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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Washington County, Pennsylvania

Washington County, Pennsylvania has 672 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1902–1998, including 185 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 72 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 235 problems in the county, 74 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 137 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Washington 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)
672
Mine openings
185
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
74
MSHA mines marked abandoned
137
72 features carry a name0 prospect pits30 quadrangle maps, published 1902–1998 235 OSMRE problems, 161 reclaimed 19 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
    255 28.1%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    330 36.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    30 3.3%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    154 17.0%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    24 2.6%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    114 12.6%
Named features on the maps72 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Allison Shaft Mine Shaft
Banfield Mine Adit
Banfield Mine Adit
Banfield Mine Adit
Bertha Mine Adit
Bethlehem-Collieries Mine No 60 Adit
Black Diamond Mine Adit
Black Diamond Mine Adit
Bryant Shaft Mine Shaft
Buffalo Mine Adit
Buffalo Mine Mine Shaft
C&S Mine Adit
C&S Mine Mine Shaft
Coal Conveyor Tipple
Crescent No 1 Mine Adit
Crescent No 2 Mine Adit
Crescent No 2 Mine Adit
Crescent No 2 Mine Mine
Crescent No 3 Mine Adit
Florence Mine Mine
Francis Mine Mine Shaft
Gibson Mine Adit
Gibson Mine Mine Shaft
Greenlee Shaft Mine Shaft
Hickman Shaft Mine Shaft
Hofrichter Mine Adit
Karen Mine Adit
Karen Mine Adit
Kefover Shaft Mine Shaft
Kellerberg Mine Adit
Latchem Mine Adit
Latchem Mine Adit
Lindley Mine Adit
Lindley Mine Adit
Lindley Mine Air Shaft
Lone Pine Mine Adit
Long Farm Shaft Air Shaft
Mathies Mine Adit
Mathies Mine Adit
Mathies Mine Adit
Mathies Mine Adit
Mathies Mine Mine Shaft
Mathies Mine Mine Shaft
McLane Mine Adit
Montour Mine No 4 Mine Shaft
Montour No 9 Mine Adit
Moore Shaft Air Shaft
Murdock Shaft Mine Shaft
National No 3 Mine Mine Shaft
Nickenson Shaft Mine Shaft
Odbert Shaft Air Shaft
Ontario Mine Mine Shaft
Ontario No 2 Air Shaft Air Shaft
Piper Air Shaft Air Shaft
Rea Mine Adit
Ruschell Mine Adit
Slag Dump Slag Pile
Slate Dump Mine Dump area
Slate Dump Mine Dump
Slate Dump Mine Dump
Slate Dump Mine Dump
Slate Dump Mine Dump
Slate Dump Mine Dump
Slate Dump Mine Dump
Slate Dump Mine Dump
South Side Shaft Mine Shaft
Thomas Shaft Mine Shaft
Vesta Mine Adit
Vesta Mine Mine
Vesta No 4 Mine Adit
Westland Mine Adit
Wilson Slope Shaft Mine Shaft

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 problems235 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Abington Drive P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Abington Drive P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Arnold Hollow P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Avella South P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Avella South P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Avella South P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Avella Southwest P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Beagle Club P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive Reclamation Completed
Bentleyville East P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Bentleyville West P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bentleyville West P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bishop Northeast P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Black Diamond P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Black Diamond P2 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Black Diamond P2 Portals In Reclamation
Black Dog Hollow P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Black Dog Hollow P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Black Dog Hollow P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Black Dog Hollow P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Boone Terrace P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Boone Terrace P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Brush Run East P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Brush Run East P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bulger South P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bulger West P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Burgetts Fork (dinsmore East) P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Burgetts Fork (dinsmore East) P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Burgetts Fork (dinsmore East) P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Burgettstown P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Burgettstown Fork P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Burgettstown Fork P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Burgettstown Fork P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Burgettstown Fork P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Cecil P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Cecil P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Centerville P2 Flooding In Reclamation
Centerville P3 Slump In Reclamation
