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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Millard County, Utah

Millard County, Utah has 730 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1952–2001, including 117 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 312 prospect pits; 7 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 8 problems in the county, 4 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 41 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Millard 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)
730
Mine openings
117
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
4
MSHA mines marked abandoned
41
7 features carry a name312 prospect pits93 quadrangle maps, published 1952–2001 8 OSMRE problems, 4 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
    124 16.8%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    312 42.3%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    23 3.1%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    272 36.9%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    6 0.8%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 0.1%
Named features on the maps7 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Brown Queen Mine Adit
Brown Queen Mine Adit
Cudahy Mine Open Pit Mine area
Drum Mine Open Pit Mine
Hellhole Adit
Klondike Mine Mine Shaft
Rock Corral Quarry Quarry - Rock

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 problems8 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Antelope Springs P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Antelope Springs P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Antelope Springs P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Antelope Springs P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Fishlake Mines P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Fishlake Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Fishlake Mines P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Fishlake Mines P1 Vertical Openings 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 Abandoned41 on register
  1. Bali-Hai
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bali-Hai Stone Company · MSHA ID 4201209
    Abandoned
  2. Black Mountain Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Holley Corp · MSHA ID 4201650
    Abandoned
  3. BLACK ROCK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gale's Gold & Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 4202252
    Abandoned
  4. BLACK ROCK #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rocanville Corporation · MSHA ID 4202329
    Abandoned
  5. Brush Wellman Delta Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Brush Wellman Inc · MSHA ID 4200906
    Abandoned
  6. Burningham Portable #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burningham Enterprises · MSHA ID 4202791
    Abandoned
  7. C M I Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Chemical Mining & Investments Inc · MSHA ID 4201580
    Abandoned
  8. Deldessa Properties
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deldessa Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201859
    Abandoned
  9. DELTA MINERALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delta Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4202280
    Abandoned
  10. Delta Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4201833
    Abandoned
  11. Delta Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4201853
    Abandoned
  12. Delta Silca West
    Surface metal/non-metal · Broken Arrow/McFarland & Hullinger · MSHA ID 4202412
    Abandoned
  13. Drum Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jumbo Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201847
    Abandoned
  14. Dutson'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dutson Supply Company Inc · MSHA ID 4201070
    Abandoned
  15. EL JAY #782
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rees'S Enterprise · MSHA ID 4202021
    Abandoned
  16. Fluorine Queen
    Underground metal/non-metal · U S Energy Corp · MSHA ID 4200156
    Abandoned
  17. Fools Creek
    Surface metal/non-metal · Exspeedia Transport LLC · MSHA ID 4202806
    Abandoned
  18. Lawson Cove
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zebra Stone Quarry · MSHA ID 4202646
    Abandoned
  19. Leamington
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dutson Supply Company Inc · MSHA ID 4202507
    Abandoned
  20. Leamington Pass Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westcon Inc · MSHA ID 4201858
    Abandoned
  21. LEVIN STONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Levin Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 4202286
    Abandoned
  22. Lucky Gem Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Eagle Rock Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201902
    Abandoned
  23. Lynndyl No 3 - Bradfield Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 4201757
    Abandoned
  24. Neal Fluorspar Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forminco Inc · MSHA ID 4201133
    Abandoned
  25. North Canyon Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rocanville Stone · MSHA ID 4202345
    Abandoned
  26. NSC - SCIPIO PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nephi Sandstone Corp · MSHA ID 4202220
    Abandoned
  27. Penney Construction Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Penney Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201998
    Abandoned
  28. Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burningham Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4202728
    Abandoned
  29. Portable Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mike Stanworth & Sons · MSHA ID 4202350
    Abandoned
  30. Rancho Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rancho Equipment Service · MSHA ID 4202068
    Abandoned
  31. Red Dome Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Dome Inc · MSHA ID 4201206
    Abandoned
  32. ROSE GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larry Rose Construction · MSHA ID 4202176
    Abandoned
  33. South Oak City Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dutson Supply Company Inc · MSHA ID 4201850
    Abandoned
  34. Sulphurdale Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delano Development Corp · MSHA ID 4201260
    Abandoned
  35. Topaz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 4201854
    Abandoned
  36. TOPEZ GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rancho Equipment · MSHA ID 4202328
    Abandoned
  37. Treasure Mountain Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Treasure Mountain Mng Co · MSHA ID 4200285
    Abandoned
  38. UNIQUE MINERAL INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Unique Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4202224
    Abandoned
  39. Wayne Western Millard Tungsten Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Wayne Western Millard Tungsten Inc · MSHA ID 4201437
    Abandoned
  40. Wm Pit And Fillmore Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · White Mountain Gypsum Inc · MSHA ID 4201132
    Abandoned
  41. Young Scipio Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Young Sons Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201577
    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
Prospect Pit 312
Gravel Pit 142
Adit 73
Borrow Pit 57
Mine Shaft 44
Gravel Pit 41
Cinder Pit 15
Open Pit Mine 14
Borrow Pit 6
Open Pit Mine 5
Mine Dump 4
P1 Vertical Openings 4
P1 Portals 3
Cinder Pit 3
Quarry 2
Placer Mine 2
Clay Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
Quarry - Rock 1
P1 Subsidence 1
Sand 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.