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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Lane County, Oregon

Lane County, Oregon has 716 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1939–1998, including 75 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 5 prospect pits; 23 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 58 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Lane 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)
716
Mine openings
75
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
58
23 features carry a name5 prospect pits95 quadrangle maps, published 1939–1998 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
    75 10.5%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    5 0.7%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    26 3.6%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    608 84.9%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 0.3%
Named features on the maps23 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Black Butte Mine Adit
Black Butte Mine Adit
Champion Mine Adit
Evening Star Mine Adit
Gravel Rock Pile Gravel Pit area
Helena Mine Adit
Helena Mine Adit
Ironside Mine Adit
Klickitat Quarry Quarry area
Lucky Boy Mine Adit
Lucky Boy Mine Adit
Lucky Boy Mine Adit
Mayflower Mine Adit
Musick Mine Adit
Musick Mine Adit
Noonday Mine Adit
Noonday Mine Adit
North Fork Quarry Quarry area
Rialto Mine Open Pit Mine
Rock Pile Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated area
Star Mine Adit
Vesuvius Mine Adit
Wildhog Mine Adit

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 Abandoned58 on register
  1. A Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3502802
    Abandoned
  2. Allum Brothers Quarry And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allum Bros · MSHA ID 3500429
    Abandoned
  3. Angel Butte
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakridge Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3503871
    Abandoned
  4. Blue River Rock Source
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3502755
    Abandoned
  5. Bones Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3502800
    Abandoned
  6. Boulder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tobros Construction Company · MSHA ID 3502998
    Abandoned
  7. Camp Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larry Beers Logging · MSHA ID 3500200
    Abandoned
  8. Camp Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duman Inc · MSHA ID 3503500
    Abandoned
  9. Cape Mountain Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cape Mountain Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 3502829
    Abandoned
  10. Champion Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Hanuman Mines Ltd Inc · MSHA ID 3503076
    Abandoned
  11. Cliff Creek Spur #1 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pope & Talbot Inc · MSHA ID 3503048
    Abandoned
  12. Combination Group
    Underground metal/non-metal · Mom'S Mining & Development Inc · MSHA ID 3503098
    Abandoned
  13. Cowhorn Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3502351
    Abandoned
  14. Culp Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Bureau Of Land Management · MSHA ID 3502743
    Abandoned
  15. Custom Rock Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Rock Crushing · MSHA ID 3503458
    Abandoned
  16. Doughty Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · D A Doughty & Sons · MSHA ID 3503265
    Abandoned
  17. Doughty Portable Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · D A Doughty & Sons · MSHA ID 3503414
    Abandoned
  18. Echo Creek No 1 Quarry 24-4-22
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3501297
    Abandoned
  19. Elk Wallow Quarry And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davidson Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3500422
    Abandoned
  20. Elpeco Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elpeco Inc · MSHA ID 3501054
    Abandoned
  21. Emigrant Butte Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pope & Talbot Inc · MSHA ID 3501296
    Abandoned
  22. Fields Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bohemia Inc · MSHA ID 3502605
    Abandoned
  23. Fisher Butte Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · S J Quam · MSHA ID 3500425
    Abandoned
  24. Golden Star Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Golden Star Mine · MSHA ID 3503033
    Abandoned
  25. Green & White Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green & White Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 3502783
    Abandoned
  26. Green Gravel Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3500494
    Abandoned
  27. HAMLIN & SON CRUSHING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamlin & Son Construction · MSHA ID 3500972
    Abandoned
  28. Hills Peak Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3501298
    Abandoned
  29. Intl Paper Co Quarry And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · International Paper Company · MSHA ID 3500431
    Abandoned
  30. JASPER QUARRY ROCK PRODUCTS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jasper Quarry Rock Products · MSHA ID 3503392
    Abandoned
  31. Klickitat Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Taggart Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3500991
    Abandoned
  32. Larson Qy
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willamette Qys Inc · MSHA ID 3500943
    Abandoned
  33. Leep Quarry & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norway Rock Products · MSHA ID 3500147
    Abandoned
  34. Lloyd Culley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Creswell Gravel · MSHA ID 3503049
    Abandoned
  35. Lost Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Crushing Company · MSHA ID 3502738
    Abandoned
  36. Marple Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nathan Marple Excavation · MSHA ID 3503577
    Abandoned
  37. MARPLE SAND and GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marple Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 3503714
    Abandoned
  38. Oakridge Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakridge Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3503858
    Abandoned
  39. Oakridge Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakridge Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3500524
    Abandoned
  40. OREGON READY MIX
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon Ready Mix · MSHA ID 3503493
    Abandoned
  41. PLANT 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · C C & S Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 3500006
    Abandoned
  42. Plant 1 J Davidson & Sons Const Co Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Davidson & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3503297
    Abandoned
  43. PLANT 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · C C & S Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 3503361
    Abandoned
  44. Plant 3 J. Davidson & Sons Const.
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. Davidson & Sons Const. Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3503732
    Abandoned
  45. Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 3503457
    Abandoned
  46. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Flintstone Crushing & Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3503125
    Abandoned
  47. Portable Rock Production Co
    Surface metal/non-metal · Portable Rock Production Company Inc · MSHA ID 3503494
    Abandoned
  48. Portable Rock Production Co. Sears Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Portable Rock Production Company Inc · MSHA ID 3502761
    Abandoned
  49. Portable Rock Production Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Portable Rock Production Company Inc · MSHA ID 3502760
    Abandoned
  50. President Group
    Underground metal/non-metal · Jim Edgar · MSHA ID 3503099
    Abandoned
  51. Saddle Mountain Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roseburg Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3502856
    Abandoned
  52. South Winberry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3502747
    Abandoned
  53. Swisshome Rock Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lloyd S Hockema Inc · MSHA ID 3502548
    Abandoned
  54. Traprock Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · L V Anderson & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3500214
    Abandoned
  55. White Rock Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3500984
    Abandoned
  56. Wildish No 1 Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wildish Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3500559
    Abandoned
  57. Willamette Clay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Klamath Brick & Tile Company · MSHA ID 3503106
    Abandoned
  58. ZUMWALT & WILLIAMS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon Aggregate Products Inc · MSHA ID 3500563
    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
Quarry 377
Borrow Pit 115
Adit 75
Gravel Pit 49
Quarry 40
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 17
Quarry - Rock 10
Borrow Pit 8
Prospect Pit 5
Disturbed Surface 5
Gravel Pit 4
Open Pit Mine 3
Quarry - Rock 3
Mine Dump 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.