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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Orleans County, Vermont

Orleans County, Vermont has 55 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1919–1988; 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 30 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Orleans 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)
55
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
30
2 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1919–1988 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
    10 18.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    45 81.8%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Willey Granite Quarry Quarry
Willey Granite Quarry 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 Abandoned30 on register
  1. 2005 Cobra Track110 -Track Jaw Trex
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingdom Gravel & Aggregate, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300799
    Abandoned
  2. 2018 Sandvik QJ341 Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingdom Gravel · MSHA ID 4300792
    Abandoned
  3. ASTEC TRACK SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · KINGDOM GRAVEL & AGGREGATE, INC. · MSHA ID 4300769
    Abandoned
  4. Chieftain 600 Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · North East Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 4300698
    Abandoned
  5. COUTURE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Andre J Couture · MSHA ID 4300407
    Abandoned
  6. Coventry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jean Meunier Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4300337
    Abandoned
  7. Coventry Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coventry Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4300414
    Abandoned
  8. D C S Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Contracting Service · MSHA ID 4300441
    Abandoned
  9. Derby Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Of Ages Corp · MSHA ID 4300134
    Abandoned
  10. Drake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leland Drake · MSHA ID 4300443
    Abandoned
  11. Greensboro Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Greensboro · MSHA ID 4300398
    Abandoned
  12. Lawson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawson Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4300444
    Abandoned
  13. Lowell Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Lowell · MSHA ID 4300706
    Abandoned
  14. Lowell Mine & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Asbestos Group Inc · MSHA ID 4300065
    Abandoned
  15. Lowell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wallace & Godin Inc · MSHA ID 4300453
    Abandoned
  16. Norris Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norris Paving & Trucking · MSHA ID 4300671
    Abandoned
  17. Old Drown Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lake Memphremagog Views Inc · MSHA ID 4300339
    Abandoned
  18. Orleans Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Orleans Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4300672
    Abandoned
  19. Percy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Real Desrochers Excavating Company · MSHA ID 4300283
    Abandoned
  20. Perron Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ronald Perron · MSHA ID 4300342
    Abandoned
  21. Pine Hill Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willey Earthmoving Corp · MSHA ID 4300714
    Abandoned
  22. Portable Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peters Excavating & Transport Inc · MSHA ID 4300675
    Abandoned
  23. Portable Screen Plant St 72376
    Surface metal/non-metal · Calkins Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4300413
    Abandoned
  24. Riendeau Gravel Works
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riendeau Gravel Works Inc. · MSHA ID 4300664
    Abandoned
  25. Taplin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Real Desrochers Excavating Company · MSHA ID 4300315
    Abandoned
  26. Terex Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingdom Gravel & Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 4300744
    Abandoned
  27. Town of Jay
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Jay · MSHA ID 4300784
    Abandoned
  28. Troy Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300410
    Abandoned
  29. Troy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jean Meunier Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4300338
    Abandoned
  30. Wallace Gelo Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Everett T. Wallace Inc. · MSHA ID 4300610
    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 12
Gravel Pit 11
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Sand Pit 7
Sand and Gravel Pit 6
Sand Pit 4
Quarry 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Strip Mine 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.