Abandoned mines in Braxton County, West Virginia

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   44 34.1%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   36 27.9%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   6 4.7%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   4 3.1%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   2 1.6%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   37 28.7%

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. B & J Mine

   Underground coal · B & J Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604793
   Abandoned 1976-12-20
2. Bridgeport Mining Strip

   Surface coal · Bridgeport Mining Company · MSHA ID 4605115
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
3. Dennison Strip

   Surface coal · Graybeals Indian Creek Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607246
   Abandoned 1989-02-27
4. Frametown Strip

   Surface coal · Grafton Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604506
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
5. Freeport Mine No 1a

   Underground coal · Tygart Coal Company · MSHA ID 4607497
   Abandoned and Sealed 2005-07-28
6. Jackson Bridge Extension

   Facility coal · Brooks Run Mining Company, LLC · MSHA ID 4609437
   Abandoned 2024-03-12
7. Jackson Stone Incorporated

   Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4606744
   Abandoned 1993-03-26
8. Little Otter Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Zampa Brady · MSHA ID 4605222
   Abandoned 1980-04-28
9. Loyal Jack Strip

   Surface coal · Loyal Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605642
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
10. Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Prestige Mining Corp · MSHA ID 4606099
    Abandoned 1981-09-16
11. Mine No 11 South

    Underground coal · Anr Coal Company Llc · MSHA ID 4608267
    Abandoned and Sealed 2005-07-28
12. Mine No 3a

    Underground coal · T & R Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606114
    Abandoned and Sealed 1989-06-22
13. Mine No 3b

    Underground coal · Lackey Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4606203
    Abandoned and Sealed 1989-06-22
14. Mine No 4a

    Underground coal · D & K Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606115
    Abandoned and Sealed 1988-08-03
15. Mine No 8a

    Underground coal · Lexie Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4606284
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-01-16
16. Mine Number 5b

    Underground coal · Pammlid Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606202
    Abandoned and Sealed 1992-08-10
17. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · F L Rhodes Coal Company · MSHA ID 4603210
    Abandoned 1973-04-10
18. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Dawn Coal Company · MSHA ID 4603814
    Abandoned 1973-12-06
19. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Copen Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605159
    Abandoned 1989-06-05
20. No 3 Mine

    Underground coal · C L Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604779
    Abandoned 1976-10-04
21. No 6 Mine

    Underground coal · Rifson Coal Company · MSHA ID 4603966
    Abandoned 1976-10-04
22. Oneida Little Birch No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Mountain Haus Properties · MSHA ID 4608154
    Abandoned and Sealed 2005-07-28
23. Oneida Little Birch No 2

    Surface coal · Oneida Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4608258
    Abandoned 1995-01-10
24. Oneida Mine No 11

    Underground coal · Oneida Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606557
    Abandoned and Sealed 1994-04-28
25. Oneida Mine No 12

    Underground coal · Oneida Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606846
    Abandoned and Sealed 1991-02-07
26. Plant No 2

    Underground coal · Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc · MSHA ID 4605243
    Abandoned and Sealed 1994-04-28
27. Preparation Plant #2 & #3

    Facility coal · Juliana Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606414
    Abandoned 1994-02-17
28. Prestonia No 14

    Underground coal · Prestonia Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606445
    Abandoned 1986-06-30
29. Princess Anne #2

    Surface coal · Princess Anne Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4604574
    Abandoned 1976-01-13
30. Rock Camp Holly

    Surface metal/non-metal · Kenton Meadows Company Inc · MSHA ID 4600032
    Abandoned 1982-11-30
31. Shannon Mine No 1

    Underground coal · Shannon Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606908
    Abandoned and Sealed 1992-06-25
32. Spruce Fork Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Salt Lick Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4606036
    Abandoned 1986-01-16
33. Sutton Job

    Surface metal/non-metal · Hawthorne Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4606345
    Abandoned 1984-08-21
34. Turner Strip

    Surface coal · Harry C Boggs · MSHA ID 4604570
    Abandoned 1977-08-01

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

• McDowell County 1,279
• Kanawha County 1,138
• Fayette County 1,082
• Preston County 877
• Monongalia County 875
• Raleigh County 812
• Logan County 796
• Harrison County 670
• Wyoming County 623
• Boone County 586
• Mingo County 474
• Nicholas County 455

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.