Centerville P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Charleroi Northwest P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Charters Creek P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Chartiers P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Chartiers P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chartiers P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chartiers P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Chartiers P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Christy Road P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Coon Island P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cowden P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cowden North P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Dague Road P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Denbeau Heights South P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Denbeau Heights South P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Dilloe Run P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Dilloe Run P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Ebenezer Church P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Ebenezer Church P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Edge Hill Drive P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Edge Hill Drive P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Edge Hill Drive P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Elco-allenport P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Elco-allenport P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Ellsworth P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Ellsworth P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Etna Equipment & Supply Co. P1 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Etna Equipment & Supply Co. P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Etna Equipment & Supply Co. P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Finleyville P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Finleyville P2 Surface Burning In Reclamation
Finleyville Cemetery P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Finleyville Cemetery P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Finleyville Cemetery P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Florence East P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Florence East P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Florence East P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Gardner Street P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Gastonville P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Gastonville P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Gastonville P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Gastonville P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Gastonville P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Gastonville P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Gastonville P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Gastonville P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Gibson P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Gibson P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Gladden Heights P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Grandview P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Grandview P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Granville Hollow P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Harmon Creek #1 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Harmon Creek #1 P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Hendersonville P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Hendersonville P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Hickton P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Hickton P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Hickton P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Hickton P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
I.s.c., Inc.-kammerer S.w. P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
I.s.c., Inc.-kammerer S.w. P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
I.s.c., Inc.-kammerer S.w. P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Jefferson P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Jefferson P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Joffre P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Joffre P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Joffre P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Joffre P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Joffre North P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Keystone Avenue P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Keystone Avenue P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Keystone Avenue P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Keystone Avenue P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Kings Creek P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Kings Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Kings Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Langloth P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Langloth P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Lone Pine South P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption In Reclamation
Marianna P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Marianna P3 Other In Reclamation
Mc Connells Mills P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Mc Connells Mills P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Mcadams P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Mcadams P3 Slump In Reclamation
Mcadams North P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mcadams North P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Mcadams North P3 Slump In Reclamation
Mcadams North P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Mcdonald South P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Mcdonald South P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Mcdonald South P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Midway East P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Midway West P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Midway West P2 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive Reclamation Completed
