While there are obvious safety risks associated with these old mines, experts are also sounding the alarm on environmental factors, as mines can greatly impact an area's water supply or even damage ...

She had just given birth to their daughter, and he, with no job and a growing family to feed, risked arrest by descending thousands of feet into an abandoned gold mine, hoping to scrape enough of ...

A new law decades in the making could finally lead to the cleanup of some of the thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, by October of the same year, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced that DNA evidence failed to link any ...

Mining has played an important role in shaping Idaho, but the Idaho Conservation League is working to raise awareness about ...

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

One site where Trout Unlimited has worked is the abandoned gold and silver Orphan Boy Mine near Alma, Colorado. Jason Willis, ...

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 ...

More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province ... claim they were forced underground against their will to search for gold. A ...