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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Northampton County, Pennsylvania has 185 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1891–1994, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 15 of the features carry a name on the map. 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 Northampton 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)
185
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
15 features carry a name0 prospect pits17 quadrangle maps, published 1891–1994 1 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
    2 1.1%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    21 11.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    160 86.5%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.1%
Named features on the maps15 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Chapman Quarries Quarry
Chapman Quarries Quarry
Old Bangor Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarries Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry area
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry
Slate Quarry Quarry 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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned29 on register
  1. AMERICAN BANGOR SLATE & STONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Bangor Slate & Stone · MSHA ID 3604864
    Abandoned
  2. Anthony Dally And Sons Inncorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anthony Dally & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3600053
    Abandoned
  3. C-15 J45 Track Mounted Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Aggregate Recycling Services Inc. · MSHA ID 3610458
    Abandoned
  4. CELL 11-12
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A P A Development Corp Inc · MSHA ID 3608730
    Abandoned
  5. DALLY #2 - QUARRY & MILLS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Penn Slate · MSHA ID 3608597
    Abandoned
  6. DALLY-MILL; STEPHN JACKSON-MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dally Slate Company · MSHA ID 3603456
    Abandoned
  7. Diamond Slate Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diamond Slate Company · MSHA ID 3600062
    Abandoned
  8. Eagle 1200-25cc Impactor
    Surface metal/non-metal · Muschlitz Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609735
    Abandoned
  9. EASTERN INDUSTRIES INC. MT BETHE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastern Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3608243
    Abandoned
  10. Emerald Slate Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Emerald Slate Corp · MSHA ID 3600072
    Abandoned
  11. Essroc Cement Corp Plant #3
    Facility metal/non-metal · Essroc Cement Corporation · MSHA ID 3600136
    Abandoned
  12. Fintec 1107 Jaw crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Muschlitz Excavating Inc. · MSHA ID 3609734
    Abandoned
  13. FINTEC 1107 JAW CRUSHER/VIN#07585
    Surface metal/non-metal · M.A.R.S. · MSHA ID 3610426
    Abandoned
  14. Force #1
    Underground coal · E R Warner Minerals Company · MSHA ID 3606736
    Abandoned
  15. Henry Capozzolo And Sons Slate Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Henry Capozzolo & Sons · MSHA ID 3604667
    Abandoned
  16. Keestrac 4518 Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Muschlitz Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609736
    Abandoned
  17. Keestrack Frontier Screen Plant (SP4)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Aggregate Recycling Services, Inc. · MSHA ID 3610244
    Abandoned
  18. McCloskey C44 Cone Plant (C9)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Aggregate Recycling Services, Inc. · MSHA ID 3610242
    Abandoned
  19. Mellott - Riverton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mellott Company · MSHA ID 3609365
    Abandoned
  20. Mt Bethel Sand & Gravel Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastern Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3603295
    Abandoned
  21. Nazareth Plant 2
    Facility metal/non-metal · Essroc Cement Corporation · MSHA ID 3600216
    Abandoned
  22. No 1 Slope
    Underground coal · Rocky Four Coal Company · MSHA ID 3607188
    Abandoned and Sealed
  23. Northampton Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Lehigh Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 3600257
    Abandoned
  24. Northampton Terminal & Quarry
    Facility metal/non-metal · Lafarge Corp · MSHA ID 3600158
    Abandoned
  25. PIT 1, DONEY & DIAMOND MILLS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Doney Slate Company · MSHA ID 3600063
    Abandoned
  26. Sreebs Slate & Stone Co. Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams & Son Slate & Tile Inc · MSHA ID 3607156
    Abandoned
  27. Stephens-Jackson Quarry
    Facility metal/non-metal · Anthony Dally & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3600239
    Abandoned
  28. Stockertown Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Haines & Kibblehouse Inc · MSHA ID 3608804
    Abandoned
  29. Williams & Sons Slate & Tile
    Facility metal/non-metal · Williams & Sons Slate & Tile Inc · MSHA ID 3605643
    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 70
Quarry 61
Gravel Pit 20
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 12
Disturbed Surface 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 5
Tailings - Pond 2
Adit 2
Sand Pit 2
Gravel Pit 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.