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.

Given the number of abandoned mines, South Africa would have been featured more prominently in GEM’s report, “but there’s been a huge issue in the country with coal operators not getting ...

An abandoned mine about 40 minutes west of Kingman. The Mine Inspector’s Office has only two supervisors tasked with finding and securing old mines. Celisse Jones / Cronkite News ...

Trucks move coal Sept. 21, 2017, out of Antelope Mine outside of Wright. A coal fee that pays for reclamation at abandoned mines expired last week. Josh Galemore file, Star-Tribune Nicole Pollack ...

The two octogenarian founders of global commodities giant AMCI have had a bitter falling out, and it has paralysed one of Australia’s most successful miners.

Across the American West, thousands of abandoned hardrock mines continue to leach acidic, metal-laden water into rivers and streams. These sites, many over a century old, still scar landscapes and ...

Australia, as one of the top four coal producers globally, has some of the best sites for coal-mine conversions, with 1,470 km² of mine sites potentially supporting some 73 GW of solar in total ...

Today, Adobe Manor has 16 renovated units for families and individual renters. Adobe Manor offers Section 8 affordable housing, and Chavez rents some of the units to Catholic Charities, a nonprofit ...

Although it was once a booming mining spot, this ghost town in Arizona is now a museum where visitors can learn more about ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...