Abandoned mines in Beaver County, Utah

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   789 43.1%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   879 48.0%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   40 2.2%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   78 4.3%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   43 2.3%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   1 0.1%

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.

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.

1. Bawana Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Western Utah Copper Company · MSHA ID 4202471
   Abandoned 2008-08-01
2. Beaver Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Le Grand Johnson Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201896
   Abandoned 1984-12-21
3. Beaver Plant

   Surface metal/non-metal · Cemex · MSHA ID 4202272
   Abandoned 2008-05-19
4. Black Springs Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Harborlite Corporation · MSHA ID 4202215
   Abandoned 2006-10-03
5. C M I Mill

   Facility metal/non-metal · Chemical Mining & Investments Inc · MSHA ID 4201583
   Abandoned 1980-01-24
6. Cedar City

   Surface metal/non-metal · Susan Martin Construction LLC · MSHA ID 4202562
   Abandoned 2015-10-29
7. Colombine

   Underground coal · Western Reserve Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4201378
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
8. Crystal Pass

   Surface metal/non-metal · Crystal Pass Industries LLC · MSHA ID 4202667
   Abandoned 2019-10-21
9. Crystal Pass Mill

   Surface metal/non-metal · Crystal Pass Industries · MSHA ID 4202668
   Abandoned 2019-10-21
10. DISTRICT 45 PORTABLE CRUSHER

    Surface metal/non-metal · Utah Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4202247
    Abandoned 2013-03-14
11. Eagle Exploration Drift

    Underground metal/non-metal · Western Utah Copper Company · MSHA ID 4202538
    Abandoned 2010-04-26
12. Fortuna Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Babbitta Grebe Henderson & Chastain · MSHA ID 4201266
    Abandoned 1979-09-19
13. Gold Crown Mine Or Crown Point Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Grubstaker Inc · MSHA ID 4201831
    Abandoned 1983-08-31
14. GRAVEL PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · West Hills Excavating Llc · MSHA ID 4202160
    Abandoned 1997-05-27
15. Hidden Treasure Underground

    Underground metal/non-metal · Western Utah Copper Company · MSHA ID 4202505
    Abandoned 2008-08-05
16. Indian Queen Marble

    Surface metal/non-metal · Great American Resources · MSHA ID 4202255
    Abandoned 2022-10-27
17. J B Mine And Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Dale Aslett Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4200967
    Abandoned 1978-11-15
18. J R Ready Mix Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · J R Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4201887
    Abandoned 1988-07-11
19. J. R. Ready Mix Blue Mtn. Plnt

    Surface metal/non-metal · J. R. Ready Mix, Inc. · MSHA ID 4202351
    Abandoned 2002-09-25
20. Leonora #1

    Underground metal/non-metal · Grubstaker Inc · MSHA ID 4201766
    Abandoned 1982-07-14
21. Milford Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · RAM-X Inc. · MSHA ID 4202732
    Abandoned 2022-08-03
22. North Pearl Queen

    Surface metal/non-metal · Silbrico Corporation · MSHA ID 4200856
    Abandoned 2025-03-11
23. OK MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Dotson Exploration · MSHA ID 4202166
    Abandoned 1998-01-16
24. Perlite Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Bradshaw Pumice & Perlite Co · MSHA ID 4200991
    Abandoned 1978-04-14
25. Portable #2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Crushing · MSHA ID 4202387
    Abandoned 2017-12-01
26. RED EMERALD

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rancho Equipment · MSHA ID 4202101
    Abandoned 1999-10-07
27. RED EMERALD

    Surface metal/non-metal · Gemstone Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4202116
    Abandoned 2001-09-11
28. Stein Crusher #2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Stein Crushing, LLC · MSHA ID 4202759
    Abandoned 2024-05-30
29. Violet 1-8

    Surface metal/non-metal · Harris Brothers · MSHA ID 4201879
    Abandoned 1985-03-08
30. Wiseman Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Wiseman Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4200877
    Abandoned 1988-08-01
31. Wiseman Ready Mix Concrete Gravel Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Wiseman Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4200417
    Abandoned 1979-09-19
32. Yardley Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Yardley Construction · MSHA ID 4202734
    Abandoned 2022-08-03

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Juab County 2,946
• Utah County 2,096
• Tooele County 2,037
• San Juan County 1,219
• Salt Lake County 974
• Box Elder County 846
• Piute County 788
• Millard County 730
• Grand County 583
• Uintah County 465
• Emery County 458
• Iron County 420

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.