Varner Pit Metal/Non-Metal
Buffalo Bituminous Corp
· Surface
Controlled by
Duininck Brothers & Gilchrist/Buffalo Bituminous C
Wright County,
MN
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2100475
Varner Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
- —
Ownership history
- Buffalo Bituminous Corp 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Varner Pit sits in Wright County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.2% of county employment.
Local economic context
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Wright County, Minnesota · Population 145,270
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$106,666
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No reportable incidents on file.
MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.