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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Washington County, Utah

Washington County, Utah has 283 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–2002, including 75 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 103 prospect pits; 12 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 8 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 70 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Washington 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)
283
Mine openings
75
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
70
12 features carry a name103 prospect pits40 quadrangle maps, published 1954–2002 8 OSMRE problems, 8 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
    82 28.2%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    103 35.4%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    11 3.8%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    94 32.3%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 0.3%
Named features on the maps12 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
A S & R Shaft Adit
AS & R Shaft Mine Shaft
Black Warrior Mine Adit
Bull Run Mine Open Pit Mine
Cobb Mine Adit
Doyle Shaft Mine Shaft
Doyle Shaft Mine Shaft
Emma Mine Open Pit Mine
Epsolon Mine Adit
Jessie Mine Adit
Vanderbilt Mine Adit
Westside 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 problems8 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
East Reef P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
East Reef P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
East Reef P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Jarvis Peak P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Silver Reef P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Silver Reef P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Silver Reef P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Warner Valley 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 Abandoned70 on register
  1. Apex Mine Underground
    Underground metal/non-metal · Hecla Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201124
    Abandoned
  2. Apex Unit
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hecla Mining Company · MSHA ID 4201917
    Abandoned
  3. ASH Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · ASH Excavating · MSHA ID 4202726
    Abandoned
  4. B W I Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · B Wallis Industries · MSHA ID 4202054
    Abandoned
  5. Black Desert Resort
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamer Nicker Enterprises, Inc. · MSHA ID 4202736
    Abandoned
  6. BLACK RIDGE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coyote Stone Llc · MSHA ID 4202243
    Abandoned
  7. BOWLER & EMETT CORP
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bowler & Emett Corp · MSHA ID 4201959
    Abandoned
  8. Bundy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D.K. Bundy · MSHA ID 4202333
    Abandoned
  9. Carl Bowler Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Bowler & Sons, LLC · MSHA ID 4202598
    Abandoned
  10. Christy Tailings
    Facility metal/non-metal · Judco · MSHA ID 4201949
    Abandoned
  11. Collina-Tinta
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triton Grading & Paving LLC. · MSHA ID 4202491
    Abandoned
  12. Desert Canyon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Excavation · MSHA ID 4202167
    Abandoned
  13. Ence Sand & Gravel (Portable)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ence Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4201459
    Abandoned
  14. Fredonia Yard
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crush It Company · MSHA ID 4202698
    Abandoned
  15. Ft Pierce Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ron Lewis Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201824
    Abandoned
  16. Ft. Pierce
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products · MSHA ID 4202278
    Abandoned
  17. Goldstrike Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Usmx Of Utah Inc · MSHA ID 4202034
    Abandoned
  18. Grave Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Budd Lee and Sons Inc. · MSHA ID 4202688
    Abandoned
  19. Groves Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · S J Groves & Sons Company · MSHA ID 4201860
    Abandoned
  20. Hurricane Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rinker Materials West LLC · MSHA ID 4202463
    Abandoned
  21. Indian Farm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & J Mill & Lumber Company Inc · MSHA ID 4200880
    Abandoned
  22. Indian Farm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & J Mill & Lumber Company Inc · MSHA ID 4200949
    Abandoned
  23. J & J Cinder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & J Mill & Lumber Company Inc · MSHA ID 4201916
    Abandoned
  24. Jaw #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Excavation · MSHA ID 4202464
    Abandoned
  25. LITTLE CREEK MESA
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Rock Products · MSHA ID 4202245
    Abandoned
  26. Little Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · F P Enterprises LLC · MSHA ID 4202228
    Abandoned
  27. LP Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Excavation, Inc. · MSHA ID 4202409
    Abandoned
  28. Marble Mountain
    Surface metal/non-metal · TAMG Minerals Inc. · MSHA ID 4202394
    Abandoned
  29. NORTH STAR MINE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4202251
