A $110-million-plus project to build nearly 1.4 million square feet of warehouses on former mine land above the Casey Highway in Mayfield and Archbald is closer to materializing. Century Development ...

The Biden administration has committed $22 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines in Southwest Virginia, the New River ...

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 ...

The Biden administration announced on Dec. 20 that $1.3 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding will go toward cataloging and reclaiming Alaska’s derelict coal mines over a 15-year period.

This community of about 1,000 was doomed when a garbage fire ignited abandoned coal mines that ran right under the town. Despite every effort to extinguish it, the fire has been burning since 1962.

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine STILFONTEIN, South Africa -- Rescuers and volunteers have pulled ...

Authorities in Assam's Dima Hasao district seal rat-hole mines and seize equipment following a tragic flooding incident.

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Assam Jatiya Parishad urges PM Modi to take action against illegal rat-hole mining, highlighting government officials' ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...

Families of miners and activist protest as South Africa’s Police minister Senzo Mchunu visit an abandoned gold mine, where miners are rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in ...