Abandoned mines in Goshen County, Wyoming

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   27 27.0%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   25 25.0%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   4 4.0%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   40 40.0%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   2 2.0%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   2 2.0%

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.

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. BASS QUARRY

   Surface metal/non-metal · Divide Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 4801342
   Abandoned 2001-03-08
2. Cone Crusher

   Surface metal/non-metal · Lamb Construction Company · MSHA ID 4801374
   Abandoned 1991-12-10
3. Domson Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Domson Incorporated · MSHA ID 4801707
   Abandoned 2007-09-30
4. G&L CONCRETE INC.

   Surface metal/non-metal · G & L Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 4801445
   Abandoned 2003-06-10
5. GLENROCK SCREEN

   Facility metal/non-metal · Concrete Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801542
   Abandoned 2002-03-04
6. GOSHEN COUNTY CRUSHER

   Surface metal/non-metal · Goshen County Road & Bridge · MSHA ID 4801465
   Abandoned 2005-01-31
7. Goshen Gravel Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Goshen Gravel Co LLC · MSHA ID 4801779
   Abandoned 2020-11-06
8. Greenwald Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Construction · MSHA ID 4801549
   Abandoned 2006-01-01
9. Heritage Material & Supply

   Surface metal/non-metal · Heritage Material & Supply · MSHA ID 4801730
   Abandoned 2017-10-12
10. Jones Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Goshen County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4801057
    Abandoned 1980-03-19
11. Lamb Crusher No 1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Lamb Construction Company · MSHA ID 4801310
    Abandoned 1991-12-10
12. Lamb Crusher No 2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Lamb Construction Company · MSHA ID 4801311
    Abandoned 1984-02-28
13. Lamb Primary

    Surface metal/non-metal · Lamb Construction Company · MSHA ID 4801312
    Abandoned 1991-12-12
14. Portable Crusher No 1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Lamb Construction Company · MSHA ID 4801491
    Abandoned 1993-12-28
15. TORRINGTON CEMENT PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · Torrington Cement Products Inc · MSHA ID 4800780
    Abandoned 1997-12-03
16. Western Farms Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · State Of Wyoming · MSHA ID 4801129
    Abandoned 1980-07-01

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

• Fremont County 2,398
• Crook County 919
• Carbon County 713
• Sweetwater County 691
• Albany County 428
• Big Horn County 427
• Johnson County 254
• Natrona County 231
• Lincoln County 212
• Converse County 198
• Park County 179
• Campbell County 179

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.