Mining Incidents
Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in San Juan County, Utah

San Juan County, Utah has 1,219 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1952–2001, including 620 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 464 prospect pits; 49 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 99 problems in the county, 10 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 163 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering San Juan 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)
1,219
Mine openings
620
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
10
MSHA mines marked abandoned
163
49 features carry a name464 prospect pits144 quadrangle maps, published 1952–2001 99 OSMRE problems, 89 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
    666 50.5%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    464 35.2%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    18 1.4%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    87 6.6%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    42 3.2%
  6. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    3 0.2%
  7. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    37 2.8%
  8. Other
    symbols outside the classes above
    1 0.1%
Named features on the maps49 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Alice Mine Adit
Beaver Shaft Mine Shaft
Big Indian Mine Open Pit Mine area
Black Hat Mine Adit
Black Hat Mine Mine Shaft
Black Hat Mine Mine Shaft
Blue Cap Mine Adit
Calliham Mine Adit
Cub Mine Adit
Cub Mine Adit
Dream Mine Adit
Firefly Mine Adit
Firefly Mine Adit
Gold Queen Mine Adit
Happy Jack Mine Adit
Hecla Shaft Mine Shaft
Hespectus Mine Adit
Hespenus Mine Adit
Homestake Mine Adit
Homestake Mine Mine Shaft
La Sal Incline Adit
La Sal Mine Adit
La Sal No 2 Mine Adit
Lisbon Mine Mine Shaft
Little Beaver Mine Adit
Little Beaver Mine Adit
Louise Mine Adit
Marvine Tunnel Adit
McCormic Mine Adit
Mi Vida Mine Adit
Rim Canyon Mine Mine Shaft
Sage Mine Adit
Sen Juan Shaft Mine Mine Shaft
Silver Bell Mine Mine Shaft
Skyline Mine Adit
Skyline Mine Adit
Small Fry Mine Adit
Small Fry Mine Adit
Snow Flat Spring Cave Adit
Snowball Mine Adit
Standard Mine Adit
Vanadium Queen Mine Adit
Vanadium Queen Mine Adit
Vanadium Queen Mine Adit
Whirlwind Mine Adit
Whirlwind Mine Adit
Wilson Mine Mine Shaft
Yellow Circle Mines Adit
Yellow Circle Mines Adit

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 problems99 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Bardon Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blackwater P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Blackwater P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Blackwater P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Blackwater P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Blackwater P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Bluff Mine P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Bluff Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Bluff Mine P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Bluff Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Bluff Mine P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Browns Hole P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Browns Hole P1 Portals In Reclamation
Browns Hole P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Browns Hole P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Cottonwood Wash P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Cottonwood Wash P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cottonwood Wash P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Cottonwood Wash P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Cottonwood Wash P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Dugout Ranch P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Dugout Ranch P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Gooseneck #1 Mine P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Gooseneck #1 Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Gooseneck #1 Mine P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Gooseneck #1 Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Gooseneck #1 Mine P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Halchita Mine P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Halchita Mine P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Halchita Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Holiday Mesa P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Holiday Mesa P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Holiday Mesa P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Holiday Mesa P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Holiday Mesa P3 Other Reclamation Completed
House Cliffs P1 Portals In Reclamation
House Cliffs P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Jomac P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Keith Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Keith Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
La Sal Creek P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
La Sal Creek P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
La Sal Creek P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
La Sal Creek P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
La Sal Creek P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
La Sal Creek P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Lathrop P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Lower Kane Creek P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Lower Kane Creek P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Lower Kane Creek P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lower Kane Creek P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Mexican Water Chapter Senior Center PF Public (Infra) Structure Reclamation Completed
