Mining Incidents
Search Operators Mines Alerts Research Controllers Fatalgrams About
Countries
Peru Chile
English Español
Abandoned mines › Vermont
Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Caledonia County, Vermont

Caledonia County, Vermont has 50 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1932–1988; 3 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 36 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Caledonia 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)
50
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
3 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1932–1988 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 6.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    47 94.0%
Named features on the maps3 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Kirby Mtn Quarries Quarry
Kirby Mtn Quarries Quarry
Kirby Mtn Quarries Quarry

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned36 on register
  1. 1989 Thunderbird Jaw
    Surface metal/non-metal · J.A. McDonald, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300639
    Abandoned
  2. 1991 Superior Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. A. McDonald, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300570
    Abandoned
  3. 1994 Pioneer Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. A. McDonald, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300568
    Abandoned
  4. 2001 Cedar Rapids Crusher/Screening
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. A. McDonald, Inc · MSHA ID 4300640
    Abandoned
  5. 510 Power Sceen #510602
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gravel Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300689
    Abandoned
  6. Akley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ulric Norris · MSHA ID 4300400
    Abandoned
  7. Austin Western 74E Crushing Plant #4404
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Beattie Crushing & Screening · MSHA ID 4300593
    Abandoned
  8. BARNET PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Barnet · MSHA ID 4300347
    Abandoned
  9. BARRE GRANITE QUARRIES QUARRY OP
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barre Granite Quarries Llc · MSHA ID 4300523
    Abandoned
  10. Bellavance Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G Bellavance & Sons · MSHA ID 4300340
    Abandoned
  11. Bellavance Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G Bellavance & Sons · MSHA ID 4300241
    Abandoned
  12. Cedar Rapids #966010 Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Beattie Crushing & Screening · MSHA ID 4300592
    Abandoned
  13. Cedar Rapids Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gravel Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 4300633
    Abandoned
  14. Cedar Rapids Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wagner's Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 4300709
    Abandoned
  15. DCS Rental
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Contracting Service · MSHA ID 4300766
    Abandoned
  16. Drown Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald C Beattie · MSHA ID 4300406
    Abandoned
  17. Farm Boy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ulric Norris · MSHA ID 4300216
    Abandoned
  18. Farr Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayne Farr · MSHA ID 4300240
    Abandoned
  19. FENOFF SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · FENOFF SAND & GRAVEL · MSHA ID 4300440
    Abandoned
  20. FOREST & STREAM GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kirk Fenoff & Son Excavating · MSHA ID 4300490
    Abandoned
  21. Fradette'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Greensboro · MSHA ID 4300399
    Abandoned
  22. Frye Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooley Asphalt Paving Corp · MSHA ID 4300404
    Abandoned
  23. Frye Quarry of Danville LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frye Quarry of Danville LLC · MSHA ID 4300430
    Abandoned
  24. Hardwick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hardwick Industrial Park · MSHA ID 4300220
    Abandoned
  25. HARDWICK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · WALKER CONSTRUCTION INC · MSHA ID 4300777
    Abandoned
  26. Manchester Brook Material
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manchester Brook Material · MSHA ID 4300803
    Abandoned
  27. NELSON PIT 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Calkins Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4300288
    Abandoned
  28. Olcott Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gingue Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 4300604
    Abandoned
  29. Plant 702
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300298
    Abandoned
  30. Robert L Putvain Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert L Putvain Excavating · MSHA ID 4300343
    Abandoned
  31. Roto Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Russell Riendeau & Sons Inc. · MSHA ID 4300673
    Abandoned
  32. Simpson Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simpson Dirtworx llc · MSHA ID 4300748
    Abandoned
  33. VERMONT BLUE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Of Ages Corp · MSHA ID 4300473
    Abandoned
  34. Walden Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Walden · MSHA ID 4300363
    Abandoned
  35. Walden Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Walden · MSHA ID 4300364
    Abandoned
  36. Waterford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Waterford · MSHA ID 4300335
    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 17
Gravel Pit 16
Quarry 6
Sand Pit 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Disturbed Surface 1
Sand Pit 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Other counties in VermontAll 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.