Hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines in the U.S. West present both serious dangers and unexpected wonders, hidden beneath mountains and deserts.

The federal Surface Mining Reclamation Act of 1977 requires coal companies to leave the denuded land in roughly the shape they found it or restore it to “higher and better use” at their ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard, the missing 64-year-old woman who fell through a sinkhole while looking for her cat in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, has been found ...

The 28-year-old Salt Lake City-area woman – no relation to Bill and Riley Powell – was never found. “Unfortunately, an abandoned mine is probably a good place to dispose of something like ...