Mi Vida Mine P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Montezuma Creek P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Montezuma Creek P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Montezuma Creek P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Monument #3 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Monument #3 P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Norcross Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Norcross Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Rasmussen P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Rasmussen P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Red Canyon P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Red Canyon P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Red Canyon P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Red Canyon P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Red Canyon P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Red Canyon P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Red Canyon P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Rock Door P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Rock Door P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Shima Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Shima Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Shima Mine P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Shima Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Skyline Mine P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Skyline Mine P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Skyline Mine P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Skyline Mine P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Skyline Mine P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Skyline Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Tom Holiday P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Tom Holiday P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Tom Holiday P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Tom Holiday P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Tract 7 Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Tract 7 Mine P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Upper Kane Creek P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Upper Kane Creek P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Upper Kane Creek P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Upper Kane Creek P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Upper Kane Creek P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Upper Kane Creek P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Upper Lathrop P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Whirlwind P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Whirlwind P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Whirlwind P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Whirlwind P3 Other Reclamation Completed
White Rim P1 Portals 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 Abandoned163 on register
  1. All Minerals Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · All Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 4201369
    Abandoned
  2. Ash Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Continental Nuclear Inc · MSHA ID 4201574
    Abandoned
  3. Avalanche 13
    Underground metal/non-metal · T K S Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201578
    Abandoned
  4. B G S Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · M E Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201567
    Abandoned
  5. B-1 Gonaway Or Gonaway
    Underground metal/non-metal · Rollie Krabbe Mining · MSHA ID 4201547
    Abandoned
  6. Bacardi
    Underground metal/non-metal · Big Indian Uranium Corp · MSHA ID 4200480
    Abandoned
  7. Balsley Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Deloy Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201493
    Abandoned
  8. Bandit Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Utah Mineral Development · MSHA ID 4201767
    Abandoned
  9. Betty Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Energy Fuels Nuclear Inc · MSHA ID 4201472
    Abandoned
  10. Big Buck 12
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bob Shumway Mining · MSHA ID 4200481
    Abandoned
  11. Big Indian General Mine Office
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlas Minerals · MSHA ID 4201611
    Abandoned
  12. Black Apes
    Surface metal/non-metal · San Juan County Roads · MSHA ID 4201616
    Abandoned
  13. Blanding Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Summit Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4201818
    Abandoned
  14. Blanding Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holliday Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4202326
    Abandoned
  15. Blind Luck
    Underground metal/non-metal · D & G Mining · MSHA ID 4201971
    Abandoned
  16. Blue Bird Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bierschied Mining Company · MSHA ID 4200824
    Abandoned
  17. Blue Cap-Black Hat
    Underground metal/non-metal · Cleghorn Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201453
    Abandoned
  18. BLUE CRYSTAL MINES LA SAL PROJEC
    Surface metal/non-metal · San Juan Minerals LLC · MSHA ID 4202187
    Abandoned
  19. Blue Goose
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gordon & Shumway Mining · MSHA ID 4201771
    Abandoned
  20. Blue Lizzard
    Underground metal/non-metal · Calvin Black Enterprises · MSHA ID 4200550
    Abandoned
