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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Bennington County, Vermont

Bennington County, Vermont has 81 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1997. 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 Bennington 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)
81
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
25
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits17 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1997 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
    29 35.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    51 63.0%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 1.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned25 on register
  1. 2.5 ST Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bazin Brothers Trucking · MSHA ID 4300789
    Abandoned
  2. Bennington Quarry - Plant No 704
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300328
    Abandoned
  3. Bisson Gravel Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bisson Gravel Products · MSHA ID 4300477
    Abandoned
  4. BURGESS BROS INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burgess Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4300489
    Abandoned
  5. CHAPEL ROAD SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chapel Road Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4300525
    Abandoned
  6. Chaves Arlington Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · David Chaves Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300701
    Abandoned
  7. DORR PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dorr Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4300534
    Abandoned
  8. East Pownal Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Pownal · MSHA ID 4300732
    Abandoned
  9. Harbour Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burgess Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4300103
    Abandoned
  10. Harbour Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burgess Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4300401
    Abandoned
  11. HAYES PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hayes Development Company · MSHA ID 4300268
    Abandoned
  12. Joe Lora Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Berards Excavating · MSHA ID 4300783
    Abandoned
  13. Leach Farm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Doug Leach Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 4300806
    Abandoned
  14. Lucky Strike
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hills Commercial Properties · MSHA ID 4300266
    Abandoned
  15. Patterson Acres
    Surface metal/non-metal · John W Patterson · MSHA ID 4300291
    Abandoned
  16. Portable Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawrence White Construction · MSHA ID 4300456
    Abandoned
  17. Portable Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · William Barney - Backhoe Construction · MSHA ID 4300626
    Abandoned
  18. Pownal Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hart Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300269
    Abandoned
  19. Pudvars Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert A Pudvar · MSHA ID 4300287
    Abandoned
  20. Rice Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W H Morse Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300405
    Abandoned
  21. RUPERT QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheldon Slate Products Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300145
    Abandoned
  22. Stamford Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stamford Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4300190
    Abandoned
  23. Udine Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Udine Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4300361
    Abandoned
  24. W.E. Dailey Manchester Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · William E Dailey Inc · MSHA ID 4300158
    Abandoned
  25. Woodard Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Woodard Construction Company · MSHA ID 4300330
    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 44
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 25
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Gravel Pit 3
Sand Pit 2
Quarry 1
Tailings - Undifferentiated 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.