Abandoned mines in Ferry County, Washington

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   120 31.2%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   156 40.6%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   7 1.8%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   100 26.0%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   1 0.3%

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.

1. ACI Northwest Inc

   Surface metal/non-metal · ACI Northwest Inc · MSHA ID 1002096
   Abandoned 2017-10-01
2. Alpine Concrete & Excavation, Inc

   Surface metal/non-metal · Alpine Concrete & Excavation, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503294
   Abandoned 2011-09-08
3. BEAL

   Surface metal/non-metal · ACI Northwest Inc · MSHA ID 4503720
   Abandoned 2016-10-01
4. Empire Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Baker Mines · MSHA ID 4503050
   Abandoned 1985-12-16
5. Gold Dike

   Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Mountain Inc · MSHA ID 4502973
   Abandoned 1990-07-27
6. Gwin

   Underground metal/non-metal · C S C Mining Company · MSHA ID 4503008
   Abandoned 1985-10-04
7. Hall Creek Pit - Fy 69

   Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502562
   Abandoned 1980-12-09
8. Hall Creek Pit - Fy 99

   Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502563
   Abandoned 1980-12-09
9. Kettle River Mill Site

   Facility metal/non-metal · Echo Bay Minerals Company · MSHA ID 4503283
   Abandoned 2018-10-01
10. Kettle River Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Stotts Pre-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4502566
    Abandoned 1982-08-09
11. Kettle River Site

    Underground metal/non-metal · Echo Bay Minerals Company · MSHA ID 4503148
    Abandoned 1992-09-29
12. Key East Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Echo Bay Minerals Company · MSHA ID 4503271
    Abandoned 1993-12-03
13. Key West Underground

    Underground metal/non-metal · Echo Bay Minerals Company · MSHA ID 4503272
    Abandoned 1994-12-20
14. Kifers Mica Slate Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Kant Hardly Rocks · MSHA ID 4500035
    Abandoned 1982-08-09
15. LAMEFOOT MINE SITE

    Underground metal/non-metal · Echo Bay Minerals Company · MSHA ID 4503265
    Abandoned 2001-01-01
16. Lone Star Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Mining Corp · MSHA ID 4502433
    Abandoned 1979-01-26
17. Morning Glory Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Morning Glory Mining Company · MSHA ID 4503022
    Abandoned 1985-05-07
18. Morning Star

    Underground metal/non-metal · Morning Star Mines Inc · MSHA ID 4503169
    Abandoned 1988-09-22
19. Morning Star Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Brooklyn Mining & Exploration Co LLC · MSHA ID 4503532
    Abandoned 2004-08-02
20. Mount Tolman Project

    Underground metal/non-metal · Amax Inc · MSHA ID 4502169
    Abandoned 1982-04-06
21. Never Fear Prospect

    Underground metal/non-metal · Mett Oversby · MSHA ID 4502690
    Abandoned 1982-04-06
22. Overlook Mine Site

    Underground metal/non-metal · Echo Bay Minerals Company · MSHA ID 4503184
    Abandoned 1995-10-26
23. Pacific Mutual Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Nesco Mining Corp · MSHA ID 4501505
    Abandoned 1978-12-07
24. Portable Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ferry County Public Works Department · MSHA ID 4503087
    Abandoned 2016-08-29
25. Portable Crusher #2

    Surface metal/non-metal · ACI Northwest, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503696
    Abandoned 2016-10-01
26. Portable Screening Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Stotts Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503266
    Abandoned 1994-08-15
27. Quilp Decline

    Underground metal/non-metal · Hecla Mining Company · MSHA ID 4503216
    Abandoned 1991-02-11
28. REPUBLIC UNIT

    Underground metal/non-metal · Hecla Mining Company · MSHA ID 4500365
    Abandoned 1997-01-20
29. Seattle Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · George O'Brien · MSHA ID 4502644
    Abandoned 1994-08-05
30. South Penn

    Surface metal/non-metal · Chemgold Inc · MSHA ID 4503009
    Abandoned 1990-01-16
31. State Pit - Fy 128

    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502564
    Abandoned 1980-12-09
32. State Pit - Fy 63

    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502561
    Abandoned 1980-12-09
33. Stotts Pre-Mix

    Surface metal/non-metal · Stotts Pre-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4502565
    Abandoned 1989-06-27
34. Swamp Creek Sand Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ferry County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502391
    Abandoned 1981-01-15
35. Valley Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · High Country Mining · MSHA ID 4502358
    Abandoned 1988-09-22
36. White Star Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · White Star Mining & Milling Corpo · MSHA ID 4502434
    Abandoned 1978-08-08

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Okanogan County 1,225
• Stevens County 1,033
• King County 638
• Cowlitz County 571
• Spokane County 448
• Lewis County 427
• Pierce County 422
• Kittitas County 369
• Lincoln County 350
• Grant County 295
• Chelan County 292
• Grays Harbor County 285

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.