Midway West P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mingo School P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Monongahela South #1 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Monongahela South #1 P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Monongahela South #2 P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Monongahela South #2 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Monongahela South #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Muse P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Muse P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Muse P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Pending
Muse Road P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Muse Road P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Pa - Butler - Fea P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive Reclamation Completed
Pa - Butler - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Pa - Washington - Fea P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Pa - Washington - Fea P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive Reclamation Completed
Pa - Washington - Fea P1 Portals Reclamation Completed

…and 85 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 Abandoned137 on register
  1. Surface coal · MSHA ID 3610015
    Abandoned
  2. 221 Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Global Machine LLC · MSHA ID 3609817
    Abandoned
  3. 84 Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Austin Ind Coatings Corp · MSHA ID 3607097
    Abandoned
  4. Alec Mine -Strip
    Surface coal · Protz Brothers Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604124
    Abandoned
  5. Ancar #1
    Underground coal · Amity Coal Inc · MSHA ID 3606763
    Abandoned and Sealed
  6. Avella Mine #1
    Underground coal · Avella Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3608253
    Abandoned and Sealed
  7. Bartin Strip
    Surface coal · Harasty Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606233
    Abandoned
  8. Bartins
    Surface coal · Panton Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3601558
    Abandoned
  9. Black Dog
    Surface coal · Solomon & Teslovich · MSHA ID 3606456
    Abandoned
  10. Bologna Mines
    Surface coal · Bologna Mining Company · MSHA ID 3603543
    Abandoned
  11. Bologna Mines
    Surface coal · Bologna Coal Company · MSHA ID 3607228
    Abandoned
  12. Britton Strip #1
    Surface coal · James W Britton · MSHA ID 3605940
    Abandoned
  13. C S I #3
    Surface coal · Coal Stripping Inc · MSHA ID 3608266
    Abandoned
  14. California Loading Dock
    Facility coal · Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp · MSHA ID 3604749
    Abandoned
  15. Campbell Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & C Marine Maintenance Company · MSHA ID 3607932
    Abandoned
  16. Chappel Strip Mine
    Surface coal · R & S Enterprise · MSHA ID 3605542
    Abandoned
  17. Cherry Valley Refuse
    Facility coal · Negley Recovery Corp · MSHA ID 3607204
    Abandoned
  18. Clarksville Dump
    Facility coal · Chestnut Ridge Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3607649
    Abandoned
  19. Clyde Mine
    Facility coal · Interstate Thermal Energy Conversion Corp · MSHA ID 3600967
    Abandoned
  20. Crescent #3 Ug
    Underground coal · Tremont Mining Company · MSHA ID 3601561
    Abandoned
  21. Crescent Hills No 2
    Underground coal · Crescent Hills Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3602554
    Abandoned
  22. Crescent Mine
    Underground coal · Crescent Hills Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3603554
    Abandoned and Sealed
  23. Cross Creek #2
    Surface coal · Oxford Mining · MSHA ID 3609573
    Abandoned
  24. D'Arcangelo Site
    Underground coal · Cogs & Associates Inc · MSHA ID 3608366
    Abandoned
  25. Dam Pa 648 Site
    coal · Willing Creek Watershed Protec · MSHA ID 3607731
    Abandoned
  26. David Breeden Mines
    Surface coal · David Breeden Enterprises, Inc. · MSHA ID 3608907
    Abandoned
  27. Dean Redd Strip
    Surface coal · Apollo Corp · MSHA ID 3606669
    Abandoned
  28. Denbo Mine
    Underground coal · S D S Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3606192
    Abandoned
  29. Dolores #2 Strip
    Surface coal · H J Friend Construction Company · MSHA ID 3606110
    Abandoned
  30. Donora #1 Mine
    Surface coal · Solomon & Teslovich · MSHA ID 3606788
    Abandoned
  31. Donora Dock
    Facility coal · American Carbon & Metals Corp · MSHA ID 3606663
    Abandoned
  32. Donora Plant
    Facility coal · Burrell Construction & Supply Company · MSHA ID 3606674
    Abandoned
  33. Donora Strip
    Surface coal · Marsolino Coal-Coke Inc · MSHA ID 3607217
    Abandoned
  34. Double D #2
    Facility coal · Double D #2 Inc · MSHA ID 3608623
    Abandoned
  35. Eclipse
    Underground coal · Crescent Hills Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3601545
    Abandoned and Sealed
  36. Eighty Four Strip
    Surface coal · Eighty Four Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3604289
    Abandoned
  37. Eighty Four Strip
    Surface coal · Martha Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 3605068
    Abandoned
  38. Etna Strip
    Surface coal · Etna Equipment & Supply Company Inc · MSHA ID 3604253
    Abandoned
  39. Ewing Strip
    Surface coal · Charles W Ewing · MSHA ID 3601548
    Abandoned
  40. Fallowfield Strip
    Surface coal · Right Of Way Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 3607083
    Abandoned
  41. Frye Strip
    Surface coal · E & J Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3605677
    Abandoned
  42. Gal Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Mc Gal Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3605590
    Abandoned
  43. Gameland S E
    Surface coal · Mulligan Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3608802
    Abandoned
  44. Ginger Hill Synfuels Lp
    Facility coal · Cq Energy Partners Ltd · MSHA ID 3608735
    Abandoned
  45. Gurdish Mine
    Surface coal · Amerikohl Mining · MSHA ID 3610263
