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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania has 463 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1946–1999, including 64 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 2 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 784 problems in the county, 372 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 215 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Luzerne 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)
463
Mine openings
64
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
372
MSHA mines marked abandoned
215
2 features carry a name0 prospect pits32 quadrangle maps, published 1946–1999 784 OSMRE problems, 412 reclaimed 2 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
    299 24.0%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    305 24.5%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    54 4.3%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    142 11.4%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    49 3.9%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    398 31.9%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Coal Pile Coal Mine area
Coal Pile Coal Mine area

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.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems784 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Completed
1994 Statewide Ad/bd Project P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
309 Brown St.-duryea P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Alden Mountain P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Alden Mt. East P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Alden Mt. East P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Alden Mt. East P2 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Alden Mt. East P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Alden Mt. East P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Alden Mt. East P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Alden Mt. East P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Alden Mt. East P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Alden Mt. East P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Arco Station P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Askam North P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Askam North P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Askam North P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Askam North P3 Other In Reclamation
Askam North P3 Pits In Reclamation
Askam North P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Askam North P3 Water Problems In Reclamation
Auchincloss #2 Shaft Col P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Audenried Fire P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Pending
Avondale Central P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Avondale Central P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Beaver Brook P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities In Reclamation
Beaver Brook P3 Gobs In Reclamation
Beaver Brook P3 Other In Reclamation
Beaver Brook East P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Beaver Brook East P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Beaver Brook East P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Beaver Brook East P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Black Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Black Creek P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Black Creek P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Black Creek P2 Portals In Reclamation
Black Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Black Creek Source P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Black Creek Source P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Black Ridge P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Black Ridge P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Black Ridge P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Black Ridge P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Black Ridge P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Black Ridge P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Pending
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Blue Coal Corp.-ball Field East P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Browntown P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Browntown P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Browntown P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P3 Pits In Reclamation
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Buck Mountain - Sugarloaf P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Bunker Hill P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Bunker Hill P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bunker Hill P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Bunker Hill P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Buttonwood P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buttonwood P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Buttonwood P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buttonwood East P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Buttonwood East P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Buttonwood East P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Coal Street/plymouth P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Coal Street/plymouth P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Coal Street/plymouth P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Courtdale P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Courtdale P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Courtdale P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Courtdale P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Courtdale West P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Courtdale West P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Courtdale West P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Coxton Yards P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Coxton Yards P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Cranberry Ridge P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cranberry Ridge P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Cranberry Ridge P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cranberry Ridge P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Cranberry Ridge P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P3 Pits In Reclamation
Cranberry West P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Cranberry West P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Curry Hill P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Curry Hill - Avondale P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill - Avondale P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill - Avondale P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill - Avondale P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill - Avondale P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill - Avondale P2 Portals In Reclamation
Curry Hill - Avondale P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill - Avondale P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Curry Hill - Avondale P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Delaware & Hudson Rr P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Delaware & Hudson Rr P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dogtown P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dogtown P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Dogtown P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Dorrance Colliery P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities In Reclamation
Dorrance Colliery P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities In Reclamation
Dorrance Colliery P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Dorrance Colliery P3 Equipment Facility In Reclamation
Dorrance Colliery P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Dorrance Colliery P3 Slurry In Reclamation
Dorrance Colliery P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Drifton South P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Drifton South P2 Portals In Reclamation
Drifton South P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Drifton South P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Dundee Road P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Dundee Road P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dundee Road P3 Water Problems In Reclamation
Dundee Road P3 Water Problems In Reclamation
Dupont Playground P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Dupont Playground P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dupont Playground P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Dupont Playground P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dupont Playground P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Dupont Playground P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Duryea North P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Duryea North P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Duryea Northwest P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Duryea Northwest P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Duryea Northwest P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Duryea Northwest P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending

…and 634 more problems not listed here.

