The Biden Administration is investing $3.7 million to allow states to clean up abandoned hardrock mines. According to the ...

Authorities are warning the public to look out for signs of abandoned mines and landslides. This comes after a Westmoreland County woman died falling into a sinkhole caused by abandoned mine lands ...

But since shuttering operations decades ago, the mine has been an environmental hazard, with abandoned tunnels and tailings ...

Lawmakers are awaiting President Joe Biden’s signature on a bipartisan bill aimed at cleaning up abandoned mines around the ...

A headframe near the Speculator-Granite Disaster area, the scene of the worst hardrock mining disaster on June 8, 1917 in Butte, Montana. The city is in the background (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of ...

Dan Lopez has spent the last 10 years exploring the dark abandoned mines that lurk beneath the surface of the country's Northeast region. He experienced black damp (a mine gas incapable of ...

Route 80 sinkhole:Sinkhole in Wharton caused by abandoned mine shaft The ovoid depression is one of many pits, shafts, and tunnels carved into the rolling hills of North Jersey by iron miners ...

But since shuttering operations decades ago, the mine has been an environmental hazard, with abandoned tunnels and tailings piles leaching arsenic and other heavy metals into nearby waterways.

In 1999, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana took to the floor of the Senate to introduce a bill intended to help clean up abandoned and inactive hardrock mines across the western U.S. “The ...