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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

Wyoming County, Pennsylvania has 38 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1946–2000, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 2 problems in the county, 1 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 39 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Wyoming 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)
38
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
1
MSHA mines marked abandoned
39
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1946–2000 2 OSMRE problems, 1 reclaimed 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
    4 10.0%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    10 25.0%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    26 65.0%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems2 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Coalbed Swamp P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Santer Creek P2 Portals Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned39 on register
  1. Alderice
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3609421
    Abandoned
  2. Anderson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3609914
    Abandoned
  3. Avery Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pine Ridge Enterprises · MSHA ID 3609334
    Abandoned
  4. Bluestone Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Natural Stone Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 3610350
    Abandoned
  5. Bunnell
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brewers Stone · MSHA ID 3610282
    Abandoned
  6. Chickey Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brewer Flagstone · MSHA ID 3609531
    Abandoned
  7. EAST FALLS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Asphalt Paving Company · MSHA ID 3603168
    Abandoned
  8. East Lemon Sand & Gravel Co Sand An
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Lemon Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3603170
    Abandoned
  9. Eaton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Asphalt Paving Company · MSHA ID 3607248
    Abandoned
  10. Eaton Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wyoming Sand & Stone Company · MSHA ID 3604079
    Abandoned
  11. Ellis Quarry 1 & 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · S. McClain Stone Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3608983
    Abandoned
  12. Falls Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · DBI Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3610228
    Abandoned
  13. JAMES CASHMARK
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cashmark · MSHA ID 3608883
    Abandoned
  14. Jayne Bend
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastern Industries Inc. · MSHA ID 3608654
    Abandoned
  15. Kishbaugh Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Brothers Quarry · MSHA ID 3609328
    Abandoned
  16. Kline & Hitchcock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kline & Hitchcock · MSHA ID 3607934
    Abandoned
  17. Konopka Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & K Stone · MSHA ID 3609111
    Abandoned
  18. Konopka Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 3610220
    Abandoned
  19. Lacey Street Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zane G. Salsman · MSHA ID 3609791
    Abandoned
  20. Lacey Street Quarry #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Z. Salsman Company · MSHA ID 3610049
    Abandoned
  21. Lilac Hill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duane White · MSHA ID 3610112
    Abandoned
  22. Long Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cruver Flagstone Prod. · MSHA ID 3609099
    Abandoned
  23. Mellott-Jayne Bend
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mellott Company · MSHA ID 3609413
    Abandoned
  24. Meshoppen Stone Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3607935
    Abandoned
  25. MHW Crushing LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · MHW Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 3610320
    Abandoned
  26. Nealy Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3609426
    Abandoned
  27. NEALY QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · HUNSINGER STONE · MSHA ID 3609839
    Abandoned
  28. Nicholson Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diaz Stone and Pallet Inc · MSHA ID 3609462
    Abandoned
  29. Norm Clark #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norm Clark · MSHA ID 3609428
    Abandoned
  30. Pifcho Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pifcho Quarry · MSHA ID 3609264
    Abandoned
  31. Portable Crusher #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone Inc. · MSHA ID 3609985
    Abandoned
  32. Portable Crusher 5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 3610129
    Abandoned
  33. Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Endless Mountain Fieldstone Supply · MSHA ID 3607926
    Abandoned
  34. Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fabiani Stone · MSHA ID 3610052
    Abandoned
  35. Rossi Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vasquez Stone Supply, LLC · MSHA ID 3610347
    Abandoned
  36. Shannon Hill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meshoppen Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3609913
    Abandoned
  37. Sugar Mountain
    Surface metal/non-metal · G S Kuback Excavating · MSHA ID 3609560
    Abandoned
  38. Valentine Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marin Stone Quarries LLC · MSHA ID 3610429
    Abandoned
  39. Wikoski Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wikoski Company · MSHA ID 3607937
    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
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Quarry 8
Disturbed Surface 6
Gravel Pit 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
P2 Portals 2
Adit 2
Quarry 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Gravel 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.