If the mine collapse had been deeper ... The state Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation will examine the scene when the search concludes to see if the sinkhole was indeed caused by mine subsidence ...

The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an ...

The December sinkhole was blamed on the collapse of an abandoned mine shaft. There are approximately 588 mines beneath the ...

The collapse was so extensive that authorities ... a 64-year-old woman searching for her missing cat died after falling into an abandoned mine through an opening that was about the size of a ...

At least three artisanal miners have died after an abandoned gold mine collapsed in Nyaguda Sub Location, Bondo, Siaya County ...

A sinkhole that opened up in the shoulder and right lane of I-80 east, near Exit 34 in Wharton on Dec. 27 was blamed on an abandoned mine collapse. On Feb. 10, officials closed I-80 east after a ...

TOKYO >> On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high ...

Nevada, with the most abandoned mines of any state in the nation, is likely to benefit from at least a few of the 15 proposed cleanups, said Rob Ghiglieri, administrator of the state Division of ...

New Jersey has about 600 abandoned mines statewide, most of them iron. The mines themselves generally don't collapse because they're so far underground, but the mine shafts do, especially if they ...

The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since then, it has become a popular tourist attraction and educational center that ...

A version of this story was originally published on Jan. 17, 2025. Drivers on Interstate 80 long have grappled with gridlock, sun glare and other unavoidable headaches of traveling in a densely ...