Abandoned mines in Mason County, West Virginia

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   123 57.7%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   35 16.4%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   7 3.3%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   7 3.3%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   9 4.2%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   32 15.0%

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. Broad Run Mine

   Underground coal · Big River Mining LLC · MSHA ID 4609136
   Abandoned 2013-06-13
2. Broad Run Mine No. 1A

   Underground coal · Big River Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 4609228
   Abandoned 2025-02-20
3. Broad Run Prep Plant

   Facility coal · Big River Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 4609179
   Abandoned 2021-08-05
4. Burris Pit

   Surface coal · Sycamore Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606775
   Abandoned 1989-06-13
5. Clifton Tipple (2)

   Facility coal · Raven Hocking Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4607112
   Abandoned 2005-10-03
6. Ice Creek

   Underground coal · Dove Creek Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 4609288
   Abandoned 2025-02-20
7. Kelly Sand & Gravel

   Surface metal/non-metal · Kelly Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4606323
   Abandoned 1994-03-21
8. LETART CORPORATION #2

   Surface metal/non-metal · Letart Corp · MSHA ID 4607144
   Abandoned 2002-05-02
9. Montague Mine

   Surface coal · Mack Energy Company · MSHA ID 4606887
   Abandoned 1994-05-16
10. Montague Pit

    Facility coal · Raven Hocking Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4606104
    Abandoned 1987-03-06
11. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Valley Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4607957
    Abandoned and Sealed 1990-10-25
12. Putnam Mine

    Underground coal · Union Carbide Corp-Metals Division · MSHA ID 4601619
    Abandoned 1973-12-11
13. Raven Hocking Mine #1

    Underground coal · Rick Johnson Mining LLC · MSHA ID 4609384
    Abandoned 2025-02-20
14. Sporn

    Underground coal · Central Coal Comany · MSHA ID 4601664
    Abandoned 1985-12-18
15. Williams Mine

    Underground coal · Gallia Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4601884
    Abandoned 1979-10-01

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.