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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Spokane County, Washington

Spokane County, Washington has 448 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1981, including 39 prospect pits; 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 69 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Spokane 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)
448
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
69
2 features carry a name39 prospect pits51 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1981 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    39 8.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    19 4.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    387 86.4%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 0.7%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Daybreak Mine Open Pit Mine
Pacific Rock Quarry Quarry - Rock

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 Abandoned69 on register
  1. 10th & Havana Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4500029
    Abandoned
  2. 8th & Carnahan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4500697
    Abandoned
  3. Airway Heights Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Airway Heights Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4502291
    Abandoned
  4. Airway Heights Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Atley Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502750
    Abandoned
  5. B P A Mead
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4502925
    Abandoned
  6. Barker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4503505
    Abandoned
  7. Basalt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4503134
    Abandoned
  8. BASALT PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4500073
    Abandoned
  9. BODES READY MIX & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bode'S Ready Mix & Gravel · MSHA ID 4502587
    Abandoned
  10. Bonneville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Materials & Construction Company · MSHA ID 4503113
    Abandoned
  11. CDC Portable Recycler Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · CPM Development Corporation · MSHA ID 4503588
    Abandoned
  12. Cheney Plaza Quarry 12-8
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502856
    Abandoned
  13. Cheney Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 4502658
    Abandoned
  14. Clausen Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · L M Johnson Inc · MSHA ID 4502050
    Abandoned
  15. Cleveland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502788
    Abandoned
  16. Cp-6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Max J Kuney Company · MSHA ID 4503011
    Abandoned
  17. Crestline Facility
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. · MSHA ID 4501118
    Abandoned
  18. Crushing & Recycling Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ibex Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503340
    Abandoned
  19. East Broadway Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4500696
    Abandoned
  20. Eller Pit 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eller Corporation · MSHA ID 4503813
    Abandoned
  21. Evergreen Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane County Road Department · MSHA ID 4501131
    Abandoned
  22. Foley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502836
    Abandoned
  23. FT. WRIGHT-PREMIX #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4500593
    Abandoned
  24. Geiger Field Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 4501918
    Abandoned
  25. Groves Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 4502720
    Abandoned
  26. Hardesty Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cunningham Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502877
    Abandoned
  27. Havana Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4503542
    Abandoned
  28. Hayford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Atley Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502778
    Abandoned
  29. Highland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clarkland Inc · MSHA ID 4500555
    Abandoned
  30. Highland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Highland Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 4503653
    Abandoned
  31. Iac Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4503137
    Abandoned
  32. IAC Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4503032
    Abandoned
  33. IAC Portable Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4503684
    Abandoned
  34. Latah Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502453
    Abandoned
  35. LEESON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leeson Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4503059
    Abandoned
  36. Little B Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little B Crushing · MSHA ID 4503680
    Abandoned
  37. Mead Pre-Mix #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4502205
    Abandoned
  38. Mica Gravel Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. A. Knight Const · MSHA ID 4503519
    Abandoned
  39. Moon Rock Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moon Rock Company · MSHA ID 4503690
    Abandoned
  40. Murphy Bros Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Murphy Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4503029
    Abandoned
  41. No 5 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4502137
    Abandoned
  42. Old Corral Pit No 63-5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502006
    Abandoned
  43. Palouse Crusher Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Palouse Asphalt Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502242
    Abandoned
  44. Park Road Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. · MSHA ID 4500560
    Abandoned
  45. Peters Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 4502921
    Abandoned
  46. Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Atley Company Inc · MSHA ID 4503027
    Abandoned
  47. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant Construction Company · MSHA ID 4502576
    Abandoned
  48. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gillingham Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4503064
    Abandoned
  49. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leeson Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4503135
    Abandoned
  50. Portable Mine Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mutual Materials Company · MSHA ID 4500919
    Abandoned
  51. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triangle Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4501288
    Abandoned
  52. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pro-Recycle LLC · MSHA ID 4503792
    Abandoned
  53. PORTABLE PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4503343
    Abandoned
  54. Portable Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunderland Excavating · MSHA ID 4503141
    Abandoned
  55. Qs-C-109
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 4502684
    Abandoned
  56. Qsc-252
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502913
    Abandoned
  57. S & F Construction Co Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & F Construction Company · MSHA ID 4500687
    Abandoned
  58. S. A. Gonzales Const Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · FIGHTING CREEK · MSHA ID 4503102
    Abandoned
  59. Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Excavating · MSHA ID 4503103
    Abandoned
  60. Spokane County Pit 44-15
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502389
    Abandoned
  61. SRP - Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spokane Rock Products, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503571
    Abandoned
  62. State Pit C-147
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502484
    Abandoned
  63. State Pit Psc-144
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 4502517
    Abandoned
  64. Sullivan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Inland Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4500640
    Abandoned
  65. Sutherland'S Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · W R Sutherland General Contractors · MSHA ID 4503005
    Abandoned
  66. U & I Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triangle Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502996
    Abandoned
  67. Unit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 4502995
    Abandoned
  68. Wandermere Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Materials & Construction Company · MSHA ID 4502721
    Abandoned
  69. Yardley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4500594
    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 168
Borrow Pit 71
Gravel Pit 58
Prospect Pit 39
Sand Pit 39
Borrow Pit 18
Sand Pit 14
Open Pit Mine 11
Clay Pit 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Quarry 5
Tailings - Undifferentiated 3
Quarry 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Quarry - Rock 1
Strip Mine 1
Clay Pit 1
Other counties in WashingtonAll 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.