Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old who had a medical emergency while in an abandoned mine on an island in Alaska ...

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a final record of decision approving the Stibnite Gold Mine Project in Central Idaho’s ...

While there are obvious safety risks associated with these old mines, experts are also sounding the alarm on environmental factors, as mines can greatly impact an area's water supply or even damage ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG - The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Department says it is not responsible for the surge in illegal mining. While claiming progress in rehabilitating abandoned and ownerless mines ...

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 latest developments follow weeks of a standoff between law enforcement and illegal miners occupying the abandoned gold mine. Operation Vala Umgodi intensified in October in a bid to shut down ...

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 ...

The latest demands from illegal miners occupying an abandoned gold mine resembles a Christmas wish list - including requests for tomato sauce, mayonnaise, bath and laundry soap. Two illegal miners ...

Our state’s motto is ‘Oro y Plata’ — gold and silver,” Baucus ... Baucus cited data that there were at least 400,000 abandoned mine sites in the West — a number the Department of ...