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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Arecibo Municipio, Puerto Rico

Arecibo Municipio, Puerto Rico has 26 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1957–1982. MSHA's register carries 23 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Arecibo 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)
26
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits3 quadrangle maps, published 1957–1982 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    9 34.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    17 65.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned23 on register
  1. #16 Cantera Barceloneta
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redondo Construction Corp · MSHA ID 5400330
    Abandoned
  2. Agregados Piedra Blanca Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Agregados Piedra Blanca Inc · MSHA ID 5400392
    Abandoned
  3. Agregados RC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bloques Colon · MSHA ID 5400285
    Abandoned
  4. Arecibo Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Transporte Rodriguez Asfalto, Inc. · MSHA ID 5400054
    Abandoned
  5. Arecibo Industrial Park Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arecibo Industrial Park, Inc. · MSHA ID 5400494
    Abandoned
  6. ARENAS DEL OTOAO
    Facility metal/non-metal · Arenas Del Otoao Inc · MSHA ID 5400406
    Abandoned
  7. ARENERO DE RIO ABAJO
    Surface metal/non-metal · CONSTRUCCIONES DEL VIVI, INC.. · MSHA ID 5400073
    Abandoned
  8. ARENERO FUERTES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fuertes Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 5400394
    Abandoned
  9. Arenero La Cima
    Surface metal/non-metal · Terratek Corp. · MSHA ID 5400489
    Abandoned
  10. ARENERO PITA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pita Construction Corp · MSHA ID 5400407
    Abandoned
  11. CANTERA AVILA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luis F. Avila · MSHA ID 5400180
    Abandoned
  12. Cantera Benitez
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Enterprise Inc · MSHA ID 5400140
    Abandoned
  13. CANTERA GREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cantera Green · MSHA ID 5400141
    Abandoned
  14. Cantera Luguillo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Las Piedras Construction Corp · MSHA ID 5400277
    Abandoned
  15. Cantera Santana
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marina Dumping & Earth Movement · MSHA ID 5400202
    Abandoned
  16. Herminio Reymundi
    Surface metal/non-metal · Herminio Reymundi · MSHA ID 5400296
    Abandoned
  17. La Furia, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · AGREGADOS FURIA INC. · MSHA ID 5400493
    Abandoned
  18. Plant I Power Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · United North Aggregates · MSHA ID 5400497
    Abandoned
  19. Planta #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Santos Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 5400077
    Abandoned
  20. Planta Manati
    Surface metal/non-metal · Productora De Agregados Inc · MSHA ID 5400323
    Abandoned
  21. Redondo Construction
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redondo Construction Corp · MSHA ID 5400367
    Abandoned
  22. Tosquero Pastrana
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luis Pastrana · MSHA ID 5400360
    Abandoned
  23. TRITURADORA AGUADA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Betteroads Asphalt Corp · MSHA ID 5400393
    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 15
Disturbed Surface 9
Sand 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.