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned215 on register
  1. 1w-34 Retreat Mountain West-Strip
    Surface coal · Blue Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3603050
    Abandoned
  2. Airport Road Bank
    Facility coal · Tedesco Brothers Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606697
    Abandoned
  3. Airport Sand & Gravel Company Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Airport Sand & Gravel Co Inc · MSHA ID 3603152
    Abandoned
  4. Alden Strip #1
    Surface coal · Dupont Anthracite Inc · MSHA ID 3607103
    Abandoned
  5. Alden Stripping Operation #2
    Surface coal · U S Operating Services Company · MSHA ID 3608042
    Abandoned
  6. Apex Preparation Plant
    Facility coal · Apex Cleaning Company · MSHA ID 3606869
    Abandoned
  7. Ashley Anti-Skid & Aggregate Co.
    Facility coal · Mc Clure Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3608770
    Abandoned
  8. Ashley Breaker And Bank
    Facility coal · Lucky Strike Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3603254
    Abandoned
  9. Audenried Mine
    Facility coal · A/C Fuels Company · MSHA ID 3608757
    Abandoned
  10. Avoca Cleaning Plant
    Facility coal · Thomas Perry Coal Sales Co · MSHA ID 3601615
    Abandoned
  11. Avondale #1
    Facility coal · Lackawanna Corp · MSHA ID 3607131
    Abandoned
  12. Baltimore Strip
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601671
    Abandoned
  13. BARLETTA MATERIALS & CONSTR INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barletta Materials & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3608296
    Abandoned
  14. Beaver Brook Development Project
    Surface coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3610422
    Abandoned
  15. Beaver Brook Mine
    Facility coal · Joe Petrole Coal Sales LLC · MSHA ID 3601714
    Abandoned
  16. Beaver Brook Shops
    Facility coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3604404
    Abandoned
  17. Beaverbrook Bank
    Facility coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3604860
    Abandoned
  18. Beaverbrook Silt Bank
    Surface coal · Beaver Brook Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604652
    Abandoned
  19. Bel Air Colliery
    Facility coal · Teem Environmental Services Inc · MSHA ID 3604713
    Abandoned
  20. Black Creek Strip #2
    Surface coal · Stoney Creek Mining · MSHA ID 3607056
    Abandoned
  21. Black Ridge
    Facility coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3608558
    Abandoned
  22. Bliss Cleaning Plant
    Facility coal · Lucky Strike Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3602920
    Abandoned
  23. Bliss Silt Dam
    Surface coal · Ken Pollock Inc · MSHA ID 3606366
    Abandoned
  24. Bliss Stripping
    Surface coal · Lucky Strike Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3602924
    Abandoned
  25. Blvd Strip
    Surface coal · Laurel Run Corp · MSHA ID 3608263
    Abandoned
  26. Boulevard No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Silverbrook Anthracite Inc · MSHA ID 3607023
    Abandoned
  27. Buckley Colliery Breaker
    Facility coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3601717
    Abandoned
  28. Carbon Bagging Plant
    Facility coal · Carbon Sales Inc · MSHA ID 3606829
    Abandoned and Sealed
  29. Coal Contractors Prep Facilities
    Facility coal · Coal Contractors (1991) Inc · MSHA ID 3601724
    Abandoned
  30. Continental Mine
    Facility coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3607927
    Abandoned
  31. Corgan Precleaning Plant
    Facility coal · Northeast Energy Company · MSHA ID 3605507
    Abandoned
  32. Cranberry Colliery Bank South
    Facility coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3608330
    Abandoned
  33. Cranberry Bank-North
    Facility coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601738
    Abandoned
  34. D & H R R Fill
    Surface coal · Popple Brothers · MSHA ID 3604391
    Abandoned
  35. Derringer Mine
    Surface coal · Coal Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3607736
    Abandoned
  36. Derringer Mine
    Facility coal · Pardeesville Associates · MSHA ID 3608314
    Abandoned
  37. Derringer Mine No 2
    Surface coal · Coal Contractors (1991) Inc · MSHA ID 3607737
    Abandoned
  38. Dogtown Coal Refuse Site
    Facility coal · Susquehanna Haul & Drilling LLC · MSHA ID 3609687
    Abandoned
  39. Drifton
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606451
    Abandoned
  40. Drifton
    Surface coal · Brook Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 3608147
    Abandoned
  41. DRIFTON
    Surface coal · PENN EARTHWORKS, INC. · MSHA ID 3609682
    Abandoned
  42. Dupont Builders Inc Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Houston City Inc · MSHA ID 3605525