    Abandoned
  46. Gysegem Strip
    Surface coal · Gysegem Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3604247
    Abandoned
  47. Hanover Mine
    Surface coal · Warrick Trucking Company · MSHA ID 3607700
    Abandoned
  48. Harmon No 3 (Strip)
    Surface coal · Bologna Mining Company · MSHA ID 3602958
    Abandoned
  49. Harmon No 3 Auger
    Surface coal · Bologna Mining Company · MSHA ID 3602959
    Abandoned
  50. Hawkins Refuse Site
    Facility coal · Pennsylvania Coal Reclamation Inc · MSHA ID 3607301
    Abandoned
  51. Hawkins Refuse Site
    Facility coal · Pennsylvania Coal Reclamation Inc · MSHA ID 3608601
    Abandoned
  52. Hawkins Refuse Site
    Facility coal · Pennsylvania Coal Reclamation, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609336
    Abandoned
  53. Hickory Mine
    Surface coal · Stefkovich Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3606707
    Abandoned
  54. High Quality Mine
    Facility coal · Washington County Land Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 3608375
    Abandoned
  55. Hillsboro Mine
    Underground coal · Hillsboro Coal Company · MSHA ID 3608711
    Abandoned
  56. Hofrichter Strip
    Surface coal · E A P Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3601560
    Abandoned
  57. Jonrobin Coal
    Facility coal · Supreme Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 3607988
    Abandoned
  58. Junior/Senior High School Mine
    Surface coal · Burgettstown Area School District · MSHA ID 3607704
    Abandoned
  59. Kuhar Strip
    Surface coal · Mike Kuhar · MSHA ID 3604795
    Abandoned
  60. Lapcevic Mine
    Surface coal · K E S Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3605141
    Abandoned
  61. Latchem'S Transfer Inc
    Surface coal · Lathcem'S Transfer Inc · MSHA ID 3607098
    Abandoned
  62. Lounder Mine & Bare #2 Mine
    Surface coal · S & K Energy Inc. · MSHA ID 3609879
    Abandoned
  63. M C Arnoni Company
    Surface coal · M C Arnoni Company · MSHA ID 3606250
    Abandoned
  64. Maple Creek
    Underground coal · Maple Creek Mining Incorporated · MSHA ID 3600970
    Abandoned and Sealed
  65. Maple Creek No 2 Mine
    Underground coal · United States Steel Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3603425
    Abandoned and Sealed
  66. Margaret Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Mt Thor Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 3605939
    Abandoned
  67. Martin Strip
    Surface coal · Tarron Mining Company · MSHA ID 3607539
    Abandoned
  68. Mathies
    Underground coal · Mon-View Mining Corp · MSHA ID 3600963
    Abandoned
  69. Matway Site
    Facility coal · Reichard Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3608364
    Abandoned
  70. Metz Strip
    Surface coal · Penn Sherman Corp · MSHA ID 3605110
    Abandoned
  71. Midland Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Victor Dosse Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3608192
    Abandoned
  72. Midway Strips
    Surface coal · Midway Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604731
    Abandoned and Sealed
  73. Millsboro No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · B L F Corp · MSHA ID 3604547
    Abandoned
  74. Mine No 4
    Surface coal · Xecol Corp · MSHA ID 3606858
    Abandoned
  75. Mineral Beach
    Surface coal · Victor Dosse Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3606854
    Abandoned
  76. Montour #4
    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 3600966
    Abandoned and Sealed
  77. Montour Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Aloe Coal Company · MSHA ID 3603545
    Abandoned
  78. Motycki Strip
    Surface coal · Cherokee Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606375
    Abandoned
  79. Nardei Strip
    Surface coal · Utilco Inc · MSHA ID 3605469
    Abandoned
  80. Nat Mine (Loading Dock)
    Facility coal · Nat- Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3606817
    Abandoned
  81. Neiswonger Mines
    Surface coal · Neiswonger Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 3609226
    Abandoned
  82. Newgate
    Surface coal · Newgate Development Corp. · MSHA ID 3609307
    Abandoned
  83. Nyswaner
    Surface coal · American Coal Company · MSHA ID 3607875
    Abandoned
  84. Ostop-Schneider Borrow Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mountain Top Excavation LLC · MSHA ID 3609969
    Abandoned
  85. Penn-Balt #3
    Surface coal · Pittsburgh Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3608057
    Abandoned
  86. Penn-Balt No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Penn Balt Inc · MSHA ID 3608028
    Abandoned and Sealed
  87. Penna No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Penn United Energies · MSHA ID 3605886
    Abandoned
  88. Pennbalt Cleaning Plant & Refuse
    Facility coal · Penn Balt Inc · MSHA ID 3608479
    Abandoned
  89. Petricca Coal Co
    Surface coal · Petricca Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604129
    Abandoned
  90. PHOENIX
    Surface coal · BOCA Coal Inc · MSHA ID 3609405
    Abandoned
  91. Putt/Raccoon
    Surface coal · Robinson Coal Company · MSHA ID 3607755
    Abandoned
  92. Rec #719 Koben Strip
    Surface coal · B T U Energy Corp · MSHA ID 3607013
    Abandoned
  93. Reclamation Project 145 Strip
    Surface coal · Boon Terrace Inc · MSHA ID 3605625
    Abandoned
  94. Reclamation Project 269 Strip
    Surface coal · R W Casey Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3606045
    Abandoned
  95. Reclamation Project No 319 Slope
    Surface coal · H C Humphreys Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3606278
    Abandoned
  96. Rennie Strip
    Surface coal · Nat- Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3604125
    Abandoned
  97. Rider Strip
    Surface coal · Golden Flame Fuel Company · MSHA ID 3606631
    Abandoned
  98. Rider Strip
    Surface coal · Stash Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3607168
