For decades, federal rules punished good Samaritans who tried to tackle toxic mine pollution. A new program removes barriers ...

While there are obvious safety risks associated with these old mines, experts are also sounding the alarm on environmental ...

Decades later, the waste pile it left behind was producing contaminated water that infiltrated the headwaters of the ...

Government made a commitment to close abandoned mine shafts and access points but budget limitations have slowed progress.

The men say they were forced to mine for rocks containing gold (stock photo) [Getty Images] More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern ...

Six of the zama zamas resurfaced from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, while another was pulled out at shaft 11.

The Potosi lead mine 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas’ once-bountiful springs was the first to be abandoned in Nevada in 1857, ...

President Joe Biden signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act into law on Wednesday to clean up ...

They got to work removing toxic soils, managing contaminated discharge water, and plugging the old ... past mining pollution. One site where Trout Unlimited has worked is the abandoned gold ...

a 64-year-old grandmother, was swallowed up by a sinkhole in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 3. Pollard seemingly fell into the hole which led to an abandoned mining shaft, and her remains ...