"Abandoned mines get a bad rep," Lopez said. "They are historic sites. The dangerous ones are in Arizona and Nevada ... It’s both creepy and very interesting and beautiful in a way.

It’s estimated, for example, that there are 106,000 such mines in Nevada. About 100 persist in New Hampshire. While most of the abandoned mines in our state are not producing significant contamination ...

It’s estimated, for example, that there are 106,000 such mines in Nevada and 8,800 in Idaho. About 100 persist in New Hampshire. While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing ...

For more than a century, abandoned mines such as the Triumph Mine in central Idaho have scarred the American West, leaking toxic heavy metals into waterways and threatening communities and ecosystems.

President Joe Biden recently signed a bipartisan bill aimed at cleaning up abandoned mines around the country, including those in Arizona. Senator Mark Kelly was among three senators who created ...

A new law decades in the making could finally lead to the cleanup of some of the thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado that leak toxic metals and acid into the headwaters of the rivers that ...

Schofield mine in Jefferson, NJ on Thursday, January 9, 2025Get Photo Timothy Rack of the Morris County Park Commission at the Dodge abandoned mine in Jefferson, NJ on Thursday, January 9 ...

An underground metals mine in New South Wales has made efforts to plug a hole made during exploration drilling that accidentally breached the tailings of an abandoned mine. Workers were drilling ...

A recent operation at an abandoned mine in Stilfontein, North West, has led to the arrest of 246 illegal miners, including 33 Zimbabwean nationals. The operation, which began on Monday ...

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 ...