  21. Bluff Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Industrial Constructors Corp · MSHA ID 4202088
    Abandoned
  22. Bridger Jack Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Jerry Stocks Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201197
    Abandoned
  23. Bugs Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · K & K Mining · MSHA ID 4201456
    Abandoned
  24. Bullseye
    Underground metal/non-metal · Butt Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201245
    Abandoned
  25. Calliham
    Underground metal/non-metal · Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc. · MSHA ID 4201164
    Abandoned
  26. Ches Ridge
    Underground metal/non-metal · Hill Mining · MSHA ID 4201835
    Abandoned
  27. Chum Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Clark Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4201703
    Abandoned
  28. CIRCLE 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bedrock Stone Company · MSHA ID 4202327
    Abandoned
  29. Cliff House Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · K-Enterprises · MSHA ID 4201285
    Abandoned
  30. Cottonwood #5
    Underground metal/non-metal · Kimmerle Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201607
    Abandoned
  31. Cottonwood 1 Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Deloy Shumway Mineral Company · MSHA ID 4201461
    Abandoned
  32. Cottonwood 4
    Underground metal/non-metal · Eugene Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201434
    Abandoned
  33. Cottonwood Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Minerals West Inc · MSHA ID 4201486
    Abandoned
  34. Cottonwood No 2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Look Mining Company · MSHA ID 4200510
    Abandoned
  35. County Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · San Juan County Roads · MSHA ID 4201502
    Abandoned
  36. Cub Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Kelmine Corp · MSHA ID 4201623
    Abandoned
  37. Daisey Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Jim Butt Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201427
    Abandoned
  38. Daneros
    Underground metal/non-metal · CUR White Canyon Uranium LLC · MSHA ID 4202525
    Abandoned
  39. Deloy Shumway Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Deloy Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201558
    Abandoned
  40. Dim Light Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Shumway Drilling & Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201262
    Abandoned
  41. Divide Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Minerals Recovery Corp · MSHA ID 4201442
    Abandoned
  42. DUKE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ridgepointe Mining Company · MSHA ID 4202185
    Abandoned
  43. Dunn
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bob Shumway Mining · MSHA ID 4201443
    Abandoned
  44. East Bank Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Glen Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201680
    Abandoned
  45. El Jay Double Cone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nielsons Inc · MSHA ID 4201501
    Abandoned
  46. Energy Fuels Research Laboratory
    Facility metal/non-metal · Energy Fuels Nuclear Inc · MSHA ID 4201861
    Abandoned
  47. Enterprise No 1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Jack Gardner · MSHA ID 4201597
    Abandoned
  48. Enterprise No 2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Wayne Perkins Mining Co · MSHA ID 4201368
    Abandoned
  49. Exchecquer
    Underground metal/non-metal · Calvin Black Enterprises · MSHA ID 4201557
    Abandoned
  50. Expectation
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lammert Mining Company · MSHA ID 4200485
    Abandoned
  51. Expectation Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Minerals West Inc · MSHA ID 4201458
    Abandoned
  52. Far West Incline
    Underground metal/non-metal · Atlas Minerals · MSHA ID 4201192
    Abandoned
  53. Fire Fly
    Underground metal/non-metal · M & E Mining Company · MSHA ID 4200647
    Abandoned
  54. Fry 4 Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Mosher & Nelson Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201399
    Abandoned
  55. Geneva Incline
    Underground metal/non-metal · Harold Nelson · MSHA ID 4201415
    Abandoned
  56. Giveaway
    Underground metal/non-metal · Shumway & Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201397
    Abandoned
  57. Glade Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Dan Shumway Mining · MSHA ID 4200961
    Abandoned
  58. Glade Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Dan Shumway Mining · MSHA ID 4200964
    Abandoned
  59. Gold Basin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Products Company · MSHA ID 4201843
    Abandoned
  60. Gray Dawn Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · W K Interprises · MSHA ID 4201635
    Abandoned
  61. Happy Jack
    Underground metal/non-metal · E & D Mining · MSHA ID 4200273
    Abandoned
  62. Hat Rock Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · RBC Leasing, LLC · MSHA ID 4202531
    Abandoned
  63. Hidden Log
    Underground metal/non-metal · Reliance Resources, LLC · MSHA ID 4202405
    Abandoned
  64. Hillside Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Energy Fuels Nuclear Inc · MSHA ID 4201416
    Abandoned
  65. Hole In The Rock Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Wendell Black Mining · MSHA ID 4201617
    Abandoned
  66. Honey #1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Glen Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201656
    Abandoned
  67. Humbug Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Alvin Dee Mining · MSHA ID 4200463
