For decades, federal rules punished good Samaritans who tried to tackle toxic mine pollution. A new program removes barriers ...

Nevada has an estimated 200,000 abandoned mines. As many as 400,000 abandoned mines are scattered throughout the West.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The men say they were forced to mine for rocks containing gold (stock photo) [Getty Images] More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern ...

Officials say Operation Vala Umgodi, or “Close the Pits”, will help eradicate a black market that drains the economy of as ...

“With this bill signed into law, Utahns can bypass bureaucratic hurdles and senseless lawsuits to clean up abandoned mines ...

One site where Trout Unlimited has worked is the abandoned gold and silver Orphan Boy Mine near Alma, Colorado. Jason Willis, the director of the group's Western Abandoned Mine Lands Program ...

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 ...