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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Chelan County, Washington

Chelan County, Washington has 292 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1944–2004, including 89 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 54 prospect pits; 7 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 48 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Chelan 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)
292
Mine openings
89
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
48
7 features carry a name54 prospect pits49 quadrangle maps, published 1944–2004 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
    89 30.5%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    54 18.5%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    7 2.4%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    135 46.2%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    7 2.4%
Named features on the maps7 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Cannon Mine Open Pit Mine
Edil Mine Open Pit Mine
Golden King Mine Adit
Holden Mine Adit
Red Mountain Mine Adit
Red Mountain Mine Adit
Van Epps Mine Mine Shaft

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 Abandoned48 on register
  1. Alcoa Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wenatchee Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4500719
    Abandoned
  2. Apple Acres Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allen Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503727
    Abandoned
  3. Bergren Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bergren Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503292
    Abandoned
  4. BURNETT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pipkin Construction · MSHA ID 4503401
    Abandoned
  5. Cannon Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Asamera Minerals (Us) Inc · MSHA ID 4502961
    Abandoned
  6. Cannon Mine Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Mine Services Inc · MSHA ID 4503170
    Abandoned
  7. Cashmere #200 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chelan County Road Department · MSHA ID 4500510
    Abandoned
  8. Chelan Concrete Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chelan Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 4502383
    Abandoned
  9. D-Reef
    Underground metal/non-metal · Asamera Minerals (Us) Inc · MSHA ID 4503129
    Abandoned
  10. Dan'S Portable Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dan'S Backhoe Service · MSHA ID 4503070
    Abandoned
  11. ENTIAT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pipkin Construction · MSHA ID 4503417
    Abandoned
  12. Fields Point Development
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smithco Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4502998
    Abandoned
  13. Fountain Head Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Fountain Head Company · MSHA ID 4503553
    Abandoned
  14. Holden Mine Rehabilitation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Usda Forest Service · MSHA ID 4503225
    Abandoned
  15. Holden Mine Remediation Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Magnus Pacific Corporation · MSHA ID 4503702
    Abandoned
  16. K21 Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodfellow Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4503028
    Abandoned
  17. Kawecki Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wenatchee Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4502379
    Abandoned
  18. King Bee
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wenatchee National Forest · MSHA ID 4502717
    Abandoned
  19. Lovitt Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Lovitt Mining Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 4503650
    Abandoned
  20. M D O I #1 Mine & Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · Montana De Oro Inc · MSHA ID 4502867
    Abandoned
  21. Malaga Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chelan County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4501660
    Abandoned
  22. Marshall Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marshall Excavating · MSHA ID 4503045
    Abandoned
  23. Mother Lode Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pack River Company · MSHA ID 4502558
    Abandoned
  24. Olds Station Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia River Concrete · MSHA ID 4500599
    Abandoned
  25. PORTABLE 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tunnel Hill Granite LLC · MSHA ID 4502152
    Abandoned
  26. Portable 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tunnel Hill Granite, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 4503700
    Abandoned
  27. PORTABLE CRUSHER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morrill Asphalt Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 4503357
    Abandoned
  28. PORTABLE CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wenatchee Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503346
    Abandoned
  29. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lloyd L Palm Construction · MSHA ID 4503683
    Abandoned
  30. Portable Screen Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wenatchee Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503254
    Abandoned
  31. PORTABLE WASH PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wenatchee Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4502559
    Abandoned
  32. Ps K-167 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502624
    Abandoned
  33. Ps-K-107
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 4502449
    Abandoned
  34. Ps-K-177
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 4502384
    Abandoned
  35. Pumice Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ewer Lumber Company Inc · MSHA ID 4500935
    Abandoned
  36. Quarry Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4503291
    Abandoned
  37. Rainy Creek Pit No 06-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · B B & K Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 4501579
    Abandoned
  38. Red Mountain
    Underground metal/non-metal · Geomex Mine Services Inc · MSHA ID 4502964
    Abandoned
  39. Rock Island Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chelan County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4502081
    Abandoned
  40. Rocky Reach
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apple Valley Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4503590
    Abandoned
  41. Sanitary Landfill
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Cashmere · MSHA ID 4502546
    Abandoned
  42. Snow Flake #1
    Underground metal/non-metal · Blish & Martin · MSHA ID 4502702
    Abandoned
  43. Spillman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunbelt Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4502692
    Abandoned
  44. State K-195
    Surface metal/non-metal · Max J Kuney Company · MSHA ID 4501936
    Abandoned
  45. Sunshine Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson-Morgan-Topelle · MSHA ID 4502822
    Abandoned
  46. Wenatchee Sand Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wenatchee Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503072
    Abandoned
  47. Wenatchee Silica Products Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asamera Minerals (Us) Inc · MSHA ID 4500822
    Abandoned
  48. Wenatchee Silica Sand Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Silica Company · MSHA ID 4502579
    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
Adit 85
Prospect Pit 54
Gravel Pit 51
Borrow Pit 51
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 16
Quarry 8
Open Pit Mine 7
Gravel Pit 6
Mine Shaft 4
Tailings - Undifferentiated 3
Tailings - Pond 2
Mine Dump 2
Sand Pit 1
Quarry 1
Borrow 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.