Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah. The fire, burning in a coal seam in the historic Kenilworth ...

Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.

For many years, the Syrian desert was an incredibly dangerous place. Experts believe the last remnants of Islamic State are still there. But are they really?

Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...

At least one state said it cannot access federal funds to clean up old, abandoned mines that pose a danger to the public.

The sinkhole on Route 80 is over one of the 400 mines active during the Revolutionary War but it's hard to accurately ...

Four men have died in an abandoned gold mine in Homa Bay County while stealing gold. The four men died in the mine located at ...

Four men have died in an abandoned gold mine in Homa Bay County while stealing gold. The four men died in the mine located at ...

South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due to safety concerns.

With the remnants of the abandoned mine shafts still in sight, few could imagine how this once devastated and scarred old ...

State lawmakers believe now is the time to clean up a mess that they say the federal government just keeps ignoring.