    Abandoned
  43. Duryea #9
    Facility coal · New Generation Coal, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609647
    Abandoned
  44. Earth Conservancy
    Facility coal · Earth Conservancy · MSHA ID 3608587
    Abandoned
  45. Eckley Cleaning Plant
    Facility coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3605948
    Abandoned
  46. Eckley Coal Storage Area
    Surface coal · Russell Postupack Culm Corp Inc · MSHA ID 3608717
    Abandoned
  47. Eckley N W No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3606337
    Abandoned
  48. Eckley North Basin
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3602856
    Abandoned
  49. Eckley Operation
    Facility coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3609854
    Abandoned
  50. Eckley Shops
    Facility coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3604645
    Abandoned
  51. Eckley South
    Surface coal · No. 1 Contracting Corp. · MSHA ID 3609479
    Abandoned
  52. Eckley South Basin
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3605001
    Abandoned
  53. Eckley Strip And Silt Dam
    Surface coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3605554
    Abandoned
  54. Emerald Anthracite
    Facility coal · Hud Inc · MSHA ID 3607384
    Abandoned
  55. Exeter Bank
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604662
    Abandoned
  56. Exeter Bank
    Facility coal · Degilio Trucking Company · MSHA ID 3607206
    Abandoned
  57. F J F Strip
    Surface coal · F J F Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3606713
    Abandoned
  58. F J F Strip
    Surface coal · F J F Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3606968
    Abandoned
  59. Forge Slope
    Underground coal · Glen Nan Inc · MSHA ID 3601660
    Abandoned
  60. Fox Hill Coal Pockets
    Facility coal · J W Knorr Coal Sales · MSHA ID 3607648
    Abandoned
  61. Frank B Sgarlat Sand & Gravel Co Fo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frank B Sgarlat Sand & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 3603177
    Abandoned
  62. Franklin Bank Operation
    Surface coal · Pagnotti Enterprises, Inc. · MSHA ID 3601673
    Abandoned
  63. Franklin Processing
    Facility coal · Carrier Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3605866
    Abandoned
  64. Freeland Anthracite Mine
    Surface coal · Freeland Anthracite LLC · MSHA ID 3610433
    Abandoned
  65. Georgetown Stripping
    Surface coal · Northeast Energy Company · MSHA ID 3608325
    Abandoned
  66. Giza And Oley Rr Bank
    Facility coal · Great Eastern Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3604775
    Abandoned
  67. Glen Lyon Breaker
    Underground coal · Blue Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3605037
    Abandoned
  68. Glyon Strip #1
    Surface coal · Silverbrook Anthracite Inc · MSHA ID 3608105
    Abandoned
  69. Gowen Cleaning Plant
    Facility coal · Coal Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3607255
    Abandoned
  70. Gowen Mine
    Facility coal · Continental Energy Associates Lp · MSHA ID 3605096
    Abandoned
  71. Gowen Stripping
    Surface coal · Coal Contractors (1991) Inc · MSHA ID 3601725
    Abandoned
  72. Harry E Breaker
    Facility coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601674
    Abandoned
  73. Harwood Cleaning Plant
    Facility coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3603551
    Abandoned
  74. HARWOOD QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · No 1 Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 3608462
    Abandoned
  75. Harwood Stockpile
    Facility coal · Hecla Machinery & Equipment Company · MSHA ID 3607462
    Abandoned
  76. Hawks Bog Blue Ridge Bog
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blue Ridge Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3602823
    Abandoned
  77. Hazle Brook Strip
    Surface coal · Kaminski Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3606915
    Abandoned
  78. Hazle Shaft No 1 Bank
    Facility coal · Ken Pollock Inc · MSHA ID 3601752
    Abandoned
  79. Hazleton Brick Co Clay Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Webster Brick Company · MSHA ID 3600642
    Abandoned
  80. Hazleton Shaft Bank
    Facility coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3601744
    Abandoned
  81. Hazleton Shaft Brk & Cleaning Plt
    Facility coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3602883
    Abandoned
  82. Hazleton Shaft Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Atlantic Carbon Group, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609388
    Abandoned
  83. Hazleton Shaft West
    Facility coal · Mineral Reclamation LLC · MSHA ID 3610075
