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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Providence County, Rhode Island

Providence County, Rhode Island has 135 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1919–1999; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 2 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. 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 Providence 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)
135
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1919–1999 2 OSMRE problems, 2 reclaimed 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
    78 56.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    57 41.6%
  3. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    2 1.5%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Graphite Mine Open Pit Mine 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.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems2 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Portsmouth P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Ri - Providence - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed

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 Abandoned23 on register
  1. #2 3048-12139
    Surface metal/non-metal · PATRIOT HAULING CO INC. · MSHA ID 3700199
    Abandoned
  2. Bishops Bend Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · River Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3700050
    Abandoned
  3. C Pezza And Son Inc Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C Pezza & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3700150
    Abandoned
  4. Cld Sand & Gravel Company Inc
    Facility metal/non-metal · Cld Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3700078
    Abandoned
  5. Conklin Limestone Co Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Conklin Limestone Co Inc · MSHA ID 3700001
    Abandoned
  6. Di Cenzo Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Di Cenzo Construction Company · MSHA ID 3700140
    Abandoned
  7. Durfee Hill Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Durfee Hill Mines Ltd Partnership · MSHA ID 3700179
    Abandoned
  8. Global Waste Recy/Independent S & G
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bella Sand LLC · MSHA ID 3700185
    Abandoned
  9. M. W. PRIOR SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · M W Prior Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3700171
    Abandoned
  10. MCE Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Material Crushing and Equipment, LLC · MSHA ID 3700226
    Abandoned
  11. On This Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · On This Rock · MSHA ID 3700216
    Abandoned
  12. PATRIOT EXCAVATING DRILLING & BL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Patriot Excavating Drilling & Blasting Inc · MSHA ID 3700186
    Abandoned
  13. Pegson Track Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Patriot Hauling Company · MSHA ID 3700207
    Abandoned
  14. Phenix Avenue Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delbonis Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3700063
    Abandoned
  15. PORTABLE #1 PIONEER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Site Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3700195
    Abandoned
  16. Riverview
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverview Industries · MSHA ID 3700230
    Abandoned
  17. Silvestri Brothers Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Silvestri Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3700075
    Abandoned
  18. SMITHFIELD PEAT
    Surface metal/non-metal · SMITHFIELD CRUSHING CO., LLC · MSHA ID 3700200
    Abandoned
  19. SMITHFIELD PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tasca Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3700077
    Abandoned
  20. TAGGART SAND PRODUCTS CORP.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Taggart Sand Products Corp · MSHA ID 3700139
    Abandoned
  21. Tasca Route 98 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carmine & Anthony Tasca · MSHA ID 3700144
    Abandoned
  22. Town Of Smithfield Highway Dept Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Smithfield · MSHA ID 3700170
    Abandoned
  23. Western Sand Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Sand Inc · MSHA ID 3700118
    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
Disturbed Surface 61
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 23
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 13
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 11
Gravel Pit 11
Gravel Pit 6
Quarry 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Open Pit Mine 1
P1 Subsidence 1
Quarry 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
P2 Subsidence 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.