While a tragedy that day was averted, sinkholes attributed to abandoned mines have occasionally proven deadly for generations, in New Jersey and elsewhere. In November 1963, a 15-year-old boy was ...

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

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, except ...

South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned mines, and authorities said more than 1,500 people had been arrested for illegal mining in the Stilfontein area since last August. The South African ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...

While a tragedy that day was averted, sinkholes attributed to abandoned mines have occasionally proven deadly for generations, in New Jersey and elsewhere. In November 1963, a 15-year-old boy was ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved ...

Biden signs law to clean up abandoned mines across the western U.S. In New Hampshire, many people may be unfamiliar with the issue. We tend not to think of our state as having old abandoned mines ...