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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Addison County, Vermont

Addison County, Vermont has 68 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1902–1997. MSHA's register carries 25 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Addison 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)
68
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
25
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1902–1997 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    3 4.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    65 95.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned25 on register
  1. B&L Pion Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Navigator Environmental Services · MSHA ID 4300704
    Abandoned
  2. Booskas Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bristol · MSHA ID 4300379
    Abandoned
  3. Bristol Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bristol · MSHA ID 4300329
    Abandoned
  4. BRISTOL SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paquette Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4300210
    Abandoned
  5. Carrara Pit No 19
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph P Carrara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4300165
    Abandoned
  6. Case Street Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Case Street Redi-Mix Inc. · MSHA ID 4300571
    Abandoned
  7. Chapman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph P Carrara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4300313
    Abandoned
  8. Cook's Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Middlebury Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4300707
    Abandoned
  9. COOKS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooks Construction · MSHA ID 4300435
    Abandoned
  10. D & F EXCAV. & PAVING, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & F Excavating & Paving Inc · MSHA ID 4300485
    Abandoned
  11. Dow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vernon Dwire-General Contractor · MSHA ID 4300316
    Abandoned
  12. Foster Brothers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Foster Brothers Farm Inc · MSHA ID 4300309
    Abandoned
  13. George Wilcox Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilcox Construction LLC · MSHA ID 4300750
    Abandoned
  14. Goshen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4300306
    Abandoned
  15. La Fountain Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300213
    Abandoned
  16. MOUNTAIN ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph P Carrara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4300314
    Abandoned
  17. New Haven Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Omya Inc · MSHA ID 4300184
    Abandoned
  18. New Haven Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of New Haven · MSHA ID 4300246
    Abandoned
  19. PLANK ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pine Tree Gravel · MSHA ID 4300383
    Abandoned
  20. PORTABLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paquette Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4300369
    Abandoned
  21. Powerscreen Powertrack 800
    Surface metal/non-metal · G W Tatro Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 4300666
    Abandoned
  22. Sabliere Quoibion Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sabliere Quoibion · MSHA ID 4300290
    Abandoned
  23. STARKSBORO PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Colton Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300302
    Abandoned
  24. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Ferrisburg · MSHA ID 4300247
    Abandoned
  25. Track Jaw Crusher LT 105
    Surface metal/non-metal · Casella Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4300424
    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 47
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Quarry 6
Gravel Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Open Pit Mine 1
Clay Pit 1
Quarry 1
Disturbed Surface 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.