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Abandoned mines in Lincoln County, Wyoming

Lincoln County, Wyoming has 212 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1996, including 32 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 68 prospect pits; 18 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 175 problems in the county, 34 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 27 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Lincoln County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
212
Mine openings
32
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
34
MSHA mines marked abandoned
27
18 features carry a name68 prospect pits44 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1996 175 OSMRE problems, 141 reclaimed 2 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    91 23.5%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    68 17.6%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    26 6.7%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    81 20.9%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    21 5.4%
  6. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    4 1.0%
  7. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    91 23.5%
  8. Other
    symbols outside the classes above
    5 1.3%
Named features on the maps18 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Blazon Mine Adit
Blind Bull Mine Open Pit Mine
Brilliant Mine Adit
Conroy Mine Adit
Diamondville No 1 Mine Adit
Elkol Strip Mine Strip Mine area
Elkol Strip Mine Strip Mine area
Frontier No 1 Mine Adit
Frontier No 3 Mine Adit
Glencoe Mine Adit
Gomer Mine Adit
Kemmerer No 5 Mine Adit
Lincoln Star Mine Adit
Oakley Mine Adit
Radiant Mine Adit
Susie Mine Adit
Top of the World Mine Open Pit Mine
Vail Mine Adit

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.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems175 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Afton High School (PF 35) PF Public (Infra) Structure Reclamation Completed
Arickaree P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Arickaree P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Arickaree P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Blazon Gap RAMP - LINC0004 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Blazon Gap RAMP - LINC0004 P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Blazon Gap RAMP - LINC1019 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Blind Bull P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Blind Bull P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Brazier P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Brazier P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Brazier P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Coantag Prospect P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Cokeville High School (PF 39) PF Public (Infra) Structure Reclamation Completed
Comissary Ridgev - LINC1067 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Comissary Ridgev - LINC1067 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Commissary Ridge - LINC1068 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No. 1 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No. 1 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Cumberland No. 1 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No. 1 P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Cumberland No. 1 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No. 1 P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Pending
Cumberland No. 1 P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No. 1 P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No. 1 P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P2 Underground Mine Fires In Reclamation
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P3 Mine Opening In Reclamation
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Cumberland No.2 And Brilliant No. 8 P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P2 Underground Mine Fires In Reclamation
Diamond No. 1 P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Diamond No. 1 P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Emma P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Emma P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Etna Water and Sewer (PF 42) PF Public Utilities Reclamation Completed
Ferney Gulch P2 Portals In Reclamation
Ferney Gulch P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Glencoe P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Glencoe P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Glencoe P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Glencoe P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Glencoe P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Glencoe RAMP - LINC1014 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Glencoe RAMP - LINC1014 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Gomer P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Gomer P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Gomer P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Gomer P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Gomer P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Gomer - LINC1057 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Gomer - LINC1057 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kampman And Lees P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kampman And Lees P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Kampman And Lees P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Kampman and Lees - LINC1011 (RAMP?) P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Kampman and Lees - LINC1011 (RAMP?) P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Kampman and Lees LINC1005 (RAMP?) P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Hospital Access (PF 49) PF Roads Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, 3 - Linc0044 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, 3 - Linc0045 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, 3 Linc0041 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, 3 Linc1028 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, 3 Linc1028 P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, 3 Linc1028 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P1 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P2 Underground Mine Fires In Reclamation
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Nos. 1, 2, And 3 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Kemmerer Street Repairs (pf 29) PF Roads Reclamation Completed
Layland Canyon Mine P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Layland Canyon Mine P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Layland Canyon Mine P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Layland Canyon Mine P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Leefe - Carlisle Pit P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Leefe - North Forty Mine P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Leefe - Pahcoon -tailings P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Leefe - Pahcoon -tailings P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Linc0017 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Linc0018 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Linc0039 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Linc0040 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Linc0040 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Linc0040 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Linc0048 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Linc0048 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Linc0048 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Linc0050 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Linc0051 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Linc0051 P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Linc0051 P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Linc0051 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Linc0052 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Linc0054 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Linc0056 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Linc0056 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Linc0056 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Linc1010 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Linc1015 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Molly's P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Molly's P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Molly's P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
North Watercress Canyon Prospects P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
North Watercress Canyon Prospects P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Oakley P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Oakley P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Oakley P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Oakley P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Oakley P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Oakley P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Oakley P3 Mine Opening In Reclamation
Oakley P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Oakley P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Oakley South And Pacific Coal P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Oakley South And Pacific Coal P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Oakley South And Pacific Coal P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Oakley South And Pacific Coal P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Oakley South And Pacific Coal P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Oakley South And Pacific Coal P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Radiant LINC1016 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Radiant LINC1016 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Rose Canyon B Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Spring Draw/haddenham P1 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Spring Draw/haddenham P2 Subsidence In Reclamation

