 quadrangle maps, published 1898–1990 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 2.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    7 6.7%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    85 81.0%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    10 9.5%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Moores Mine Mine

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned36 on register
  1. ADK Rock Farm
    Surface metal/non-metal · ADK Rock Farm Inc · MSHA ID 3003429
    Abandoned
  2. BATEMAN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · SHOWCASE C&E LLC · MSHA ID 3004147
    Abandoned
  3. C & M GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & M Equipment Repair Llc · MSHA ID 3002790
    Abandoned
  4. Carney Brothers Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carney Brothers Company · MSHA ID 3002158
    Abandoned
  5. Donald Lambert Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Lambert Excavating · MSHA ID 3002977
    Abandoned
  6. Dream Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peckham Materials · MSHA ID 3003627
    Abandoned
  7. Elms Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clarence H Elms · MSHA ID 3002437
    Abandoned
  8. FINCH, PRUYN & CO., INC. GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Finch - Pruyn & Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002888
    Abandoned
  9. Fitzgerald Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E Galusha & Sons · MSHA ID 3002802
    Abandoned
  10. Glens Falls
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scotia Sand & Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002763
    Abandoned
  11. Glens Falls Cement Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Flintkote Company · MSHA ID 3002459
    Abandoned
  12. Glens Falls Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Heidelberg Materials US Cement LLC · MSHA ID 3000585
    Abandoned
  13. Gore Mt
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barton Mines Corp · MSHA ID 3000643
    Abandoned
  14. John Kubricky & Sons Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kubricky Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3002441
    Abandoned
  15. Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Torrington Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002007
    Abandoned
  16. JOINTA GALUSHA, L.L.C.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jointa-Galusha L.L.C. · MSHA ID 3000063
    Abandoned
  17. KEITH L. HARRIS CO., INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harris Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003052
    Abandoned
  18. Kingsley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Kingsley Excavating, LLC. · MSHA ID 3004054
    Abandoned
  19. LAKE GEORGE GRANITE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adirondack Natural Stone · MSHA ID 3003145
    Abandoned
  20. LAKE GEORGE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Threw Inc · MSHA ID 3003208
    Abandoned
  21. Lake George Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lake George Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3003614
    Abandoned
  22. Lake George Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cutting Edge Group · MSHA ID 3003932
    Abandoned
  23. Mallory'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lake George · MSHA ID 3002464
    Abandoned
  24. Mc Laughlin Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scott Mc Laughlin Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3002447
    Abandoned
  25. Mc Laughlin Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scott Mc Laughlin Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3002448
    Abandoned
  26. MUD POND MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keith L. Harris Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 3003134
    Abandoned
  27. QUEENSBURY PORTABLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Queensbury · MSHA ID 3002667
    Abandoned
  28. Route 9n Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sandy Lane Estates · MSHA ID 3002038
    Abandoned
  29. Stony Creek Landfill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Stony Creek · MSHA ID 3003390
    Abandoned
  30. Toney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warren County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 3002617
    Abandoned
  31. Town Of Chester Highway Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Chester Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002514
    Abandoned
  32. Town of Thurman Landfill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Thurman Highway Dept. · MSHA ID 3003139
    Abandoned
  33. TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lake George · MSHA ID 3002471
    Abandoned
  34. TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Johnsburg Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002626
    Abandoned
  35. WALTER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · P J Walter Excavating · MSHA ID 3003241
    Abandoned
  36. Warrensburg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Kubricky & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002524
    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 52
Sand Pit 13
Gravel Pit 9
Tailings - Undifferentiated 8
Quarry 7
Open Pit Mine 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Adit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Mine Dump 1
Quarry 1
Tailings - Pond 1
Mine 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.