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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Windham County, Vermont

Windham County, Vermont has 39 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1930–1998. 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 Windham 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)
39
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
25
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1930–1998 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 25.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    29 74.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned25 on register
  1. Austin Western 201e Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fitzpatrick Excavating · MSHA ID 4300451
    Abandoned
  2. AUSTIN WESTERN 73E
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fitzpatrick Excavating · MSHA ID 4300452
    Abandoned
  3. Brattleboro Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brattleboro Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4300102
    Abandoned
  4. C-12 Extec
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fitzpatrick Excavating · MSHA ID 4300450
    Abandoned
  5. Dummerston Putney Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Dummerston · MSHA ID 4300751
    Abandoned
  6. Extec
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larry Brown Excavating · MSHA ID 4300721
    Abandoned
  7. Extec Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plimpton Excavating LLC · MSHA ID 4300552
    Abandoned
  8. Extec Turbo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fitzpatrick Excavating · MSHA ID 4300553
    Abandoned
  9. Fletcher Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stub Inc · MSHA ID 4300426
    Abandoned
  10. FLETCHER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson Excavating · MSHA ID 4300545
    Abandoned
  11. Hamm Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300365
    Abandoned
  12. JENNESSE & BERRIE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jenness & Berrie · MSHA ID 4300479
    Abandoned
  13. METSO LT300 CONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · ZALUZNY EXCAVATING CORPORATION · MSHA ID 4300682
    Abandoned
  14. Moore Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Dummerston · MSHA ID 4300458
    Abandoned
  15. Parker'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greg Chico'S Trucking · MSHA ID 4300437
    Abandoned
  16. Pioneer Cone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cersosimo Industries Inc. · MSHA ID 4300781
    Abandoned
  17. PORTABLE EAGLE JAW CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · ZALUZNY EXCAVATING CORPORATION · MSHA ID 4300688
    Abandoned
  18. Rental Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cersosimo Industries Inc. · MSHA ID 4300735
    Abandoned
  19. Rte 103 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverbend Enterprises, Inc · MSHA ID 4300814
    Abandoned
  20. TOWN OF ROCKINGHAM GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Rockingham · MSHA ID 4300481
    Abandoned
  21. Watson'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greg Chico'S Trucking · MSHA ID 4300445
    Abandoned
  22. WEST RIVER GRANITE CO., INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · West River Granite Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300510
    Abandoned
  23. Whitaker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bernie LaRock & Son Inc · MSHA ID 4300712
    Abandoned
  24. Wilson Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Butch Wilson Excavating · MSHA ID 4300475
    Abandoned
  25. Zaluzny Excavating Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zaluzny Excavating Corp · MSHA ID 4300425
    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
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Gravel Pit 7
Quarry 7
Gravel Pit 4
Sand Pit 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Disturbed Surface - Pit 1
Sand Pit 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 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.