    Abandoned
  84. Hazleton Shaft West
    Surface coal · Northampton Fuel Supply Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 3610464
    Abandoned
  85. Hazleton Shaft-West
    Facility coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3601745
    Abandoned
  86. Heidelberg Mine Reclamation
    Facility coal · Linde Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3607310
    Abandoned
  87. Heidleberg
    Surface coal · Stell Enterprises, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609943
    Abandoned
  88. Helen Ann Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Dewees Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3605431
    Abandoned
  89. Highland No 2
    Surface coal · Pagnotti Enterprises, Inc. · MSHA ID 3605105
    Abandoned
  90. Hillman Strip
    Surface coal · Kingston Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3601662
    Abandoned
  91. Hillside Breaker
    Facility coal · Kaminski Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3606274
    Abandoned
  92. Hillside Stripping
    Surface coal · Kaminski Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3606275
    Abandoned
  93. Hollenback Strip
    Surface coal · Silverbrook Anthracite Inc · MSHA ID 3607076
    Abandoned
  94. Honeypot Bank
    Facility coal · Silverbrook Anthracite Inc · MSHA ID 3608238
    Abandoned
  95. Huber Bagging Plant
    Facility coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3607256
    Abandoned
  96. Huber Bank
    Facility coal · Popple Construction · MSHA ID 3601698
    Abandoned
  97. Huber Bank
    Facility coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606590
    Abandoned
  98. Huber Bank Operation
    Facility coal · U. S. Operating Services Company · MSHA ID 3608676
    Abandoned
  99. Hudson Bank No. 1 Operation
    Surface coal · Hudson Anthracite Inc · MSHA ID 3609932
    Abandoned
  100. Hudson Yard
    Facility coal · Popple Brothers · MSHA ID 3607495
    Abandoned
  101. Humboldt Cogeneration Facility
    Facility coal · Continental Energy Associates Lp · MSHA ID 3608072
    Abandoned
  102. Humbolt
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3605086
    Abandoned
  103. Humbolt Strip
    Surface coal · Booty'S Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3602865
    Abandoned
  104. International Filter Media
    Facility coal · Booty'S Corp · MSHA ID 3607936
    Abandoned
  105. J-33 Strip
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3602942
    Abandoned
  106. J-43 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601735
    Abandoned
  107. J-44 Stripping
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601736
    Abandoned
  108. J.A. & W.A. HESS, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · J A & W A Hess Inc · MSHA ID 3603193
    Abandoned
  109. Jeanesville Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · A Barletta & Sons · MSHA ID 3605434
    Abandoned
  110. Jeddo Bank
    Facility coal · Rossi Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3607459
    Abandoned
  111. Jeddo Crushing Plant
    Facility coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3603562
    Abandoned
  112. Jeddo Garage
    Facility coal · Jeddo Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604627
    Abandoned
  113. Jeddo No 4 Bank
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601730
    Abandoned
  114. Kaminski Bank #14
    Facility coal · Pg & E Operating Services Company · MSHA ID 3608446
    Abandoned
  115. Kelly No 1
    Surface coal · J M W Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3608207
    Abandoned
  116. Keystone Stripping
    Surface coal · Silverbrook Anthracite Inc · MSHA ID 3605856
    Abandoned
  117. Kirmar Strip
    Surface coal · Lucky Strike Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3606943
    Abandoned
  118. Laflin Strip No 1
    Surface coal · Partash Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3607442
    Abandoned
  119. Larksville Bank
    Facility coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3607057
    Abandoned
  120. Larksville Bank Operation #1
    Facility coal · R & J Mining Company · MSHA ID 3607149
    Abandoned
  121. Lattimer Basin
    Surface coal · Coal Factors Inc · MSHA ID 3608444
    Abandoned
  122. Lattimer Basin
    Surface coal · J M W Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3608669
    Abandoned
  123. Lattimer Stripping
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601737
    Abandoned
  124. Laurel Line Bank
    Facility coal · John Popple Trucking · MSHA ID 3607224
    Abandoned
  125. Laurel Line R R Bank
    Surface coal · Coalbrook Iron & Metal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3605267
    Abandoned
  126. Leadville Plant
