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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Wyoming County, New York

Wyoming County, New York has 78 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1979. 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 Wyoming 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)
78
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1979 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
    12 15.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    66 84.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned29 on register
  1. County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wyoming County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002368
    Abandoned
  2. D&H EXCAVATING, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · D&H EXCAVATING, INC. · MSHA ID 3002511
    Abandoned
  3. D&H Materials Inc-Hiram Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3003539
    Abandoned
  4. Dale Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Brine Corp · MSHA ID 3001978
    Abandoned
  5. Dills Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · A. D. Call & Sons Excavating & Trucking, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003762
    Abandoned
  6. Dobson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glenn Dobson · MSHA ID 3002233
    Abandoned
  7. Fintech 542 S/N 2007542391
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3003641
    Abandoned
  8. Java Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Java Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 3002234
    Abandoned
  9. Keenan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Java · MSHA ID 3002906
    Abandoned
  10. Kelberg 639828
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Borer · MSHA ID 3003385
    Abandoned
  11. Metso (Nordberg) NO # SN 20360448
    Surface metal/non-metal · Man O'Trees Inc · MSHA ID 3003639
    Abandoned
  12. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Perry · MSHA ID 3002375
    Abandoned
  13. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Castile · MSHA ID 3003266
    Abandoned
  14. Power Screen Warrior 1800 S/N 12301873
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3003642
    Abandoned
  15. Quakertown Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Hulme Inc · MSHA ID 3003831
    Abandoned
  16. ROBB GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Robb Farms · MSHA ID 3003232
    Abandoned
  17. Silver Springs Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morton Salt Division · MSHA ID 3000665
    Abandoned
  18. Telegraph Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Hulme · MSHA ID 3003931
    Abandoned
  19. Terex Pegson S/N 400060DGXR
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3003640
    Abandoned
  20. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Warsaw · MSHA ID 3002369
    Abandoned
  21. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Arcade · MSHA ID 3002370
    Abandoned
  22. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Attica · MSHA ID 3002371
    Abandoned
  23. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Middlebury Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002372
    Abandoned
  24. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Covington Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002373
    Abandoned
  25. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Castile · MSHA ID 3002374
    Abandoned
  26. Welch Brothers
    Surface metal/non-metal · Welch Brothers · MSHA ID 3002235
    Abandoned
  27. West Wind
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Wind Aggregates · MSHA ID 3003523
    Abandoned
  28. WEST WIND AGG.
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Wind Aggregates · MSHA ID 3003020
    Abandoned
  29. Wethersfield
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Wethersfield · MSHA ID 3003764
    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 53
Gravel Pit 7
Disturbed Surface 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Quarry 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
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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.