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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Sanpete County, Utah

Sanpete County, Utah has 143 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1965–2001, including 8 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 28 prospect pits; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 11 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 31 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Sanpete 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)
143
Mine openings
8
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
31
1 features carry a name28 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1965–2001 11 OSMRE problems, 11 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
    13 8.4%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    28 18.2%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    11 7.1%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    96 62.3%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 1.9%
  6. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    2 1.3%
  7. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 0.6%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Morrison Mine 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 problems11 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Coal Canyon P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Coal Canyon P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Funk Canyon P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Funk Canyon P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Indian Pete P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Morrison Mine Sterling P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Morrison Mine Sterling P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Morrison Mine Sterling P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Morrison Mine Sterling P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Thomas Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Wales Canyon P2 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 Abandoned31 on register
  1. AE Portable 01
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Eagle Ready Mix Utah LLC · MSHA ID 4202133
    Abandoned
  2. Albert Poulson Salt Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Albert Poulson Salt Company · MSHA ID 4200873
    Abandoned
  3. Antelope Valley
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bown Stone Products Inc · MSHA ID 4202498
    Abandoned
  4. Bown Stone Products Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bown Stone Products Inc · MSHA ID 4202337
    Abandoned
  5. Cedar Rapid #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds Construction & Concrete · MSHA ID 4201981
    Abandoned
  6. Cedar Stone Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & S Materials · MSHA ID 4202403
    Abandoned
  7. Centerfield Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products · MSHA ID 4201089
    Abandoned
  8. Christensen Brothers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Christensen Brothers Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4201983
    Abandoned
  9. Elk Hill Portable Rock Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · P G Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4202106
    Abandoned
  10. Ephraim Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monte'S Excavating Company · MSHA ID 4201160
    Abandoned
  11. Farm Country Salt Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Farm Country Salt L.L.C. · MSHA ID 4202617
    Abandoned
  12. Ferto Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Ferto Corp · MSHA ID 4201130
    Abandoned
  13. J & J Quarrys
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & J Quarrys · MSHA ID 4202338
    Abandoned
  14. Jensen Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Derby Lorrying · MSHA ID 4201937
    Abandoned
  15. Madsen Excavation, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Madsen Excavation · MSHA ID 4202313
    Abandoned
  16. MANTI TEMPLE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · State Stone Corp Inc · MSHA ID 4202210
    Abandoned
  17. Mayfield Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Utah Stone · MSHA ID 4202309
    Abandoned
  18. Moroni Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moroni Coal & Building Supplies I · MSHA ID 4201088
    Abandoned
  19. MOUNTAINVILLE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Christensen Brothers Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4202136
    Abandoned
  20. Mt Pleasant Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Curl Company · MSHA ID 4201711
    Abandoned
  21. Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products · MSHA ID 4202201
    Abandoned
  22. PORTABLE JAW CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sanpete County Road Department · MSHA ID 4202209
    Abandoned
  23. Poulson #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Poulson Excavating · MSHA ID 4202037
    Abandoned
  24. Power Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barton Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4202564
    Abandoned
  25. RC Rental and Sales, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · RC Rental and Sales, Inc. · MSHA ID 4202416
    Abandoned
  26. Round Hills Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Round Hills Rock · MSHA ID 4202705
    Abandoned
  27. Sanpete Cnty Clay Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redmond Clay & Salt Company Inc · MSHA ID 4200120
    Abandoned
  28. Sanpete County Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sanpete County Road Department · MSHA ID 4201584
    Abandoned
  29. Trace Mine #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peak Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4200059
    Abandoned
  30. Trace Mine 1- AUMCO Claim
    Surface metal/non-metal · AMP Processing, LLC · MSHA ID 4202586
    Abandoned
  31. Young Ephraim Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Young Sons Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201506
    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
Gravel Pit 56
Prospect Pit 28
Quarry 21
Borrow Pit 9
Gravel Pit 8
Adit 8
Open Pit Mine 6
P2 Portals 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
P3 Gobs 3
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Borrow Pit 1
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 1
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
Disturbed Surface 1
Other counties in UtahAll counties →
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.