Cleanup work is now underway at four abandoned uranium mine and mill sites across New Mexico as a part of the state's Mine ...

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.

In the Colorado backcountry, the most dangerous hazards are the ones that don't look like hazards at all. The recent death of ...

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 recent tragedy in Colorado wasn't an anomaly. From drowning in quarries to stumbling into open pits, hundreds have died in ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

In 1999, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana took to the floor of the Senate to introduce a bill intended to help clean up abandoned and inactive hardrock mines across the western U.S. “The settlement of ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Kat Dahl and Mikayla Evans have deep connections to the Sean Williams-Johnson City Police Department (JCPD) case — and a lengthy series of text messages shows they bonded ...

It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to leech into the Silver State’s already strained groundwater supply. That’s why, ...

The N.W.T. government and federal government have been negotiating how to remediate the six abandoned mines around ...

Abandoned South African mines release toxic water. Experts highlight bioengineering, nanotech, and renewable energy ...

The Government plans to rehabilitate 994 abandoned mining and quarrying sites by 2030 in partnership with various stakeholders, according to a new climate action plan covering 2025-2035.