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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Marinette County, Wisconsin

Marinette County, Wisconsin has 317 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1939–1982; 4 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Marinette 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)
317
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
4 features carry a name0 prospect pits39 quadrangle maps, published 1939–1982 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
    11 3.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    305 96.2%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 0.3%
Named features on the maps4 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Granite Quarry Quarry
Granite Quarry Quarry
Molybdenite Mine Open Pit Mine
Munot Quarry Quarry

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 Abandoned26 on register
  1. Behrens Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Emmerson Behrens · MSHA ID 4702236
    Abandoned
  2. CRIVITZ GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · CRIVITZ GRAVEL, INC. · MSHA ID 4702819
    Abandoned
  3. Crivitz Ready Mix Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, Inc. · MSHA ID 4702688
    Abandoned
  4. DURA CONSTRUCTION
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dura Construction · MSHA ID 4703229
    Abandoned
  5. ISP Minerals Inc-Kremlin Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward E Gillen Company · MSHA ID 4703592
    Abandoned
  6. Kremlin
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703727
    Abandoned
  7. Kust Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kust Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4702698
    Abandoned
  8. Lawrence Becker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shaw & Radley Inc · MSHA ID 4702620
    Abandoned
  9. Marinette Concrete Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marinette Concrete Products · MSHA ID 4703144
    Abandoned
  10. Marinette County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackie Foster Inc · MSHA ID 4702561
    Abandoned
  11. Marinette County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peters Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 4702704
    Abandoned
  12. Marinette County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Biehl Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4702808
    Abandoned
  13. MARINETTE COUNTY PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marinette County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702243
    Abandoned
  14. Marinette County Pits II
    Surface metal/non-metal · Biehl Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4702990
    Abandoned
  15. Marinette County Pits V
    Surface metal/non-metal · Biehl Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703206
    Abandoned
  16. Marinette County Pits VI
    Surface metal/non-metal · Biehl Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703450
    Abandoned
  17. Marinette County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackie Foster Inc · MSHA ID 4702125
    Abandoned
  18. Plant 17 - Portable Washer #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703097
    Abandoned
  19. PORTABLE UNIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goltz Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4702985
    Abandoned
  20. Porterfield Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Badger Mining Corp · MSHA ID 4702739
    Abandoned
  21. Pound Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marinette Concrete Products - Pound · MSHA ID 4701746
    Abandoned
  22. PW-12
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 4703204
    Abandoned
  23. Screen Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Welding Service, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703318
    Abandoned
  24. Shady Lane Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-County Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4702415
    Abandoned
  25. Three B's Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · David Behrens Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4703518
    Abandoned
  26. Wisconsin Silver Grey Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michels Road & Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4702761
    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 222
Gravel Pit 29
Sand Pit 25
Quarry 12
Sand Pit 11
Disturbed Surface - Pit 7
Quarry 4
Open Pit Mine 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Tailings - Pond 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Sand and Gravel 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.