Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the Western past to the Western present and future in very real and ongoing ways. Since ...

Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

In November 1963, a 15-year-old boy was playing with two friends in Ringwood in Passaic County when he fell an estimated 100 feet into an abandoned iron mine and was buried under a series of cave ...

Environmental Law. New Law Finally Allows Conservationists To Clean Up Abandoned Mines For decades, federal rules punished good Samaritans who tried to tackle toxic mine pollution.

For the abandoned mines in Ringwood, for example, there are 53 pages of surface and subsurface maps. The old surface maps are historic, with some going back to 1867.

Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way. The phenomenon is known as “mine subsidence” — and it ...

Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.