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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Chippewa County, Wisconsin

Chippewa County, Wisconsin has 168 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1949–1979. MSHA's register carries 31 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Chippewa 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)
168
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
31
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1949–1979 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
    2 1.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    166 98.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned31 on register
  1. BloodRock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · No Mercy Excavating · MSHA ID 4703797
    Abandoned
  2. Chippewa County Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond Madson Excavating · MSHA ID 4702708
    Abandoned
  3. Chippewa County Opertions
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arthur Overgaard Inc · MSHA ID 4702647
    Abandoned
  4. Chippewa County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dave Haas Inc · MSHA ID 4702776
    Abandoned
  5. Chippewa County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4702213
    Abandoned
  6. Chippewa Falls Sand Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · EOG Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703624
    Abandoned
  7. Chippewa Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Silica Sands, LLC · MSHA ID 4703607
    Abandoned
  8. Custer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Union Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4702432
    Abandoned
  9. Eder Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eder Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4703549
    Abandoned
  10. Frontier Sand LaGesse Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frontier Sand, LLC · MSHA ID 4703597
    Abandoned
  11. George Bruyette Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luke Dernovsek Construction · MSHA ID 4701331
    Abandoned
  12. HALLIE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Materials Corp · MSHA ID 4702430
    Abandoned
  13. Hazuga Pit And Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plautz Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4702032
    Abandoned
  14. Hazuga Rock & Sand LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hazuga Rock & Sand LLC · MSHA ID 4703294
    Abandoned
  15. KMM-FS Plant - Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kraemer Mining & Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703598
    Abandoned
  16. KMM-FS Stripping
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kraemer Mining & Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703616
    Abandoned
  17. McGill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · JH Excavating, LLC · MSHA ID 4703964
    Abandoned
  18. Mikl Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · A&M Mikl Sands LLC · MSHA ID 4703746
    Abandoned
  19. Mobile Crusher Unit
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-1 Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4702960
    Abandoned
  20. MRS Bloomer
    Surface metal/non-metal · McCourt Reclamation Services Inc · MSHA ID 4703628
    Abandoned
  21. MRS New Auburn
    Surface metal/non-metal · McCourt Reclamation Services Inc · MSHA ID 4703629
    Abandoned
  22. NELSON
    Surface metal/non-metal · Senn Blacktop Inc · MSHA ID 4703226
    Abandoned
  23. Northern Gravel Company Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4702606
    Abandoned
  24. Perrenoud Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Perrenoud Inc · MSHA ID 4702198
    Abandoned
  25. PORTABLE CONE PLANT 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midwest Materials · MSHA ID 4702962
    Abandoned
  26. Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baughman Trucking & Excavating LLC · MSHA ID 4703458
    Abandoned
  27. WASH PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plautz-Pekol Inc · MSHA ID 4702676
    Abandoned
  28. Wash Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-1 Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4702429
    Abandoned
  29. Wash Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Skaw Precast Company Inc. · MSHA ID 4703572
    Abandoned
  30. Wash Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-1 Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4703103
    Abandoned
  31. Woodford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duffek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4702757
    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 128
Gravel Pit 25
Sand Pit 8
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Sand Pit 2
Shale Pit 2
Quarry 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.