…and 25 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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned27 on register
  1. #33 Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · H-K Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4801392
    Abandoned
  2. ADDCAR System 43 HWM Serial No. LV23043
    Surface coal · ADDCAR Systems, LLC · MSHA ID 4801803
    Abandoned
  3. ALPINE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · ALOTA SAND & GRAVEL INC. · MSHA ID 4800298
    Abandoned
  4. B & B Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Gravel · MSHA ID 4801373
    Abandoned
  5. B & B PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Owen Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 4801560
    Abandoned
  6. BlaZe-On Construction 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · BlaZe-On Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4801603
    Abandoned
  7. Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lim Construction · MSHA ID 4801411
    Abandoned
  8. Crusher #1340
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schmid Sand & Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 4801469
    Abandoned
  9. CRUSHER NO 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · C R Roberts & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4801349
    Abandoned
  10. Deadman Mine
    Underground coal · Wy-Ida Coal Company · MSHA ID 4801454
    Abandoned and Sealed
  11. Elkol Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Kemmerer Coal Company · MSHA ID 4800087
    Abandoned
  12. Fmc Skull Point
    Surface coal · Fmc Corp · MSHA ID 4801052
    Abandoned
  13. GECR LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · GECR, LLC · MSHA ID 4801530
    Abandoned
  14. HEBDON CONSTRUCTION
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hebdon Construction · MSHA ID 4801582
    Abandoned
  15. Kemmerer #35
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilpatrick Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4801325
    Abandoned
  16. Leefe Operations
    Facility metal/non-metal · Stauffer Chemical Company · MSHA ID 4800160
    Abandoned
  17. Mobile Crushing/Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mike's Oilfield Svc. · MSHA ID 4801792
    Abandoned
  18. North Block Mine
    Surface coal · Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company · MSHA ID 4801192
    Abandoned and Sealed
  19. Opal Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Opal Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4801358
    Abandoned
  20. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fox Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4801743
    Abandoned
  21. PS249
    Surface metal/non-metal · Basic Energy Services, L.P. · MSHA ID 4801624
    Abandoned
  22. Roberts Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · C R Roberts & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4801260
    Abandoned
  23. Screening Plant No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801439
    Abandoned
  24. Star 89 Ranch ET1715
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mountain Star Products LLC · MSHA ID 4801907
    Abandoned
  25. Sulenta Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sulenta Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4801039
    Abandoned
  26. Wash Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eagle Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 4801438
    Abandoned
  27. Webber Quarry (Crusher #30-762)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big Horn Construction · MSHA ID 4801105
    Abandoned

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

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Prospect Pit 68
Gravel Pit 39
P2 Portals 30
Adit 29
Gravel Pit 28
P3 Mine Opening 15
P2 Subsidence 15
P3 Slump 13
P1 Subsidence 13
P2 Vertical Openings 12
Open Pit Mine 11
P1 Portals 11
P3 Spoil Area 9
P2 Underground Mine Fires 8
P3 Pits 6
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 6
P1 Vertical Openings 6
Strip Mine 5
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 4
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 4
Borrow Pit 4
Disturbed Surface - Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Mine Dump 3
Disturbed Surface 3
Mine Shaft 3
P1 Clogged Stream Lands 2
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 2
Strip Mine 2
PF Roads 2
PF Public (Infra) Structure 2
Quarry 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
P3 Gobs 2
P2 Dangerous Slides 2
P1 Clogged Streams 1
Tailings - Pond 1
Open Pit Mine 1
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 1
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 1
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 1
P2 Clogged Streams 1
P1 Dangerous Slides 1
Borrow Pit 1
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
Quarry 1
Quarry - Rock 1
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Tailings - Undifferentiated 1
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 1
PF Public Utilities 1
P2 Surface Burning 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  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.