Abandoned mines in Gilmer County, West Virginia

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   30 17.5%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   52 30.4%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   4 2.3%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   13 7.6%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   6 3.5%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   66 38.6%

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. #1

   Underground coal · Baldwin Mining Company · MSHA ID 4606548
   Abandoned and Sealed 2006-01-29
2. Bear Run Mine

   Underground coal · Orlando Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605105
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
3. Bear Run Mine No 2

   Underground coal · Orlando Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605241
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
4. Cleaning Plant No 1

   Facility coal · Orlando Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605407
   Abandoned 1978-03-13
5. Duck Run Strip

   Surface coal · Rockcastle Company · MSHA ID 4605607
   Abandoned 1981-07-08
6. Foster Surface Mine

   Surface coal · Foster Mining Company · MSHA ID 4602687
   Abandoned 1973-10-24
7. Jon Tee #1 Mine

   Facility coal · Gilmer Energies Inc · MSHA ID 4603217
   Abandoned 1989-06-05
8. K Mine No 2

   Underground coal · Bern Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605887
   Abandoned 1978-10-01
9. Kanawha #1

   Underground coal · Orlando Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605930
   Abandoned and Sealed 2005-07-28
10. Kanawha #2

    Underground coal · Blackfoot Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4605959
    Abandoned and Sealed 2005-07-28
11. Kanawha #3 Mine

    Surface coal · Orlando Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4606269
    Abandoned 1982-03-30
12. M L M No 4 Surface

    Surface coal · M L M Corp · MSHA ID 4605745
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
13. Mine No 1

    Underground coal · Reno Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605339
    Abandoned and Sealed 2005-07-28
14. Mine No 2

    Underground coal · Little Kanawha Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601604
    Abandoned 1971-06-28
15. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · J & K Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604484
    Abandoned 1976-08-11
16. No 1 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · T & M Fuel Company · MSHA ID 4603093
    Abandoned 1973-06-14
17. No 1 Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Nicholas Coal & Lumber · MSHA ID 4604794
    Abandoned 1976-01-12
18. No 2 Mine

    Underground coal · P & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601976
    Abandoned 1975-08-28
19. No 2 Mine

    Underground coal · K Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602571
    Abandoned 1981-07-08
20. No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Foster Mining Company · MSHA ID 4603095
    Abandoned 1973-08-30

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.