Abandoned mines in Beaver County, Pennsylvania

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   29 8.0%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   246 67.8%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   21 5.8%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   15 4.1%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   11 3.0%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   41 11.3%

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.

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. A-Tops Corporation

   Facility metal/non-metal · J P Austin Associates Inc · MSHA ID 3607099
   Abandoned 1985-06-24
2. Bailey Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Schepp Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3605550
   Abandoned 1976-05-17
3. Bear Hollow Strip

   Surface coal · Bear Hollow Mining Company · MSHA ID 3607107
   Abandoned 1987-12-29
4. Beaver Falls Plant

   Facility metal/non-metal · Mc Danel Refractory Company · MSHA ID 3605273
   Abandoned 1982-05-21
5. Beaver Valley

   Surface coal · Rosebud Mining Company · MSHA ID 3608725
   Abandoned and Sealed 2017-05-22
6. Coal Valley Properties Strip

   Surface coal · Coal Valley Properties LLC · MSHA ID 3609894
   Abandoned 2019-09-30
7. Colona Dock

   Facility coal · Colona Terminal Services Inc · MSHA ID 3608721
   Abandoned 2001-12-01
8. Colona Transfer, LP

   Facility coal · Colona Transfer, LP · MSHA ID 3609043
   Abandoned 2002-04-30
9. Darlington Shop And Mill

   Surface metal/non-metal · Ralph A Veon Inc · MSHA ID 3605098
   Abandoned 1978-08-04
10. Dodds Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · G B Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3607145
    Abandoned 1991-09-20
11. Dodds Strips

    Surface coal · Dodds Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3603534
    Abandoned 1973-04-09
12. Dredge Thaddus Carr

    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates Pma Inc · MSHA ID 4607091
    Abandoned 2004-11-05
13. General Dynamics Corp-Cain Strip

    Surface coal · Ralph A Veon Inc (Contractor) · MSHA ID 3602361
    Abandoned 1979-10-03
14. Georgetown Sand & Gravel

    Surface metal/non-metal · Lafarge Corp · MSHA ID 3603219
    Abandoned 1993-10-21
15. J W Mining Incorporated

    Surface coal · J W Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3606805
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
16. Kelly Strip

    Surface coal · Kelly Mining Company · MSHA ID 3604132
    Abandoned 1974-06-06
17. Kelly Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Wolf Run Road Coal Company · MSHA ID 3605064
    Abandoned 1983-09-23
18. Kobuta Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · C & M Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3608013
    Abandoned 1993-09-10
19. Kobuta River Dock

    Surface metal/non-metal · Imperial Towing Inc · MSHA ID 3608356
    Abandoned 1995-10-02
20. Kobuta Yard - Rt 18 Annex

    Facility metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3608675
    Abandoned 1996-08-12
21. Metro Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · Milliken Brick Company Inc · MSHA ID 3606129
    Abandoned 1982-05-21
22. Nixon Mine (Strip)

    Surface coal · Brush Run Inc · MSHA ID 3605721
    Abandoned 1984-09-05
23. Palmer

    Surface metal/non-metal · Three Rivers Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 3609574
    Abandoned 2017-01-31
24. Peggs Run No 2

    Underground coal · Pegg'S Run Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3601057
    Abandoned 1980-05-01
25. Pittsburgh Refractories Inc

    Facility metal/non-metal · Union Mining Company · MSHA ID 3606062
    Abandoned 1982-05-21
26. Redhill Mine

    Surface coal · General Mines Inc · MSHA ID 3606532
    Abandoned 1984-09-05
27. Reed Mine

    Surface coal · Amerikohl Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3608722
    Abandoned 2010-07-08
28. Shirley

    Surface coal · Vetica Construction Company · MSHA ID 3605956
    Abandoned 1984-09-05
29. Steiner Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · General Shale Brick, Inc. · MSHA ID 3600607
    Abandoned 2003-08-14
30. Veon Mine

    Surface coal · Ralph A Veon Inc · MSHA ID 3606740
    Abandoned 1984-09-05
31. Vetica Crusher Plant

    Facility coal · Vetica Construction Company · MSHA ID 3606372
    Abandoned 1977-07-05
32. William L Price Dredge #16

    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-State River Products Inc · MSHA ID 3604665
    Abandoned 2025-10-22
33. Zakutney #1

    Surface coal · Xecol Corp · MSHA ID 3606509
    Abandoned 1979-10-01

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Clearfield County 1,769
• Armstrong County 961
• Jefferson County 948
• Clarion County 943
• Butler County 920
• Westmoreland County 906
• Indiana County 897
• Somerset County 868
• Fayette County 861
• Schuylkill County 836
• Allegheny County 763
• Cambria County 753

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.