A Colorado woman who fell to her death after stumbling into a vertical mineshaft while hiking has highlighted a potential hazard that lies beneath our feet. On October 20, Jennifer Nelson, 54, slipped ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West ...

As the first anniversary of North Jersey's Route 80 sinkhole shutdown approaches, motorists traumatized by six months of time-consuming detours may wonder: Could it happen again? Hoping to avoid a ...

A dog was found abandoned on a rural back road, with his rescuers quickly deducing the heartbreaking reason why. Emily Radecki, the co-founder and director of Shining Light Animal Rescue, a home-based ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

BRANCH TOWNSHIP — Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale on Friday. The project, spearheaded by ...

Jennifer Lee Broadhurst receives funding from various sources for research purposes, but none that have vested interest in the outcomes of this work. Brett Cohen receives funding from various ...

Bunker Hill Mining (BNKR:CA) (OTCQB:BHLL) has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Silver Dollar Resources (Idaho) to acquire the Ranger-Page property, which includes six past-producing ...

They are hidden in the woods, walls crumbling after falling victim to the elements. They sit dormant along rural roads, frozen in time. They are the ghosts of buildings past, abandoned long ago and ...