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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Windsor County, Vermont

Windsor County, Vermont has 153 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1915–1998, including 12 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 45 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Windsor 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)
153
Mine openings
12
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
45
2 features carry a name0 prospect pits24 quadrangle maps, published 1915–1998 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
    12 7.8%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    22 14.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    119 77.8%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Bethel Granite Quarry Quarry
Williams Mine 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 Abandoned45 on register
  1. ASCUTNEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Victor P Jarvis Company · MSHA ID 4300412
    Abandoned
  2. BENSON & WIGHT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Benson & Wight Construction · MSHA ID 4300469
    Abandoned
  3. Beyon Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Blais · MSHA ID 4300624
    Abandoned
  4. Bowen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harveys Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4300237
    Abandoned
  5. Brockway Mills Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Butch Wilson Excavating · MSHA ID 4300779
    Abandoned
  6. BUNDY BOULEVARD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bethel · MSHA ID 4300385
    Abandoned
  7. CAVENDISH TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Cavendish · MSHA ID 4300541
    Abandoned
  8. CAVENDISH VEROE ANTIQUE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Quarries Corp · MSHA ID 4300514
    Abandoned
  9. CHESTER GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Chester · MSHA ID 4300543
    Abandoned
  10. CHESTER MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300149
    Abandoned
  11. Cliffords Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clifford'S Loam & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4300297
    Abandoned
  12. CRAWFORD'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Royalton · MSHA ID 4300476
    Abandoned
  13. DAVIS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · W B Rogers Inc · MSHA ID 4300446
    Abandoned
  14. DREW'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pompy Farms Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4300395
    Abandoned
  15. FARRELL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norwich Associates · MSHA ID 4300506
    Abandoned
  16. Gassetts Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Windsor Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4300151
    Abandoned
  17. Gassetts Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gassetts Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 4300603
    Abandoned
  18. Green Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Theodore Green Sr-Trust · MSHA ID 4300296
    Abandoned
  19. Hammondsville Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Cyprus Windsor Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 4300080
    Abandoned
  20. Hartland Pit 001658
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300341
    Abandoned
  21. Hartland Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lebanon Crushed Stone · MSHA ID 4300271
    Abandoned
  22. Holden Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Soapstone Company · MSHA ID 4300390
    Abandoned
  23. JULIAN MATERIALS, LLC - CHESTER
    Surface metal/non-metal · JULIAN MATERIALS, LLC. · MSHA ID 4300402
    Abandoned
  24. Ketchum Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Francis Ketchum · MSHA ID 4300295
    Abandoned
  25. L. W. RHOADES & SONS, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · L W Rhoades & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4300468
    Abandoned
  26. LUDLOW MILL
    Facility metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300276
    Abandoned
  27. Ludlow Mines-Underground
    Underground metal/non-metal · Windsor Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4300181
    Abandoned
  28. LUDLOW SHIPPING CENTER
    Facility metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300357
    Abandoned
  29. MILLER CONSTRUCTION
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4300533
    Abandoned
  30. Murray'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greg Chico'S Trucking · MSHA ID 4300438
    Abandoned
  31. Northeast Materials Bethel Rock of Ages
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Materials Group LLC · MSHA ID 4300742
    Abandoned
  32. O'Neil Sand & Gravel, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · M&M Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300566
    Abandoned
  33. OSG EXTEC SCREENER
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M EXCAVATING INC · MSHA ID 4300465
    Abandoned
  34. Plymouth Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Colton Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300294
    Abandoned
  35. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & D Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300738
    Abandoned
  36. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · DANIEL S.CLAY EXCAVATION · MSHA ID 4300824
    Abandoned
  37. PORTABLE LORD SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Burke & Sons · MSHA ID 4300367
    Abandoned
  38. PORTABLE SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · DANIEL S. CLAY EXCAVATION · MSHA ID 4300823
    Abandoned
  39. Quazo Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brown Construction Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 4300576
    Abandoned
  40. Renaud Gravel, Inc. - Chester Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Renaud Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300795
    Abandoned
  41. ROGERS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · W B Rogers Inc · MSHA ID 4300447
    Abandoned
  42. Severy's Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harveys Plumbing and Excavating · MSHA ID 4300761
    Abandoned
  43. Tucker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tucker Construction Corp · MSHA ID 4300195
    Abandoned
  44. WEST WINDSOR MILL
    Facility metal/non-metal · Luzenac America · MSHA ID 4300333
    Abandoned
  45. Windham Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Talc Inc · MSHA ID 4300079
    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 62
Gravel Pit 16
Disturbed Surface 13
Quarry 12
Mine Shaft 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 8
Sand Pit 8
Sand Pit 6
Adit 3
Borrow Pit 2
Borrow Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Mine 1
Quarry 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 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.