    Facility coal · George Bone Construction · MSHA ID 3607212
    Abandoned
  127. Leadville Shaft Bank
    Surface coal · Degilio Trucking Company · MSHA ID 3605135
    Abandoned
  128. Lion Bank + Breaker
    Facility coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601747
    Abandoned
  129. Lion Stripping
    Surface coal · Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606435
    Abandoned
  130. Lombardo Operation
    Surface coal · Lombardo Brothers Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 3608594
    Abandoned
  131. Lombardo Strip
    Surface coal · A B C Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3607104
    Abandoned
  132. Loomis Bank Operation
    Facility coal · U. S. Operating Services Company · MSHA ID 3608677
    Abandoned
  133. Loomis Park
    Facility coal · Mineral Reclamation LLC · MSHA ID 3609540
    Abandoned
  134. Loree Bank
    Facility coal · Heavy Media Inc · MSHA ID 3605094
    Abandoned
  135. Loree Breaker
    Facility coal · Heavy Media Inc · MSHA ID 3601623
    Abandoned
  136. Loree Stripping
    Surface coal · Blue Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3601625
    Abandoned
  137. Maltby Bank
    Facility coal · M Martinelli Co · MSHA ID 3605367
    Abandoned
  138. Maltby Bank Operation #2
    Facility coal · Silverbrook Anthracite, Inc. · MSHA ID 3607449
    Abandoned
  139. Marcy #1 Stripping And Bank
    Surface coal · Jerome & Lois Romanski Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606560
    Abandoned
  140. McCloskey R155 3SM029
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Asphalt Paving Co. · MSHA ID 3610425
    Abandoned
  141. McClure #9 Operation
    Surface coal · Pioneer Equipment Rentals, Inc. · MSHA ID 3604969
    Abandoned
  142. McNair Basin
    Facility coal · South Tamaqua Coal Pockets, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609467
    Abandoned
  143. Milnesville #7
    Surface coal · J M W Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3607140
    Abandoned
  144. Milnesville Bank
    Surface coal · Lonzetta Trucking & Excavating · MSHA ID 3608424
    Abandoned
  145. Mocanaqua
    Facility coal · Pardeesville Associates · MSHA ID 3608251
    Abandoned
  146. Nanicoke Strip
    Surface coal · Northeast Energy Company · MSHA ID 3607034
    Abandoned
  147. Nanticoke Bank
    Facility coal · S & T Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606863
    Abandoned
  148. Nanticoke Bank
    Facility coal · Shamrock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3607181
    Abandoned
  149. No 1 Slope
    Underground coal · Mountain Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3602524
    Abandoned and Sealed
  150. No 1 Slope
    Underground coal · Beltrami Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3605545
    Abandoned

…and 65 more mines not listed here.

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
Strip Mine 229
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 95
P2 Vertical Openings 91
P1 Vertical Openings 84
Adit 61
P3 Spoil Area 58
P2 Portals 48
P1 Subsidence 45
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 41
P3 Pits 40
P2 Subsidence 28
Disturbed Surface 28
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 25
Strip Mine 25
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 23
Mine Dump 22
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 21
P3 Water Problems 20
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 17
P3 Mine Opening 14
Mine Dump 14
P1 Portals 12
P3 Slump 12
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 11
P1 Surface Burning 11
P2 Clogged Streams 11
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 10
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Quarry 9
P3 Gobs 9
P3 Equipment Facility 8
Quarry 8
P3 Other 8
P2 Underground Mine Fires 7
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
P3 High Wall 6
P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 5
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 5
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 5
P1 Industrial/Residential Waste 4
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 3
P3 Slurry 3
Mine Shaft 3
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 3
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 3
Tailings - Pond 3
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 2
Gravel Pit 2
Coal Mine 2
P2 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 2
P1 Clogged Streams 2
P1 Dangerous Slides 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Tipple 1
Sand Pit 1
Quarry - Rock 1
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 1
P1 Clogged Stream Lands 1
Gravel Pit 1
P1 Underground Mine Fires 1
P2 Dangerous Slides 1
Sand 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.