Water flooded a rat-hole mine in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, earlier this month, trapping several miners inside. The abandoned coal mine was illegally ... about an accident in a rat-hole mine ...

Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah. The fire, burning in a coal seam in the historic Kenilworth ...

The sinkhole was originally a 30-foot long depression in the highway near Exit 34 and the second to occur in two months.

A sinkhole closed the highway’s right lane in Wharton for several days in late December while crews repaired the damage. The ...

The sinkhole on Route 80 is over one of the 400 mines active during the Revolutionary War but it's hard to accurately ...

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, except in a ...

A 53-year-old man was rescued after emergency responders say he accidentally crashed into a vertical mine shaft while ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT’S A VERY IT’S LIKE AN APPALACHIAN AREA ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN. A LOT OF DOGS ARE ABANDONED IN THE MINE SHAFTS AND IN DIFFERENT AREAS UP THERE. SHARON FISHER STARTED FISHERS FURRY FRIENDS OF ...