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 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Three sinkholes have appeared on the section of Route 80 that opened in 1960. Questions surround the contractor, but is there more to it?

At the bottom of a long-abandoned mine, 50 metres below the surface, one company searches for rare Welsh gold, attracted by ...

The owner of a Morris County apartment building built over an abandoned mine — and located near ... there if I thought the building was going to collapse,” Chegwidden said, prior to the ...

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 ...