Abandoned mines in Brooke County, West Virginia

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   24 9.3%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   74 28.7%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   3 1.2%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   13 5.0%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   7 2.7%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   137 53.1%

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.

…and 15 more problems not listed here.

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. Airport Strip

   Surface coal · Valley Mining, Inc, · MSHA ID 4609071
   Abandoned 2010-07-27
2. Bcc Mines

   Surface coal · Bologna Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606598
   Abandoned 1982-09-30
3. Bethany No 1 Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Liberty Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602833
   Abandoned 1973-12-18
4. Brooke Auger

   Surface coal · Eckenrode Coal Augering Inc · MSHA ID 4607444
   Abandoned 1992-02-24
5. Brooke County Strip

   Surface coal · Rayle Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606106
   Abandoned 1994-12-01
6. Brooke Harbor Dock

   Facility coal · Starvaggi Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4605618
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
7. C F & P Strip

   Surface coal · C F & P Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604744
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
8. Crosscreek Mine

   Surface coal · Oxford Mining Co LLC · MSHA ID 4609067
   Abandoned 2017-06-07
9. Duvall Ug

   Underground coal · Fireside Fuel Company · MSHA ID 4600233
   Abandoned 1970-11-11
10. Gabbie Mine

    Surface coal · Bologna Mining Company · MSHA ID 4604516
    Abandoned 1986-09-09
11. Graff No 1 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Bologna Mining Company · MSHA ID 4602834
    Abandoned 1973-01-26
12. Half Moon Cleaning Plant

    Facility coal · Weirton Ice & Coal Supply Company · MSHA ID 4602775
    Abandoned 2007-03-19
13. Mine No 1

    Underground coal · Ludee Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4605619
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-10-26
14. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · H J Friend Construction Company · MSHA ID 4602765
    Abandoned 1975-06-19
15. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Lena Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605081
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-10-22
16. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · I S C Inc · MSHA ID 4602592
    Abandoned 1981-10-22
17. No 1 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Gill Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602766
    Abandoned 1974-01-31
18. No 1 Ug Mine

    Underground coal · Hilltop Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4600235
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-12-21
19. No 61-Strip

    Surface coal · West Virginia Energy Inc · MSHA ID 4604962
    Abandoned 1992-05-11
20. No 805

    Surface coal · C F & P Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4602767
    Abandoned 2007-03-19
21. West Liberty Mine

    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605924
    Abandoned 1978-11-01
22. Windsor Mine

    Surface coal · Windsor Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601286
    Abandoned and Sealed 2005-03-22

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.