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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Aguadilla Municipio, Puerto Rico

Aguadilla Municipio, Puerto Rico has 3 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1960; 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 49 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Aguadilla Municipio, 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)
3
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
49
2 features carry a name0 prospect pits1 quadrangle maps, published 1960 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    3 100.0%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Canteras Aguadilla Quarry
Canteras Aguadilla Quarry

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 Abandoned49 on register
  1. AGREGADOS R.M.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roberto Morales Inc · MSHA ID 5400423
    Abandoned
  2. Agregados Villa Linda
    Surface metal/non-metal · Agregados Villa Linda, Inc · MSHA ID 5400343
    Abandoned
  3. Aguadilla Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aguadilla Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 5400342
    Abandoned
  4. Aguadilla Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aguadilla Aggregates - Lyon Development · MSHA ID 5400433
    Abandoned
  5. Aguadilla Rocks & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sophie Juana · MSHA ID 5400326
    Abandoned
  6. Arenero 414
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jorge Rosado · MSHA ID 5400498
    Abandoned
  7. ARENERO ACEVEDO
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acevedo Auto Import · MSHA ID 5400435
    Abandoned
  8. ARENERO ARZUAGA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arenero Arzuaga-Nieves · MSHA ID 5400375
    Abandoned
  9. Arenero Bermudez
    Surface metal/non-metal · Angel L Bermudez · MSHA ID 5400268
    Abandoned
  10. Arenero Del Valle
    Surface metal/non-metal · Constructora Mayaguezana S E · MSHA ID 5400354
    Abandoned
  11. ARENERO DEL VALLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Empresas Del Valle · MSHA ID 5400409
    Abandoned
  12. Arenero El Pastillo
    Surface metal/non-metal · J F Associates Inc · MSHA ID 5400294
    Abandoned
  13. Arenero Forestier-Aguadilla
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luis A Forestier · MSHA ID 5400031
    Abandoned
  14. Arenero Forestier-Anasco
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luis A Forestier · MSHA ID 5400283
    Abandoned
  15. Arenero Hauger
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hauger Martin Hau · MSHA ID 5400348
    Abandoned
  16. Arenero Jobo
    Surface metal/non-metal · German Hau Colon · MSHA ID 5400192
    Abandoned
  17. Arenero Jobos
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ramon Ponce Enterprises · MSHA ID 5400338
    Abandoned
  18. Arenero Mhar
    Surface metal/non-metal · Myrna Hau · MSHA ID 5400365
    Abandoned
  19. Arenero Nolla
    Surface metal/non-metal · David G Nolla · MSHA ID 5400254
    Abandoned
  20. ARENERO R.R.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arenero R R · MSHA ID 5400347
    Abandoned
  21. Arenero Ramos
    Surface metal/non-metal · Antonio Ramos Gonzalez · MSHA ID 5400243
    Abandoned
  22. Arenero Torres
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilfredo Torres Ramos · MSHA ID 5400196
    Abandoned
  23. Arenero West Wind
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westwind Manor Enterprises Corp · MSHA ID 5400282
    Abandoned
  24. BEST 2 ANASCO GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Betteroads Asphalt Corp · MSHA ID 5400257
    Abandoned
  25. Best-Ramirez & Carbo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Best Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 5400250
    Abandoned
  26. Borinquen Sand MFG.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arenas Del Oeste · MSHA ID 5400197
    Abandoned
  27. BRUNSAN CORPORATION
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brunsan Corp · MSHA ID 5400266
    Abandoned
  28. CAB Agregados
    Surface metal/non-metal · Comunidad Agricola Bianchi Inc · MSHA ID 5400350
    Abandoned
  29. Cantera Caimital Bajo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ramon Sanchez Cortez · MSHA ID 5400161
    Abandoned
  30. Cantera Caribe
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mora Builders Inc · MSHA ID 5400156
    Abandoned
  31. CANTERA CUEVA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joglar Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 5400151
    Abandoned
  32. Cantera El Hoyo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnny Perez Nunez · MSHA ID 5400417
    Abandoned
  33. CANTERA ISABELA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luis F Amador Poventud · MSHA ID 5400405
    Abandoned
  34. Cantera La Victoria
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jose Acevedo · MSHA ID 5400256
    Abandoned
  35. Cantera Las Lomas (Aguadilla)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cantera Las Lomas Inc · MSHA ID 5400358
    Abandoned
  36. Cantera Tono Cruz
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cantera Tono Cruz · MSHA ID 5400264
    Abandoned
  37. Constructora G Benitez & Sons Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Constructora G Benitez & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 5400357
    Abandoned
  38. Cordeco L.L.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cordeco North-West, Corp. · MSHA ID 5400459
    Abandoned
  39. CORDECO NORTH-WEST
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cordeco North-West Corp · MSHA ID 5400418
    Abandoned
  40. Corporacion Add
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cantera Add · MSHA ID 5400228
    Abandoned
  41. D J Aggregates Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · D J Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 5400344
    Abandoned
  42. Empresas Ponce Fantauzzi Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ponce Rental Equipment Inc · MSHA ID 5400242
    Abandoned
  43. Francisco Toledo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Francisco Toledo · MSHA ID 5400355
    Abandoned
  44. Ideal Beach Front
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ideal Beach Front · MSHA ID 5400486
    Abandoned
  45. JUAN SOLA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arenero Sola · MSHA ID 5400383
    Abandoned
  46. Picheto Flores Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Picheto Flores Corp · MSHA ID 5400239
    Abandoned
  47. RH
    Surface metal/non-metal · RH · MSHA ID 5400488
    Abandoned
  48. Tosquero Cintron
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tosquero Cintron · MSHA ID 5400487
    Abandoned
  49. TOSQUERO ROMON
    Surface metal/non-metal · N R S Universal Contractors Of Pr Inc · MSHA ID 5400410
    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 2
Borrow Pit 1
Other counties in Puerto RicoAll counties →
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.