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 ...

We put together a rundown of some of the top stories in the Susquehanna Valley this week. From a line of lights in the sky (watch the video above) to an abandoned silver mine to a scam message ...

LOOMIS — Washington state has added the abandoned Black Bear Mine in far north-central Washington to its list of hazardous sites for cleanup. The mine is located on the southwest side of Palmer ...

Nampa, Idaho • When the 2015 fire in Owyhee County finally burned out, a team of experts from the Bureau of Land Management followed close behind the wildland firefighters assessing the safety ...

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.

One site where Trout Unlimited has worked is the abandoned gold and silver Orphan Boy Mine near Alma, Colorado. Jason Willis, the director of the group's Western Abandoned Mine Lands Program, ...

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 ...

The state of South Dakota wants to buy 266 acres of an abandoned mine site from the Black Hills National Forest. The land is within the boundaries of the former Gilt Edge Mine, about 5 miles ...

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 ...

Data from a statewide mining report shows there are about 8,800 abandoned mines across Idaho. ... but we also have to recognize there's a dirtier side to that history," Johnson said.