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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Lamoille County, Vermont

Lamoille County, Vermont has 46 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1925–1986, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 5 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 29 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Lamoille 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)
46
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
5 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1925–1986 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
    1 2.2%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    10 21.7%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    35 76.1%
Named features on the maps5 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Asbestos Mine Open Pit Mine
Asbestos Mine Strip Mine area
Talc Mine Open Pit Mine
Talc Mine Open Pit Mine
Talc Mine Open Pit Mine

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 Abandoned29 on register
  1. Bassett Farm Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · G W Tatro Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4300427
    Abandoned
  2. Cochran Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dale E Percy Inc · MSHA ID 4300687
    Abandoned
  3. D & L GRAVEL PRODUCTS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & L Gravel Products · MSHA ID 4300429
    Abandoned
  4. Duhamel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H A Manosh Corp · MSHA ID 4300388
    Abandoned
  5. DUHAMEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Morristown · MSHA ID 4300544
    Abandoned
  6. Emerson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Hyde Park · MSHA ID 4300308
    Abandoned
  7. Gale's Gravel LLC, DBA Vermont Siteworks
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Siteworks, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300653
    Abandoned
  8. Hartyl HPC-MK-203P
    Surface metal/non-metal · G W Tatro Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 4300663
    Abandoned
  9. Harvey Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H A Manosh Corp · MSHA ID 4300366
    Abandoned
  10. Johnson Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300374
    Abandoned
  11. Johnson Mine And Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · Eastern Magnesia Talc Company · MSHA ID 4300078
    Abandoned
  12. Johnson Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Johnson · MSHA ID 4300248
    Abandoned
  13. KULLMANN SAND AND GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kullmann Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4300310
    Abandoned
  14. Morristown Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Morristown Highway Department · MSHA ID 4300348
    Abandoned
  15. Mountain Road Farm Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mountain Road Farm Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4300717
    Abandoned
  16. MSI Kullman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manufacturing Solutions Inc · MSHA ID 4300662
    Abandoned
  17. Nordberg Track Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · N. A. Manosh Corp. · MSHA ID 4300634
    Abandoned
  18. PERCY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dale E Percy Inc · MSHA ID 4300327
    Abandoned
  19. Portable Crushers
    Surface metal/non-metal · N.A. Manosh Corp · MSHA ID 4300810
    Abandoned
  20. Powerscreen Chieftain New Sand (5013580)
    Surface metal/non-metal · G W Tatro Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 4300665
    Abandoned
  21. Powerscreen Commander
    Surface metal/non-metal · G W Tatro Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 4300668
    Abandoned
  22. REED'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cote Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4300282
    Abandoned
  23. Stancliff Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H A Manosh Corp · MSHA ID 4300389
    Abandoned
  24. TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Cambridge · MSHA ID 4300562
    Abandoned
  25. TOWN OF STOWE GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Stowe · MSHA ID 4300326
    Abandoned
  26. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Wolcott · MSHA ID 4300386
    Abandoned
  27. Walker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · N. A. Manosh Inc · MSHA ID 4300454
    Abandoned
  28. Williams Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4300387
    Abandoned
  29. Wolcott Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Wolcott · MSHA ID 4300262
    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
Sand and Gravel Pit 9
Gravel Pit 7
Sand and Gravel Pit 5
Quarry 5
Sand Pit 4
Open Pit Mine 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Quarry 2
Gravel Pit 2
Disturbed Surface 1
Strip Mine 1
Sand Pit 1
Adit 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.