9 comments

  • simonw
    1 minute ago
    TIL there's a mine within San Francisco city limits! https://mines.fyi/mine/0405261

    (I guess technically a "surface mine" for "Construction Sand and Gravel".)

  • HardwareLust
    22 minutes ago
    I saw your title and my first thought was "Why are there landmines in the US?" lol.
  • SaberTail
    1 hour ago
    This doesn't seem to be complete. It's missing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, for example, which should be southeast of Carlsbad, NM. It's a underground salt (metal/non-metal) mine, and MSHA definitely regulates it
  • kenforthewin
    1 hour ago
    I'm glad it's those kinds of mines rather than the ones I first thought of.
  • nektro
    29 minutes ago
    I love the idea of a site like this existing but the expanding dots is a really bad way to visualize this.
  • advisedwang
    45 minutes ago
    This seems to include cement works and other processing plants that have somewhat mine-like output but aren't actually extracting anything from the ground at that site.
  • irasigman
    2 hours ago
    Downloaded from https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-retrieval-sy.... Pipe-delimited, updated weekly by MSHA.
    • alexchamberlain
      1 hour ago
      There are 3 mines on Manhattan; is that correct?
      • leeter
        1 hour ago
        Based on the info if you click into them, likely no. I would have expected them to be incidental materials from tunneling, but reading the description that's not the case.
  • Exuma
    1 hour ago
    How many of these pose asbestos hazards like the Libby mine?