Weathered, historic diamond-find ledgers, fossilised oyster shells, mineralised rock formations, salt deposits and old rusted ...

While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media ...

19 signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act. It was bipartisan legislation, more than 20 years in the making. It has been hailed by some as “the most important ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The work to fill an abandoned mine after a woman fell in through a sinkhole in December is almost complete. “I just couldn’t believe it. I was in shock,” said Marilyn ...

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Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface ...

Some 18 bodies have been brought out of the abandoned mine in northwestern town of Stilfontein since Friday. But some 500 more are still trapped inside after being stuck underground for nine months.

Forensic service workers carry remains in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan.

After years of demanding the cleanup of uranium waste at the Kerr-McGee Quivira Mines on the Navajo Nation community advocates got the news this week that the Environmental Protection Agency will ...