    Abandoned
  30. Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feller Stone · MSHA ID 4201638
    Abandoned
  31. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gold Wheel Construction · MSHA ID 4202369
    Abandoned
  32. PORTABLE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · 3-H Landscape Products LLC · MSHA ID 4202239
    Abandoned
  33. Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Progressive Contracting, Inc · MSHA ID 4202674
    Abandoned
  34. Portable #6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Progressive Contracting · MSHA ID 4202529
    Abandoned
  35. Portable #8
    Surface metal/non-metal · Progressive Contracting, Inc · MSHA ID 4202699
    Abandoned
  36. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunroc Corporation · MSHA ID 4202518
    Abandoned
  37. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products · MSHA ID 4201572
    Abandoned
  38. Portable Crushing Unit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products · MSHA ID 4200415
    Abandoned
  39. Portable Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coughlin Company 1 Inc · MSHA ID 4202469
    Abandoned
  40. Primary #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Progressive Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 4202079
    Abandoned
  41. Quality Kolberg Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Excavation · MSHA ID 4202358
    Abandoned
  42. Quality Mobile Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Excavation · MSHA ID 4202285
    Abandoned
  43. Quality Supply Co Quality Supply Pi
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hackwell Construction Company · MSHA ID 4200382
    Abandoned
  44. Rattlesnake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hurricane Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4202283
    Abandoned
  45. RED HILLS WASHINGTON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Hills Supply · MSHA ID 4202307
    Abandoned
  46. Red Warrior Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & M General Engineering & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4202061
    Abandoned
  47. River Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Li'L B P Excavating · MSHA ID 4202024
    Abandoned
  48. Rockville Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lee & Sons · MSHA ID 4201914
    Abandoned
  49. Rogers Green Valley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 4202059
    Abandoned
  50. SANDSTONE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rowland Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4202306
    Abandoned
  51. SHIVWIT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwest Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4202129
    Abandoned
  52. Silver Reef Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · 5 M Inc · MSHA ID 4201465
    Abandoned
  53. Snow Field Rock Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Rock, LLC · MSHA ID 4202477
    Abandoned
  54. Snow Field Rock Products LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dixie Dirt LLC · MSHA ID 4202720
    Abandoned
  55. Snow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Savage Rock Products · MSHA ID 4201923
    Abandoned
  56. SNOWFIELD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snowfield Rock Products, LLC · MSHA ID 4202271
    Abandoned
  57. St. George Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feller Enterprises · MSHA ID 4202423
    Abandoned
  58. Stout Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scott Stratton · MSHA ID 4202344
    Abandoned
  59. Three Mile Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Parry Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4201119
    Abandoned
  60. Toquerville State Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hurricane Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4201639
    Abandoned
  61. U-DOT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bear River Contractors · MSHA ID 4201907
    Abandoned
  62. Usmx Project
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brown & Root Inc · MSHA ID 4202081
    Abandoned
  63. VEYO PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feller Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4202275
    Abandoned
  64. Veyo shoal creek pit
    Facility metal/non-metal · Leavitt Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 4202556
    Abandoned
  65. Virgin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Majestic West Excavation · MSHA ID 4202441
    Abandoned
  66. Virgin Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwest Stone · MSHA ID 4202419
    Abandoned
  67. Washco Rock Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washco Rock, LLC · MSHA ID 4202627
    Abandoned
  68. Washington County
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington County · MSHA ID 4202684
    Abandoned
  69. WASHINGTON SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Huff'S Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4202186
    Abandoned
  70. Windy 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert Stone, Inc · MSHA ID 4202719
    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 103
Adit 45
Gravel Pit 32
Gravel Pit 31
Mine Shaft 30
Cinder Pit 10
Quarry 10
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Open Pit Mine 4
P1 Vertical Openings 4
Cinder Pit 3
P1 Portals 3
Open Pit Mine 2
Sand Pit 1
P1 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.