But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners. Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the ...

Elizabeth Pollard died in December after falling into a sinkhole at an abandoned mine in Unity Township, Westmoreland County. Action News Investigates has learned there are dozens of other ...

The UK is home to many ancient sites, but few are as fascinating as the abandoned Roman gold mines hidden in the Welsh countryside. The Dolaucothi Gold Mines in Carmarthenshire date back over ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day ...

A blowout occurs when an abandoned mine fills with water and ruptures, causing it to flow freely out of any mine openings. That’s what happened at Orange Creek Avenue — located along Holden Ro ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

Everyone knows about the mounting cost of remediating orphan oil wells in the Prairie provinces and about the 37 abandoned uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan. In addition to billions of ...

In December, a woman in Pennsylvania died while searching for her cat after falling into a sinkhole exposed by a long-abandoned mine. The state is home more than 11,000 abandoned mines.

The DOT blamed the sinkhole on a collapsed, abandoned mine. Drivers need to make a similar detour around the latest sinkhole by using Exit 28 to take Route 46 east or Route 10 east to avoid the area.