    Abandoned
  99. Roman Mine
    Facility coal · Robert B Goodall · MSHA ID 3607271
    Abandoned
  100. Rupani Strip Mine
    Surface coal · C & M Coal Company · MSHA ID 3605869
    Abandoned
  101. Russell W Joki
    Surface coal · Russell W Joki · MSHA ID 3606171
    Abandoned
  102. Rykat Mine
    Underground coal · Morgan Energy Company · MSHA ID 3608068
    Abandoned and Sealed
  103. Slak Mine
    Surface coal · Cougar Grant Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3607128
    Abandoned
  104. Somerset Portal Eighty Four Complex
    Underground coal · Beth Energy Mines Inc · MSHA ID 3600959
    Abandoned and Sealed
  105. Special Reclamation Proj No 422
    Surface coal · Gardan Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606370
    Abandoned
  106. Speers Dock
    Facility coal · Mon-West Enterprises · MSHA ID 3606334
    Abandoned
  107. Speers-Dunlevy Strip
    coal · Rls Construction & Excavation · MSHA ID 3607800
    Abandoned
  108. Sporio Mine
    Surface coal · Electro-Met Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3606806
    Abandoned
  109. Stiteler Strip
    Surface coal · Joseph Rostosky Coal Company · MSHA ID 3601555
    Abandoned
  110. Strip Mine 284-5
    Surface coal · Bologna Mining Company · MSHA ID 3601547
    Abandoned
  111. Sunny Hills Farm Strip
    Surface coal · Lineal Industries Inc Energy Division · MSHA ID 3605455
    Abandoned
  112. Superior Mine
    Surface coal · Pennweir Construction Company · MSHA ID 3600964
    Abandoned
  113. Sustrick Strip
    Surface coal · Steam Systems Sales & Service Inc · MSHA ID 3606167
    Abandoned
  114. Teerco #1 & 2
    Surface coal · Nello L Teer Company · MSHA ID 3605419
    Abandoned
  115. Therm-O-Rock
    Facility metal/non-metal · Allied Block Chemical Company · MSHA ID 3607089
    Abandoned
  116. Toth Mine
    Surface coal · Black Carbon Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 3607657
    Abandoned
  117. Tracey Lynn Strip
    Surface coal · Eighty Four Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3606230
    Abandoned
  118. Tremont Strip
    Surface coal · Tremont Mining Company · MSHA ID 3603539
    Abandoned
  119. Tyhonas #5
    Surface coal · Tyhonas Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604128
    Abandoned
  120. V J White Mine #3
    Surface coal · I S C Inc · MSHA ID 3605111
    Abandoned
  121. Vesta #4 #2 Hill
    Underground coal · Farkus Coal Company · MSHA ID 3604347
    Abandoned and Sealed
  122. Vesta #4 Mine
    Underground coal · Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp · MSHA ID 3600961
    Abandoned and Sealed
  123. Vesta #5 Mine
    Underground coal · Laurel Run Mining Company · MSHA ID 3607646
    Abandoned and Sealed
  124. Vesta Mine
    Underground coal · Island Creek Coal Company · MSHA ID 3600962
    Abandoned and Sealed
  125. Vesta Preparation Plant
    Facility coal · Vesta Mining Company · MSHA ID 3608526
    Abandoned
  126. Vesta Strip
    Surface coal · R L S Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3607135
    Abandoned
  127. Vesta-Shannopin General Machine Shop
    Facility coal · Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp · MSHA ID 3600960
    Abandoned
  128. W. G. Tomko Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · W. G. Tomko Inc. Contractors · MSHA ID 3610182
    Abandoned
  129. Walkertown Site
    Facility coal · Love Northeast Inc · MSHA ID 3608464
    Abandoned
  130. Washington County Mines
    Surface coal · Twilight Industries-Div/U S Natural Res Inc · MSHA ID 3603023
    Abandoned
  131. Washington County Strips
    Surface coal · Amerikohl Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3608515
    Abandoned and Sealed
  132. Washington County Strips
    Surface coal · Amerikohl Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3609597
    Abandoned
  133. Westland #2
    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 3606133
    Abandoned and Sealed
  134. Westland Mine
    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 3600965
    Abandoned and Sealed
  135. Westmont Strip
    Surface coal · Westmont Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3606530
    Abandoned and Sealed
  136. Winnett Strip
    Surface coal · Rite-Way Cleaning & Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 3607223
    Abandoned
  137. Zippay Ug
    Underground coal · George Zippay & Sons · MSHA ID 3601550
    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
Strip Mine 206
Adit 119
Strip Mine 94
Mine Dump 54
Mine Shaft 51
Mine Dump 49
Disturbed Surface 26
P1 Vertical Openings 26
P2 Vertical Openings 20
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 18
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 18
Air Shaft 15
P3 Spoil Area 15
P2 Portals 13
P2 Dangerous Slides 11
P1 Portals 11
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 11
Tipple 11
P2 Subsidence 11
P3 Slump 10
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
P1 Subsidence 9
Quarry 9
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 8
Settling Pond 7
Gravel Pit 5
P2 Surface Burning 5
Tailings - Pond 5
P2 Clogged Streams 5
P3 High Wall 4
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 4
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 4
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 4
P1 Dangerous Slides 4
P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 3
P3 Water Problems 3
Mine 3
Gravel Pit 3
P1 Surface Burning 3
P2 Flooding 2
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 2
P3 Other 2
Quarry 2
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 2
Borrow Pit 1
P3 Gobs 1
Disturbed Surface - Pit 1
P3 Equipment Facility 1
P1 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 1
Quarry - Rock 1
P3 Bench 1
Slag Pile 1
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 1
P2 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 1
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 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.