Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland, a man’s life hung in the ...

In central Idaho, the Triumph Mine produced silver, lead, and zinc from the late 1800s into the 1950s. But since shuttering ...

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana took to the floor of the Senate to introduce a bill intended to help clean up abandoned and ...

For over 25 years, advocacy groups and bipartisan lawmakers from across the West have tried to address an intricacy of ...

New Jersey is home to 600 of the nation's 500,000 abandoned mines, yet the danger they pose looms large in the state's north.

There are about 500,000 abandoned mines in the United States ... simply because there are so many. In the gold rush state of Colorado, about "13,500 mine features have been closed so far ...

More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern ... underground against their will to search for gold. A police spokesperson confirmed the miners ...

Hundreds of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, will ...

Road crews have been working 'around the clock' to repair a stretch of Interstate 80 in New Jersey after a sinkhole forced the eastbound lanes to close.

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...