Mine Map Repository

INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE NATIONAL MINE MAP REPOSITORY

The NMMR contains digital and microfilm maps of surface and underground coal, metal and non-metal mines throughout the United States. Some of the information that can be found in the repository includes:

Mine and company names.
Underground mine plans including mains, rooms, and pillars.
Closure maps.
Adjacent mines.
Man-ways, shafts, mine surface openings, barrier pillars and ventilation facilities.
Geological information including bed name, bed thickness, depth, drill-hole data, cross-sections, elevation contours, structures, and outcrops.
Geographical data including abandoned railroad lines and stations, coal towns, surface facilities, roads, ponds, streams, and property survey points.

Districts, townships, sections, ranges, counties and municipalities, latitudes and longitudes, elevation bench marks, and surface elevations Gas, oil wells and drill-hole locations

The NMMR offers scanned map images from 200 dpi to 600 dpi on CDs and DVDs, microfilm prints, and microfilm copies. Newly donated mine maps will be scanned in color (depending on condition of the map). Microfilm mine maps are available for viewing by appointment. The following is an example of some of our clients and the types of requests we receive:

Private Citizens/Homeowners: Inquiries about past mining activity underlying their residence/community to access potential property hazard information related to past coal mining. They may also request information pertaining to mine subsidence insurance. There is no charge to private citizens and homeowners for the services of the NMMR.

Consultants: Identify specific project areas and request information on various mine seams, mine depth, extent of mine, closure dates, detailed maps of mine workings, and mine operators to use as a basic source of geological and engineering data.

Government Agencies: Request for information on subsidence, acid mine drainage, highway and bridge construction, mine maps for public display at municipal buildings and maps for local town meetings, mine fires and mine rescue operations. The information may also be requested to conduct health and safety activities, such as mine rescue operations or to correct adverse environmental impacts resulting from landslides, subsidence, mine fires, etc. There is no charge to government agencies for the services of the NMMR.

Developers & Contractors: Request mine maps to determine extent of mine workings and mine depth for pre-construction. They require information on coverage over mines to determine a need for support structures or to assist in making decisions relative to land use, foundation design, etc.

Architects: Utilize mine map information in their design of structures. The information is necessary for decisions on the types of foundations and weight displacements.

Realtors: Request information on abandoned mines within a given municipality. Their primary concern is to identify the distance of mines that underlie individual homes and whether information on mine subsidence insurance is necessary.

Mining Companies: Utilize mine maps to prepare mine permit applications for new or existing mines. Consume considerable time researching map files and request mine map copies for further evaluations.

In addition to the services named above, there are many other services that the NMMR can provide. Including but not limited to mine map images on CD/DVDs, photographic prints, microfilm copies, information on obtaining mine subsidence insurance, computerized research assistance, copies of indices listing the NMMR inventory, mine map and topographical map translations.

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The NMMR fees for our services are as follows: (Fees do not apply to not-for-profit interests.)
Research Assistance $46.00/hour @ 15 minute increments
Map Prints (paper) $5.00/print (18x24)
Web Costs (costs associated with map scans over the Internet)
There is no charge for CDs, DVDs or shipping

The contacts, office locations, and telephone numbers for the repositories are:

National Mine Map Repository Pittsburgh, PA	Mine Map Repository Wilkes-Barre, PA
Greig Robertson, Mine Map Specialist	Michael Kuhns, Supervisor
Office of Surface Mining	Office of Surface Mining
3 Parkway Center	The Stegmaier Building
Pittsburgh, PA 15220	7 North Wilkes-Barre Blvd, Suite 308
Telephone number: 412.937.3001	Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702-5293
Fax number 412.937.2888	570.830.1400
	570.830.1421

Office Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Office Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday by appointment	Monday - Friday

Notice: Mine maps within the National Mine Map Repository are not guaranteed to be accurate, correct or complete. These maps have been donated to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from various sources and the mines, streets, surface features and coal elevations cannot be verified. OSM does not warrant the accuracy of the mine maps within the NMMR, or the reliability of findings based upon data from the maps or from digital mapping programs.