Abandoned mines in Wayne County, West Virginia

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   94 61.4%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   22 14.4%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   2 1.3%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   9 5.9%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   8 5.2%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   17 11.1%
7. Other

   symbols outside the classes above
   1 0.7%

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. Auger Mine No 1

   Surface coal · Queens Ridge Energy Inc · MSHA ID 4606837
   Abandoned 1984-08-24
2. Big Lynn Mine No 1

   Underground coal · Spring Branch Coal Company · MSHA ID 4603714
   Abandoned 1980-09-26
3. Bull Branch Surface Mine

   Surface coal · Cub Branch Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4607710
   Abandoned 1990-03-30
4. Camp Creek Mine

   Underground coal · Rockspring Development Inc · MSHA ID 4605121
   Abandoned and Sealed 2017-03-08
5. Ceredo Ponds

   Facility coal · Kanawha River Terminals Inc · MSHA ID 4607907
   Abandoned 1997-05-05
6. Ceredo Synfuel Plant

   Facility coal · Ceredo Synfuel LLC · MSHA ID 4608831
   Abandoned 2011-06-20
7. Copley Trace Surface Mine

   Surface coal · Argus Energy WV LLC · MSHA ID 4608704
   Abandoned 2024-09-26
8. Deep Mine #4

   Underground coal · Pen Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4608579
   Abandoned and Sealed 2000-05-25
9. Deep Mine No 3

   Underground coal · Pen Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4608470
   Abandoned and Sealed 2002-01-25
10. Deep Mine No 5

    Underground coal · Pen Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4608661
    Abandoned and Sealed 2000-11-17
11. Deep Mine No 6

    Underground coal · Argus Energy WV, LLC · MSHA ID 4608821
    Abandoned and Sealed 2004-02-27
12. East Lynn Mine

    Underground coal · Allied Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4604993
    Abandoned 2024-03-27
13. Frank Branch #1

    Underground coal · Pen Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4607838
    Abandoned and Sealed 1995-06-14
14. Frank Branch No 2

    Underground coal · Pen Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4608412
    Abandoned 1999-02-17
15. Glenhayes Site

    Facility coal · Columbia Coal Gasification Corp · MSHA ID 4606494
    Abandoned 1982-09-29
16. Honey Branch Prep Plant

    Facility coal · Cub Branch Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4607321
    Abandoned 1987-07-14
17. Honey Branch Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Cub Branch Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4607322
    Abandoned 1990-10-18
18. Kiah Creek Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Pen Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4606606
    Abandoned 2002-12-09
19. No 1

    Underground coal · Jacob Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605825
    Abandoned and Sealed 1994-04-07
20. No 1

    Facility coal · Big Sandy Reclamation Inc · MSHA ID 4607231
    Abandoned 1993-07-02
21. No 1

    Underground coal · Sequoia Mining Company · MSHA ID 4608124
    Abandoned and Sealed 1993-11-01
22. No 1 Dredge

    Facility coal · Scioto Coal & Coke · MSHA ID 4608012
    Abandoned 1992-12-15
23. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · East Fork Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604645
    Abandoned 1976-07-13
24. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Lewis Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605112
    Abandoned 1977-08-02
25. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Ferguson Branch Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605740
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
26. No 2

    Underground coal · Eastco Mining L P · MSHA ID 4607839
    Abandoned and Sealed 1994-03-10
27. No 2 Mine

    Underground coal · East Fork Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604646
    Abandoned 1976-07-13
28. No 3 Mine

    Underground coal · Cove Gap Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601998
    Abandoned 1980-09-26
29. No 9

    Underground coal · Argus Energy WV, LLC · MSHA ID 4609403
    Abandoned 2025-03-21
30. No. 10

    Underground coal · Argus Energy WV LLC · MSHA ID 4609428
    Abandoned 2018-07-26
31. Paragon Coal Corporation

    Facility coal · Paragon Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4606544
    Abandoned 1992-12-28
32. Powdermill Auger #1

    Surface coal · Calcutta Energy, Inc · MSHA ID 4609547
    Abandoned 2018-05-31
33. Riverside Synfuel Plant

    Facility coal · Riverside Synfuel, LLC · MSHA ID 4608971
    Abandoned 2009-03-09
34. STONECOAL

    Underground coal · SNR Stonecoal LLC · MSHA ID 4601939
    Abandoned 2024-03-27
35. Tripp Tipple

    Facility coal · Hugheston Dock Company · MSHA ID 4605613
    Abandoned 1982-03-30
36. Wayco Lmtd Ptrsp No 1 Shop (1)

    Facility coal · Wayco Limited Partnership No 1 · MSHA ID 4608388
    Abandoned 1994-09-01

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.