    Abandoned
  68. Idle Day
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bob Shumway Mining · MSHA ID 4202015
    Abandoned
  69. IMAGINATION
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & V Mining · MSHA ID 4202207
    Abandoned
  70. Ivy Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Atlas Minerals · MSHA ID 4200486
    Abandoned
  71. Jim Bo Bob Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · M & M Mining · MSHA ID 4201562
    Abandoned
  72. Jimbo Bob
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lammert Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201352
    Abandoned
  73. Jimbo Bob #21 Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Allied Shumway Minerals · MSHA ID 4201460
    Abandoned
  74. Joker
    Underground metal/non-metal · Minerals West Inc · MSHA ID 4201699
    Abandoned
  75. Joker No 2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Minerals West Inc · MSHA ID 4200623
    Abandoned
  76. King Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · PoorBoy Mining & Construction · MSHA ID 4202478
    Abandoned
  77. Kolman
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & K Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4202651
    Abandoned
  78. La Sal Number 2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Laramide La Sal, Inc. · MSHA ID 4201689
    Abandoned
  79. Lake Claims
    Underground metal/non-metal · M E Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201343
    Abandoned
  80. Lake Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · M F Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201478
    Abandoned
  81. Lake Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · R & S Mining · MSHA ID 4201849
    Abandoned
  82. Last Hope Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Silver Eagle Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201195
    Abandoned
  83. Laura Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Laura Mining Co · MSHA ID 4201346
    Abandoned
  84. Lee Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Plains Mining Corp · MSHA ID 4201476
    Abandoned
  85. Lems Draw Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Corn Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201482
    Abandoned
  86. Lepricaun Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Kranjac Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201553
    Abandoned
  87. Lisbon Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Rio Algom Corp · MSHA ID 4200677
    Abandoned
  88. Lisbon Valley
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kelmine Corp · MSHA ID 4201977
    Abandoned
  89. Little B #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little B Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4201942
    Abandoned
  90. Little Devil
    Underground metal/non-metal · Wild Man Mining · MSHA ID 4201626
    Abandoned
  91. Little Indian Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Stone Co Inc · MSHA ID 4202366
    Abandoned
  92. Locust Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bierschied Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201382
    Abandoned
  93. Lost Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Look Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201511
    Abandoned
  94. Louise Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · G & O Mining Company · MSHA ID 4200489
    Abandoned
  95. Mallory Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Nick Murphy Jr Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201540
    Abandoned
  96. Markey Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Markey Mines Inc · MSHA ID 4200784
    Abandoned
  97. Mc Cormick Drift
    Underground metal/non-metal · V & S Mining · MSHA ID 4201196
    Abandoned
  98. Mckenzie
    Underground metal/non-metal · K-Enterprises · MSHA ID 4201364
    Abandoned
  99. Mexican Hat Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gibralter Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4201619
    Abandoned
  100. Mi Vida No 2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Mineral Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201016
    Abandoned
  101. Monte Cristo
    Underground metal/non-metal · Tom Lammert Mining · MSHA ID 4200990
    Abandoned
  102. Montezuma Creek Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Summit Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 4202515
    Abandoned
  103. MP #110 (FULLER PIT)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fuller Construction · MSHA ID 4202134
    Abandoned
  104. North Alice Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · J R J Mining Company · MSHA ID 4200559
    Abandoned
  105. Old Rattler
    Underground metal/non-metal · M & E Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201250
    Abandoned
  106. Pandora Complex
    Underground metal/non-metal · EFR Colorado Plateau LLC · MSHA ID 4200470
    Abandoned
  107. Pappy #1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Ron E Beck Mining · MSHA ID 4201862
    Abandoned
  108. Patti Ann Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Atlas Minerals · MSHA ID 4201348
    Abandoned
  109. Pea Vine Queen Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Kimmerle Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201688
    Abandoned
  110. Pearson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Skelton Inc · MSHA ID 4201894
    Abandoned
  111. Pine Ridge
    Underground metal/non-metal · Minerals Recovery Corp · MSHA ID 4201468
    Abandoned
  112. Pine Ridge
    Underground metal/non-metal · Western States Resources · MSHA ID 4202031
    Abandoned
  113. Plateau Buying Station
