I was introduced to local mining expert Ioan, who took me on a thrilling adventure into the untouched and dark passages and an unspoilt landscape of silver, lead, copper and zinc mines, some of ...

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) - A century-old gold mine is a curious place, and that’s a problem for those whose job it is to find bats and blasting caps as worrisome as the public finds them to be wondrous ...

CERRO GORDO, Calif. — Some say ghosts walk the dusty streets of this abandoned silver-mining town. With a murder a week in the 1860s and ‘70s, bloodshed permeates its history. Cerro Gordo ...

EPA takes blame for Colorado mine waste spill 02:49. There are hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines out West. Many hold tens of billions of tons of waste containing arsenic, asbestos, cadmium ...

Butler, a water wonk with springy silver curls, is the co-coordinator of the Animas River Stakeholders Group, a local watershed group, which has been cleaning up abandoned mines for 18 years.

I was introduced to local mining expert Ioan, who took me on a thrilling adventure into the untouched and dark passages and an unspoilt landscape of silver, lead, copper and zinc mines, some of ...

The rocks, which have been processed to remove precious metals like silver and copper, are red, orange, grey and black. The Cocomongo mill and mine here was abandoned in the 1950s. It still stands, a ...

As we're showing you abandoned places to explore in the Susquehanna Valley, some of the sites are easier than others to spot – such as a silver mine in Lancaster County.

Mining has been a bedrock of Idaho's economy since before the Gem State became a state, but an environmental nonprofit group says abandoned mines are leaving a legacy that's harming the landscape ...

A little over a year ago, James over at Low-Buck Garage bought himself part of an abandoned silver mine out in the hinterlands of New Mexico to store his assorted projects, equipment, and antique ...

Abandoned mines have been located in nearly half of Ohio’s 88 counties. The first commercial extraction of coal was recorded in 1800, but many mines existed prior to mining reporting laws were ...

The hills around Wharton and Burton alone are home to dozens. The now-defunct Meadow Mine and Mt. Pleasant Mine both sat directly beneath where the I-80 interchange now sits, and the Baker Mine ...