Clear Lake, California’s largest freshwater lake, which is next to an abandoned mercury mine, turned a sickly shade of ...

While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

Biden signs law to clean up abandoned mines across the western U.S. In New Hampshire, many people may be unfamiliar with the issue. We tend not to think of our state as having old abandoned mines ...

A Washington state man died while exploring an abandoned mine on Prince of Wales ... on Jan. 2 to go rock hunting in the Salt Chuck Mine near Thorne Bay. The mine historically produced gold ...

The recent enactment of the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act will help clean up and improve water quality in and around abandoned hardrock mines.

The latest announcement comes as search and rescue efforts began wrapping up at the abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein following a monthslong standoff. The mine has been cordoned off by ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The work to fill an abandoned mine after a woman fell in through a sinkhole in December is almost complete. “I just couldn’t believe it. I was in shock,” said Marilyn ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ... members gathered at the mine Tuesday near the town of Stilfontein ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold ... A professional mine rescue company sent a large cage into the mine shaft near Stilfontein, about 140km (90 ...