    Facility metal/non-metal · Plateau Resources Limited · MSHA ID 4201448
    Abandoned
  114. Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crowley Construction, Inc · MSHA ID 4202232
    Abandoned
  115. Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Builders, Inc. · MSHA ID 4202352
    Abandoned
  116. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monument Resources · MSHA ID 4202353
    Abandoned
  117. Posey Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · K-Enterprises · MSHA ID 4201398
    Abandoned
  118. Power Screen Chiefton 1200
    Surface metal/non-metal · LeGrand Johnson Construction Co · MSHA ID 4202386
    Abandoned
  119. Radium King
    Underground metal/non-metal · Home Town Mining Company · MSHA ID 4200498
    Abandoned
  120. Radium King-West Channel
    Underground metal/non-metal · T & S Trucking · MSHA ID 4200969
    Abandoned
  121. Rainbow Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Blake Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201462
    Abandoned
  122. RAM LLC - Lisbon Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rio Algom Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 4201532
    Abandoned
  123. Rattle Snake
    Underground metal/non-metal · W K Enterprise · MSHA ID 4201997
    Abandoned
  124. Redd Shaft
    Underground metal/non-metal · Union Carbide Corp · MSHA ID 4201655
    Abandoned
  125. Redrock
    Underground metal/non-metal · T S & R Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4201741
    Abandoned
  126. Repeat
    Underground metal/non-metal · Mendisco Mining · MSHA ID 4201477
    Abandoned
  127. Rim Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · CUR Sage Plain Uranium LLC · MSHA ID 4200472
    Abandoned
  128. Sage Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc. · MSHA ID 4201194
    Abandoned
  129. San Juan
    Underground metal/non-metal · Gramlich Exploration Company · MSHA ID 4201204
    Abandoned
  130. Sepatica No 2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Terry Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201387
    Abandoned
  131. Shale Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Deloy Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201618
    Abandoned
  132. Silver Belle
    Underground metal/non-metal · Atomic Western · MSHA ID 4201475
    Abandoned
  133. Small Fry
    Underground metal/non-metal · Western Key Enterprise · MSHA ID 4200768
    Abandoned
  134. Smoky Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Blake Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201417
    Abandoned
  135. Snow Drift
    Underground metal/non-metal · Murphy Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201822
    Abandoned
  136. Snowball Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Umetco Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 4201068
    Abandoned
  137. South Cottonwood Mines-Easy Peasy Port
    Underground metal/non-metal · Kimmerle Mining LLC · MSHA ID 4202225
    Abandoned
  138. Southern Paving Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Le Grand Johnson Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201457
    Abandoned
  139. Spring Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · San Juan County Roads · MSHA ID 4201481
    Abandoned
  140. Spring Water Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Eugene Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201622
    Abandoned
  141. Standard No 2
    Underground metal/non-metal · Atlas Minerals · MSHA ID 4201244
    Abandoned
  142. State Lease 8066
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lammert Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201114
    Abandoned
  143. Stocks Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Farland & Hullinger · MSHA ID 4201955
    Abandoned
  144. Strawberry
    Underground metal/non-metal · Glen Shumway Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201404
    Abandoned
  145. Sunset
    Underground metal/non-metal · Bob Shumway Mining · MSHA ID 4200608
    Abandoned
  146. Sunset Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · South Fork Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201777
    Abandoned
  147. T-C-E Mine No 1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Twentieth Century Energy Mining Co · MSHA ID 4201273
    Abandoned
  148. Unit C & C Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & C Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4201498
    Abandoned
  149. Unit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · B B Bonner Jr Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4201947
    Abandoned
  150. V-8 Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Look Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201403
    Abandoned

…and 13 more mines not listed here.

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
Adit 574
Prospect Pit 464
Gravel Pit 44
Gravel Pit 38
Mine Shaft 36
Salt Evaporator 24
P1 Portals 21
P3 Other 17
P1 Vertical Openings 16
Air Shaft 10
Open Pit Mine 10
P3 Haul Road 9
P2 Portals 9
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Tailings - Undifferentiated 5
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 4
P3 Pits 3
Open Pit Mine 2
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 2
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 2
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 2
P3 Mine Opening 2
P3 Gobs 2
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 1
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Quarry 1
Borrow Pit 1
Clay Pit 1
P1 Subsidence 1
Tailings - Pond 1
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
PF Public (Infra) Structure 1
Strip Mine 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.